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hey...middle of an art project, and I need some compact mac cases...between 5 to 20, and it does not matter if they are badly yellowed, etc...don't need the gut…
· 1 posts · started 27 Jan 2010 - 11:05 · last 27 Jan 2010 - 11:05
i got a mac se at a garage sale a little while back, and it was working fine. then one day, i powered it on and it only boots to a [?] . i put in the system flo…
· 11 posts · started 20 Jan 2010 - 20:54 · last 22 Jan 2010 - 18:46
I have been offered a Macbook Core Duo with 1.25GB RAM for $150 The Catch... Screen is cracked and it is pretty dirty with a few hairline cracks on the front of…
· 15 posts · started 13 Jan 2010 - 23:02 · last 22 Jan 2010 - 03:43
I picked up one of these guys off of ebay dirt cheap. maybe $15 bucks total? dont remember. Anyway... there is an issue that has me kind of stumped. When its at…
· 2 posts · started 15 Jan 2010 - 01:59 · last 15 Jan 2010 - 03:05
My LaserWriter IIg was working flawlessly up until yesterday, when both the Power and Paper Out lights are lit when I turn it on. There is paper in the tray, an…
· 22 posts · started 27 Sep 2009 - 20:07 · last 15 Jan 2010 - 02:30
Well, this is my first post here and I figured I'd start out by kinda introducing myself a little and posting my first two "new" and "semi-vintage" mac conquest…
· 6 posts · started 13 Jan 2010 - 04:53 · last 13 Jan 2010 - 17:24
Hey, I remeber hearing a while back that someone's friend on this board wrote LeopardAssist. They also wrote some software mod that let you use drives bigger th…
· 16 posts · started 10 Jan 2010 - 07:02 · last 12 Jan 2010 - 07:16
The hard drive in my beige G3 (running 9.2.2) scanned as having problems. could I get a second hard drive, copy the contents of my G3s drive to it, and expect t…
· 5 posts · started 9 Jan 2010 - 23:51 · last 10 Jan 2010 - 02:24
I'm thinking of giving my 605 a 128MB SIMM. I found some pretty sweet deals on ECC 60ns EDO RAM - will it work?
· 18 posts · started 17 Mar 2008 - 20:43 · last 9 Jan 2010 - 01:58
Can you use an external CD with a Macintosh SE? I need some way to take data over to it until I get my other floppy-enabled mac out. Thanks, agg23
· 16 posts · started 13 Dec 2009 - 00:28 · last 4 Jan 2010 - 08:25
Hey, my iMac G4 gave up the ghost for some reason and I'm not about to fix it right now so I'm putting the 80GB drive inside my quicksilver which already has 2 …
· 5 posts · started 30 Dec 2009 - 04:57 · last 4 Jan 2010 - 01:45
I'm wondering if I'm out of luck on this SE/30. It's a liberation that I knew didn't work but I thought I'd try my luck anyway. The great SE/30 repair reference…
· 6 posts · started 28 Dec 2009 - 02:33 · last 30 Dec 2009 - 03:57
Uh oh... A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from wit…
· 2 posts · started 28 Dec 2009 - 20:57 · last 29 Dec 2009 - 03:46
Boot From Firewire on B&W or Yikes! Here's how: Hi all. I Made a post on Applefritter about how to boot a PowerMac G3 or Early G4 (Yikes) from Firewire.…
· 1 posts · started 24 Dec 2009 - 14:29 · last 24 Dec 2009 - 14:29
I received my replacement capacitors from Trag (thanks, Jeff) and have started to solder this morning. I have three finished, when I decided to put the board ba…
· 11 posts · started 17 Dec 2009 - 18:29 · last 18 Dec 2009 - 03:43
Well, it seems my beloved Clamshell has run into a bit of a problem. The screen doesn't want to light up anymore. It still seems to be working, since I can fain…
· 27 posts · started 19 Apr 2008 - 21:31 · last 14 Dec 2009 - 02:36
Earlier tonight I picked up a cheap iBook clamshell for $20. Unfortunately it is barebones at 32mb/3GB/CD @ 300mhz. It has the following problems: - It boots af…
· 3 posts · started 12 Dec 2009 - 07:31 · last 14 Dec 2009 - 02:11
I have two complete Liquid Cooling Units (with two 2.5ghz processor boards each) and both have unfortunately leaked. I can confirm at least one set of processor…
· 8 posts · started 11 Dec 2009 - 18:52 · last 13 Dec 2009 - 05:40
I recently acquired an Xceed Color 30 card and a gray-scale 30 card with manuals. I scanned the manuals and made PDFs. You can download them here if you are int…
· 9 posts · started 10 May 2009 - 20:28 · last 12 Dec 2009 - 23:08
What if there was a wiki about old macs where we combined Jag's House, Gamba, and others links into one place to make finding info easier? It would be similar t…
· 15 posts · started 4 Oct 2009 - 14:20 · last 11 Dec 2009 - 21:35
Scored my third Imac that is a bondi blue, I am geting the computer in an hour as its in my neighbours trunk, (I asked if she could bring it over) She works at …
· 8 posts · started 10 Dec 2009 - 21:18 · last 11 Dec 2009 - 04:24
I have this board that I'd like to put in the IIsi (currently, there's an Xceed Color30HR, and I feel I'm wasting a perfectly good SE/30 grayscale-capable card …
· 6 posts · started 7 Dec 2009 - 21:38 · last 9 Dec 2009 - 18:20
The screen of my Color Classic would intermittently go off color - as in the red would become greenish and so on. It was intermittent a few weeks ago, now it se…
· 7 posts · started 2 Dec 2009 - 17:21 · last 9 Dec 2009 - 03:13
I picked up a PowerBook 150 in excellent condition for $10. It works perfectly and seems to even have a working battery. The drive is empty but I'll be booting …
· 12 posts · started 4 Dec 2009 - 23:06 · last 7 Dec 2009 - 14:49
I have been wanting to modify an Asante SE/30 ethernet adapter card to remove the stock pass-through connector and replace it with a right-angled connector. My …
· 3 posts · started 3 Dec 2009 - 21:39 · last 5 Dec 2009 - 13:54
My poor Plus just had its second Analog Board die, most likely C1, as I have the vertical line down the middle of the screen. As I inspect the previous Analog B…
· 13 posts · started 14 Nov 2009 - 10:19 · last 3 Dec 2009 - 07:40
Today I got a G4 466MHz and wanted to do a clean reinstall of OS 9.1. I took my original retail Os 9.1 CD (not an bundled to a machine one) an tried to boot. CD…
· 14 posts · started 25 Oct 2009 - 00:49 · last 3 Dec 2009 - 07:32
So I'm wanting to go back to OSX from linux on my G4 Mini but it refuses to accept boot media. I'm attempting to use a 10.4 CD (verified, should work) but despi…
· 34 posts · started 3 Mar 2009 - 06:12 · last 29 Nov 2009 - 21:20
hi all ever since i got my Macintosh classic, i have noticed that if i leave it on and don't move any thing, it will go into screensaver mode. when i move the m…
· 6 posts · started 28 Nov 2009 - 10:10 · last 29 Nov 2009 - 19:25
Out of curiousity... have any of you ever used BatteryReset 2.0 on a Lombard? If so, were you successful at fixing a battery? I've got a Pismo and a battery tha…
· 5 posts · started 2 Nov 2009 - 18:40 · last 26 Nov 2009 - 21:14
Hi, I've had my 17" Studio Display for about 3 months now (I got it for free from a University that was clearing out their older hardware). From the beginning, …
· 6 posts · started 24 Nov 2009 - 00:31 · last 26 Nov 2009 - 04:11
Finally got my Lombard back up to 512MB RAM. So nice.... Anyway, I noticed on the bottom of the case that there is a crack from the Apple logo to about 2/3rds o…
· 5 posts · started 12 Nov 2009 - 01:45 · last 26 Nov 2009 - 01:14
So I just got a IIci running System 7.1. I managed to get it booting again. It had the issue with the folder and question mark. Anyway, I fixed that. Now, I wan…
· 4 posts · started 24 Nov 2009 - 03:01 · last 24 Nov 2009 - 07:56

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Found this morning a very nice Psion 5. Was advised 15 € but got it for 10 €. the good thing about it is that the Psion looks almost new, the paint is not peeli…
· 4 posts · started 11 Jan 2010 - 13:31 · last 19 Jan 2010 - 23:57
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