Another Freecycle find. That is two in about a week. It had Windows XP on it with 192mb of ram. I put Windows 98se on it instead and kept the 128mb simm leaving…
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I have two mac minis, both are G4. When i plug one in, the fan just turns on. The other one does nothing when plugged in or when the power button is pressed. An…
I finally found some free time to rebuild my old IIci... The plan is to install A/UX 2.0 - something I've been putting off since around January of 2005. Unfortu…
I have the chance to grab three Tibook's that have busted screens from a friend who works for the local high school district. Is it worth getting them despite t…
Powered up my free mac SE and it works wonderful...except for the floppy drive. Now whoever owned this before had replaced one floppy drive with a 500mb HD and …
I went to fix somebody's computer today (it's going to end up being an OS reinstall), and managed to get a Dell Latitude CPi laptop, along with a wireless netwo…
Okay, not mine, but I got to play with 'em [] ]'> The other day, a couple of HP boxes arrived at the office. Boxes seemed awfully big and heavy for 24" L…
So here;s my upgrade plans for the 9500: Processor - Sonnet Crescendo PCI 1GHz G4 upgrade Memory - 1.5 GB RAM, Interleaved Disk - 5-100 GB SATA Drive * OR Compa…
Hey all, Got this a bit over a week ago, but I finally got around to posting about it. I picked up an eMac that needs the capacitor repair for $10 at my univers…
So i bought this quadra 950 a few years back and it was working fine untill recently. now sometimes it gong and power on fine, but no video. other times it will…
Hey, I've got a Tibook with no screen. When I try to output via DVI to my screen, it works, however it still thinks there are 2 screens(the external and interna…
These forums are so great for help so here's a dilly of a pickle: I have a Pismo that I just got and initialized the HD and zeroed all data. I have a retail cop…
DayStar Digital PowerCache Card 33 MHz 68030 for Macintosh IIci This probably came riding along with one of the IIci's from the recycler over the past few month…
What began as a simple upgrade to a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition cost my 8500 its life. I installed the System7Today ATi Drivers. I opened up the 8500 and installed …
I acquired a Powerbook 1400cs today through an ad on Kijiji. Included manuals, system CD and the floppy drive unit, two power supplies and various disks. It's a…
Alrighty. So I'm presently working on contract to Intel, and have been able to 'play' (evaluate, test, troubleshoot,) systems based on the new "Intel® Core™ i7"…
Hey some of you may remember me putting a Western Digital HD in my quadra 650 a while back.. well now i think it may be busted but it is a strange issue. I boot…
I have been trying to get a G4/450 working. So far it has 1) Not recognized a hard disk or 2) When it sees that hard disk it locks hard when trying to partition…
Guys, I hope that one of you is happy right now! Living in Switzerland, I usually don't check ebay.com for conquests-to-be, as the shipping costs are really pro…
I got a free 733mhz Quicksilver with 1.5GB RAM and a Radeon 7500 from my buddy. Currently it is dual booting Leopard and Ubuntu. Seems like a nice little machin…
From ebay, without RAM or Hard Disk. Was 18$, seems to be in nice shape. Has no cache card, will that make it slow? Thanks! I plan on adding a lapis video card,…
Is it the same as quadra 800 RAM? Then I can take some out of my Q800 and use it in the IIci. If not, what type of ram is it?
It is a 10BaseT card, with BNC and RJ plugs. It is not a perfect rectangle, more like a parallelogram with only one side slanted. The best part? It was new and …
Which computer would be the better to use as a av machine. The 840av has a lot of built in features but the 950 can be upgraded by adding a Daystar Quad040 and …
I noticed that in some Macs, there is a long slot behind the last NUBUS slot. It is visible in a IIx (but not a II) a IIvx, and the IIci. Now I know that in a I…
I have a Power R video adapter that is for the Mac II and LC. I have a IIGS ROM 3 that is using an old color monitor IIe and was wondering if I can use this ada…
I got an apple IIGS ROM3, 2 apple IICs, color monitor IIC, apple scanner, origional software that came with the IIC all for $50 dollars. I had a guy give me a M…
If anyone can recall one of my recent liberations, 2x 700mhz eMac G4's, you will also remember that one of them runs beautifully. The other one does not. The di…
I collected a 1.4 GHz AMD Duron beige tower system today for free! I know, not a Mac...but whatever. The fun thing is that its got removable/hot swappable drive…
Hi guys, hopefully someone can help me out here. A friend of mine working on their Mac II in MacsBug, debugging the sound for a game they wrote, is noticing tha…
I've got a IIsi with a 12 Apple Monitor that is getting too dim to use and I've got an application which will run only on a 68k with 32-bit clean turned off. I …
I just returned home with a Mac Portable! A fellow who gave me some stuff via Freecycle some months ago remembered me and dropped an email my way offering it! I…
Among several recent acquisitions — another LW4/600 for spares, a 7100/80, a 21" Radius B&W Monitor, an SE, and a slot-loading G3 iMac/400 — a rather od…
Well I bought a 32mb Radeon 7000 to flash for my Power Macintosh 8500. I kept trying many different ROMs using many different methods. I got an error each time.…
My Quadra 840av dont boot from any SCSI-Devices at boot. When i boot the Mac OS 7.5 floppy, the apple drive setup tool say that the harddisk doesnt contain any …
Got off my local Craigslist: Powerbook 150, 4MB RAM, 500MB HD, System 7 Pro (7.1.1), AC Adapter, battery nearly dead 2 Apple IIc's with AC adapters AppleColor R…
Today I' facing a rather unusual Mac which I won within a non-eBay auction. The front housing of that Mac clearly identifies it as the 700th 512k Mac manufactur…
Picked up an "as is for parts" ibook. It had some moisture stains between the plastic and metal shielding on both top and bottom of the base. Condensation or ac…
For anyone near London, someone over on the vintage Mac forum of Lowend Mac has a pile of goodies that must be gone by Nov 23. Pickup only, but a bunch of syste…
I picked up a 3400 on eBay a week or two ago. It was sold w/o an ac adapter but w/ a charged battery. When it arrived, I played with it a bit, booting it up on …
Hi, As per my Conquests post, I've built up one "good" Lombard Powerbook G3 from two, which is specced as: - 333 @ 433Mhz (did this once before, and it's rock s…
Went to the tip shop this morning and had a bit of a look. One thing that caught my eye were two big ol' HDDs. Had a closer look, they were SCSI drives! Big hon…
I can get one on a local pickup. The ad says it is 500mhz but I think it may be 800mhz. 256mb ram and Windows XP. Working battery. They want $125. Is it worth t…
Hey Guys: In a move of nostalgia, I dusted off my old 233 Beige G3 MT (bought it at the old CompUSA Apple Store within a Store) and wanted to fire it up. Well, …
Specs in my signature; Today, my CPU cards arrived in the mail and they were the last parts I was waiting on in order to make my 9600 operational again. But I s…
Managed to get a replacement power board for my 2400 (thanks to a nameless soul on here who pointed me in the right direction ) All fitted, power applied and...…
I have a old Mac IIci i'd like to liberate from my basement, if I can onky find a modern day monitor to work with it. I have long since discarded the 13" apple …
Hallo everybody, I was adding new devices to my old Quadra 610 (with 7.5.1 installed). I connected a Quantum ST2.1S HD and after a little I was able to initiali…
Is this even possible? I have a powercurve 601 (with a G3 upgrade) sitting in my closet that I'm going to get running sometime. Could I add in a USB2 card and h…