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After not doing a clean reinstall for 3 years, my 4400 now takes 10 minutes to start up. I guess it's time for a clean reinstall. ;D But which OS will I use? :?…
I'm REALLY angry right now! Today, I decided to open up the case of my Indigo iMac (Summer 2001) to dust it out. Imagine my shock and horror when I got the oute…
Hey all, I've got a fellow having problems viewing text on his iMac. I've included a few screen shots to let you know what I'm talking about. I've searched pref…
from my school, i got an apple logo'ed pencil, and i also got an apple mouse pad (it says Apple in a TNR'ish font). not much, but still something!
it has taken me like 15 minutes to load the page. Why on earth is the forum this slow? ~tl, why does this site either seem to give errors, take so long to load …
I have a Blue/White G3 that I'm trying to reinstall MacOS X on and am having problems ejecting the tray on it. I've tried a DVD drive from a PowerMac G4, which …
I found an HP-35 calculator in a computer recycling bin yesterday. I opened it up and cleaned the power on/off switch contacts, since the switch was a little fi…
This article is an excellent explanation of yellowing of plastics: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189
More ram for my MacBook: 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2-5300 667Mhz So-DIMMs I also got a new Video card for my desktop (Better than the Radeon 9550) PNY Verto GeForce 6200 A…
Here's a slightly strange one. My 128K mac had been upgraded to 128K ROMs and internal 800K drive. Since my Plus covers this space well and I wanted a represent…
I'm trying to determine the colour scheme for the IIc over its life-span. In surfing the net, I am finding conflicting information. I know the first version was…
My PowerBook 540c has a grid on the screen. It's as if there is a white border around every single pixel, so the overall effect is a "screen" or white grid. The…
I have a bondi. I removed OS X. I would like to put 9 on it again. 192mb RAM G3 233 4gb StockHD Stock CD ROM The drive had 8, but it boots to a question mark th…
The Classic II I just sold, has bad sound. The internal speaker is inaudible. With external powered speakers, you have to turn them all the way up, and then it …
So, the story goes: October 2005: I'm helping someone move into a new classroom for the afterschool program I'm in. We open the closet in the room and see a Pow…
Hey guys, I have a 80gb HD in my ibook and i have about 9gb free. I noticed that it is severely fragemented. I have tried iDefrag and it seems like it isn't rea…
I'm an apple newbie, so bare with me. Several months ago I purchased a PowerPC G4 with Mac OS Tiger 10.4 install(no software). It worked fine until my PPC insta…
Hi. I took my Mac 128k original out of storage. It nows shows sevral artifacts in the screen (Lines) and I get the sad mac immediately after the startup sound. …
I have itunes 2 running on my tam. I have about 20 gigs on an external firewire drive running to the firewire card i installed. Almost every time I start a song…
Well.....my ibook's battery holds 16% of its capacity according to coconut battery and other utilities. What annoys the heck out of me is not the fact it only l…
Hello guys, I recently did a video upgrade soldier to my Macintosh Color Classic. It seemed to go very well except for one thing. My monitor is now goes from bi…
So, I am having trouble with the wiki, whenever I try to upload a file I get this error: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/92/wikierrortl5.png Does anybody els…
After following This Guide, I now have the eMac running at 900Mhz!!! It took me 1.5 hours to do the hack, but the system like boots up 10 seconds faster. on top…
Yes, after waiting a month and through 3 auctions, i FINALLY have an eMac board. I hope it arrives soon XD. As you recall, i complained that the guy i bid on wa…
I am slowly going through my Compact Macs to fix known issues and check things over... My Performa 200 starts with jail bar lines. Thinking a possible RAM issue…
I am wondering about replacing some capacitors in my SE30, specifically the 16v 47µF ones that mostly are found on the logic board (I've just discovered that se…
My machine is a PM G4, 2GB ram, Dual 1.44ghz, FW800. ATA/66 - Maxtor 5400rpm, 20gb less than 2mb cache (secondary) ATA/100 - Hitachi 7200, 120gb 8mb cache (main…
I am not sure if anyone here collects old calculators or not... I got a Commodore 796M (electronic calculator) today at a thrift shop. It even had it's warranty…
Does the Clamshell iBook have two IDE interfaces, one for the CD and one for the HD? Also, what's the speed of the Clamshell's IDE interface? (I've read that th…
Seems like the Mac supply has dried up for a while. Adobe Web Collection for Mac. includes GoLive 4,Phptoshop 5.5 and Illustrator 8 Keysan usb to serial Belkin …
I am not very checked out on laptops so any help would be appreciated! I was given a Pismo which has no harddrive,but my first problem is that when I turn on th…
Hi all. I'm trying to find a very old version of Endnote, preferably version 1. I've tried all the usual places — the only one I can find is $US40, which seems …
I won a Macintosh SE on eBay. It looks like it's an FDHD. It will be my first compact Macintosh! I will be installing System 6.0.8 on it. Applications I know I'…
LisaEm 1.2.6 has been released. As usual, it can be downloaded from http://lisaem.sunder.net/downloads.html This version, like the last few is all bug fixes - t…
I just wanted to apologize for being so annoying on IRC. I realize I may have irretated just about everyone on there so I just wanted to make it clear that Im s…
Picking up tonight or tomorrow: >> Two Apple II plus machines >> Each machine has two 5 1/4" floppy drives >> one has …
I have some old 5.25" disks originally used on a pc under DOS long ago, when silicon dinosaurs roamed the earth. Is it possible to read these on a vintage Mac? …
Hey, What Audio File Extension is used for alert sounds and such is MacOS 7.5? Thanks!
I'm trying to repair the Hard Disk directory of one iBook with another iBook connected by Firewire using Disk Warrior but the iBook running Disk Warrior soon sh…
I'm typing this on a recently-restored and upgraded 2400c. It came with an original AC adapter (which I had to repair), and its floppy drive. There's a long sto…
Part II It's amazing all the things that we still today that Lisa was doing way back in 1983.
Can the L2 cache in a 6400 be upgraded beyond 256k without a G3 card? How about the cache in a 6116? I Googled this, but couldn't find what I was looking for. A…
I haven't posted much since the forum crash but I got a new toy today, an ANS 700/200. It has some issues but I'm beginning the troubleshooting and hope to have…
I have ext 500 GB WD Studio and when it goes to sleep, it wount wake up, the finder gets beach ball until the disk is disconnected and then device removal dialo…
When I use some program on the apple IIe (some high res program I think), the pictures look ok but the text is all giberish unreadable. For example when I run G…
As said before on a previous thread, a recently acquired an apple iie. I've been playing around with it during the last couple of days. The only minor problem i…
For those who have replaced capacitors on old Macs, did replacing the capacitors solve audio issues? I have a Classic and an LC II that have audio issues. There…