These issues aren't so major, but i'm after some ideas as to why they may be occuring. 1. When powering up the Mac from a Cold Start (such as turning it on after being switched of…

Yesterday I received an email regarding a large amount of macs free. Today I went out to see what I could pick up. Well this place was quite a sight. Front of the house loaded w…

I installed Xubuntu 8.10 on my iMac G3, though this time to take up the entire hard drive. After I finished the lengthy install and rebooted, I got the normal bootstrap+yaboot rout…

Dropped into a yardsale and spotted a sad looking Strawberry Imac sitting with a bunch of monitors. I asked the lady how much for the Imac. The price was the same for all of them…

=What is a card that has some cool features, isn't ridiculously expensive, etc? I already have a video/ethernet card.

Hows its going, I'd like to know more about the Keyboard and Mouse interface on the M0001 (Mac 128/512k/e/plus/ED) Series of compacts. If you have schematics, and if you have any i…

Hi, I purchased a NewerTech PowerPump clock chipping/overclocking device for my Quadra 700 on eBay (dlchief I think it was). This device purports to overclock the onboard 25Mhz '…

Hello, I am buying an old Power Mac G3 to use as a file server for my collection of vintage Macs. I would love to connect a 17 inch Apple Studio Display (Flat Panel), but the Powe…

Hi all, Did the SE/30 have diferent chimes over time? Mine has the usual "Macintosh II" chime, just as stated in Macracker for that model. But this sounds wrong to my ears, in re…

What would the Centris 650 original monitor look like? If it didn't come with one, what would the monitors for that time look like? I would answer this myself, but Archive.org ha…

Well, I was at a rummage sale this morning and next to the old DVD players and broken-down printer, I found a cute little thing that unfolds into a keyboard, never saw anything lik…

The title says it all: How do I go about Re-creating my sig on the new forum software? :?: TIA, jt :I p.s. How do I find the bullet ( option-8 on a Mac KBD ) on a POS WinB…

Copied across from MacTalk Australia forums, written by myself, Michael aka. iMac600. Unlike over there you all probably remember my 512k with the fatal "FLUP" noise, and the defec…

This single auction will take care of most of it: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130327511233 128K, 512Ke, Plus, SE, SE/30, Classic, Classic II, &a…

picked up a 2001 quicksilver recently with a new psu 512 mb of ram 60 gig hd and a sad sad ati rage 128 16 mb video card for 50 euro 733 mhz i upgrade the ram…

My 5500/250's motherboard seems to be acting up. Thanks! -JRL

I´d like you to help with your great experiance to virtually assemble the fastest OS 9 machine ever. Interresting is to clear some questions regarding the most powerful possibiliti…

Newly acquired Mac 128k sitting beside me, no way to get software to it. Now, here's my dilemma. The next oldest Mac I have is an LC575. It runs system 7.6.1 currently, which does…

Hi, I tried phpbb.com's instructions by putting the [/img] tags around the url relating to where my picture is, but the submitted post just displays the word Image. How do you do…

Just finished cleaning off my latest find: An original Mac, upgraded a bit. This is my first pre-90's Macintosh, and I'm quite happy! Paid $40 for it, though it doesn't come with a…

So I've been thinking. What is an EPIC OMG ELEVENTY Conquest, and what is a small conquest. How do we categorize these conquests? I read a thread about a Mac Plus conquest with …

Is there some way that I can run my Powerbook 540c without a HD? All three of my scsi drives will not work, so the only alternative I have is running off a floppy. Does anyone kn…

recently i got my hands on a 2001 QS 733 with a vile ati rage 128 pro card with a piddly 16 mb ram and the rage 128 just decided to die ...typical as it happens i…

Hi, I am looking for the where abouts of Kris Kirk. He was mention a few times in the Hard Core Computist. He was also friends with the Sysop there as well. I just checked with …

So the floppy drive on my IIci is acting up. When I insert a good boot disk, it just sits there with the "?". No X, no "This installer will not work with this Macintosh", etc. Wha…