It is however, a Mac! I decided to take the brand new computer route for the first time in my life. The MacBook (Late 2008) is showing problems with its Logic B…
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I was on Craigslist looking for Macs to add to my collection and came across an eMac for sale! The original specs where on the label on the bottom of the CD dri…
Hi, I'm trying to ID some unmarked Mini DIN-4 cables (ADB vs S-Video vs ??) from a mixed parts box - and don't have an Apple brand cable to compare with. Using …
. . . as stated in the auction? http://www.ebay.com/itm/110908503621 . . . or something just a little bit more Thunderous? :?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File…
I've got a few SE and SE/30 boards with broken clips on the Simm sockets. What would be the best option to remove these from the logic board without lifting tra…
Found 2 IBM Model M keyboards. I'll be selling these if anyone is interested. Also found some new, old stock Mac software: InterPPP II, Suitcase (with Font/DA M…
Good ThinkPad and Evil ThinkPad... Pics Quirky, and mucho cool with the TrackWrite. It's like a mini-Model M. Both have 486s, as far as I'm aware, and Good has …
Greetings. Now that my Classic II (right now running 7.0.1) has been recapped and is working, I'm looking to put a larger internal drive in it. I have Jag's CD …
Purchased from a fellow collector. This is a 6502-based system with an LED display and a printer (both 20-column), essentially an upgraded KIM-1. This unit has …
Hi, It's been a while since I've been on the forum, and it's nice to be back. I recently got a Mac Classic that was being given away. It appears to be in good s…
A few day's ago i got my first ever classic mac. :beige: Everything worked fine and okay until the display started flickering and i resolderd J4. But know my mo…
I got a call that another ANS had shown up at a local recycler however it had already been processed (which sucked as I needed drive sleds and a key tumbler). W…
Well, i got a powerbook on ebay real cheap because the screen went out so they said. Arrived cracked screen, got destroyed in shipping. Unit powered on and bega…
Is there an emulator that exists that supports the Mac Classic? It seems like one of those Macs that's in between vMac and Basilisk II. It would be awesome to r…
Hi all! This question would probably fit as well in the "peripherals" forum, but my guess is that most PCI cards users certainly hang up around here. I just pur…
Hi, two recent conquests: Lilliput 8" touch screen LCD: a gift from a friend, which he used to use in his car to play Xbox games. This thing is so cool, complet…
I scored 14 posters on eBay in a mega lot. Some are a little beat up and yellowed. Some have holes from thumbtacks. Some look quite rare. iPod, iMac, iBook, Pow…
I found this little gem in amongst a pile of Indigo G3s and eMacs. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "light…
Hi all, I purchased one of these -- with the sole intention of housing my maxed-out 7600 mobo However the original board and PSU work just fine and I could keep…
I submitted this post in the PPC PowerBook forum, but since I have a SCSI compact Mac (and since there is an utter dearth of replies in that PPC PowerBook forum…
Hey guys, Does anyone know where to get replacement drop-in potentiometers for the brightness controls? I got 2 SE analog boards here that the pots were smashed…
I just picked up my first Lombard on eBay. 6 days until delivery! Can't wait to tinker with it. I'm already thinking of all I'm going to do with it. I plan to u…
I was using Macwrite 4.6 in a Mac Classic II running system 7.03. All was well and good until I decided to upgrade the HDD and install 7.1.1. Now any version of…
(Pics at the end) As many have done here before, I've reassessed what I want out of a Macintosh collection. For now I've decided to stick with a couple of machi…
I've got a 17" iMac G4 800mhz (2002) and took it apart today to replace the hard drive and upgrade the RAM. Here's exactly what I did: 1: Disassemble according …
Actually got this about 3 years ago on ebay, 99p the lot. Brought them all home and stuffed em in a cupboard and forgot about them, until yesterday. Have almost…
Whenever I try and make an edit to a page, I get the following error: Internal errorSet $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to sh…
I am surprised that I hadn't known of these until now. I have a few PCI serial cards which have their ranges of usefulness. But RS422 and SCSI seem like a great…
I have a ton of external SCSI devices for my old macs but never had anything firewire. So browsing ebay at 4am I won a couple firewire burners, a beige cdrw and…
Hi, Well, this PowerBook works perfectly most of the time, but when under Leopard (It happened during install, too; I had to use target disk mode from my Quicks…
I'm looking for a backup & restore solution for System 6.0.8. I've got a Macintosh SE (4MB memory, 40MB hard drive, SuperDrive floppy, attached 100MB Zi…
I've been thinking about a 7.5.3NAD for awhile now, and it may be possible. I do have a couple of problems: The Disk Tools disks are the only ones that look lik…
...The value of RP47? It looks a bit burnt, and I don't know if the bands are accurate (the color may have changed). It is for this project, and I suspect this …
I procrastinated too long downloading the last update for Toast 8, and there is no longer a link leading to it on Roxio's website. However, by modifying the lin…
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. . . with shipping additional . . . :-/ . . . bu it still factors out to about $.55/GB or $5.00/HDD . . . ADAPTEC U160 SCSI CARD WITH 4 HARD DRIVE CAGE AND CAB…
Sorry about the potentially silly question: if I were to grab System 6 or System 7 from Apple's download site, could I use those disks to perform a clean instal…
Over the weekend I picked up a Macintosh 512k ED which has been gutted and unfortunately had the handle chopped out as it had previously been converted to be us…
Hi there! I was shuffling some RAM around between the Quadra 950 and Mac IIci today, and now, for some reason, the IIci no longer puts out video. What I wanted …
I have an iMac G4 that i picked up from the hamvention, it fires up but it goes kernel panic please turn off your computer screen on startup. So, i grabbed my O…
Hi, I got a Quadra 950 a few months ago, and decided to clean it out. So I did. However, something seems to have killed it, as it won't start up. All I get is a…
Glad I found this board. Hope someone point me in a useful direction to get a recently liberated Mac IIsi up and running. Long story short: There may be multipl…
My SE/30 is functioning perfectly except for the fact that I cannot get anything to recognize the printer port (serial port shows up) in things like techtool pr…
http://techshop.ws/durham.html You can't believe how stoked I am about this . . . . . . somebody told me about it at work today! [] ]'>
I need to buy a nic for my CC. Both Asante and Farallon nics are easily available on eBay. I was just wondering who makes the better nic, Asante or Farallon? If…
I have a few compact macs, but I saw a dual floppy SE on eBay and without too much thought, bid the .99 it was started at. Shipping added quite a bit more, but …
A lady placed an ad locally for some material to give away, some was Apple related, so i send a reply. In the first place i just asked for a Powermac G4 (was ad…
Chances are you've heard it. UUUU--UUscht--RRRUUK-*Beep*--RUTCH!! What does the sound of the infamous MiniScribe HD remind you most of? Yeah, this is a geeky th…
One of the more rare Macs, even if it is a clone. The J710 was the last production Macintosh clone made. It was Apple approved hardware and even got the go-ahea…
when i boot it up it says the built-in memory test has detected a problem with chache memory, please contact a service tech for assisance in system profiler it …