My Performa 400 has been mothballed for about a year, but I finally cleared some space today to set it back up. The board was recapped before I put it away. It looks like one of t…

Picked up a cosmetically immaculate 400MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 last week, wasn't powering on and needed CD drive replacement. Had a spare 500MHz one at home, working but with a …

A guy at work had this and didn't have any use for it.. it's a G4 Cube, 450 MHz, 786MB RAM, 20GB, DVD-ROM, in LIKE NEW condition with the original speakers and discs. I just upgrad…

Greetings, Wondering if anyone has experienced this, something similar, or any thoughts on the cause or a solution. At my wife's office, on an iMac G4, using Toast Titanium, the o…

I picked up 4 b&w g3s which I believe 2-3 of them have hd/ram a beige g3 a perfect condition powerbook 180c w/ power adapter an performa av (might be using the wrong nam…

WoOt! I won one of the items I have been looking for, for a while. 1 used Powermac 6360 for $36.65 ;D Hopefully it arrives in good shape, but so long as the powersupply function…

Am I the only person here that that this has happened to twice? somehow, my ISP-wide shared static IP (216.135.11.50, the same IP as the neighbor's as when we got high-speed, we g…

I had bought some new equipment for my IIfx for connecting it to internet. I hadn't used it for about two years and it worked perfectly then, and now it won't start No boot soun…

I have replaced the 40GB drive in my iLamp to an 80GB Seagate. Now, when I was swapping drives I noticed the old drive had this white paper taped to the drive. What was the reason …

I just had to share. I've had a string of bad luck with a 2400c I had so I bought a cheapo "parts machine" off of eBay awhile back and thought it'd be good to change out the boards…

Dear 68kMLA Community, My times on this forum have been wonderful. I have enjoyed learning about the vintage Macintoshes from all of you, and I would not be in this position with …

I have a mac cube that ran fine for about a year and the hd failed so I put a drive I pulled. this drive worked for a couple of months and it started having problems it would spoo…

I pulled my trusty BookKeepin' 2300c out of mothballs when all my other computers were temporarily belly-up. It's a nice feelin', all warm-n-fuzzy even, to fire up a trusty compan…

Anybody got a link for a free download? My head hurts from all the freakin' marketing-ploy garbage polluting Google hits these days. jt xx(

Now that I've got a long Torx-15 screw driver, I'm having a lot more fun in the repair shop with my old Macs. I finally got to see why my Classic II was presenting only a Simasi-M…

The old kind, that is. :beige: Bought two of 'em on eBay the other day. Will come in handy - I don't have any spare auto-inject FDDs, only manual-inject.

Now this is an odd find: On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training Courses. This …

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I found an iBook G3 clamshell on Craigslist today for $50 which said it was "locked" and needed to be "unlocked". What they meant was they didn't know the admin password. I had no …

Awhile back, someone posted a message on comp.sys.apple2 asking if anyone had made an archive of the Public Domain Software On File collection: NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Ma…

I'm trying to connect a SCSI HD to the Mac Plus, but for some reason, it's not recognizing it. Actually, it's not even recognizing that the drive is connected. Not even an old ve…

So I was working on a client's Mac Mini, and I found a 10.2 Disk 1 in the CD Drive. I shot an email to the owner and he said that he had no use for that and that I could keep it. …

Well I finally got to testing the 5300s I conquested in the huge powerbook lot a few months ago, and the failure rate of apples first PPC and its 68k brother, is quite high. Only 2…

Hello: This is my first post here and I am hoping someone will be able to suggest what I should do next. Sometime ago I was given a 180c without a power supply. I am not a Mac per…

What happened to the cheese thread in the Lounge? I was interested to learn if any members from Canada had tried a cheese I mentioned (Le Migneron de Charlevoix), and was about to…