Well, after my recent bleating about trying to reign in my Mac hoarding ways, I went and done it again [)] ]'> Indigo iMac 450 slot loader DVD - $10 from…
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For some reason, I'm not sure why, I have decided to shove a Dell 1545 motherboard that I revived from our shops junk pile into a dead Powerbook 160 I had kicki…
Hi all, I'd like to share the beginnings of my latest project with you, namely the website http://www.pomme-s.ch, hosted on my PowerBook 100. The 100 has 6 Mb o…
Today I received a shrinkwrapped, boxed copy of After Dark's Disney Collection screen saver. This is essentially a set of After Dark modules featuring Mickey Mo…
Hey, I just received a 3GB HD to put in my TAM. Pulled the old drive, formatted new one with my MacBook, etc. Well, I put the TAM back together, plugged it into…
Howdy, folks. I have a RasterOps Accelerator II - a 7" Nubus card with 4x 30-pin SIMM slots and not much else. Apparently it provides color QuickDraw accelerati…
Hi gang, has anyone got a Kanga to post a pic of the MoBo or just peek inside to see if it has a Quad Flat Pack or a Ball Grid Array G3 Processor? QFP = Pins al…
From Amazon I decided to get a stack of books on networking old Macs: Managing AppleShare & Workgroup Severs Designing AppleTalk Network Architectures A…
Really just want one working 180, guess that's too hard to ask though. so I've got to make my own! DO have some questions now that I've got a pair of them first…
OK, before we moved to a new house (yeah, nothing good ever starts that way), my IIsi was last booted around 3 years ago. it has a 40MB Quantum ELS in it. Kinda…
For 25 euro at the local recycle store. It is the 867mhz model. It has a Geforce 2 32mb , 512mb ram and a 60gb harddrive. Pretty standard I guess. It kinda smel…
I just scored something that i have NEVER seen before. at least me personally. I purchased and recieved a load of powerbook parts units off of ebay. for roughly…
Been searching on the internet trying to find Macbench downloads with no luck. Anybody know where I can find it?
Hello all. Long time browser, first time poster My SE/30 has been packed away for a few years after it finally succumbed to simasi mac. Before dying, it was usi…
Turns out one of the guys in my technical college class used to go to schools and take out old computers to send parts to recyclers. I brought in my LC 575 for …
So I reached over to turn on the MDD this morning so I could do some more work on the (irresponsibly) delayed Classilla 9.2.2, and ... it blinked its power ligh…
This one's made by Novy Systems, but Novy Systems made a number of Mac SE accelerators and I can't pin down which one this is: I'd love to know what the jumpers…
This one for $15 and a couple of gallons of gas. It was untested, do to lack of a power supply. :lol: Its 266 MHz proc booted right into 9.0.4 off its 3.81 Gig …
Hi, I thought we could use this new thread to cover info about the PowerExpress 9700 prototype powermac and efforts to get them booting. Past information to get…
I had a Compaq D530 sitting around and gave it to a coworker. She brought her old one in so I took what I wanted out of it and will recycle the rest. 512MB RAM …
I found a new use for my Qudra 605. I recently bought a mid-90's Akai S2000 sampler for my studio. I needed to build an external SCSI cas to hold a CD-ROM, ZIP,…
Hi, This story has both a good side and a bad side. My wife works at a local newspaper, and she told me that they were clearing out some old equipment from the …
So I decided to try and install Leopard onto my Gigabit Ethernet. I ran LeopardAssist from Tiger and rebooted to a kernel panic. Some googling alerted me to the…
Folks, I have been able to get Netscape 2.02 up and running on my SE/30 (thank you JDW) running MacOS 7.5.5 but am having real problems with javascript error me…
I got one! YAY! HDD is dead, no battery, no rear door, screen has vignetting and only 4MB RAM... but it's got a clean case, no cracks and it boots off the flopp…
This is the first draft in my guide in setting up Windows 2000 as a Macintosh File and Print Server capable of printing to virtually any printer attached to a n…
I have an Apple IIe with the following setup: 1Mhz 6502 CPU 64KB RAM Slot 5: Apple SCSI Card Slot 6: Apple Disk Controller Card Slot 5's SCSI card is hooked up …
Just bought this one on eBay. It's one of the printer driver disks for the early LaserWriter/ImageWriter (back when you had to get an actual disk to get an upda…
One of the oldest TCP/IP applications for Macintosh is TOPS Terminal. It was released in 1988, free of charge, by SUN Microsystems. In the documentation it is t…
I just read online that the PPC 740 (aka G3) is pin-compatible with the 603ev. Although i'm sure there more to it than just this, but couldn't a 603 be desolder…
Hey Everybody, Sorry for the inconvenience and delay recently, I don't know what it's doing at your houses, but recently the site has been a tiny bit slow for m…
Not really a "conquest" per se, since I bought it retail (all told around $10K), but I realized I never posted it here. Meet my new-to-me dual-core 4.2GHz POWER…
February 7, 2011 — Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, two long-time Apple II users, are proud to announce the Apple II community's first co-hosted podcast. Open Apple…
My package was delivered early this morning (about a quarter to nine EST) containing the Quicktake 200 camera I had purchased on eBay a couple of weeks back. Th…
After probably buying $30 worth of materials in many, many failed attempts to make a custom serial cable to connect to my USB Serial adapter, I finally got a lu…
Just got a Power Mac G# B&W from a small shop here in milwaukee. The specs are: PowerPC 750 @ 350mhz 586mb SDRAM 6GB HD DVD-Rom Zip 100 drive ATI Rage 1…
I've noticed, as of late, that my PB 1400 spends quite some time on the Happy Mac and Welcome to Mac OS screens (before the extensions parade). Is this more rel…
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I try as much as I possibly can to stay paper free, and I think PDF is one of the greatest inventions in the history of computing. But every once in a while I n…
Borkd. I am finally networking my bedroom/studio! About a year ago I ran a single CAT5 from my basement router through the wall to the second floor and connecte…
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So now that the SE/30 has been fitted with a replacement motherboard, it neither boots from a HDD (which in a former life booted, unless it has an OS which isn'…
I am curious if there are any compatible IDE cards for Mac OS 7. I dont have the deep pockets to fund larger SCSI drives and I want to load up my 9500 with tons…
Hi There I am sticking my toe in the water here to see if anyone here is in the UK and is proficient at soldering to recap SE/30 / Classic / Color Classic board…
Hi. posting my other thread viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15284 ... has made me think about setting up a NAS to share my saved pile of 68K/PPC apps and images wit…
KryoFlux is an advanced software-programmable FDC (Floppy Disk Controller) system that runs on small and cheap ARM7-based devices and connects to a host PC over…
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Hi I am searching for the low level formatting kit for the Apple ProFile harddisk. This was a kit which consisted of an EPROM and a 5,25" disk containing testin…
Through my last few days of my former job, I was allowed to take home some of the various vintage Mac odds and ends I've accumulated through my time there. I go…
I just got one of these and I am a bit nervous to plug it into a mac. It is stated as using SCSI-2, and I am not sure if 68k macs have SCSI-2 or SCSI 1 external…