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The best Office from MS for Classic Mac on CD ROM (1993) includes: - Word 5.1a - Excel 4.0 - PowerPoint 3.0 HyperCard stacks, manuals, Help, floppy disc images …
Ok, I know it's been a while since I have done anything with OS 9 but for some reason, any copy of 9.1 update, or any update for that matter that I download, I …
http://web.me.com/mikefort/Mini_vMac_LT/index.html
Rescued my mother's old laptop, Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1645 (512MB RAM, has ATA-HD) mainly to have the ATA-drive for Powerbook. This PC is notoriously -slow- ru…
I want to thank everyone on this board for their posts - I lucked into a free SE/30 and a Quadra 900 (one of my co-workers was moving and either gave away or so…
Hi, I just today received a Radius Thunder IV GX 1360 card. I have installed the card and am seeing strange behavior. As I have never used one of these cards be…
Hi all, Long time no see! Hopefully this hasn't been covered in detail elsewhere (I did check, but one can never tell). Has anyone got any experience with these…
I am thinking of getting a 1.25GhZ DP CPU for my 867 DP MDD. Has anyone done the hack to change the FSB to 166 from 133, if so how? My RAM is PC3200 so the spee…
So my Quadra 950 seems to have issues booting, especially when its cold in the room (I'm talking real cold like in the 50s). I can leave it running but after a …
. . . I think it's a conquest, but I'm not entirely sure yet . . . but the price seemed OK for 8GB of SCSI SSD . . . Dell 8 GB,Internal (D154H) (SSD) Solid Stat…
Does anyone have the Live PNG plug-in (dead) linked to on this page? I'm liking Cyberdog on my oldest macs; and it absolutely screams on my Wallstreet, but no P…
Recent conquests. Too lazy to include pictures right now, maybe later on. Hardware: - Apple //c ("for parts" - see "Apple I, ][, /// & Lisa"-thread) - n…
Is there an extension or something that I can put on the System 7.5NAD disk so itll recognize the HD20? Reason I ask, is I want to backup the entire HD20 that I…
Hi, My SE/30 suddenly has the checkerboard pattern. However the machine boots normally and has startup bong too. The pattern does not go away after boot and mak…
Hi, The brightness control bottons are no longer working anymore on my powerbook Duo 280C. I opened up the LCD housing as I though it was probably the brightnes…
Here's a bit of a puzzler. Somehow or other, Terminal on a Tiger install has gotten it into its head that it should be running ELinks every time a new terminal …
Latest rescue for very cheap. Quite clean unit, keyboard looks really good, display also. Only problems are with the display hinges wich are loose and dvd-rom w…
Ok, I did it once before, but its been soo long I don't remember how to do it. Could anyone be of assistance? Thanks!
This was from a fellow 68kMLAer. It arrived Saturday morning, but I've been really lazy lately That member expressed his desire to have unboxing shots taken onc…
Hey there 68k-ers! I am doing the hosting of Browser6 for porter, so when I get it through email I will host it on my webserver (I bet this will make my hits sk…
In another find in the ToteOfGoodness, I find the lowly 1400c. After a very thoughtful gift from my fiance in the form of a PCMCIA-to-CF adaptor and BOTH a 4GB …
Well I got an Apple Network Server 500 at a pretty cheap price. Cheap enough that I couldnt pass it up. What do you guys do with yours, They are as big as an en…
Hey guys Just scored a Macintosh SE FDHD this morning, works like a charm.. even the HDD! ) Problem is I'm just missing the keyboard cable, PRAM battery is dead…
The Macintosh Portable has been on my want list for the longest time. I've been watching eBay for a year and haven't been able to score one. The prices just go …
Well, I was digging through my storage in the depths of Lab 2...and guess what I found! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous…
I just scored this Apple //c external drive the other day. It just arrived in the mail today. They're usually pretty expensive, but I got it for $50 bucks. { "l…
I'm gonna cry a lot . . . . . . if I can't get my baby up and running again. It has been my workhorse for over twelve years now and was the last half of my orig…
Well, I have a Rocket StageII with the SCSI II booster. The Booster is detected fine by the card, however any SCSI devices I connect to it are not detected. Too…
Got back from vacation this past weekend and was able to give Mountain Lion a whirl. Really just good news to report so far. Nothing concerning Classic Macs see…
G'day y'all, This PowerBook Duo 2300cTB has a memory issue (and a dead PRAM battery) leading to the following: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Ne…
Found this morning in a cardboard lying off the road: * A set of floppies (sytem, printers, fonts...etc ) for Powermac 6100 (probably system 7)... spend a lot o…
My 3400c hinge broke just now while i was getting it to connect to my netatalk server. and parts are hard to come by these days for the 3400c. I used to find wh…
. . . I thought it would be nice to have a repository for 2300c troubleshooting lore. I'll edit some of the old thread links into this initial post as time goes…
Here is a hack I did back in 2004. I was cleaning up my external HDD when I ran across these pics. Then came the Oh Yea moment. If i remember correctly, I used …
I was wondering if any of you had ever put a front-facing USB hub in the lower optical bay of an MDD. Any suggestions on mounting a regular hub (I figure the do…
So. I'm set to conquest a 7200 this week. From what I understand, a 7200 is basically a 7500 without the daughtercard, and limited expansion possibilities. ISTR…
See this, Focus LapisColor MV16 http://www.datamemorysystems.com/Focus-Closeouts/C_1048 If there would be anyone from the US that would post this to me to Europ…
Inspired by my recent success with a CF card as an internal 2400c drive (wowza!), I am pondering purchase of an OWC SSD for my 12" PowerBook. Has anyone tried t…
Hello! So about 5 years ago I got a IIVX from a local thrift store. When I first booted it I got the "?" floppy. Rebooted it a few times and it finally booted t…
I just recently liberated an original '01 500MHz Titanium Powerbook G4 from a relative in rough shape, bent bottom casing (seriously? bent titanium? How was tha…
So I messed up my logic board while replacing it back in after extensively cleaning the green wax Apple called thermal transfer material. This was about a week …
Hey everybody, tonight at about 9 p.m. (in four hours) I'm going to bring down httpd on the VPS that runs stenoweb.net and 68kmla.org in order to bring the mach…
I have had 2 Macintosh Portables hanging around for a little while now, and haven't been able to get them to work. I came across a Portable power supply a littl…
Hi, I have a need for some software to be written for an older Macintosh operating system. Specifically, I am looking for someone to write a simple Extension (I…
I have a dual 1.0 MDD. Until recently, I was running a drive with Leopard (SATA with ATA bridge) ont the fast bus and an older ATA drive with Tiger on the slowe…
I noticed that my Powerbooks 145B and 170 aren't fully charging their main battery anymore. The Main batteries are in good condition ( rebuild ), all powerbooks…
A few months back, I was helping someone out by taking a large collection of books to the library for donation. There were lots and lots of boxes of books, but …
Okay, I've just acquired a 2002 MDD Power Mac (1.25GHz DP) and gotten it up and running. It's quite a nice machine, but I've noticed that it's running a bit hot…
. . . since I started a 2300 troubleshooting repository, I figured it was a good time to start one for my 1400 projects too . . .