Nice haul and some great Powerbook info in this thread.

Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs) Click to expand…

The Macintosh Performa 600 (aka Macintosh IIvi) was a bit of a crippled machine. They reused many aged components from older machines, most notably the memory and SCSI controllers.…

My PowerBook 165 (not 165c, my B&W 165) does kinda the same thing. The screen is completely dark on the bottom, and the slightest movement of the contrast switch makes the…

Yeah, I really like it too. Same here, I have plenty of space/bandwidth

http://~tl.co.uk/temp/rc2008/ Click to expand... I like it! Tom has mentioned that bandwidth and space is not a problem, but if it ever becomes one, I have gobs that I'd donate…

The cables have been checked, and the contacts lightly cleaned, and there is happily a considerably better display now. There remains some flickering, but no really bad multi-colou…

It's really up to luddite (or whoever ends up hosting it this year) to decide what they want to do for a website. I have, however, started throwing a few ideas around as far as des…

Ghosting and "messing up" could be the result of a bad cable or bad video controller. Fading in and out could be a failing backlight or inverter... I'd check the cables first, of…

Its been working fine for a few days now. I don't know what happened.

Hello all, I do realize it is a bit early to be asking, But when do we plan to begin creating next years page? And do we have the space and bandwidth for it? -funkytoad

Very nice!

The districts here in Texas are different I guess. Old computers, be it Macs or PCs, are rounded up into pallets and sold through online auctions at http://www.lemonsauctioneers.co…

My districts does basically the same thing, but what makes it worse is that I know there is a barn full of Apple //e's and various service parts that will either be recycled in the…

I also work for our school district in Miami (I'm a shared tech at two elementary schools). Because most of those items usually tend to be tagged by the property control departmen…

Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs); the 145 has some …

A "local" guy (meaning: within 24 hours drive, and in the same country...) has made me an offer I can't refuse for my non-working A4000. So I have a couple $ to spend upgrading my…

Pentium Pro. Now there is a mans CPU.

Does that ISA card have any external ports? How about internal connectors? If all it has is internal connectors, I'd wager that it's some sort of audio processing card and the TI c…

See, I work for a school. If they were anywhere near Seattle, I would pick 'em up and distribute them on the MLA. Let me know if you see anything like this in Seattle.

I wonder if any of them are Mach V's?

;D

Compaq Proliant 800 Workstation with Pentium Pro NEC Protation 8000 4 apple USB keyboards and a super weird ISA Card. I cant figure out what it is. it has its own RAM a Texas In…

Hard Disk Toolkit mounted the Zip Drive!!!!! :O ;D

Silverlining Lite will probably do it. It's a control panel that you stick in your control panels folder. Just download it from here, unstuff it, drop it in your control panels…