I've been rooting around for a while now trying to get a LaserWriter for my Mac Plus. I happened to find a LaserWriter Plus about a month ago on Craigslist but …
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... and back then I was complaining about the lack of conquests/liberations I got. Well, not any more! In the course of this year I got (all for free, mostly wo…
I found an LC520 motherboard and I need to replace the capacitors. Problem is, the markings on C9 have corroded off, so I can't tell what value it is. Does anyo…
Over the weekend I managed to get my LC520 back in working condition. Boots from HD just fine, but looks like I need to boot from a floppy and run Disk Tools. I…
I am thinking of investing in one good NiMH battery rebuild for my PB 1400 (but don't want to do it myself). The two aftermarket VST batteries that were my "bet…
These were donated to my brother's school, but I arranged the deal and picked them up. They're going into the Computer teacher's lab. He has students do project…
I scored and N810 off of a friend of mine who had upgraded to the N900. As much as I love my iPod Touch, I love this little linux computer. Nice slide out keybo…
Went down to vancouver and picked up a Cisco 2611 and Sonicwall Pro firewall for 40 bucks. Neat stuff to play around with, not much practical use in my house
I snagged 4 Power Macintosh G3 "for all-in-one computers" OEM OS CD's. SSW Version 8.1, CD Version 1.1, 691-2043-A along with the OEM manuals. Was wondering is …
How much is 16MB IIfx SIMM goes nowaday? Is there any other Mac that use the same SIMM as the IIfx other than the one that shares same motherboard?
I have a Power Tower Pro (Mac 9500) with *NewerTech G3 processor* card in it. It's running OS9. The good thing about the old system is that you have quite a few…
If you were to get a Mac SE/30 and replace the old internal 20MB HD, what would be the maximum capacity a SE/30 can take? Is 500MB too much or too little? If yo…
Can you swap the ROM chip and make the SE/30 run right off without doing some modification? Or is it require that you reformat the hard drive and fresh install …
I own two Colour StyleWriter printers. They were on the free section on Craigslist not too long ago, and I figured I would pick them up (they came with three 13…
Is it possible to add a USB/Firewire Combo PCI card on Mac 9500 (Power Tower Pro with NewerTech G3)? Bear with me, it's been more than ten years since I brought…
I have a Powe Tower Pro (Mac 9500) running the NewerTech G3 processor card. Is it worth to replace the G3 with G4 CPU if there is an option? How much gain do yo…
Yup. Customer and I worked out a deal. for $25 of work, I will be getting a 17" 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4 w/ 2GB DDR-2700 RAM, 250GB HDD, dead battery, and FW800/Dua…
Might as well post this here... >_> September 12, 2010 Today's Mini vMac 3.2.1 alpha is the netbook edition of Mini vMac. It also includes work on…
Found this bad boy on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macintosh-NuBus-Video-Card-RasterOps-/390227356149?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5adb5ce9f5 I've …
I think I am in some variant of Stuffit hell. Here is the situation. My IIci arrived today and it works great. My only other computer is a 12" Powerbook G4 (run…
I'm full of questions this week... I wasn't getting enough 68k Mac time lately so I packed up my SE/30 and cleared off a spot on my desk for it at work. So far,…
Spent the weekend negotiationg a deal for what I originally though was just a box of cards. Returned home with the cards and a LOT more. Click here to see every…
I've been able to find the Keyspan 28XG drivers but my 28X A doesn't like them. Maybe I'm just missing them but I don't see a driver for it. It's the USB twin s…
A friend's adult sons were recently setting up a joint ménage. For whatever reason, one result was that they had/found three surplus 68K Macs: a Classic, a Colo…
Nothing is quite as disheartening as finding a nice machine for a nice price and still not being able to scrape together the funds. :-/ :'(
Probably could have worded this better but anyway... Here's what I want: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", …
I’ve said for a while that firewire was about twice as fast as USB 2.0 and I’ve confirmed that with drives that had both USB and firewire. I was just thinking t…
The max component repair I have done is DC Jacks on a laptop. I have trumped my previous experience and am proud to show off what my skills have yielded. It too…
Take the top of the drive shelf out of a Q950 for any reason, then try to put it back, and the floppy will not line up with the slot on the floppy bezel. Much f…
I have a 1991 Mac Classic, the screen on which died a decade or so ago, but which otherwise seems to boot up. I'm hoping to get files (e.g. e-mails, letters, co…
hi, some time ago i did a little c++ programming on a sun solaris machine. i used the gcc compiler and it was terribly simple. write your program into a file, f…
Just pondering. Have this been done before? How hard it could be? The old iMacs CRT is nice and the thing looks good. Older minis are not expensive and it looks…
Hallo, I'm a newbie to this site. I recently received a SE/30 that didn't boot from harddisk and I just found out that the harddisk was brooken. Wat really was …
I want reinstall OS on my Classic II, I download System 7.0.1 from here, extract *.bin and have *.sea, after extract *.sea and have *.image, and now I want writ…
I am the terror that crawls in the night. And by "terror that crawls in the night," I actually mean "loser who prowls the local Craigslist and Kijiji listings f…
Hallo, I replaced the original brooken 40 MB by a 170 MB from an Amiga. Until now I haven't found any manual on how to make a HD bootable so I had to experiment…
My recently purchased iMac G3 ( 500 MHz ) has a 10 GB hard drive that is dedicated to OS 9.2. I do believe that it would be to crowded to have both systems on t…
One of my mates recently picked up a Wallstreet and a Lombard at a swap meet which we're working on, they both have issues of their own, and we could use some h…
Hello, my Macintosh Classic II after several month good work dont start up I power on, it makes noise but no start up sound, and monitor is black. What did can …
Just today, I acquired (for beer money) a yellowed-but-working AppleVision 17" AV monitor, for which I have excellent plastics from an otherwise dead 17" ColorS…
I'm looking for a MessagePad 110. I can't seem to find one. Anyone have any suggestions other than bay? Also, I'm a bit of a newbie at this. If I'm able to buy …
Hey all... long time no post. Last month we were on vacation in Arizona visiting some family and I decided to hit up some local computer stores/Goodwills to see…
Hi guys. I have here an expansion card. From what I can make out it has an Interface Controller of some sort and a bunch of discrete logic. I'm guessing homebre…
What exactly are the symbols for #, (, 0, 9, `, and q supposed to be? Are they merely decorative widgets? I think ` may be a fried egg, or an amoeba.
Yes, I just completed a massive downsizing project. Yes, I told myself I wasn't going to buy any new Macs unless I spring for a new MacBook Air. However, I've h…
I was given a Keyspan USB Twin Serial Adapter ( two RS-422 MiniDin8 serial ports ) which would allow me to use a MOTU midi interface and possibly a Apple printe…
Although I may have stated this problem in some other thread it's about time I asked for advice on what to do with said machines. I have two G3 machines sitting…
Just bought another Lombard G3 on the 'bay and I am thinking of keeping this as a original OS machine - it has 192mb memory coming with it. Can anyone verify wh…
I got one of my Kangas fully up and running (actually posting this thread from it) and would like to put something more useful than 9.1 on it. I installed XPost…