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It's been a pretty good couple of days for Apple finds for me. On Friday, I rescued a small treasure trove of original Stylewriter printer inks that were headed…
· 4 posts · started 21 Jun 2010 - 00:50 · last 22 Jun 2010 - 18:20
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 …
· 10 posts · started 17 Jun 2010 - 01:52 · last 21 Jun 2010 - 09:23
I happened to stop by up there in dayton at mendelsons liquidation outlet. Well, i think they had 6 or 7 boxes of Apple Notebook Disks. still in its original sh…
· 7 posts · started 18 Jun 2010 - 02:25 · last 21 Jun 2010 - 06:12
Hi all - appreciate any help or information you may have - I'm looking to get my 4MB Mac Plus speaking TCP/IP. I want to use it as a terminal to telnet to other…
· 3 posts · started 1 Jun 2010 - 08:42 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 11:18
Hi I wanted to introduce my parents to Apple, so i went looking for a last generation iBook G4. I found an iBook G4 (mid 2005) 1,33Ghz It came with Mac OS X Leo…
· 2 posts · started 6 Jun 2010 - 08:17 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 10:33
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…
· 3 posts · started 16 Jun 2010 - 06:10 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 08:43
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…
· 31 posts · started 9 Apr 2010 - 19:57 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 03:59
Hey guys. I got one of the blue VGA Apple Studio Displays today at a yard sale for $5. It simply had a sign that said, "Not working" so I thought I'd give it a …
· 3 posts · started 17 Jun 2010 - 19:36 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 01:59
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 …
· 11 posts · started 18 Jun 2010 - 02:22 · last 19 Jun 2010 - 19:48
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…
· 4 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 11:42 · last 19 Jun 2010 - 02:36
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…
· 8 posts · started 15 Jun 2008 - 07:11 · last 18 Jun 2010 - 21:31
Hi all, I have a "Macintosh Color Monitor" (its a 14" or so by the look) from around 1993 that I need to take apart - does anyone know where I can find a disass…
· 3 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 07:03 · last 18 Jun 2010 - 21:26
Is it possible to connect two Macs via SCSI and file share between them? I can't find anything about it online so I thought I'd check here. Thanks, agg23
· 18 posts · started 19 Dec 2009 - 13:23 · last 18 Jun 2010 - 02:08
A recent dumpster diving trip rewarded me with a Power Computing 604/150, which is a 150 MHz PPC 604 mac clone. It's got three PCI slots, 384 MB of memory, and …
· 11 posts · started 10 Jun 2010 - 16:20 · last 17 Jun 2010 - 17:41
I learned today that PCMCIA ethernet dongles are not all interchangeable. Only a couple of dollars for that lesson, but worth putting down here to save someone …
· 1 posts · started 17 Jun 2010 - 00:37 · last 17 Jun 2010 - 00:37
Our player piano tech has a pretty nice year or so old macbook pro, and today he happened to snag the power cord just right where it ripped mostly out of the br…
· 7 posts · started 4 Jun 2010 - 23:48 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 09:26
I've done enough looking around to be convinced that asking the advice of someone who's done a lot of this sort of thing is the way to go. So, that said: Has an…
· 5 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 08:53 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 07:07
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…
· 5 posts · started 15 Jun 2010 - 10:16 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 06:39
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…
· 14 posts · started 13 May 2010 - 10:24 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 05:59
I just deemed my port of Mini vMac to the iPhone worthy of releasing, so if anyone has a 2.x Jailbroken iPhone and wants to try it, you can post your opinions h…
· 45 posts · started 16 Nov 2008 - 15:29 · last 15 Jun 2010 - 18:21
There are a couple of old locked topics where users of the old Calcomp tablets have asked for the drivers. Well after many attempts to find it I happened to stu…
· 1 posts · started 15 Jun 2010 - 17:06 · last 15 Jun 2010 - 17:06
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…
· 7 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 18:32 · last 15 Jun 2010 - 01:20
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…
· 5 posts · started 11 Jun 2010 - 15:52 · last 14 Jun 2010 - 19:39
Found a Power Computing 604/150 Mac clone and an Apple 7100/66av. The Power Computing system has a 2 GB HDD, a SCSI CD-ROM, an ATI video card, and 384 MB of mem…
· 7 posts · started 10 Jun 2010 - 16:24 · last 14 Jun 2010 - 16:39
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…
· 15 posts · started 10 Jun 2010 - 00:07 · last 14 Jun 2010 - 02:05
here Every Q950 that I have clapped eyes on before this one has been two-toned. It appears that they were originally just one colour. I guess it helps for the t…
· 9 posts · started 7 Jun 2010 - 23:23 · last 14 Jun 2010 - 00:47
Heh. Installed the old gaming legend on my PB1400 and called up my friend. He said "Uh, I don't think Battle.Net is still up." Heheheh. But a real challenge wou…
· 8 posts · started 25 May 2010 - 05:57 · last 13 Jun 2010 - 04:39
today, my grandmother's boss had me clear out his back room, for which i was given some new toys to tinker with! i only took some blurry pics of the model numbe…
· 7 posts · started 11 Jun 2010 - 04:06 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 22:19
i have to questions: 1.hi can someone please tell me, that will i be able to do file sharing with a pc running netware 5.0 and me running prosoft's mac client 5…
· 5 posts · started 11 Jun 2010 - 16:16 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 20:24
Today I got a Sawtooth G4 for $5. While it is missing a hard disk and memory, I have those floating around. It came with a Rage128 AGP card and an ATTO SCSI car…
· 6 posts · started 5 Jun 2010 - 21:31 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 18:07
Help! Does anyone have Classic OS drivers for an Adaptec 3940UW PCI card? The Adaptec site isn't any help and a google search mostly comes up with Windows drive…
· 6 posts · started 7 Jun 2010 - 04:18 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 17:13
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…
· 9 posts · started 7 Jun 2010 - 04:32 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 03:28
I want to download Apple II disk images from the internet and use them on my IIe. I have a Mac IIci. I am guessing I can put the image files on the IIci and put…
· 3 posts · started 9 Jun 2010 - 19:17 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 01:43
To diagnose my connectivity issue, I took my PB 1400cs down to the cafeteria today to see if the guest wi-fi was stronger down there. A physician came up to me …
· 15 posts · started 3 Jun 2010 - 23:39 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 01:26
I have 7.6.1 and I'd be interested in running on my IIci--since I have an accelerator and sufficient RAM it's not a dog--but I sense that there is a lot of extr…
· 3 posts · started 11 Jun 2010 - 03:45 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 01:17
Looking for a bit of code that will work on a PB1400c to make compressed files from CDs on OS 8.6 or 9.1. Anyone know of anything that will work? I tried iTunes…
· 9 posts · started 8 Jun 2010 - 08:15 · last 12 Jun 2010 - 01:14
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…
· 1 posts · started 11 Jun 2010 - 20:25 · last 11 Jun 2010 - 20:25
No affiliation - I'm watching this one to see where the price settles. I'd love to have one of these, but being so vested in 1400s and Pismos, I can't quite fig…
· 3 posts · started 10 Jun 2010 - 20:34 · last 11 Jun 2010 - 03:57
What do you guys prefer? There's really a limit how big the screen can be and still be usable, depending on the desk depth. So one might be better off with two …
· 13 posts · started 2 Jun 2010 - 23:32 · last 10 Jun 2010 - 16:45
I got a 1400c today in the mail. I popped it open, and after the obligatory fire it up and see what's on it (OS9.1, Photoshop 4, some other stuff) I got out the…
· 8 posts · started 4 Jun 2010 - 06:19 · last 10 Jun 2010 - 14:34
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…
· 27 posts · started 19 May 2010 - 09:48 · last 9 Jun 2010 - 11:42
My Ibook has poor video performance for watching live TV and streaming youtube. I wondered if I could replace the mac motherboard with and ITX-MINI pc board and…
· 5 posts · started 7 Jun 2010 - 15:54 · last 8 Jun 2010 - 10:17
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