I recently received an old 400mhz blue and white g3 from someone and intended to use if for some pre-OSX stuff I have. I managed to get it to start up, and was able to boot from th…
68kMLATroubleshootingby infinitymbThu, 11 Mar 2010 - 15:51
OK who here has snapped the neck of a CRT during a repair attempt? Raise your hand! lol
My first classic Mac, an SE. I did this a few years ago. SNAP! I was bummed. Well I fo…
In other words, has anybody got a 6500 or a 6500 PSU lying around who could dig one out and post all the voltages and wattage for each for me?
I need to adapt an ATX PSU to run th…
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniThu, 11 Mar 2010 - 03:05
My newest conquested LC 475 displays some strange problems. It refuses to power up, but with different working power supplies (one from my LC III, which works fine, and one from my…
Because MIDI latency and jitter on modern computers is a problem. I've been contemplating in either get a dedicated hardware MIDI sequencer or an old Mac for MIDI sequencing, so I …
68kMLATroubleshootingby Man-MachineWed, 10 Mar 2010 - 21:31
I was able to recently obtain a 15" NEC 1530 15" LCD display. It is white and matches my IIci nicely. I have a Radius Precision Color Xp nubus card. The resolutions listed at th…
68kMLAHardwareby IIciNov90Wed, 10 Mar 2010 - 12:52
I've had two Dell Optiplex GX1 desktop machines for a while that I have been wanting to upgrade and finally found two of these with 1.4ghz P-III's installed. Not Celerons like you …
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanWed, 10 Mar 2010 - 02:19
Nothing too big but managed to pick up a power board for my 128k for $25 shipped. I made that bid a week ago and didn't think it would win, but I guess demand for these is slackeni…
Since I needed a bunch I decided to go with a bulk purchase and managed to find 10 packs for $28 shipped. Nearly every beige Powermac and Quadra I have thinks it's 1956. 8-o
Folks,
Went to an AUSOM members-only swap meet on the weekend, didn't pick up a much mac stuff, a couple of Pismo CD and DVD drive units, a couple of games, stuff, boxes of stuff,…
Hi, me again.
We have a Quicksilver G4 at my school, and I've recently set it up as a browsing machine. If I'm correct, its a 933 MHz Model with 128 MB RAM, not 100% sure on the H…
68kMLAHardwareby wardsenatorfe92Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 04:31
Picked up a 9600 G4/800 today, 512 MB Ram, a 4 GB SCSI drive and a 10 GB IDE drive driven off an IDE/USB/Firewire card. Radeon 7000 Video card and the usual floppy and CD drives. …
68kMLAHardwareby mac2geezerTue, 9 Mar 2010 - 04:03
Hello all,
I recently acquired a PowerBook 540c. So far, I'm very happy with it, blah blah and blah. Anyways, as I was snooping around the System Folder, I noticed something: a Po…
68kMLAPowerPCby Concorde105Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 02:31
I have System 7 installed on my SE/30 but I'd also like to install System 6 an use system picker to switch between the two. I've renamed my System Folder to System 7 so it doesn't…
So the instruction manual from Sonnet says their upgrades only work up to 9.1 but I know there are people here who refuse to accept such things so I have to ask. Have any of you go…
So you just got a beige PCI Mac with no OS installed and you have Mac OS 9.1 and Ubuntu 9.10 for PPC Macs available for a clean install. Given how old 9.1 is and that no modern sof…
Ought I to keep the StarMax 3000/200 clone I recently acquired, or offer it up to the recycling gods?
Alternatively, is there anyone here who wants it for a clone collection? It's…
68kMLAHardwareby beachycoveMon, 8 Mar 2010 - 16:04
I got a used G3/375 Sonnet upgrade a few days ago and put it in my 7600/132 today and system profiler is reporting a G3 at 417mhz! I didn't know these could be overclocked.
I recently managed to obtain a PAL Encoder card to give me colour (color) output from my Europlus.
Typically for a card this old, there was no documentation. Is there a recommende…
68kMLASoftwareby ukretrogamerSun, 7 Mar 2010 - 23:44
I am giving my Newton MP 2100 to a friend and I want to remove any and all personal data on it beforehand. Is there an easy way to reset it back to factory settings/data. I do no…
Hello all,
I recently purchased a dual floppy Macintosh SE off eBay for a mere $20!
I'd been really wanting to mess around with some old Macs earlier. Then I found out about …
68kMLAPeripheralsby Concorde105Sun, 7 Mar 2010 - 20:47
All right, so I thought that the 2 GB HD in the Power Mac 8100/80 was toast, but it turned out that the System Folder had gotten unblessed for some reason. I booted up with a CD an…