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…

Thanks a lot! I feel relieved now. Hopefully my SE won't need a cap job anytime soon!

Heaven forfend anyone would want to participate with any other browser-challenged devices, like classic macs :

Your Mac is checking RAM. The more you have, the longer it will take. It takes almost an eternity on my SE/30 with 128MB RAM. The startup delay is not indicative of SimasiMac. …

You guys chose to browse a classic mac site with new age telephones.

There's always the olde MacChimney approach, too. Click to expand... { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", …

Which weighs more, the III or the monitor? ) Click to expand... The monitor weighs more. Click to expand... I'm not at all surprised, the LCIII and the MicroQuadras are a…

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 …

You say you didn't notice a difference in Virtual PC. Did VPC claim to be dual-aware? If so, probably what you'd need to do then is test out running two virtual PCs on each the dua…

Congratulations on that iBook G3! The 500 or 600MHz (Rage128) models are the pair of dualUSB iBooks I'll still admit to having wanted when they were new, and I'll also admit I woul…

The Mac II had an external 5.25" floppy drive option, which uses a NuBus card. So a Mac II can have 3 with that option. I'm not sure what happens if you try to hook up more than …

Liberation in hostile territory - nice work.

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…

Might just be the CRT Click to expand... Nope. Most likely a bad cap that needs replaced in the sound circuitry. They notoriously fail. An SE of this age most likely needs a f…

Yes, but it's one of the most annoying things ever with all the pinching and zooming you have to do. Click to expand... I have to agree, since I have an iTouch and browse this …

Great "iMac" Find :lol:

your se/30 has an apple ][e logo on it! Click to expand... Oh, yes it does. I guess I should remove that. I don't think the SE/30 could ever be an Apple IIe. I made the …

I made the smilie your se/30 has an apple ][e logo on it!

Which weighs more, the III or the monitor? ) Click to expand... The monitor weighs more. I like the SE/30's Secret identity. Click to expand... I'm not familiar wi…

I've always wanted a C64....... good finds you got there!!!!!

Might just be the CRT

I like the SE/30's Secret identity.

Yes, but it's one of the most annoying things ever with all the pinching and zooming you have to do.

Congrats, even thought the guy was kind of a ****head himself! Without motivating myself to go downstairs and turn on one of my compact Mac's, I believe the occasional "static pip…

It doesn't have a manufacturer, or model name on it? Another idea...does it have an FCC ID or Patent number? You might be able to do a search on one of those and find something. An…