I've gotten my hands on a DayStar Turbo 040, ideally I'd like to use this in an original Macintosh LC. I seem to recall that when I actually got the LC ~20 year…
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hello.. i always wanted one of those.. and one year ago i found one. it was working fine.. but every time i closed the computer it did not want to boot up again…
Hi all, I have been looking around for a Macintosh SE FDHD or SuperDrive, does the model number M5011 match this type of SE uniquely? I have seen many ebay list…
I took my old workhorse SE/30 out for a nostalgic look the other day. Took the back off to make sure nothing was amiss, and the little 3.6V 1/2AA battery had go…
I was looking at a IIx on craigslist, and I couldn't figure out what the Nubus card in the front is. See attached picture. I know the one in the back is the tob…
I dropped the money a few days ago on a Refurbished MacBook Pro with the following specs: 2.6Ghz Quad-Core Core i7 15" Retina-Class Display 16GB DDR3 RAM 512GB …
I recently bought a SCSI Doc PowerBook 25 to HDI-30 SCSI adapter. I successfully used it to boot my SE with the disk from the PowerBook. It boots nicely on Syst…
Good morning all, I am currently working on the restoration of a Macintosh 128k. After replacing a 1.6A 250V fuse (which was not present when I opened the Mac u…
Hi all! I got a Macintosh Classic with a MicroMac Accelerator attached to its cpu pins on the motherboard. The accelerator card is marked "MMXL" and contains a …
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to land myself a Pismo with a XLR8 G4 card inside. I took the card out and installed it in my existing Pismo, keeping the o…
I've been given a strawberry G3 iMac 400/DV that is nice and clean but won't power up. So far I've replaced PRAM battery and tried pushing the CUDA switch. On o…
Man are these beautiful machines and I've often thought about getting one but they are too new for what I collect. Well, I couldn't resist any longer. My G4 Cub…
I've been pretty disgusted by the apparent siphoning off of all tech treasures from our local recycling monopoly, so haven't visited much recently. On a whim, I…
The back room is finally cleared so now I'm getting my 512K tidied up and cleaned before I fire it up for the first time (hopefully not the last) and then sorti…
Hi guys I have a slight problem and i was wondering if anyone else has suffered this. I bought a Classic off ebay earlier this year, it seemed perfectly fine. T…
Hi, which of the Macintosh models (apart from the 128, 512, 512e and Plus) worked without needing a fan?
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Hi guys, I got this G3 AIO from one of the board members here and it worked beautifully for a bit. Today I was looking for Iomega Tools on Macintosh Garden usin…
My original Mac was a Macintosh LC I've recently got one going up full speed and wondering if anybody has upgraded with a Speedster040, Presto Plus, or similar …
Since the 540 monitor I got is bunk, I was curious if the 540c can run in grayscale mode, and if so, how many shades of grey. Seems like that would be a be good…
I've finally decided to use the 180 MHz QFP 603e I managed to source in a 5300ce instead of a 2300c. :approve: I remember tomlee59 posting some pics of the 5300…
Hi,a ll.. I read somewhere a long time ago, that the 68LC040 sits in a socket on the logic board, and might be possible to swap to a full 68RC040 with fpu and a…
Hi all, this is my first post on 68kmla! I used to be a Mac user from the early 90s right through to 2011, but when my white MacBook gave up the ghost I ended u…
The Color Classic through LC575 all-in-ones all shared an edge connector that would slide into a slot in the case (attached to lots of ribbons to take signals t…
I have a Macintosh plus which had some display problems. After a while the display went black, squeezing the sides would temporarly solve the problem. I've been…
Local purchase, $30. Dual 2.0ghz, first gen. PCI-X. Sold for parts, as not starting up. I bought it as such, and was happy with the deal since one of my other m…
I picked up this beauty for only $20 back on Sunday: http://i.imgur.com/BdubkMc.jpg I got it from the original owner, even got the original receipt. It was purc…
I want in the next couple of weeks to take apart and try to repair a PowerBook power supply. I can do it by breaking the glue joint, but does anyone know if the…
I didn't realize this was possible, because I didn't know that the MiniDock had extra VRAM inside. Here is my Duo 2300c, with 48MB of RAM, a 1GB CompactFlash ca…
Ok, here's my situation. I have a nice looking, mostly functioning SE FDHD with a dead/dying (the drive itself partially works, but the drive refuses to mount) …
One of the ports on my recently purchased PowerBook is dead. It is the 2nd to last AlBook G4 12" with the 1.5GHz processor. I was wondering if there were any tr…
I've only had a chance to set up the basic unit an played with it for 15 minutes but it's better than I imagined. Fully boxed with immaculate packaging. All ite…
Ok, so I'm not quite sure where to start on this project. I recently bought a busted 170 from eBay, from what it looks like it was used overseas by the governme…
Hi! We all know that our old Macs start up pretty quick, but still, I'm curious... Wouldn't it just need to write the contents of memory to disk, and then, at a…
Hi! I'm failing to understand exactly how this works. Apparently the same logic board was used for the P475 as for the Q605, but the Q605 had a jumper set. What…
For all you lovers of vintage mac and mac emulation (I'm picking most of you reading this fall into one or other of these categories), John Leake of retromaccas…
my buddy sent this to me. can anyone tell by the looks of it what machines will this work in? I think he said it came from a Mac II
Some small items, not big deal but was looking for SCSI Terminators anyway... the rest was some sort of a bonus (4 € the lot including the HD)
I just bought a Powerbook 165 on eBay for $11 (+16 for shipping :b&w: ) The seller stated that it wouldn't boot because of a bad hard drive. I took a ga…
I press the power button and it lights up and fades out, not a peep, no chimes or error code. HELP!!!???!!! :'(
I have been slowly getting back into my vintage Macs. When I tried to fire up my SE, the Hard drive was dead, as was the floppy drive. So I replaced both, thoug…
Does anyone know if an internal SCSI upgrade kit was made for the Plus? If so, anyone have any specific names that will make it easier to search? Also, is it a …
There's nothing like the sound of an MFM drive in the morning Scored a couple of eBay auctions for some Lisa parts: - Sun Remarketing 20MB MFM drive and control…
Any item why? I installed MacsBug 6.5.3 to test it out. The debugger installs on boot, but pressing the Programmer's Switch does nothing.
I bought an LC 575 and just got it today. Sadly, it didn't make it in transit. It was smashed pretty bad. The case was in pieces ad the CRT was loose with a bro…
A few weeks ago I obtained a Macintosh IIcx. While it boots (as indicated by the HDD activity light), there is no sound or video. Removing the motherboard revea…
I've had this for a few years, and its been sitting in a box in my basement, untouched since I brought it home. I had forgotten about it. The company I was work…