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Hello, i ve an MAC SE/30 and recap the logic board. the mac have an additional card pluged. The card have the following label: Formac 1989 Prograhp SE/30.2B An …
I rescued a trio of old iPods from the depths of my girlfriend's parent's cabinet this weekend! When I asked about them, they said "Oh, yeah, those old things h…
I may be crazy, but I really wanted a Macintosh TV so I bought one on eBay. Paid more than I probably should have, but nowhere near the $600 range of the ones c…
Hi All! First poster here. Recently got a mac plus and I'm excited. Mouse works fine but keyboard doesn't do anything. It's a M0110A keyboard. I've ohmed out th…
This monitor powers on "when it receives a video signal", however when connected through my KVM it refuses to turn on. Is there any way I can short two pins tog…
So I'm putting together a Quadra 840AV basically out of parts (got a motherboard + RAM en route, need to find a housing for it.) But I'm trying to expand it a l…
Today I picked all this stuff up for $200. Upon going through it I feel like there's way more than $200 worth here. Definitely keeping all of it for life! http:…
Hi, I treated my SE/30 to a Sonnet Allegro "doubler" accelerator, boosting it to 33Mhz '030 off the socketed board. It installed easily bar having to lengthen t…
The Apple HiColor 15" LCD Monitor Patent Pending ) This is a project to turn a Gateway FPD15-40 LCD into an Apple-esque ADB capable VGA monitor. I'm using the b…
I recently recapped 2x Color Classic logic boards. One of them works well and turns on immediately from the keyboard, with new Pram battery installed. The other…
Turns out the seller doesn't want the Performa back, so I'm going to try and fix it. I've run into a bit of a snag. I can't figure out what it is. Nothing looks…
Hello, new Mac tinkerer here. I have a Mac plus which is nearly fully operational. I have put the machine back to 1mb for now while I try to sort some other pro…
Anyone got a list of the apple II's dimensions, or a schematic, or diagram, blueprint, anything like that? I don't want to ask anyone to go measure one, just wo…
Hello, I have this macplus which seems to be working perfectly except when I first start it up. I believe something in the horizontal scan circuit is going wron…
I was visiting family this weekend and remembered my stepfather's parents had inherited a 5200CD from me when I was in college. I asked about it and they had se…
Ok, i have a lot of those already, but was advertised locally and free to collect. The PM was faulty, nothing else except the unit...but i have some units with …
I picked this one up on Monday night, but didn't get around to taking pics of it until just today. Anyway I picked up a Dual 2 Ghz G5 from another member on Mac…
I scored two new Macs at the VCF this weekend!! 1. Mac IIcx. Doesn't boot but has a 13" Apple HiRes. Caps look OK, may need a new battery. 2. Mac SE. Boots, Min…
With the mono Apple II Monitor II are there any internal adjustments for horizontal width and centering ?
Okay, conducted a hardware test IAW the following instructions: 1. Simultaneously press the CONTROL and RESET keys during boot. 2. Enter CALL -151 and press RET…
This current portable I am working on, on the 12V side its only making 1.38v when turned on, trying to track down the VREG responsible. Anyone have any insight?…
So I bought a 344MB IBM drive on eBay to replace the dead HDD on my Outbound laptop. The weirdest thing happens. When I plug the HDD in and boot, the top 1/2 of…
Hi guys, A couple weeks back, I posted a question about using modern hard drives with old macintosh computers. A few of you mentioned that it would be easier to…
I have collected a nice 110, this was supplied with 3 Sram cards. At first, none of those cards were recognized, all but one battery cell was flat. i removed th…
Yes, I just scored myself an Apple Adjustable Keyboard for ten bucks. Definitely a nice out of the blue surprise!!! It's missing a height adjuster on the back (…
So I'm completely new to radius rockets. I have a IIci with the turbo601. Can the rocket be used in conjuction with the turbo601, to run one 68k system(rocket) …
I've wanted a Lisa for so long now but yesterday I finally made it happen. I picked one up for $150 down the street. It came with Lisa, keyboard, mouse, and pow…
So I really like having my 7100 back up and purring, it feels like old times. I'm playing some old games on there and exploring the by-gone era of software, but…
Have a SCSI CD-ROM player for my Classic II. Here are the specs for my machine: - 10 MB RAM - 80 MB Hard Drive - OS 7.5.5 The machine's sound works fine, so I c…
Is there any electrical reason this Tank Farm and Coil couldn't be relocated an inch or two to the right? I'm thinking caps with heat shrunk wire leads and a wi…
OK, so I got a nice, new-to-me 80 GB IDE hard drive from some guy on LEM Swap. I install it on my recently refurbished PowerBook G4 12" (which was running very …
I've been perusing this forum for a few months and read somewhere about PRAM batteries exploding and destroying the motherboard they are installed on. So this a…
Just collected this evening a complete Newton 110. Came boxed and with all goodies including Psu and video tape, even a set of stickers and 3 Sram Cards My firs…
That's right folks. I am the proud owner of Mr. Steven Job's personal Apple IIe. Here's the backstory: I found it in a dumpster outside his mansion before it wa…
Hi there, Among the pile of stuff that I managed to get a few weeks ago is an external SCSI harddrive case, as shown below: I'd like to find out who made it etc…
Today there was a flee market near my place. I went looking for books and perhaps some old macs, you never know. Then suddenly I saw her. She was sitting on a s…
First of all, hello! I'm new! Last month I bought an SE/30 off eBay, and it's in otherwise perfect condition except it had very faint sound. I did my research a…
Hello, I just aquired a Macintosh LC II and its 12 inch monitor from a friend of mine who got it at an estate sale. When I hooked everything up and turned on th…
I was debating on running Mac OS 9.1 on my Powermac 6100/66. Is that recommended? I imagine that it would be slow as molasses, even though I maxed out the ram t…
So I was looking at the Quadra 800 motherboard, and the layout looks remarkably smilar to a IIci, all the way down to the ports and the placement of the program…
Retrofited an LC-PSU Board into an Apple IIe Power Supply the only catch is no -12 vdc, LC PSU does not provide it. Well it works, the color of wires already ma…
Maybe the fumes or the Lead/Tin solder is starting to effect me... I'm in the middle of re-capping yet another Macintosh Portable Logic board right now. It came…
Any ideas on how to remove the corrosion from the legs of the various components on this motherboard? I've included a photo of what it looks like so far. To be …
I'm curious. I've been looking at the SE's motherboard and I see connectors for the SCSI drive, floppy drives, the speaker, and the power connector... but I don…
I accidentally acquired a Powerbook G4 today and found what many threads here have led to - if the PRAM battery is flat, the main battery will not charge either…
As far as I can tell, it's a stock G3, but its not booting. I get a chime on powerup, and that's it. No video, no HD activity, No CD-ROM activity if I stick in …
Just for fun, I decided to check the local CL listings last night, figuring there was an outside chance of getting something while I'm home. (The IIGS is still …
So we all know that a LOT of 512k Macs were upgraded to Mac Plus during the mid to late 80's, via "upgrade kits" that Apple released... That means, you still fi…
POST YOUR blahblahblah you know the drill http://www.ebay.com/itm/170933925539 8 inch LCD @ 1024x768, with driver board (HDMI, VGA, AV), USB touchpanel, all wir…