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I found it on craigslist for $50 and offered $40 it came with paperwork and the install disks. has a nice dvd drive but I will need to rebuild the battery. I pu…
Finally! A mostly-dead Colour Classic I can butcher upgrade into a Taco. Now I don't have to slaughter my mostly-working CC I also scored a pair of 10" laptop L…
Hi guys, So, I'm still playing with my Mac IIfx. After much goofing around, I've arrived at what seems to be a major impasse. I currently have two drives in the…
Since I have been having issues with my Pentium 733 desktop PC that I use to help repair customer machines, I've been looking for a way to fix it cheaply. I fou…
Here's another question for the gurus out there. Where can I find Apple part numbers for components?? I Can't get anywhere on the support section of the Apple s…
M0001: It appears to be an original, unadulterated 128K Mac, with 128K of RAM. Works fine except the floppy drive won't eject, but at least it has a boot disk w…
In OS 8, when you connect to a printer, it seems to pop up on the desktop. I just did this on my 2300c, and now that printer on my desktop won't go away. When I…
Anybody actually running a Lombard or Pismo with a VST SuperDisk expansion bay module? I kow they work under OS 9, How about OS X? Anybody know if they will rea…
My G3 iMac 400 DV has a video problem; the video is squashed in on the left, colors are wrong and can't be corrected, the icons are all washed out, etc. Plug an…
I have what I am told is the lobo from a Duo 270c here. It came with a bunch of stuff that I got for my 2300c. Anyway, after a bit of testing, I've determined t…
Hey guys, I found the aforementioned computer on a local "classifieds" websites. It had the following description: Mac 733 G4 Quicksilver. It has 1GB Ram, 120 G…
Can anyone point me to an uncomplicated Mac p2p? (ppc, universal) 10.4 I have Limewire right now, but the network seems very limited and it's difficult to find …
Apple Bluetooth Keyboard (not the new metal one - the plastic one right before it) Seems to work perfectly. Just needed new batteries. Grand total of $4.25 at V…
got a MacPro yesterday. dual quad 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM (2 more ordered), Radeon HD2600 (Geforce 8800GT Mac Edition already ordered... should be shipping the next 2 w…
One 533 MHz one 466 MHz. Between the pair there are: 1 60 GB, 1 120 GB hard drive 1 ATI Rage 128 Pro, 1 nVidia GeForce 2MX 2.75 GB RAM (five 512 MB modules, one…
Well, after getting done ordering the new board for this project, my friend called me and said "Do you have any spare PCs I could buy? Mine died..." Anyways, si…
Subject: RetroChallenge Winter Warm-up 2008 Retrocomputing enthusiasts the World over are cordially invited to participate in the 2008 RetroChallenge Winter War…
Well as some of you might know I work at the University Computer store at UTK in tennessee, and one perk of the job is that people sometimes bring in cool shit …
Well as it turns out, I need glasses. My vision is 20/30 in the left and 20/40 in the right. Getting them later this evening. Also, today is Ash Wednesday which…
Hi guys, As the subject states, I'm trying to find a driver for this Farallon Etherwave NuBus card that will work under System 7.1. This card is working fine in…
IIsi from ebay arrived... -520MB HD -17MB RAM @ macintoshman: its NANYA RAM 4 sticks with two 16mbit chips each -it has some kind of asante NIC and another funk…
Thinking about getting one of these for my G3/400, the G$ 1Ghz is the max. I guess ? Are these good ? Bert
One for the Newton internals experts... Is a motherboard transplant from an MP2000 or 2100 into an eMate possible?
I need a program that can play mp3s that can select from multiple sound out devices (using soundflower). Does anyone know of one?
I got a free Compaq Portable! It was disassembled and didn't have any disks but it's reassembled and works now.
Okay so I noticed that my Quadra has a 25mhz CPU, and a 50mhz oscillator on the motherboard. So I figure the multiplier must be 0.5x. So what I thought of was t…
Anyone know where to find an older version of Final Draft that will run on a 68k machine, specifically a PowerBook Duo 280c? If not, are there any other scriptw…
Well ok, I finally have aquired a IIc plus (its on its way here). So I was wondering, how far fetch'd is it to build a portable IIc? Is the mobo very big? I was…
Hi guys. So, I'm working on my Mac IIfx, and last night I installed System 7.1 on a third partition (I've got eight 4gb partitions), and the install went just f…
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I went over to a friend's house to set up their new Lexmark all-in-one printer with fax capability. In exchange for doing so I got her old printer, a Dell Photo…
Well, after putting out a freecycle ad looking for an ATX Case, I got a guy who responded saying he has an older computer. Well, i went and picked it up and it …
Yikes indeed! It has a few problems I can't quite isolate. Has 512mb RAM installed of which only 448 is working, a 20gb HD and a 400mhz processor. I decided to …
Freecycle near me had a listing from someone about 30 miles away that he had a pile of old computers at the curb including a MAC PORTABLE! I drove up there and …
I just deleted some mails in mail program(10.4.11 mail program) But when I saw the program's preference, It seemed that the deleted mails go to trash can. But I…
Hello everyone! I'm very excited about my new iBook G4 that i got off ebay! I have successfully loaded OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on it, as well as Office '04. I have n…
We've had some recent discussions about 'dating' Macs from their so-called serial numbers, which are in fact little potted biographies rather than purely sequen…
I am having some problems with (supposedly good) batteries refusing to charge and not reporting the time of charge left in a Powerbook Wallstreet G3 266MHz unit…
I don't know where this belongs! LOL http://www47.tok2.com/home/garakutaya/Mac/AppleIIc/AppleIIc.html
Greetings, I was curious if anyone remembers the add-on scenery disks for Flight Simulator II? Back in the day I had scenery disk 3, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and …
I was hoping to put a version of Mac OS X, Preferably 10.2 or 10.0, on my PowerBook. Is this possible? It has a 400Mhz G3 processor,64MB of RAM and a 10GB Drive…
just scored an 840AV mobo from ebay. what cases would it fit? and what kind of PSU do i need?
Is there a way to determine a computer's age within the month? I looked on my Centris's silvery plaque on its underside but there is no hint as to what month in…
I used an ac adapter from my 1400(24V/45W) to start the duo without the dock for the first time. Everything worked fine. Tried it an hour later and got an odd b…
The hardrive in my duo was making lots of noise. I swapped in my last extra 320mb 2.5 scsi drive. Newer(1994??) faster and much quieter. I have been looking at …
I was going to get a g4 zif from someone to upgrade my g3 and I just wanted to make sure I did it right. I honestly do not know how the jumpers work and would l…
How hot does a functional Duo 2300c run? Does anyone else have one who could tell me? I have a unit that freezes persistently. I cannot, for instance, run it lo…
So i was going to install System 7.5.3 on my Performa. I downloaded all the parts, and burned the image to a CD. I booted the Performa with a Disk Tools diskett…
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Got home late from the Dr's appointment yesterday which sort of angered me for the delays. But along the way one of the local schools made a trash pile of old c…