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I may have another Mac Classic coming my way. I found one on Craigslist tonight (http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/sys/3002114544.html) and may go pick this one …
Just scored today a very nice looking Classic, not too yellow,in working condition (there is no HD but was part of the deal) and free ! Boot to the blinking mar…
Hey everyone. I wrote this a decade ago in the old forums and thought it might be appropriate to repost. HOW TO DISCHARGE A CRT SAFELY (Or at least as safely as…
This time, when I say "Old School", I mean it in the literal sense. Grades 10 and 11 in high school were some of the best times of my life so far, and one of my…
In between hanging out with all the mothers in my family and my sister in law's birthday party, I took a load of 42 computers to the local PC Recycle center. On…
I appear to have found a complete set of original AppleCD SC drivers/readmes/INITs, etc. on one of the 800k floppies from Mk.558's recent rescue lot. If anyone'…
*hissssss* The Quadra 800 case, as used by the 800, 840av, 8100, and 8500, though attractive enough on the outside, is universally reviled as a pain to work wit…
...so I am not digging up an old thread. I want a Guided Tour of MacWrite and MacPaint for the Macintosh 128k (hopefully running System 1.1 based on my 128k's s…
It's only a partial rescue, but it's my first one, so here it is. My wife and I had an eMac in the first years of our marriage, and about five years or so ago, …
Is there such a thing? I was looking at Newertech's options, but they don't list the MDD as compatible with their Dual 1.8GHz 7448 . Would it work in a MDD or a…
I did a good faith purchase on Craigslist for a guy's old IIci. I live in California, he's in Chicago. I paid $150 + about $30 parcel post shipping for a boxed …
Hey guys I ran across a problem when copying OS 9 applications across to run in classic mode under OSX 10.4 in the sense that the system simply wouldn't recogni…
Hi, First time posting in this area! Anyway, I just got a seemingly dead Classic II. It's the first Classic that I've seen in person (all I've had previously we…
Picked up a few little gems from a regular client of ours at work who had some of the remaining Apple hardware from a now defunct Apple Reseller. I didn't know …
OK so i will finally be upgrading the ram in my SE tomorrow. I am letting it sit all night unplugged just in case. Ive read several guides on how to perform the…
Hello, I have a SE/30 that hasn't been on in about 4 years. The internal HD is corrupt enough that it won't boot from it. I built a new System 7.5.3 boot disk u…
Browsing through a 1987 rev. Mac Plus user's manual, I find the following on page 177 in the section on peripherals for your Plus. Things to note: 1) It's an '8…
Howdy comrades, I was asked to build Dhrystone for 68k Macintosh, just for fun. I felt I should share it with you all. This ancient benchmark will measure the i…
I keep waffling back and forth about whether to put my AudioMedia II NuBus board to use in my hifi system, for digitizing high-quality audio. A big drawback is …
So i have decided on a quadra 610 for my summer project. I have already bought one online, but it will take about a week to get here. I bought it thinking that …
For all you Mac OS X retro gamers, I've written my first game. It's an old fashioned text adventure. I grew up on these things, and always wanted to write my ow…
Got some machines turned over to me few days ago, non 68k or PPC but.. Macbook (late 2007) 2.2Ghz C2D, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD, DVD-+RW, Black. No PSU but i had one u…
Okay, so I'm getting ready to crack open my first Mac. I've gotten a hold of a genuinely bashed up Mac Plus that despite a heavily fractured case still bongs an…
I have several Macs and some drives will boot as a extra disk (no startup) but when I plug some in the computer trys to boot off it, no matter what I do heck a …
No problem for the 9" Periscope from the classic series, I can knock off the glassblown tip at the end of the CRT, but my 17" DOA StudioDisplay's CRT has a cove…
I would like to ask if the old games especially adventures like Monkey Island, Larry, Rise of the Dragon etc. support double mouse button on Mac with Mac OS 7.6…
So recently I met this guy through my work that up until two years ago, was exclusively a mac repair specialist. I started talking to him and he took me to one …
Some of my Pismos have fairly loose screens now (5-10 degrees of play). Is there a "best practice" to retighten them, or is a little bit of extra looseness due …
Price differences and the inclusion of extra software in one of the auctions aside, does anyone know the difference between this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/270971…
They all work, Also, Once I get the full 040 from my buddy on here, I'm going make the Q605 into a web server, i'm looking forward to it My buddy said i can thr…
I have a rather bad problem that I have run into. Because I store my mac software on a Windows 2000 server I keep all my files stuffed to preserve the resource …
Quite a while back, I liberated an $11.99 B&W StudioDisplay after testing it in the Thrift Shop. Apparently, one needs to run these things for more than…
After what seems like forever, I am finally the owner of a PowerBook G4 12". It comes to me by way of a business associate who I first met in 2005 and see once …
Hey guys, just discovered this forum a few days ago and I'm already loving it. Im hoping that you could help me with a problem I am having with my g3's. Ok here…
Hey everyone, Due to technical difficulties temporarily beyond our control, the Forum Rules page is currently showing a broken layout, and is also locked from e…
I was looking for replacements to recap an SE/30 motherboard, and noticed that Panasonic has announced new type (Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic…
I've been putting together a small collection of Classic Macs and peripherals, and one of the small irritants that I always run into is missing rubber feet. For…
Hey everyone! It's been a bit since I've had anything new to post about my Mac 512K experiments, but wanted to note a couple of things. First, with Mobile Me sh…
My main machine is an iBook G4 running Leopard. But I also do use OS8.6 and OS9 a lot on other machines. I am looking for a way to create .sit compressed archiv…
i won these, They lowered the shipping for me, to 35 bucks. i've never messed with any of the Macintosh II Models, i'm sure it will be fun! http://www.ebay.com/…
If I can get my Mac SE Superdrive going and find an Ethernet card for it I'd LOVE to partake in the Retro Challenge if one is offered. Is anyone doing one in 20…
I just scored a 17" Powerbook G4 running Leopard with the following specs off of eBay: 1.67 Ghz 100 GB HD 2 GB Ram Superdrive It also came with an AC Adapter an…
I recently acquired a fully working Macintosh SE. It has a 20mb hard drive, and it is the model that can only read 800k floppies. It currently has 1mb of ram, b…
I have a chance a liberating a TiBook, but there is a catch... The current owner has a number of images taken with a QuickTake 150 on the drive which would need…
So I replaced the power board in my 128k and I am now getting Sad Mac 040002 at bootup. From what I can gather there is some bad memory on the motherboard that …
I have a (only one but can get two) of the following memory stick: Memory (RAM): 128MB=1X128MB FAST PAGE FAST PAGE Number of Memory Chips: 24CHCIPS Memory Capac…
CelGen's Awesome Absolutely Apple Macintosh IIfx restoration project has inspired another pie in the sky/over the top hack of dreams notion . . . { "lightbox_cl…
I bought a System Saver for my 128k, because God blessed me with some extra funds and I am wondering when it gets here what I should do about my intended usage …
As some of you may know, I like to play around with my Mac 512Ke and get it to work with modern devices. I refer to it broadly as a Mac 512K, and mention the "e…