Added a few things to my Mac pile. I picked up a 333mhz Bondi Blue tray loader. I will use it to upgrade my other 266mhz tray loader. I was surprized when I boo…
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I've never seen it myself until now, but I've heard of it. The cursor turns into a little bomb icon. So weird. http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0324p…
And I refuse to call these 'beige'. They are not beige! Apple hasn't made a beige Mac since 1986! They are platinum! Anyway, this was a 4-week process, but tota…
Got a Pismo 500mhz in a 400mhz case. Runs great. Paid $180.00 CDN Dayna Pocket SCSI/link model DP0901- Need info on power input. Color StyleWriter 2400 Localtal…
Just got back from my latest conquest: an original iMac, complete with keyboard, hockey puck mouse and translucent power cord. Free from Craigslist. It still ha…
Today's visit wasn't as good. The owner was there today, but for the past seven or so Tuesdays he has not been. So I had to deal with him. Thankfully though the…
Yessiree, an SE has recently come into my possession! I got it from an old family friend. She's an amazing old lady. She lives in the home her grandfather built…
I remember these from the day. Were they thermal printers? Or some kind of ink-jet? Anybody know if this is battery powered or required a power brick?
Well, I know it's rather late, but I finally got round to sending out the superdeluxe RetroChallenge mouse pads to the winners. Enjoy!
Today I got to rummage in a very cool place. My dad knows the guy that does the surplus for the building that he (my dad) has an office with, at ECu. Apparently…
I just got a Classic II for 10$ at a yard sale. It has a 80mb Hard Drive and 4mb of ram and runs system 7.1 nicely. It has the keyboard and mouse too. I also go…
Free from a friend who works for Apple who told me it was a Portable (go figure). The battery is dead but that was expected, it boots fine from the mains. I als…
Went back to the local college and picked up an auto inject drive that works in my Quadra 660av (first drive that works!) and a AppleDesign 'board. Nothing majo…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Today I picked up: -6GB HD -Floppy drive (still doesn't work right :\ ) -Virtual PC 2.1 -BC-02 (stylewriter) ink cart. w00t!
Well, a friend of mine and i were goin to the 7-eleven one night, and driving, I saw a pile of computer stuff. On the way back, I stopped. I got a sweet haul: 1…
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…
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 …
:-/ Uh, yeah... Well, I got my Quadra 660av. It had some things that were broken. The display wouldn't work right, but I got that all fixed. On Friday when I mo…
Found one of these guys in Goodwill today for $20. Figured it'd be nice to have to type some school papers on without distractions. http://tinypic.com/useralbum…
When I came across this somewhat rare complete HD 20SC package, I was stunned by the size of the original box! Now that's how these sellers should pack securely…
They are subjectively (I didn't measure, just put the books next to each other) the same width, and without the function keys, approximately the same height. An…
At a thrift store the other day I picked up a brand new (sealed) UMAX Astra 3400, and a box of brand new sony HD floppies, for $12 and $2 respectively. The scan…
I was offered a working SE/30 from central CA for shipping, but since I have 2 I don't need another. This is the info I got: "I got the SE/30 from a friend who …
I got a HP Vectra computer, a small monitor, and tons of 5.25" floppies for $5. The original owner said that if it didn't work, I could take something else. BTW…
I am using a Power Mac 5500/225 for business-related stuff. I dug out my Epson Color Stylus 740i that I got around 2004 or so, only to find out that the paper d…
I'm trying to work out what might be wrong with my third Plus, which is now made out of the 'worst' bits now I've swapped everything round to make two other 'ni…
Going through the piles of stuff in my office I came across the following: Beige G3 motherboard with 333mhz processor and 4MB video SODIMM, TwinTurbo 128 PCI vi…
I drove out to the Nebraska Furniture Mart and went to the electronics area to pick up a Tape/Cassette adapter for my iPod nano and disappointed with what littl…
I decided to drive over to Techs and Trainers today. They are really cool, a non-profit that provides jobs to people with disabilities, they fix up computers fo…
This is a sort of delayed conquest... I got this M0001 probably six months ago. I figured it was just some crummy upgraded to 512K type deal. The floppy drive w…
So I found an interesting score, a replacement motherboard for my beloved IIsi. My current motherboard is a recent one (Late 1992 date codes on the chips) but t…
I gave up on capacitors for now. The Classic II board is probably ruined. Now I am working on, what I believe is an original 128K (I can't tell if it's a 512K o…
When I had to open up my old iMac G3 I discovered that it had a SCSI bus on the mobo, but used an IDE drive. Is this useful for SCSI to IDE? :b&w:
Help me figure this one out. I'm in the process of liberating a Q950, and the ADB doesn't work. Pulled the Nubus cards thinking 3 digidesign cards were pulling …
Today I just got an SE and a SE/30. The SE powers on, but needs the startup disk. Does anyone have an extra one? I made the same mistake as another guy recently…
I found an Apple PowerCD player at a flea market today for $2 (talked down from $5). No base, ac adapter or remote. I'll have to see if it works.
Apple MacProject new in box shrinkwrapped. Says it works on both Macintosh and Lisa! (not for sale) Microsoft Excel 1.0 for Mac new in box shrinkwrapped (for sa…
I'm thinking of getting an older iMac, so I can retire my aging 9500.. I like using my laserwriter 16/600...and stylewriter 2400... but you can't use 'em offhan…
I just bought this -> http://shrani.si/f/1a/6u/2WSzr8He/d3b91.jpg Evereything that I know about this system version is that it was not officially release…
I picked up this lot from quinterro today: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6997 In addition, there were: Toshiba 40x CD-ROM and 4 GB HD in a 2-bay SCSI…
My sister in UK found a working Mac SE in a hotel she just bought. It starts up and is in graet condition. however, there is no mouse and keyboard. I have found…
This isn't something I've scored, but am thinking about. Problem is, yeah I can probably scrounge up the money in a few weeks. I'm really interested in keyboard…
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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/…