I took apart my Mac SE FDHD because I wasn't getting a picture, reattached the video board because it fell off, and then I heard an odd hissing noise from the c…
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:-/ 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…
I liberated a IIci this weekend, with 32k cache card and 32 MB ram, 80MB HDD. The machine was almost brand new. It was owned by some rich dude who never used it…
does anyone know where i can find a coppy of mac os system 7.6 or how i can make floppies of system 7.5.3 from the apple arcived files from their site? i have a…
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…
Hi, How can I remove the startup password to the notebook "Apple Macintosh Duo 230"? I remember the startup password is removeable from any kind of Apple Vintag…
(1) Beige G3, ATI Rage 128 PCI video card, 17" Apple blue and white CRT monitor: works great. (2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 …
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…
i have a wallstreet wel several wallstreets and unfortunaly no means of getting data from their hard drives other then a zip disk module ( but no zip disks ...g…
Now this upgraded Mac512 is what I consider a rather interesting find on EBAY, and currently being offered at a reasonable price too. Like my GCC Internal HD, t…
I am trying to set up a couple G3 500 MHz computers for my grandkids. They are on a DSL connection. They are running OS 9.2 I can connect to the internet using …
Hey! I have got some cool conquest news! Today, one of my friends and I took a bit of a trip to NAU's surplus store, partially as a response to the trip techfur…
Most of my Macs have dead batteries... This neat little control panel fixes the most serious problem, even on Mac Classics connected to a MacIP network. http://…
Hey guys, I got a DirectTV digtal analog converter box(or whatever they are) ( hey was cheap!) from the resale shop, I was wondering if I could use it to potent…
I just snagged a copy of ClarisWorks from a thrift store today. Version 1.0, the shrinkwrap was still on the box (albeit ripped open) and the floppy envelope wa…
Brand new Mouse Systems serial mouse: 50 cents (local computer store) Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One: Free from school. They gave me an AppleDesign keyboard and …
WOO! There was an ad on the local CL advertising this beautiful old computer, with original boxes, some disks, and a printer, all for free! I fired off an email…
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…
Hi Guys: I have a Pismo and a Powerbook 1400c that I'd like to get replacement (bigger) hard drives for. What should I look for? I don't want to just get a gene…
Just got rid of one ,300 mhz...and still have one more..the 225 model..My question is..Does anyone in the forum, surf with 'em ? How do you like the 6500 overal…
I was at a yard sale and they had a free pile! I picked up A Quadra 605, apple design speakers(1993), 14" apple monitor, a cyrix 686 cpu sealed in original paka…
Just now noticed this- the copright date on the bottom of the pages is 2001-2007, not to 2008. Thought someone might like to know.
This is a pretty cool idea ... http://www.geocities.com/bobdavis321/Tech.html#LED
I have installed a quantum 2-gig internal drive. All was well with formating, installing system software, etc. I was on my way to installing netBSD when after a…
I finally was able to pick up my Quadra 660av today, It has 68MB of RAM and OS 8.1 flooded with extensions... Not OK. I will have to reinstall the system and se…
Do you guys reckon its safe to run HappyPlusClock 24/7 in an SE after removing/disconnecting that damn fan? ...?
For my Sawtooth. I've been running the 128 pro in it since I swapped the Radeon into my 9500 and it's not very good under Tiger and the benchmarks for the Nvidi…
Hi, I've a trouble on my external disk drive (model #M0131) in my MacPlus. It normally reads and writes all 800k floppy disks, but is not able to eject them any…
I´m using mac for 12 years now, but today I got an really new "bug". My machine is an 9600 with Sonnet 800MHz and 1GB Ram and OS 9.1. My mac reserves about 840M…
Although I use FW most of the time, high(er)-speed USB is getting to be a real need. USB 2.0 cards abound around here. Are there any that are particularly good …
I was just watching my 1985 10" Sony Trinitron TV, realizing it was going to be obsolete soon when the US goes digital. When I realized it is about the same siz…
I walked into the pathetic audio section of Jewel Osco and saw a pair of wireless headphones for $5.99! It has a slight ground loop and they are a bit tinny, bu…
Look at this: Macintosh In Austria ( http://www.carrier.co.at/res/mac/index.html) pointed at Realtek Semiconductor – Gigabit-Ethernet-Drivers for Mac OS 9 The R…
I have a dual 450Mhz Sawtooth with a Uni-North Rev. 7 and 1GB RAM. I am wondering that if I bumped it to 500Mhz or 550, would it matter? Would I see a performan…
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 …
Well, today I traded my seldom-used iMac 400mhz for a nice beige desktop g3 - technically the iMac is still mine, it's just residing somewhere else. This one is…
So it seems that Apple offers free downloads to 6.0.3 and other software from that era but nothing earlier. Since the earliest Mac that will run it is the Plus,…
now this ere emac i got my hands on has a problem ( doesnt it always ?) it works fine other for the fact that it spits out any cd i put in there orginal or cd-r…
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…
On my new HP Vectra from 1985 I can't get any video on the monitor (also HP branded), there are DIP switches on the video card, but I have no documentation.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/PowerLogix/PFZGX10001M/ OtherWorld Computing is selling 1ghz G3 ZIF upgrades. 8-o
I got an Apple vs Windows tape sent to me about a week ago. The seller was in Galveston It's produced by Apple, circa 1996 or so. I will digitize it sometime af…
I found these in my garage. Turns out that my dad used to use these at his job at AMD. So there were a mix of 360k and 1.2 MB blank floppies. There was also a c…
As stated in a previous thread, my 7300 decided to kick the bucket just as I was about to put it back into service. I was lucky enough to find a 7500 here in De…
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…
A professor I know at my school, who also happens to be a machead and Mac user since 1984, let me borrow his projector yesterday for a club meeting. When he pul…
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So I got a 40" Dynax (Best Buy?) TV for free, with a note that just says "won't turn on." Opened it up and found that the huge capacitor had literally blown its…