Today I picked up a faulty Powerbook 180c that I won on eBay. I got it running fairly quickly, then shortly after broke the screen cable :'( I was fixing some c…
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I was wondering if anyone here had used 68k macs for working with photographs? I was wondering this because I recently bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual film sc…
Hey guys! Long time, no log on. I scored myself an XBox last week on freecycle. I'm so excited about it because it's my first "good" console. I want to get onli…
Hi folks! I'm doing some research on the software production of MetaCreations Corp. (ex MetaTools) and its innovative user interface. I already own Bryce, Paint…
Does anyone know the pinout for the Harman Kardon iSub power supply? I've googled without success and tried the usual pinout archives. Got one here with a dead …
Hi, Just now, I got a package in the mail. One of the two power supplies I ordered has arrived! I'm also getting a second one from WorkGroupServer here on the f…
I need the service manual. Serching high and low only gives me the slot load. I have removed the CRT completely and now I don't remember what the non standard l…
In case any of y'all are interested. The shipping is high though. Edit: Can someone confirm if this is indeed a socketed CPU? Looks like it is. http://cgi.ebay.…
Hi Folks! I wanted to eliminate some desktop clutter, so I decided to move my iSight, which is placed on the desktop facing up at me, and to put it on my 20-inc…
Hello, I bought a Newton MessagePad 2100 and i really like this PDA but i don't know how to connect it to my PowerBook G4 Ti 667 VGA running Mac OS 10.4.11 beca…
Recommended mirroring: (instead of reading... .. eh.. anyway) ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/ It has goodies like /pub/apple_II/emulators/rom_images/ (27 files,…
The following style sheet should restore all the old icons to the forum for read and unread, etc. Code: dl[style="background-image: url(./styles/prosilver/image…
I just scored myself an early-90s HP UNIX box! There's this hallway in the basement of one of the engineering buildings on campus where a few of the oddball eng…
I've received a Macintosh Classic from a good friend of mine. He's a collector too, and once intended to get into Vintage Macs. Sadly this never happened (he en…
Two days ago when I was scanning the local auction website I found a Macintosh Classic I paid HK$250 (about US$33) and grabbed this little Mac home. It was havi…
Hi guys. With all the talk about archiving old VHS tapes, I decided to set up a machine dedicated to this task. I chose my beige G3 MT, because I have the perso…
I ordered this about a week and a half ago, and it arrived today. It cost $126 shipped, and arrived in astonishingly pristine condition. Like most 1u dual-proc …
My dad scored me a free quadra 700 last week from a company he works with. Came around to turn it on this week and take a look inside. it got a 2GB IBM drive, a…
Well, a friend and I have made a deal with a local charity (Computers for kids, they put together computers for the less fortunate....and children too, apparent…
Years ago I scored 2 LC3's on freecyle. One worked fine and still works fine to this day, the other worked for about 15 minutes making noise from the speaker (w…
I had an instructor bring me a Powerbook G4 that won't power up. I tried resetting the PMU and taking the battery out, as well as re-seating the RAM. The charge…
Hello, I would like to add a zip drive to my mac classic. What kind of driver do I need to do that and does it require a specific OS version in order to recogni…
} Woot! Picked it up off of ebay, has numerous small problems, hope to have it working like new shortly. I'll post pictures when it arrives. -Patrick Also score…
Well, since we have custom BBCode abilities on the forums, I thought I'd test it by adding some shortcuts to the MLA Wiki. You should be able to link to any pag…
I am running OS X on my PB G3 Lombard and it needs a G4. I know there are upgrades for it out there, but I can't find one for the life of me that wouldn't requi…
Hello everyone from a noob I currently don't have any 68K Mac hardware, though my first computer was an LC and I am looking to get some stuff (like maybe a Quad…
I got an Ultra 10 for 50$. Has 512mb RAM,333mhz UltraSPARC IIi,Sun Creator3d Card,4 Port Ethernet card,9gb 7200rpm HD, and a "Sun OS 5.10". Comes with the keybo…
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5104/photoaw9.jpg This picture does not do justice to the injustice these Macs have received. We will be parting basically all …
I know it's not Mac, but I found an absolutely killer lot of Tandy stuff, mislisted on ebay. A Tandy 200, with literally everything you could want. Previously o…
I am not sure whether I wanted to post this under retro-challenged, but my PowerBook 540c Webserver is now HTML 1.1 Compliant (I think) which means, NO CSS, no …
For once, the overused eBay buzzword "RARE!!!ZOMGLOLBBQ!!!1101!!" is totally justified. And the price, though high, has some level of realism, considering. Appl…
Since the battery for my PowerBook 230 Duo wouldn't hold a charge, I decided to take it apart. Now I'm staring at 10 NiMH cells that I need to replace. Unfortun…
I just need something that I can use at school, without worrying about it getting damaged or anything like that. I was thinking along the lines of a 3400C, or e…
So I finally got a nice collection of Macintosh Type 1 fonts for use on my future 68K "Productivity Box" and I just realized: 68K-compatable versions Adobe Type…
Got at a local market last saturday. VGC, with cradle and leather carry case. The price seemed right to me, $50 (not a conquest, but…) I'm happy with it, anyway…
I'm having trouble with one of my SE/30's. The SE/30 is booting from its internal hard disk, it loads all the extensions and control panels. Then displays the m…
For those of you retro challenge folk who don't frequent the RetroBBS, it is going down this weekend and will not be coming back. At least it won't be coming ba…
All: I have a Mac 512K that, at some point in its life, received the 800K drive upgrade (including the 128K ROM upgrade).I'm going to get my hands on a 400K flo…
I have a PowerBook 170 and am hoping to take it to a conference in March. I don't have a working battery but am looking to either buy one or find the means to r…
3 sticks of 1GB SO-DIMMs 3 sticks of DDR, 512MB and 256MB Price: Free The 512MB stick is going into my Grandma's computer to bump it to a total of 1.25GB. The 2…
Hi, Right now, I have one of my SEs on. The one I have on is the one whose hard drive needs reformatting due to the fact that it takes 1 min 40 secs to load pro…
A few weeks ago I managed to get (for FREE): a IIsi system in good condition with a monitor that supposedly worked when I got it, but when I got it home it no l…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! That crashing sound you hear is the sound of Windows breaking. No, I didn't throw my ThinkPad through one. Mi…
Ok so I figured I'd take my conquest thread here. Background: I purchased this IIfx not knowing of its condition. No idea on how much RAM and no HD. I plugged i…
What's the difference between 4256, 41256-15 and 81257-15 RAM chips? Do additional letters and numbers make a significant difference (e.g. 41256C-15)? 256 seems…
I was talking to a friend of mine last night, who says he has some old computers that he used to use for composing/producing music, that he hasn't used in 10 ye…
Why do people (Wikipedia and others) list the 5400 as "Power Macintosh 5400 LC"? I've seen tens of dozens of 5400's in my lifetime, and none of them ever make a…
I was on the MacSales site, looking at the G4 processor upgrades for an old AGP 400 Mhz Sawtooth, and I had some questions. It feels...expensive, but of course …
I have them in SIT package but it is broken so, if anybody have a working 68k and PPC version, would be great!
I've picked up a couple of Sun Microsystems workstations from a friend of mine. 1 is a SparcStation 2, and the other is a Sparc Ultra 5. The Ultra 5 has no hard…