I've got a few SE and SE/30 boards with broken clips on the Simm sockets. What would be the best option to remove these from the logic board without lifting tra…
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Good ThinkPad and Evil ThinkPad... Pics Quirky, and mucho cool with the TrackWrite. It's like a mini-Model M. Both have 486s, as far as I'm aware, and Good has …
Greetings. Now that my Classic II (right now running 7.0.1) has been recapped and is working, I'm looking to put a larger internal drive in it. I have Jag's CD …
Hi, It's been a while since I've been on the forum, and it's nice to be back. I recently got a Mac Classic that was being given away. It appears to be in good s…
Hi all! This question would probably fit as well in the "peripherals" forum, but my guess is that most PCI cards users certainly hang up around here. I just pur…
Hi all, I purchased one of these -- with the sole intention of housing my maxed-out 7600 mobo However the original board and PSU work just fine and I could keep…
Hey guys, Does anyone know where to get replacement drop-in potentiometers for the brightness controls? I got 2 SE analog boards here that the pots were smashed…
(Pics at the end) As many have done here before, I've reassessed what I want out of a Macintosh collection. For now I've decided to stick with a couple of machi…
I've got a 17" iMac G4 800mhz (2002) and took it apart today to replace the hard drive and upgrade the RAM. Here's exactly what I did: 1: Disassemble according …
. . . with shipping additional . . . :-/ . . . bu it still factors out to about $.55/GB or $5.00/HDD . . . ADAPTEC U160 SCSI CARD WITH 4 HARD DRIVE CAGE AND CAB…
Hi there! I was shuffling some RAM around between the Quadra 950 and Mac IIci today, and now, for some reason, the IIci no longer puts out video. What I wanted …
Hi, I got a Quadra 950 a few months ago, and decided to clean it out. So I did. However, something seems to have killed it, as it won't start up. All I get is a…
Glad I found this board. Hope someone point me in a useful direction to get a recently liberated Mac IIsi up and running. Long story short: There may be multipl…
Chances are you've heard it. UUUU--UUscht--RRRUUK-*Beep*--RUTCH!! What does the sound of the infamous MiniScribe HD remind you most of? Yeah, this is a geeky th…
One of the more rare Macs, even if it is a clone. The J710 was the last production Macintosh clone made. It was Apple approved hardware and even got the go-ahea…
when i boot it up it says the built-in memory test has detected a problem with chache memory, please contact a service tech for assisance in system profiler it …
I just got a Mac TV.. So far the issues I have are Every hard drive I stick in spins down right after startup. Gives the dreaded X when trying to boot from a kn…
Hi, As I already posted over here, I just got this thing and it's dead. When I turn it on, it seems to only have enough energy to faintly engage the CRT, and I …
well waiting for a web page to load is fun with these trying to print to my Personal Laser Writer 300 is also fun, takes like 2 full minutes to spool, waiting f…
Hi, I don't know a whole lot about these things (yet!), but I was curious if anybody has somehow replaced the stock SCSI chip with something faster in, say, the…
I'm about to crack into my new Mac Classic II and do all sorts of upgrades and fixes: Cap exchange, 256MB HDD, 10MB ram, and a new battery (I'm stuck in 1956). …
All of the Disk Tools floppies (7.6, 8.0 and 8.1) I have tried on my TAM crash it. Does anyone have a *floppy* image that boots a TAM or know of one? Yes, I can…
I hope to make my Mac II an 'ultimate System 6' box. Since System 7+ is so common I would like to focus on finding hardware and software that did not run well o…
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Hello, My LC has acted up over the years, and I've been able to get him back in line, but now I'm stumped. Today I had 2 power outages, both within an hour. The…
Hey everyone. So I did a little bit of searching on here first, but i'm still not quite sure where to start going with this. Anyways, the lisa that we have won'…
I have a PowerMac 6100/66, i want to install a DOS Card or maybe the video card (I have both), and upgrade to a SCA SCSI Hard Drive 10,000 RPM with 18gig, I hav…
I just happened to stumble upon an old recall notice for the powerbook and ibook G4 batteries from long ago. So, for shits and giggles I checked my ibook G4 bat…
Heya, I've got a Quantum ProDrive ELS 170S, which is identical (except for 10MB size difference) to the ELS 160S that is shipped as a configuration option for t…
Hi, I have started with recapping the Analog boards of my Mac 128K to Plus series. I have just done 2x in the last days and there were obvious differences after…
This Nubus card (the 4 8 and the 8 24 are same thing, it is just that the addition of two 256k vram simms makes the 4 8 into an 8 24) is currently on eBay. It i…
I picked up a Macintosh SE and a Macintosh SE/30 from a local craigslist ad for FREE. The SE/30 works beautifully and is in excellent condition. What a find! Bu…
I received this earlier today via courier upon completing a transaction on eBay. I have always wanted an SE/30 - not only for their durability similar to the 68…
Hi, I've been looking for on Farnell, Digikey, Mouser, Google, Ebay,... you name it for a 620uf 400v snap-in capacitor ( D=40mm, H=42mm ). It's in the Sony PSU …
Did you see that post over at TUAW? I find it pretty impressive and really cool that a ][ is still in regular use to drive that industrial machine...
Seems my thread titles are only getting weirder. This machine is a resurrected old portable powerhouse with a massive windshield and chrome accents. It was in a…
Another recycling job, mint condition, 400Mhz/128MB but wouldn't boot. Took it home, disabled the very dead PRAM battery and now it's purring away happily on 9.…
Hi all, When I first got my Mac Plus, it had no video at all. The video came back after I hit it vigorously on the left hand side. Since then it has got more an…
I acquired another Powerbook G4, 1.67, 17 inch laptop (I have three now!) but this one doesn't seem to want to boot. I have tried a few things to get it booting…
Ok so my quadra 610 has been acting up a little the past few days. I managed to perform a complete install of OS 7.6.1. The problem is that my compute only mana…
I have a PCI PC compatibility card by Apple it has the 166mhz Pentium and its in my PowerMac 9600 the number of the card is 820-0930-A. I says I can upgrade to …
I have just acquired this machine: I bought it hoping it as an MDD, but unsure. Turns out it was a FW800. Oh well. All is not lost. I intend to retrofit it to M…
Has anyone tried this yet? You can get 36GB 2.5" Ultra320 drives for $25. Pretty cheap. I was wondering if an Ultra320 drive would even work on an old PowerBook…
I have an Apple IIgs in OK condition. The monitor is giving me issues. First, it makes a horrible high pitched sound when turned on (only slightly subdued when …
I've been noticing my recently acquired 2.7ghz G5 has a tendency to put itself into sleep mode once in a while, particularly when the CPU is under high usage. I…
I’ve been mostly using a 9600 running 9.2.2 for a few older games. Quite often when it came to a save or a reload, I’d have an annoying wait while the drive spu…
Hi all, I have a Quadra 700. Everything seems to work, except that it has one quirk. Whenever I turn it on, it starts up, gets to the smiley Mac, and then immed…
Ill be honest, Ive never owned a portable before until recently. I finally got around to recapping it. Recapped it, now trying to figure out this weird issue. P…
Customer wanted it disposing of so I wiped the HD and aquired it to replace my mums dual 450 Sawtooth. It's the very last of the eMacs, the 1.42 Ghz which I bel…
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I could use some advice on how to get an unusual 170 running again. About a month ago, I won a JLPGA PowerBook 170 only to receive a badly damaged unit. The scr…