After helping out at the local flea market mall, I looked through the stacks of computers and found the following for $15 total: ATX case with dead motherboard,…
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I just got a 170 today and it's got a problem. When I start it up, it displays a pattern of gibberish lines and makes the chimes of death after the startup soun…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280209712270 I know Color Classics have gone back up in price in recent years, but this seems nuts. T…
My 700 has a rather bizarre... "problem." When I cold boot it (boot it from a totally shutdown state) it chimes, tests the RAM, gets to the happy mac, blanks sc…
Well I just got System 7 on my PowerBook 145B and closed the lid... the left hinge fell out of its screw and ripped the ribbon cable... I now have to mourn the …
So the horizontal deflection on my AppleVision 1710AV has been playing up for a while, so today I decided to open up the monitor and have a look. I've been foll…
A fiend of mine had 2 512mb sticks of SDRAM that he couldnt get working in any laptop, i knew tht they'd work in the pismo, so he gave me them. I put them in, a…
Was not going to take it, but was told that these are awesome monitors. It is a 21" IBM P275. Trinitron tube. Macintosh Portable with no hard drive !st model Me…
What exactly do the DSPs in those AV machines do? Are they basically like a special-purpose CPU for offloading certain tasks to? Is there any documentation on t…
Hi, Just wondering if theres any way to make an Apple Cinema Display work on vintage macs (with DB15 or VGA ports), or if it will work right out of the box. Tha…
Digitrax: Does anyone happen to have a copy of this DSP-aware sound editing program for the 660av and 840av Macs that they could share with yours truly? I have …
I was thinking about rebuilding a wallstreet battery, I was wondering if it would be ok to use ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE SOLDER as apposed to hot solder …
Is it possible to add a DSP Nubus board to the 840av, so as to create a multi-dsp-processor machine for sound editing? I do know for a fact that you can add a D…
Do Macintosh SE's have color screens? Only I saw this on eBay and it doesn't look like it's only black and white. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…
I am looking into replacing the PRAM battery in my PowerBook 150, I have not idea how to attach a new batter as it appears to be soldered down. I do not have th…
Found it while cleaning out. I forgot I had it. This will be perfect for my Quadra 700, which currently has a puny 40MB inside!
Does anyone know of a resource which lists the power efficiency of (older) macs? everymac.com doesn't have this information. also, if anyone does know anything …
Well, i got another commodore conquest, a VIC-20, with a working joystick, and datasette! now i just need to figure out how to hook it up to my 1702!
Well i was cleaning up in the back room and noticed this lowly G3 powerbook sitting on a shelf. I asked my boss what was up with it, and he said it had a bad mo…
I am trying to revive an LC II because my iMac usb floppy drive can't seem to recognize 800k disks. I don't have access to the 12in monitor that came with the t…
Well,it's a partly working machine. But from it, I scored a 440bx motherboard with AGP. a SoundBlaster 24 (SRS Model ) 392MB Ram, 6GB HDD, CD-RW (24x8x52), Netw…
Well I got some cool cards A TransWarp (not GS :-( ) A Super Serial Card II A RAMworks Rev E that appears to be maxed out and an 80 Collum Card $0
WorkGroup Server 8150 Rescued from the dumpster at Spring Branch ISD. I also rescued a 5400 motherboard from that dumpster last week. I'll have to check it agai…
I snatched up a set of 3 SCSI drives off eBay at the last minute since the price was really good. I did a search based on the information in their listing, whic…
Is there any way of getting past the 64mb memory limit ? Without major surgery that is ...
ah..a great day, indeed...was able to bring back a dead 128k from macintosh hell...took it part...cleaned the heck outta it...via 409. washed the motherboard in…
Ok, so there is a guy with 10 IIGS logic boards. Does anyone want to split the cost with me? It is $100 (may be able to get him down to $60)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Lisa-1-or-Lisa-2-5-Motherboards-with-Pan_W0QQitemZ130204657400QQihZ003QQcategoryZ80286QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem If I neede…
Saw this on ebay - looks a bit expensive, but I'm interested in what it does. The seller calls it a scsi card, but I see a motorola chip and a ram expansion. I …
... and switch on the lamp; we're excavating the back shed, soon to be demolished. Judging by the artefacts exposed so far as we gently brush back the accumulat…
I just had my birthday today! I got a wonderful 19 Inch Dell LCD monitor! Its beautiful and matches my Bose Speakers. I'm attempting to make my Ati Rage Pro Tur…
I have a problem with an Apple IIe I just bought. It does start with a usual "Apple ][" Screen, but when a floppy drive is attached the drive starts to run but …
I got this in my haul, and I was told it was dead. They said it had a dead mobo. I had a bit of free time, so I pulled it out, plugged in my power adapter, and …
Yesterday I scored three more machines, two of them 68k's and one of them just plain awesome. I haven't really had a chance to check out the specs on the two 68…
Just throwing a few things around, while I had a Q630 out and playing, and I think I found my new favourite 68k . A 630 with 630DOS logic board, overclocked (40…
WORKING 2.3 GHZ DUAL G5 FOR $150!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! CompUSA Liquidation!!!!! They said it had a bad motherboard. It came with no hard drive or superdrive. I poppe…
Somebody a couple blocks away from me put out a huge pile of computer stuff, with a sign that says everything works, but is old. The towers I looked through all…
I "found" this in a pile of computer equipment outside the computing building at a local Uni. No idea of precise specs yet though as I haven't been able to powe…
Hi, I found the following interesting (to me anyway) little hack on the 128k motherboard of the US mac that I just blew up. My other 128k board doesnt have it -…
I got my first ever Q700 on Saturday and the PRAM battery needs replaced. Before I go through the pain of trying to find out, can someone tell me if I'm right i…
After much deliberation, I've purchased a badly needed video card upgrade for my G4 GE. I bought a 128mb Radeon 9800 Pro PC edition. It isn't here yet but it's …
SO I have a power wave with an XLR8 (I think - not sure) G3 300 card in it. I stripped the parts long ago, but today pieced it back together. I lost the speaker…
Is there a good resource for information about these? I just got one, and I guess "radius" followed by numbers is just a bad Google search term. I don't know an…
bought a brand new intel imac core 2 duo 17 inch i was going for a 20 inch aluminium imac but i saw this white monster for 899 blow out price because it was the…
http://troubleshootnow.com/coius/imac/screen.jpg This is an iMac DV. nothing else is wrong with it. Starts up quickly, no whine. Everything functions. mind you,…
After playing with the idea of getting an Apple II for a long time I eventually bought an Apple IIgs on eBay. It came from America and I bought just the IIgs un…
More stuff from the office hall.... Two Dell Optiplex GX240 P4 1.7ghz low-profile desktop systems. No memory or hard disks in either one. One has a printed labe…
Yes! Assembled my Franken-Pismo with parts from different places. Plugged it in, powered it on. BONG! I used a HD with OS 9 on it, it booted right up. Was tryin…
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Is there a preferred model according to card function for installation of PCI cards into slots A to E of Kansas and Tsunami logic boards? I have seen , but cann…