Well my dual450 G4 has been sitting for three weeks or so, and I am now going to use it during this when I sell my 20" iMac. I hit the power and I hear a sizzle and a single long b…
Folks, I don't think you can get any geekier than this.
Retro reverse engineering: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape
If my wife ever found out that I found this S…
Hey all,
My new lombard works great except for one thing: after being awake for a while the trackpad starts to "jump" around -- when I lift my finger off of the pad, it will jump…
In the last week the rubber skin on my graphite clamshell has started peeling away from the bottom part of the case, where I tend to rest my palms. It's only a 2 inch section along…
Well that's something no user wants to hear. I picked up my Apple IIe at a recycling event today. I powered it up for the second time ever. Got it all hooked up to the monitor, got…
I have G4 AGP (450Mhz) which I have just upgraded with a Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz processor and I have been running it ok for about a week and a halve with tiger 10.4.11 with all the l…
sorry, not sure if people have seen this before, but I saw that someone did this:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/23084
granted, it was on a G4 upgraded machine
EDIT: updated t…
Hi all,
I've posted before about my two PowerBook 2400c units that don't work. They both have a different problem. I've had little luck in trying to get troubleshooting tips from …
Here's what I'm thinking of doing...
I have a Powerbook Duo 2300c (It's listed as FS in the trading post but I'm not seeing a lot of interest and its just *so* cute.... )
The…
Hey Guys,
Im looking for Lisa / Mac Portable Parts in Australia, I am currently participating in the Retro Challenge, but I'm now in a predicament!
The Lisa 2 I have, which is an…
Trying to upgrade my ibook running 10.3.2 panther to 10.3.9. I downloaded the combo update but it unexpectadly quits partway through. And the 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 combo updates that I…
I always thought that this was a pretty neat vector animation program for the Apple II. What do you think would happen if it went on and was still around today instead of Flash? He…
Hello all,
Just got a Sawtooth G4 - specs are as follows
500mhz
1GB RAM
Leopard 10.5.4 / MacOS 9.1 on the same 120gb drive.
stock 16mb rage 128 pro DVI
For whatever reason, t…
Spewing.
Got given some PC stuff a couple of days ago, and in amongst it there was a PC card ethernet adapter, I was quite excited, Mum was mad that I had yet more junk, so in an …
A customer owns a Dual 1.8ghz PowerMac G5 that has issues. He also bought a stripped G5 containing a working mainboard. I get to take the non-functional mainboard from the origin…
I've got an iBook G4 (different iBook than the display plagued one) that has some sort of electrical gremlin going on. It's experiencing a few odd symptoms that have pointed to a …
I've got an iBook G4 that has a display problem that has me completely stumped. When turned on, it chimes and all is well, but then the screen flickers almost like a lightbulb doe…
Hi,
I'm in a good mood; today me and my dad were over at the house we're trying to sell, to clean up the yard and stuff. While there, I picked up our hp Photosmart printer. I br…
Our iMac G5 came with software disks, as all Macintosh computers. I took the "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" disk and I put it into the G5 (which now runs 10.5.3). Inside I saw the Insta…
Well I bought a Monitor II, Apple IIe, Disk II, Parallel Pro Card, 80 column card, etc. It was complete in all the boxes, with manuals and disks, and extra parts with only little u…
I may be able to obtain a logic board from a 600 MHz G3 iMac cheaply. Can this be put into my 400 MHz iMac? If so, what (if any) modifications are necessary to do so? Thanks.