I have acquired an SE that appears to start up fine from its internal HD but that has a black screen. Yes, I have tried the brightness knob. Couple of quick que…
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I went to my local dump one day and I saw something that stood out above all the other beige boxes. It was a tray-loading iMac. I thought that it would be cool …
So I had my Power Mac 9500 all ready, and was going to install OS 9 on it. I remembered that I had the Sonnet G3 card in it, and since I was reformatting the dr…
Hi Everyone! I'm new here (in the sense that I've been lurking for years, registered a month ago to PM and now am finally posting), and I just posted a NuBus wi…
Today I got a 512MB PC-133 SDRAM for $30. My old PC really needed more RAM. Works great so far.
I received a Powerbook 2400c in the post yesterday, with the usual symptoms (DOA). There are some people around here with experience of these machines, and I ha…
I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's.…
If anyone has or uses a Wacom digitizer tablet I could sure use some help. I have not been able to locate any kind of user guide for this thing. I was given a W…
Got an e-mail that the non-profit recycler had more Mac stuff. Power Mac G4 450 MHz Dual w/ nice specs - $40 Had an OF password but I got it cleared. Installing…
friend sent me a link to an external USB 2.0 DL Burner that was $39 Shipped. Cheapest I have seen yet! It's an open-box item, so if anyone is thinking about get…
I got this a few days ago from the recycler. Yesterday it turned on but now it won't Sometimes you see the green light flash on and off quickly, but that's it. …
I'm trying to get Sweet16 up and running. The disks for System 6 have been downloaded but are in SEA format. My B/W G4 has no floppy drives and Sweet16 does not…
Which pretty much means two colour classics. I paid through the nose for them, but that's why I drag my arse to work every day... I plan to harvest my LC 575 bo…
I'm trying to get my Apple 300e external CDROM player to work with my SE running OS 6.0.8 I know the 300e works with OS 7 but the specs tell me it will go back …
Hi I have a couple old macs at home and Im figureing a use for them. I thought of usig them as some kind of unix server, or some light control in room (still ha…
Hi! Im so glad this forum is alive! Its needed to keep 68k macs alive. So to make long story short. I am going to build this MIDI drum pad controller: http://to…
Some months ago I "found" an external hard disk from an ex-Amiga user which is very unusual as I´ve never seen such a device before. Googleing for that box didn…
Alright, here´s another one. Two years ago I got myself one of these very rare Apple Tape Backup 40SC drives. Took it home, powered it up, inserted a tape - com…
Prices are what I paid, not necessarily resale prices. 4x Boxed QuickTake 150 Newton OMP - WORKS! Newton 120 - WORKS! (has a password though) Matias Tactile Pro…
Hi, I'm looking for a utility similar to Apple Disk Copy which will make disk images of a floppy disk, but will ignore errors instead of failing. That is, I wan…
Weird little thing I just discovered: Go to http://www.apple.com/hypercard and see what happens. Not quite what you'd expect, hmm?
Picked up 2 Toshiba 8088 Intel CPU laptops. They have an 80-column display for an LCD (Super-Twist) Display. It's rather interesting. It has DOS 2.11 in ROM, an…
Been a bit inactive recently on these forums, only due to work commitments... However, i recently picked up a HAUL of stuff for the sum of $20 (not including fu…
A Powermac G4 Sawtooth(I think I posted this here earlier though, 350mhz, almost a gig of ram, etc) A Powermac G3 Blue and White-I have no idea where this thing…
So recently, after picking up a 56k external serial modem for $1 at the local tip shop, I've decided to embark on a project I've wanted to do for over 10 years …
I picked up some older media for a project I am getting into. I picked up a 10-pack of 720k 3.5" Floppy, and a 22-pack of 360k 5.25" Floppies Cost me $20 shippe…
Picked up from eBay locally for the princely sum of 99c. The monitor is an AppleVision 1710. I will check the specs out tonight but the 7600 looks pretty stock.
Hi all, I came across this card. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/2281494544_fc86964ded_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2281494568_625d9860c4_o.jpg…
Not sure how much use it is, but I would LOVE to hack it and turn it into a regular terminal for Linux or something. This is a picture of it Anyone got some inf…
This weekend I picked up a set of USB CH Pro flight pedals in their original box for-- wait for it-- $7, talked down from $10! Also on that flea market run, I g…
Bought this today for ~25 GBP, my first printer. I'm not much of a dead tree person, but I'm writing a fairly large paper this semester, so it'll be good to hav…
On Thursday I received a pair of AppleDesign speakers from a family member. However, the only cable included with the speakers was the power cable. Looking at t…
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 …
I found one at the thrift store for $35. 300mhz, at least 64MB RAM, DVD drive and the original 8.4GB hard disk No power adapter however, so I don't know if it w…
So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot s…
Was having a garage sale when my neighbor brought her old PC to include for a few bucks. It was in very good shape and hadn't been used in years. She thought it…
I made a page in iWeb of my software collection, so here it is http://www.freeweb.siol.net/jstarc4/Mac%20OS%20History%20Collection/Mac%20OS.html Well, I am miss…
Lombard 400 mhz with Dvd drive. Works but only once in a blue moon. Has trouble starting up. Pioneer DRM-602X
This QC10 on ebay appears to be an upgraded, retorfit floppy disk model. Anybody know if Quark sold them this way? with all the holes in the box it sure seems l…
Well, I have changed default laptops. I recently acquired a Dell Latitude c610, with a screen and top plastic from an inspiron 4100. I have since put an interna…
I recently came into possession of a 1.6GHz 17" iMac G5 with a 160GB HD and 1GB of RAM, but severe video distortion issues. Opened it up to find the two video p…
Well, I think I've mentioned this in IRC a few times, and to a few people individually, but I've decided to go ahead and post about it here. The machine in ques…
I just got a "new" floppy drive, but it makes grinding noises and won't read disks. I put a new floppy in and it mounted, but failed on erasure. Should I take t…
I'm glad to find this forum! My name is Gloria, and I have a beloved Mac LC that I haven't used for a long time and would like to find a new home for it. But fi…
This appears to be a nicely cared for compact with a clear history detailing its official upgrade from a 128K to a Mac Plus. Good clear pictures for those who a…
Today I picked up: -6GB HD -Floppy drive (still doesn't work right :\ ) -Virtual PC 2.1 -BC-02 (stylewriter) ink cart. w00t!
Okay, so it's not exactly a 68k Mac, but it most certainly is now retro... At the local Goodwill clearance outlet, I found a very clean PowerMac G3/233 Minitowe…
Just nabbed this from ECU surplus. It's in great physical condition, very light yellowing, and what looks like a really new lexmark toner cart. It also has a je…
After over a decade serving the Mac community, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's HyperArchive was shut down today as part of the ongoing process of co…