. . . I thought it would be nice to have a repository for 2300c troubleshooting lore. I'll edit some of the old thread links into this initial post as time goes…
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Here is a hack I did back in 2004. I was cleaning up my external HDD when I ran across these pics. Then came the Oh Yea moment. If i remember correctly, I used …
I was wondering if any of you had ever put a front-facing USB hub in the lower optical bay of an MDD. Any suggestions on mounting a regular hub (I figure the do…
So I messed up my logic board while replacing it back in after extensively cleaning the green wax Apple called thermal transfer material. This was about a week …
I noticed that my Powerbooks 145B and 170 aren't fully charging their main battery anymore. The Main batteries are in good condition ( rebuild ), all powerbooks…
Okay, I've just acquired a 2002 MDD Power Mac (1.25GHz DP) and gotten it up and running. It's quite a nice machine, but I've noticed that it's running a bit hot…
Finally, I got myself a Power Mac G4 Cube. Always wanted one since I first learned of it back in 2000. Back then, I was a poor student ;-) { "lightbox_close": "…
Will a Macintosh SE boot with the battery removed? Also does anyone know where to acquire a battery with solder leads on them? :?: This is probably common sense…
Hello! Sharing my latest toy with you all, a ugly but functioning Macintosh Classic. It was $30 on craigslist and I was told it was going to the trash soon if i…
So I was having issues with my Pismo 500Mhz G3. I noticed first that I was having issues with my Cardbus expansion. The airport card worked, but I couldn't get …
last thanksgiving I was given a couple toshiba laptops by my uncle, he said neither one powered up... so i took them home, and pretty much let them sit there un…
I have just collected a PM 7600 tonight. The ad was advertised as "free to collect locally" and it was just 5 minutes from home Moreover, many items were includ…
Bought originally the Powerbook online, but the guy started talking and offered "some other vintage mac stuff" for me as well, so ended up buying them all. Had …
There's a "new" style Turbo040, the type with the cache soldered on the card, in this lot: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Macintosh-IIci-M5780-w-DayStar-Digital-Asante…
The subject of SCSI-IDE-CF and other alternatives to aging SCSI HDD's gets brought up regularly, and inevitably performance is discussed. Tests are performed, p…
Finally got my hands on a Platinum Macintosh ED (512k). Powers on to the over-voltage crowbar. Hopefully it's repairable, I'll have a look sometime though I'm n…
due to a change I am going through in life (and a turning point into being a free person) I am moving out suddenly from where I am, have a nice job lined up, ex…
I used to use a G4 MDD to run videos on an LCD TV but I ran into trouble with MKV files. I was using a 1.33ghz DP MDD with 2gb RAM, Ati 9000 pro video card and …
I was attempting to sell this PB Lombard, but have had no takers. So I decided to swap the logic boards myself. The original board would chime very static like …
Can anyone point me to the capacitor values for the 550/CC2 logic board? They aren't listed in the wiki. I'd settle for a high-resolution picture of the logic b…
The power supply on my faithful Quadra 950 has failed. Went bad while I left it unused for a couple of months. It no longer has any voltage on the 5V PFW or TRK…
Well I finally won a PB170 on ebay (my first 68K notebook) and I have a few questions. The unit is pictured looking mint, but the seller says it will not power …
So I have a 180 that I ahve been fighting with to get an OS working on it. I first tried 6.0.4 (long shot but worth a try) and that didn't work. Neither did 7.1…
My 7500 originally came with a G3 card. I swapped it out with a 604 so I could play about with some old systems that didn't like the G3, but now I'm done with t…
At work i found a huge stack of BC-01 cartididges for my style writer, I'm save until 2050! Still need to ask my boss If I can take them all. I also when to the…
Yet another conquest: Macintosh Classic : Not so yellowed but has an hole in the side (!), original keyboard, mouse, System 7 discs, original Macintosh/System 7…
http://homepage.mac.com/kuratate0/6100/index.html { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The …
https://groups.google.com/group/lemswap/browse_thread/thread/fccff19604014e8b?hl=en# "30.00 for entire collection plus shipping. Payment accepted via US Postal …
There has been much discussion about ways to get CompactFlash cards onto SCSI busses. Some machines can take a full height 3.5" drive or another option is putti…
Hi all, I've got a couple of IIsi's -- case and mobo, but no disks or PSU. After washing, the MoBos work great (I used a Quadra 700 PSU on the bench) and I have…
I know now that my Mac 128k has either a bad connection between the deflection yoke cable and the motherboard or at worst the deflection yoke cable is shot. The…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macintosh-512K-computer-mouse-drive-and-case_W0QQitemZ190334943506QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c50d8c112&_t…
Some recent conquests; Powerbook Duo 250, powersupply, minidock, Apple external 3.5" disk drive, SCSI-targetmode cable -Has 12Mb RAM and 200Mb HD, System 7.5.5 …
it's been while since the last time i used this old Mac. A few days ago i tried to power it on to take some pictures and surprised to see my screen like this an…
I just picked up an LCD Studio Display (blue translucent) from the local thrift store. It's pretty dusty, and I have yet to fire it up... A quick search led me …
Was just wondering if it would be possible to make one out of cathodes or LED strips running up & down the keyboard? It's just I use my TiBook a lot at …
Sure has been a while since I posted anything. Everything's been pretty great so far... Until this morning when I tried powering on my LC 580. It won't turn on …
So earlier I'm driving down the road, and I see something blue laying in a ditch. I drive by and then realize, HEY! Wait a minute.... that's an iMac! So I back …
. . . just wondering if this newest Bat$#!^CrazyNotion™ is impossible or merely as Highly Improbable & WILDLY IMPRACTICAL as most of my hunches. :?: I c…
. . . I just can't win! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot b…
Hi, It's been a while since I visited here, but it's good to be back. A recent rescue: I just saved a Color Classic from someone who was about to bring it to th…
Got it for free at my workplace. Had a bad LCD, but another was "borrowed" from an identical machine lying around that wouldn't power up and seemed to have a ba…
So I scored some recent conquests, some mac related, some not (or barely) I recently won a pair of 74GB WD Raptor (10k RPM 8MB Cache) drives off ebay and I boug…
Hi! what are the specs for a Performa 630 PSU? (Voltage on each output and Amperes? I would like to replace it with something like that: http://www.picco.nl/cat…
I finally found what I have always wanted!!!! An SE/30! It even works, screen is burnt pretty bad and the case is yellow but whatever! Donor SE CRT and RetroBri…
I just won a used May, 2007 black MacBook on eBay for $355. While it's not vintage, it's certainly an upgrade from my G4 MDD tower, which is perfectly functiona…
I have a B&W upgraded G4 which runs at 400Mhz/768MB RAM and an 8GB SSD running 9.2.2 I mainly use it for analog/digital conversion of video using a iXmi…
So I turn 27 on January 9th (tomorrow for reference from the posting of this topic). and I decided to do something different. Since most people i know are going…
Installed new pram battery as I say on another thread, and these replacement cells seem to work fine, though to be honest, not having a multimeter, I haven't te…
I'm excited! Just won a PowerBook 520 on eBay for a whopping $8.01 plus shipping! Only bad thing is it has no power adapter. Hopefully I'll come across one soon…