Wow! My total CPU count has doubled in the past week, but my wallet remains at a constant size. 8-o First conquest: Power Mac 8100/80 from the library of a neighboring village.…

I don't know what to say.... a forum devoted to 68K Macs? I think I have found heaven on the internet. I really don't know what to say, ummm... err... I'm a long time Macintos…

Haven't even seen these yet, but ... I now have one or two early PowerBooks from the "gray plastic" era. I saw a CL post for a bunch of freebies in a driveway, with a pic of about…

I'm working on a fix for this, but how many users do we have here that have a Macintosh Portable with a drive that does not successfully startup? Typical symptoms include a spinup …

CLICK > Macintosh Classic II Sweet, huh? :b&w:

Paid $25 for a Mac plus today complete with external hard drive, mouse, and original manual (with filled out but never sent in Apple registration card!). Slightly yellowed and kind…

Lots of pictures here. Oh, and it loads "C:\Sys\MacsBug" at startup! :lol:

Posted an Ad wanting cheap mac laptops and someone offered me a iBook G3 500 with 'some' damage. Well the screen is scratched (not cracked but scratched), the keyboard has duct ta…

Hey everyone. I was thinking about this great 68K forum, we all know it is a small community, but the information is vast. It's a very tight community as well. Sometimes I wish I …

Well, I have an overupgraded Powermac 7200, with G3 Card, 208mb RAM, ATi Rage VR, and Gigiabit Ethernet. The ATi Card Driver was terrible. It would cause the system to lag, hang, a…

I picked up a Classic II yesterday for $3 at a church rummage sale. Today I finally got the chance to power it on and check it out. Unfortunately I was greeted with this: Upon f…

I picked up a Classic II yesterday for $3 at a church rummage sale. Today I finally got the chance to power it on and check it out. Unfortunately I was greeted with this: No bon…

Finally made another trip over and got the following: boxed MacAlly multi-port adapter (lets you use several serial devices on one serial port) untested Duo Type 3 battery w/case…

Alright, so I have a nice PowerBook Duo 2300c here with OS 8.1 and 12 MB of RAM, and for my first Duo, I really like it. It does have one issue though; the trackpad acts up, so the…

I have obtained the Macintosh Operation System 7.5.2 on the Compact Disk data medium. And I am installing it on my Power Macintosh 7200 RISC Notation Computer Processing System to …

4 meg of memory and a 40 meg HD!! I guess that would make it an SE 4/40? It's a little slow for System 7, but it runs. The small screen is sharp and bright. Eric :beige:

My PowerBook has done this for a loooong time now, but only tonight have I managed to snap some clear shots of this phenomena occuring. Wake the machine from sleep sometimes and ev…

Yep, I kept my Mac II going great for years, temporarily had it on my basement floor and it flooded. Completely submerged the Mac II and likely some of the monitor as well. Cables …

I started the restoration of the Macintosh SE today. It had been sitting with its cover off for a week, and had been sitting for a week before that. Today I made my CRT discharge t…

I got an 840av... swapped bits from an old one and got it working... But now it's not working, well it mostly is... I seem to have upset the scsi gods. It was using the hard dri…

Are there any differences between the Quicksilver 2002 and Digital Audio PCI slots or the handling of them? I ask because a Sil3512 based SATA card flashed with wibetech firmware …

After getting some replies for old iMacs (Which I have no use for. Feel free to take them, post to FreeCycle NYC) I finally got an interesting reply. A Woman asked if I took lap…

Hello, I'm a forum lurker, so don't expect much posts from me, although I will be lurking around this forum for a while (probably until my sudden desire for a mac disappears, but t…

Hey, the first mac I ever had was an apple iic it pains me that I do not know what happened to it as it came with that and about 200 floppys or so with tons of non pirated software…

Hi everyone, I am hving a little problem with my Quicksilver machine, wonder if you can help. I purchased have a 2001 QS machine. I would like to run Mac OS 9 on this machine. I…