hi all- as you may have become aware, i recently got a new(ish) iMac g3. however, it gets HOT! i did some research and found out it's cooled via convection, whi…
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So for years I've had a few Performa 6115, and 6116 and similar machines. A while back I got a G3 Sonnet upgrade card for it and I found the machine great to us…
One of my Mac IIs came with a portrait display card and a DB13W3 to DB15 cable. I connected it to a High Resolution RGB monitor, but it wasn't recognised by the…
I was given yesterday evening a PowerBook 5300ce, a box of Mac magazines, Civ II, SimCity 2000, and 3 unopened PhoneNet boxes. The 5300ce is a real gem. I check…
While Working on my powerBook 150 today, I got it to a almost perfect condition. Put it back together and, a Black screen and a bad smell. On further inspection…
Long time coming this box was originally promised to me a year ago. I got an email last week saying that it was finally out of storage and ehre is what I picked…
I am still looking for the 300 MHz card from my 8600, which I packed away somewhere ages ago. I figure that especially with all of the G3 upgraded PowerMacs out…
Good Afternoon fellow macheads, *rant warning. skip to 2nd paragraph for actual problems* Heh, I would've joined this forum years ago had I known about it. Abou…
This would be the lombard I mentioned in my thread in Conquests. It chimes (one of the speakers is scratchy) and the hard drive powers up. The issue is nothing …
Earlier this week I won 2 Powermac G5 systems of a well known auction site for $240 shipped. Both are June 2004 models with 1GB of RAM with dual 2GHz processors…
This thread is created as a place to look at the real differences between these two revisions. The hope is that this will be based on physical hardware at our d…
Just received a PowerBook 180 as a gift from a middle-aged couple who had no use for it and were going to dump it. b: For an 18-year-old computer, this thing is…
It works. I used Audion's MP3Pro encoder to make files at 64Kbps Stereo, and then fiddled with the MP3Dec preferences to find an acceptable level of cpu loading…
I probably won't be making any hackintoshes, and I probably won't butcher my working Apple CD SC Plus for it, but wouldn't that make a splendid case? I haven't …
So we all know that the vintage compacts we so dearly love have a limited lifespan. While the cases may last for ever, the electronics are not likely to fare so…
Not sure I've posted a conquest before, so I'll post this little gem. Photos Apple System Profiler Report (edited for privacy) http://eastrain.com/68kmla/dtk/DT…
Freecycle has provided me with a new piece of kit, namely a 17" CRT Studio Display. It's powered through the ADC port and looks very neat and tidy sat on my des…
Well, I started out with a Mac IIci with the ROMs removed and PLCC sockets in their place and for a long time I was waiting for a deal on a ROM programmer. I fi…
Just got a free 15" PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB hard drive. It only has a combo drive because it's a low end of the 1.67/1.5 model. It does have a dec…
Since I bought an accelerator and it came with an extra SE logic board with a DPD card, I have been trying to figure out what to do with this whole setup. Since…
Okay pictures will come as soon as I get done verifying everything is functional. I was at the mega church World Harvest church near Columbus, OH today for thei…
I don't how many, if any users here have dealt with musical keyboards and old Macs, but I'll try anyways. I've recently acquired a Mac Classic (40 meg HD, 4 meg…
I have a Macintosh II down in the basement that I had not touched for at least 3 years. I don't even remember where I got it or when... I figured it had a IIfx …
I have added the 160 pin PPC ROM module pinout to the Wiki. If anyone wants to go clean up the formatting I'd appreciate it. I'm not so good with that stuff. I …
Anybody got a clue? Could it really make this nice Mac Plus worth US $139? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250202694198
I emailed a guy a few days ago when his ad appeared in a local classified. He had no price for his non working G4. I offered 20$...he took it but stated he was …
After having this in my closet for over two years, I finally have decided to give it a try with my 180c. According to the manual, it emulates an 80286 and comes…
I've been on this quest to resurrect a Portable from motherboard death. A well-known portable collector gave me a box of motherboards from the non-backlit and t…
That's right, geeks... everyone's favourite open-ended, semi-competitive retrocomputing free-for-all is just around the corner. Do you have what it takes to go …
I have a Geforce 6200 crammed into my G4 Cube (with a fan) and it seems to work just fine in OS X, but there are some games that don't like Classic so I occasio…
While tinkering with a jailmac SE/30 motherboard and a IIfx ROM SIMM today, I discovered that the "Load Bank A first, larger memory must be in Bank A" restricti…
So this afternoon I fired up the LCIII to write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper. Nothing quite like doing word processing on a 68k Mac with Claris…
I saw these on eBay and was wondering if anyone had ordered from the seller before: http://cgi.ebay.com/Battery-APPLE-PowerBook-140-145-150-160-170-180-NEW-/390…
I've been wondering lately whether there's something wrong with either my memory, or my G5's memory. It's a 1st generation 2x2 GHz machine, and it came with 512…
It occurred to me yesterday that the colors on my fine Power Computing 604/150 looked a bit odd. Mostly the Mac face was pinkish, rather than blueish. Upon clos…
Hey everyone. So I just had a pretty interesting find. I came across a Mac 128k along with original box and numeric keypad for $60. This thing is probably in so…
Put a Rasterops Paintbrush li nubus card in a Duo Dock. Will a 15" or 17" lcd monitor work with it?
I have a G4 Cube that has been upgraded with a Geforce 6200 card. It was happily running 10.4.11 when I got it, but I decided I wanted to dual boot OS 9 / X for…
I just picked up these ibooks as parts from a local seller. All have issues. Three G4 Ibooks and two G3 Ibooks. No video at all on the 1.33ghz Ibook, it bongs o…
Anyone know the part number on the Power Computings PCI Riser card for the PowerWave machine? Anyone know if the riser cards for other models will work? For tha…
Hi, everyone. I'm new. This board was recommended to me by someone on another forum, and I'm just looking for some help getting started. I recently came into po…
Ok, here's the story: I stopped back in the campus computer shop, as we continue from the story in this post, where I noticed a G3 two weeks ago on May 18. This…
I FINALY got that PowerMac 9500, It has 224MB RAM and a 2GB HD. Also, a nice, 1280x1024 CRT!!
The main HDD for my 466DA gave up the ghost, probably while said G4 was asleep and the utility company decided to yank the BIG PLUG, yet again! [:O] ]'> …
I have both of these, but only enough parts to max out one of them. The positives I see: Radius has internal fast SCSI and integrated video. WGS 8150 has a tape…
At least that's what I want it to end up being. I got a bit of a bug lately and have been buying up IIcis from the eBay crapshoot service. I haven't been totall…
In other words, has anybody got a 6500 or a 6500 PSU lying around who could dig one out and post all the voltages and wattage for each for me? I need to adapt a…
Hi, A while ago I got hold of a nice little Macintosh Classic. It works, but the internal HDD does not spin up when connected to the internal PSU (It spins but …
I dug my '86 vintage Hackintosh (Yes, that's what we called 'em back then) out of the barn and took some pictures. Unfortunately, it's the worse for its years i…
One of the customers at work called yesterday, told us to dispose of his old machine since it was to be too expensive to repair. It officially went off to the d…