Going to be collecting an older MacBook for FREE. Here's the catch: "...the hard drive and processor are fried due to a spill of wine..." I can get a new hard d…
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Well -- grabbed a Classic II off Freecycle today -- little to no yellowing, 4MB of RAM, whiney caps. Original keyboard/mouse. Worked when I saw it at the guy's …
just the chip and the voltage regulator from the IBM server it came from not a whoel work station so yes i got my hands on a pentium 3 xeon 1266 mhz 512 kb l2 1…
Box full of ZIF processors. Anywhere from G3 233 MHz up to G4 450 MHz. Must be at least 100 processors and half are G4. From the recycler.
Hi, I installed the FDD that Scott Baret sent me, put the other HDD back in, and turned it on... It rejected my system disk every time. 3 possibilities of malfu…
Hey, it's been a long while since I've had a real conquest. This is gonna be my first conquest of 2009 and my first Freecycle conquest. I had put a post up on f…
Just got one of these at a thrift shop for $9.00 CAD [] ]'> and it boots fine with only one dead pixel on the screen. The main battery is stone dead, and…
I was paging through Mactracker, and stumbled on the Performa 6400 page, where it lists that an optional PC Compatibility Card. How popular was this card? I've …
today our apple dealer called me that he is cleaning the store and that he got some stuff that I can take it, if I want http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3179…
I have one of these aesthetically challenged machines and I can't get it to make a single chime, eep, quack... anything! I've cleaned and reseated the speaker c…
Hey All - I have a 12" PB G4 867 MHz that just stopped working one day. According to my cousin who was borrowing it long-term at the time, on Sunday everything …
For the last few weeks the built-in ethernet on this little beast has not provided an IP address. Renewing the DHCP lease does nothing as well. I've tried diffe…
First of all its a pleasure to see such a forum with 68k lovers...i thought we were under extinction! [] ]'> To the point... No chime, not powering up...…
So I went looking for signs of alien life at Weirdstuff Warehouse this morning, and they had an $10 Airport Base Station in pieces. Apparently the alien had alr…
I have a Macintosh SE with a Radius Full Page Display card installed (well, it's not in right now, but I'll put it back in once I give the SE some RAM). After d…
Hey guys, I have recently (2 months ago) aquired 2 Powerbook G3 Pismos. One is 400 MHz the other is 500 Mhz. The 400 has a cracked LCD and it doesn't boot. The …
Hello guys, I recently won an auction on eBay for a bunch of 'vintage Mac stuff'. In the package were included three Radius video cards. Two are identical (Nubu…
Got this off craigslist for $450, it has a 20 inch screen, two 120GB hard drives, 2GB RAM, one of those multi card readers, an HD-DVD drive, s-video in, 1.3 meg…
Since I am not using the second G3 I got, would installing the video card into one of my G4's PCI slots speed up graphics processing time?
I have a 6400/5400 motherboard that I would like to install a fan into, for processor cooling. One thing I noticed that is different about the x400 mobo and the…
21 eMacs 10 x 1.25 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 80 GB 11 x 1.42 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 160 GB From Tyler Junior College through an eBay reseller.
Today I got most of a PC except the CD-ROM drive, memory and a processor. ATX case, power supply, socket 370 motherboard, 6.4GB hard disk and floppy drive. I wa…
i got my hands on a used ibook G4 800 mhz 384 mb ram 20 gig hd 12 inc screen 32 mb ati vid card it can join the other two who are both 500 mhz G3's
Does anybody know what the maximum weight these cases can handle? I believe remember some macs having official weight numbers. Anybody know the max weight for t…
Hi, I was driving for work today and saw what I thought was a 15" LCD face down on the side of the road, which are always handy to give to friends, so I did a U…
watch this space, I just got this email in my inbox, and I quote: I do have some eMacs that are not working (three of them) that you could have if you felt like…
Over the weekend I picked up a few things. 1 - IIfx I snatched this up for $30 then came home to realize it has no HD :-( The RAM banks are full but i haven't p…
Well, I cant use the PC card as I lack the rare "medusa" cable. I stuck a HPV card in the PDS and it has 40mb of ram. I put in a 1000mb hard disk and installed …
Can a normal Performa 630CD be turned into a DOS Compatible Performa 630CD with a card, or did those models have something special about their motherboard that …
First of all, hi. I picked up a PM 9500/128 for $9.99 the other day, and I'm curious of what other (more modern) motherboards may fit into it snugly. PS, anyone…
I got a Sony Vaio VGN-NS110E for Christmas. It defiantly surprised me but am glad I now have a laptop that I know will have a working screen every time I use it…
I got this from John8520 on Monday. It's a 1.5GHz Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, CD-RW. I'll eventually get a bigger HD for it, but for now, it works fine. Getting…
/me I had a christmas lunch at my parent's yesterday. They kindly asked me if I was interested in keeping their old iMac (rev. B orange), long retired from duty…
This is the first LC520 I have come across. It is completely stock. It has a 80mb hardrive, 8mb of ram, O.S.7.1. It has a CD drive that uses the removable tray …
Got a Key Lime iBook 366MHz with 192MB RAM, firewire, 10GB HD that sounds like a grinder, intermittent CDROM drive and battery, an IBM Intellistation that shuts…
I seem to be posting quite a few iMacs in the conquest section, but meh: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33628690@N04/3129792731/
Okay, here is a first. I clicked my PowerBook Duo 270c into my Duo MiniDock, as I often do. I finish up and prepare to switch to the Duo 280. I lift the tab on …
I decided to turn on my 128K and make sure she was still booting. Instead I'm greeted with the sad mac. Code "0 4 0 1 0 0" Turning off and on doesn't seem to he…
I just got myself a 12" PowerBook G4! It's part of my plan to redo my computer setup here; right now I have a dual 500 G4 tower as my main desktop, and a MacBoo…
Hello there I've been the proud owner of a second-hand PB 520 for the past 4 or 5 years. In that time I've only used it sporadically. The past couple of times I…
I just had a fairly catastrophic failure of my Mac Plus analog board. A few components are seriously charred, and though I haven't removed the board yet to chec…
Never seen one of these cases. Interesting that it transports the CRT facing downward. Wonder how much weight it adds to the actual compact?
My Most recent conquest involves a nice Powerbook 100. It does not boot up but instead has a blank screen. It powers up fine without the death chime. I don't he…
Well, I was going to reinstall my OS on my 180c after getting my PowerBook to VGA adapter... I attempt to boot up and see a a flashing question mark (Of doom). …
Got a Titanium PowerBook G4 (A1025) that has issues. Symptoms: Turning it on results in a Beep, then the led comes on, then flashes twice, then steady for a lit…
Wednesday scored a working ANS 700/200. Have not started it up yet. Going to take a vacuum to it first. Very dusty. No software. Yesterday, I got the 500/132 fr…
Today I got an Acer TravelMate512T with a Celeron 366. It had a bad hard disk, no memory and a tendency to lock up at random intervals. Oh yes a bad clock batte…
I have a image of .85 but seems that could not run w/ my MacPlus ROM while .97 and 1.1 both run perfectly on Mini vMac. Could anyone upload a Mac 128k ROM (64k …
I posted an AD on craigslist for an Apple II system. So far I have 2 responses. 1) A nice looking Apple II+ with 2 5.25 disk drives, and a monitor. The person s…
Anyone know a good source for an OEM look togle switch for the PSU? The II+ I got has a broken one... TIA!