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My SE has a PDS expansion card in it. It is identified as "MoDAM SE Rev B © 1989 MEMORY PLUS" it also has a sticker on a chip "Monochrome Spark". Has a 9 pin pu…
· 3 posts · started 24 Feb 2011 - 19:06 · last 25 Feb 2011 - 14:00
I did a clean install of os OS 9.2.2 to get everything working snappy again and it work fine. i got all of they extensions and control panels moved over and i w…
· 8 posts · started 23 Feb 2011 - 18:52 · last 24 Feb 2011 - 14:00
In another random bout of incredible intelligence, I decided to pick up a confirmed working eMate 300 on eBay. It was cheap enough, so hooray! Now, it didn't co…
· 7 posts · started 16 Feb 2011 - 04:53 · last 24 Feb 2011 - 09:17
Ok, now I'm officially stumped. I have a PowerMac 7300 (Mac OS 8.6) networked with a PowerBook 165 (System 7.1) via PhoneNet. The IW II is connected to the Powe…
· 9 posts · started 20 Feb 2011 - 20:19 · last 23 Feb 2011 - 15:32
From my understanding, the source code of System 7 leaked. Was this a complete source, and if so, did anyone ever manage to get this to build, say, for booting …
· 10 posts · started 20 Feb 2011 - 18:12 · last 23 Feb 2011 - 08:24
Hi, kinda new to the forum, hopefully someone can assist me. Just received an excellent shape PB 165 that boots to 7.1. I can't seem to find a boot disk that wi…
· 3 posts · started 23 Feb 2011 - 01:10 · last 23 Feb 2011 - 04:39
May be going abroad this June, so email on my 1400c would be a nice feature. I just need a program that can work with IMAP (Gmail). Most of my messages are just…
· 3 posts · started 22 Feb 2011 - 18:49 · last 23 Feb 2011 - 00:03
Can someone guide me in the right direction. I'm trying to setup my AWS95 as an FTP server. It's running system 7.5.5 and is online. I just need to know what so…
· 2 posts · started 22 Feb 2011 - 12:44 · last 22 Feb 2011 - 23:58
Hi, I'm loading up a heap of software, including games on my SE/30, and finding that a lot of very old B&W games don't work - whether this is due to Sys…
· 6 posts · started 29 Jan 2011 - 23:14 · last 22 Feb 2011 - 23:55
In my lackadaisical search for a source of flybacks for the compact Macs, I came across this part number. They list it as an Apple flyback transformer, but ther…
· 19 posts · started 18 Nov 2010 - 20:59 · last 22 Feb 2011 - 21:10
after picking up my Asante EN/SC Desktop adapter earlier, Today I came home and found a Sonnet G3/L2 upgrade card for my PM 6500, and a 6MB RAM Module for my Po…
· 9 posts · started 25 Jan 2011 - 05:02 · last 22 Feb 2011 - 20:44
So I was running Norton System Info on my iMac G3 and I found out, much to my surprise, that the system benchmarks only slightly less that a G4 at 500 Mhz in te…
· 4 posts · started 20 Feb 2011 - 21:59 · last 22 Feb 2011 - 06:08
Today I got the chance to check out the warehouse this guys been storing his old computers he got from schools all over the state. I did some looking around and…
· 3 posts · started 17 Feb 2011 - 19:50 · last 22 Feb 2011 - 01:32
Gazing out across the internet, I am astounded by how much the 190 is trashed. It was a legendary machine, and how dare you bash it. Why? Where, oh where, do I …
· 22 posts · started 10 Sep 2010 - 21:02 · last 21 Feb 2011 - 08:55
This is apparently the time of the year that keeps on giving, as my find today was an original iMac. I quickly tested it and it powers on and boots to Mac OS 9.…
· 15 posts · started 11 Feb 2011 - 12:37 · last 21 Feb 2011 - 07:40
It started out a bit difficult. First I wanted to test the box before installing the ][e card, and I needed to fiddle with cd600i jumpers to something it was ha…
· 8 posts · started 17 Jan 2011 - 13:39 · last 21 Feb 2011 - 05:20
So... It's been a while, guys! On Tuesday I met Danamania, did a tech trade... I gave her my SE/30 and Colour Classic (they needed a loving home ...) and got in…
· 11 posts · started 19 Feb 2011 - 14:15 · last 21 Feb 2011 - 02:49
Has no internal CD-ROM, instead it came with an external one. 36mb RAM, noisy 250mb HD, Supra 33.6 modem, couple system floppy disks along with ClarisWorks and …
· 16 posts · started 5 Feb 2011 - 22:24 · last 20 Feb 2011 - 23:51
Picking up an early Newt at the weekend. I have never used anything earlier that NewtOS 2 (MP2000, 2100, eMate 300), so it will be interesting to see an early i…
· 7 posts · started 17 Feb 2011 - 02:07 · last 20 Feb 2011 - 17:34
I own a pre-FDHD SE as my only Mac, and I would like to upgrade its installation of System 7.0 to 7.1, which as I understand, was the last version released on 8…
· 4 posts · started 5 Aug 2010 - 07:10 · last 20 Feb 2011 - 16:48
It's the only version of Mac OS that I don't have around, and yet everyone else seems to have it. Is there some spot on the internet I missed? Or perhaps an eBa…
· 23 posts · started 8 Jan 2011 - 04:28 · last 20 Feb 2011 - 16:42
I have looked long and hard for CDU (Connectix Desktop Utilities). It is a very cool little control panel that lets you change the color scheme of System 7 amon…
· 1 posts · started 19 Feb 2011 - 17:19 · last 19 Feb 2011 - 17:19
ALPS keyswitches are common on Apple keyboards, namely the Apple Extended, Apple Standard, M0116, etc. While they are rated for millions of actuations, sometime…
· 9 posts · started 5 Jan 2011 - 02:03 · last 19 Feb 2011 - 15:09
to do something with this G3 Desktop. I am not sure what I want to do with it, but I want to do something server-ish, and want to run it under at minimum 8.1. T…
· 9 posts · started 16 Jan 2011 - 07:08 · last 19 Feb 2011 - 13:35
I am in need of an OS8/9 IRC client - can anyone point me in the right direction? What does everyone use? Thanks in advance for the help.
· 8 posts · started 14 Feb 2011 - 23:42 · last 19 Feb 2011 - 13:16
We are a tech shop so I just stumbled across a bunch of 16MB SIMMS, from when who knows when. I want to have two working SE/30's. How much RAM before its pointl…
· 13 posts · started 22 Jan 2011 - 13:39 · last 19 Feb 2011 - 02:08
Maybe others have noticed this, but it seems on a 512ke, 128k ROMs system that under the Apple menu - "About the Finder" it puts a period after the 512k. wherea…
· 3 posts · started 18 Feb 2011 - 10:41 · last 18 Feb 2011 - 23:12
Got myself a barely-used (about 600 pages printed, if I have read the configuration runes rightly) LexMark C500 colour laser printer yesterday evening, complete…
· 1 posts · started 18 Feb 2011 - 21:25 · last 18 Feb 2011 - 21:25
My 68k Mac army has just doubled in size! Just the base unit, but it's in nice shape and everything is working (they even built the low cost computers to last b…
· 4 posts · started 17 Feb 2011 - 20:17 · last 18 Feb 2011 - 15:32
Was looking for my copy of my quad G5 service manual to do a little work on the spare I just got in and ... it's for the wrong model of PM G5. I guess I should …
· 4 posts · started 13 Feb 2011 - 22:44 · last 18 Feb 2011 - 05:40
With my Macintosh 128K came a book. It is called "Presenting the Macintosh" by Merl K. Miller and Mary A. Myers. It is written even before the Macintosh was lau…
· 1 posts · started 17 Feb 2011 - 20:35 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 20:35
Today I got a copy of "Macintosh II Repair and Upgrade Secrets" by Larry Pina. It has the floppy disc with it too.
· 5 posts · started 16 Feb 2011 - 04:06 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 18:54
Got this two days back! It had a dead disk but 20 minutes poking with various screwdrivers along with a dead iBook G4 obliterated the problem! :lol: In A.D 2011…
· 12 posts · started 12 Feb 2011 - 02:12 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 16:18
Hey guys, been a while.. I'm literally stumped. I CAN NOT get this DA G4 [dual 533] to boot OS 9 anymore.. It use to a year ago, but since then it's been runnin…
· 17 posts · started 12 Feb 2011 - 02:53 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 04:53
I stripped down my G4 Cube tonight in order to do a couple of small items of maintenance: 1. I wanted to install a splitter on the optical drive power line to r…
· 8 posts · started 5 Feb 2011 - 05:50 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 03:13
Is it possible to take the Users folder from a X.5 (Intel) machine and transfer it to a X.4 (G5) machine using the migration assistant? Or do I need to burn it …
· 3 posts · started 30 Nov 2010 - 13:29 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 03:12
Today I acquired a Lisa 2. Well....not really one you can plugin and startup. It is more a former Lisa. A deciced Lisa....Just everything what could be removed …
· 45 posts · started 8 Jan 2011 - 22:35 · last 17 Feb 2011 - 02:29
And I should be getting a purple one tomorrow ;D It's just the computer. No power cable, keyboard, mouse, or any other goodies unless you count the kindergarten…
· 2 posts · started 16 Feb 2011 - 18:30 · last 16 Feb 2011 - 23:02
{ "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try aga…
· 10 posts · started 12 Feb 2011 - 12:30 · last 16 Feb 2011 - 18:54
Several sources mention "significant" differences between the original bitmap New York by Susan Kare and the Truetype version produced by B+H. I've never been a…
· 1 posts · started 16 Feb 2011 - 17:33 · last 16 Feb 2011 - 17:33
I have finally gotten around to putting a IIe card into my LC575. The second I did this my LC575 refuses to switch to ethernet via the comms slot ethernet card.…
· 7 posts · started 14 Feb 2011 - 06:44 · last 16 Feb 2011 - 07:36
An article I found on Accelerate Your Mac recommended using DayStar's nPower Control for testing memory so I ran a 30 minute extended cycle with that. It passed…
· 4 posts · started 11 Feb 2011 - 23:51 · last 16 Feb 2011 - 03:26

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I think I've built a pretty sweet OS 9 rig. Does anyone have a better one? Gigabit G4 Tower 1.7 GHz PowerLogix G4 card. Overclocks up to 2 GHz! Rescued from the…
· 22 posts · started 2 Feb 2010 - 00:57 · last 23 Feb 2011 - 16:44
I've seen it around but forget where, but I'm looking for an Apple Control Panel or System extension that allows one to adjust the display brightness and contra…
· 1 posts · started 23 Feb 2011 - 16:17 · last 23 Feb 2011 - 16:17
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