Yesterday I went to goodwill and the second I walked in I went to the vintage section and low and behold was an Apple IIe (With grey keys) and 2 Disk II Drives.…
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Since i am unable to find a full pinout of the powerbook duo internal modem port, I managed to find one for the Powerbook 1XX series. once i get the SCSI SSD ou…
Folks, First off, sorry if I've put this in the wrong conference, it's late, I'm tired, and running out of options. I'm having trouble getting Macs with Airport…
I cant find a good forum to put this in, so ill put it here. I am trying to transfer files without discs between my main PC running Basilisk II which is a windo…
I was rummaging through some old CDs earlier and found a copy of NetCD. Now that I've managed to get my external Sun CD working with my LC III I wanted to try o…
Hi all, Trying to get my SE/30 up and running something useful. However, I cannot get it to boot System 7, any variety. It will not boot off the HD SC 20 anymor…
Suppose you have an accelerator with a less-than-stellar compatibility rate installed, and you want to play some games that die horribly on an 030. Is there any…
I am doing a favor for someone by pre-loading a HDD for a performa 475. Since i dont own a 475, i own an LCIII which is close to it. just different processor. I…
I am very exited to get this one in the mail. A brand new copy of 7.1.1 pro! Cost me 21 dollars on fleabay. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next"…
I'm not sure how many people here are familiar with the demoscene, but the basic idea is: some programmers want to show off their mad programming skills and/or …
. . . just curious, does anybody know offhand? :?: Hoping to find out without tearing one of mine down just to see! }
I took a gamble and picked up a PB150, hoping I could swap screens with my existing 150 so I could avoid an evening of capacitor replacement. It's in pretty bad…
Somebody did a very "Low Rent" version of one back in the day. It was done using wires and SIMM Sockets clustered and flopping about on the existing socket. Dr.…
I managed to pick up a "used" Harris D814 punch down tool for $15 + $5 shipping from a trade website for used telephony gear. The description said it was used, …
I massive box of wireless security system modules came in for recycling and they ALL use the same 3.6v cells that Apple used for their PRAM batteries. In total …
I've recently gone through and cleaned up 3 400k drives. The mechanics were all cleaned up according to http://www.vintagemacworld.com/400kflop.html, which is g…
Not strictly speaking a conquest, but as PATA is phased out, these are going to get harder to find. And since the lasers in RW optical drives do tend to die eve…
Scored these two guys last weekend. LC 475 SE/30 $20 for the LC 475 and $45 for the SE/30 ,each came with a keyboard and mouse. Good deal IMO. Although the 475 …
I started messing with the Dual 1.8 G5 tonight, I power it up with good ram in it, no video card and I get a steady blink on the Power LED and a red led on in f…
Snagged a dual 1.8 g5 at the local surplus today. Needs ram and a video card, Was thinking of replacing my p4 htpc with it. How are the g5s
I have a dual 1.8 g5. Its missing a video card, can I just use a radeon 7000 I got laying around in it
I was just trying to get an idea of what Instant Messaging applications OS 9 users are using and what's still working. I know AOL is still allowing their native…
So I was at the local towns festival, hit up the book sale and found the old library computers for sale. I came home with 3 Gateway Profile 4s All P4 2.8Ghz Mac…
My 33mhz LC 575 hardly feels fast. It's chip has no cooing whatsoever - completely exposed. Even when the memory is upgraded, it still feels sluggish. Would a h…
I can finally say im done collecting Macs now as ive reached my goal of getting every USA Released compact mac. Its taken 10 years but ive finally done it. This…
Hi all, I was just wondering if there is a good way to clean the bags that were used to carry the Compact Macs? I got 4 of these in my latest conquest, but they…
I saw an SD card floppy emulator demonstrated on an Amiga, and was wondering if anyone has tried something similar on a Mac? These run off the IDE style floppy …
I noticed my SE can get brighter than my SE/30. Is this due to CRT age ? Or maybe some component on the analog board aging ?
So I was going through the basement looking for a laptop ram module and came across some old cards in the "idk what these are box". They had obviously been put …
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2.marketplace/browse_thread/thread/77428891e093f0f5?hl=en Saw this posting over in the Apple II news group. BTW, sh…
Looking through my parents' basement this weekend I found a few things that will be useful to my classic Mac connection. The first is a full set of original Sys…
Successfully swapped in a full 68040 into my "new" LC 475 last night. It's a 33mhz '040 from my parents' old Quadra 950. No, sorry, it's not available - they on…
Mac Classic II capacitor replaced, boots up fine, sound works (was faint and then silent after I washed the motherboard), keyboard+mouse works, SCSI works. Batt…
I managed to pull this off ONCE and didn't bother trying it again until now and I can't seem to figure out what I did to create the original result. From what I…
Hi all! One of the VRAM sockets of my Quadra 700 has a bent/broken pin... thus it wouldn't recognize the SIMM, disabling the other three good sockets also :-( T…
A photo-engine to be exact. I at last got my hands on a Radius Photoengine DSP card on ebay for the sum of 41 dollars. I don't care if it cost a little more tha…
I ventured down to my local county government surplus today, and found some awesome stuff. A nice Philips 170S LCD Display. Very few defects, only 1 scratch for…
My newly acquired Apple /// seems to be having some issues registering a few keys. Namely the right shift, up arrow, return and \. Any tips before I dive right …
Should be on my way to pick up an Apple /// tonight - for FREE! The owner says it comes with matching green screen monitor, a huge amount of "original" software…
Im just curious to know what you do with your color classic, My little guy is fully operational, however I have yet to figure out what to do with it other then …
I snagged an original LC 4/40MB Config at the electronics recycling yard. Booted up to SSW 7.0. Im fixing this up for my son to replace the iMac in his room tha…
One of my Pismos has developed a new tic - a little bit of "squealing" when the battery is low when replugged to power. This has happened now a couple of times …
The tray loading iMac would officially run 10.3 and 10.4 could be made to install on it. My plan for using a tray loading iMacs motherboard was partly because I…
Hi everyone. I have just set myself up a 32MB, 30Mhz 030 MacOS 7.6.1 system which is limited to 16 colours in 512x384, 640x480 and 800x600. I would love to inst…
After recapping the logic board, resoldering all of the contacts on the analog board and installing a new hard drive, I'm happy to report that my SE/30 is now 1…
I tried almost everything (from HD SCSI setup, to drive setup, to HDT up to version 4. These HDs won't initialize. I tried also with the PB 180c connected in SC…
Alright, so here's the deal. I bid on an auction on eBay, and the seller says he has a 40 foot container full of every type of Mac imaginable. The only caveat i…
After verifying a good logic board (runs fine in my SE), my next step to getting my SE/30 in shape seems to be resecuring the solder points on the analog board.…
I know about the 19 disk images for 7.5.3, but is there a way to reformat my PB520 HD, move them over via ethernet, and then install clean?
I just stumbled on this while perusing Apple ][ info at lunch. Has anyone performed this mod? If so, could you report on your results? Thanks! See #18: http://h…