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Is it possible for me to use the IrDA port on my Pismo to send out custom signals, like remote control codes?
I've spent quite a bit of time over the years, especially in the past year or two, thinking about recreating the look of the classic Mac UI. (I like Platinum! I…
One of my prized computers when I was a kid (10-12 years ago) was a pair of Amigas - a 1000 (got in a trade for a TRS-80, IIRC) and a 500 (found abandoned in my…
I picked up a Thinkpad T60! Well actually my boss gave it to me. It's model is 1953-EAU and its base specs are: CoreDuo T2400 1.83GHz 1.5GB DDRII RAM Intel GMA9…
I just love my iBook SE (366 Clamshell). however, the battery seems to be completly dead. The iBook was running OS X, so i installed Mac OS 9 to run the Battery…
I scored a 128k with Imagewiter 1 from eBay for £50! Link The case had lots of dirt on the outside but has cleaned up well(using water only). Inside is clean. S…
I just received my PB100. It came with a power adapter and floppy drive. It has 20mb harddrive. The screen has a couple of lines on it. It boots to a flashing d…
Just finished a fresh install of System 7.1.1 on my newly arrived Quadra 700 w/ 1MB VRAM and 20MB RAM. Everything looks OK, but the Options button in the Monito…
I'm planning on selling my Centris 650 and to do that, I want to put a fresh install of System 7 on there. However when I put in the Install disk it tells me: T…
My Grape iMac's CRT fails? The screen is rather dim but clear, it was burn in a bit. And it sometimes shows up red, witch I know in LCD's that the backlight is …
I got a IIsi for free from my church. For some reason someone "donated" it or something. Anyways, it has a 200MB LaCie SCSI drive, Mac System 7.0.1, 17,408KB of…
I have been considering Leopard on my 800mhz TiBook and my wife's dual 500 G4. The dual 500 has a PCI 32mb radeon 7000 in it and 1.25 gigs of ram. The TiBook ha…
Hi All, I've been delving around in open firmware on my Pismo to see if I can control the internal fan, or at least set a better temp. for it to come on at. In …
Prices are what I paid, not sale prices. 2x Power Mac G4 533 MHz 1x Power Mac G4 500 MHz Nice specs. $45 each. Working, ready to go condition. Can re-sell on ad…
Hello all, I figured I'd throw my first post on the boards down as a conquest. Here's what I got: 3 beige G3 300MHz MTs with the A/V personality cards 1 beige G…
So as you may know, I've managed to source a Sonnet G4 upgrade CPU for my Beigey, which means that I am now of course very interested in getting Leopard install…
2GB 50 Pin SCSI HD 2X 18GB 68pin Cheeta drives (10k RPM) And......... A Quadra 840AV - Yellowed a bit - No RAM - NO HD - Missing floppy and CD bezels BUT it has…
Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put t…
Will this technology allow a complete hardware emulation of a Mac Plus on a single chip? http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ Or is PacMan a much simpler machine?
Folks on these forums are so helpful thought I'd get more help... I found a Pismo 500 (awesome, always wanted one) and I didn't have the Yo-yo adapter so I used…
I have a Pismo battery that went one day from holding a charge for an hour to not taking a charge, the light would not even blink on it. I took it apart and man…
Can I just put any old scsi hard drive in here? the 20Mb one is dead and I am forced to boot from floppies.
After running an old P3-600 system for a while I went to eBay looking for cheap upgrades. An auction for two matchine P3 1ghz slot 1 processors was found for ab…
So a local has been pruning his rather extensive stash of Mac hardware; amongst the various bits of systems and software I got from him, just picked up a Voodoo…
I recently acquired a Powermac 7600/132 with video inputs. Does anyone know if I can use this to digitize VHS tapes? What application would you use? The CPU has…
PB520 PB520c PB150 Apple Ethernet LC Card- In Original box with softwae and dcs Absolute charger/discharger for PB 140-180c Centris/Quadra 610 ppc(pds) adapter …
Shortly after buying my Blue/White G3 the motherboard was replaced with a Revision 2 motherboard. After disappointing results with my Beige G3, I thought I woul…
I just got a Power Mac 5400/120 at a yard sale today. Are there any old music making programs for Mac? How about for an SE/30?
5x G3 iMacs. 3 booted right up. One missing a hard drive. One missing a voltage regular on the motherboard - it turns on for only a few seconds and then turns o…
Hi, I purchased off eBay a Duo Dock II, which is labelled as such on the underside of the case and says "Duo Dock" on the front white top lid. Went to slide in …
Hi all, I am interested to know how to determine the MAC address for an Asante 10T Mini EN/SC. I am currently trying this device on a Powerbook 145 with a my Pl…
Well, I found these through craigslist. One of the pb 180's has corrosin in the battery compartment, im pretty sure its a lost cause, the other one just doesnt …
The Classic is not a new machine to me, as it was the first Mac I ever used, way back in ye year 1991. I thought of it even then as slow running MS Word 4, whic…
Hi everyone i recently acquired a brand "new" macintosh II. i recapped it because it didn't sound and didn't show any video at all. After recapping all 47 mfd c…
Hey guys. Lately, my iMac has been painstakingly slowwwwwwww (at start up, with basic functions, and online. I guess it's lack of RAM, but I'm not so sure. What…
Just came across a sealed box of claris works 2.1 for both 68k macs, and early power pc.. Myself, always like claris..up to 4.0 better than MS word....but Word …
I've been trying to watch my anime (yea yea) and over the ensuing months these dad gum files are of such high quality that they're making my mac hiccup. Especia…
Hey, I have a Pismo battery that is shot, but since I have a couple spare clamshell batteries around i thought "their connections are the same, so lets try and …
Specifications 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 Processor 512mb RAM (Possibly more, considering this also has onboard) 10gb Hard Disk (Came without, I only had a 10GB around) …
I've got a conundrum! I acquired a Mac demo tape, from the original 1984 Mac a few months ago (last summer, actually) and it is shrinkwrapped! Un-opened! Here i…
Someone should make a movie with a title like that.... Anyway, I can report that an advert on www.kijiji.ca led me to four Classics, three working, and three wi…
I just got myself a Pismo (poke around conquests ), and my only problem with it is that the battery is flat as a board. It shows up as empty and fully charged; …
Just won a boxed MacWrite II in the final minute on eBay!!! I now have three MacWrite IIs, two of which are in their original box. My new dilemma is whether I i…
So this friends dad I haven't talked to in ages offers me up some stereo equipment he isn't using anymore. I got a Pioneer SG-9800, a BSR SE-ONE Spatial Enhance…
My sister-in-law is going to be giving me her old Gateway laptop on monday. I am not sure what the specs are, but it's supposed to be a pretty decent machine. A…
If it's impossible to find a piece of software you're looking for, and it's no longer for sale, how do you feel about finding it, or serial numbers, in the unde…
It's probably very obvious once you know how to, but how do you get the hard drive capacity within System 7? I tried Get Info but it just seemed to tell me that…
Okay, so as you may know, I've upgraded this bugger a bit. Here's its specs now: G3/500, 512 megs RAM, 30 gig HDD, OS X 10.4.11 It's a very happy machine, excep…
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I responded to a CL listing for some compact Macs. From SE/30s to Pluses. Today I picked them up! Bonus was a couple 512ks (one regular, one enhanced). Five se/…