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Anyone know of a good source that describes how RAM and ROM are mirrored at different addresses on the Mac 128K, 512K, and Plus? I remember reading something ab…
· 11 posts · started 6 Sep 2011 - 23:39 · last 10 Sep 2011 - 17:18
Anyone have Realbasic 2 or 3 laying around? i lost the copy i had, so i cant develop 68k anymore.
· 5 posts · started 13 Apr 2011 - 02:52 · last 10 Sep 2011 - 03:19
Rescued a Sawtooth G4/500DP and a Quicksilver 867mhz G4 from my employer when they were bought out by a bigger company. I now work for the other company and am …
· 3 posts · started 25 Aug 2011 - 05:56 · last 10 Sep 2011 - 02:00
I bought these for $50 a pop. Got 6 of them shipped for more than i paid for the machines. Anyway, I'm putting gentoo on these bad boys now. Any idea how/what I…
· 5 posts · started 7 Aug 2011 - 19:44 · last 9 Sep 2011 - 06:10
What's the recommended repair method for a floppy drive that has difficulty reading disks? I looked through the floppy lubrication tutorial on the wiki, but tha…
· 2 posts · started 8 Sep 2011 - 23:30 · last 9 Sep 2011 - 02:40
Hey guys, just bought a Mac SE/30 on craigslist from a professor on a college campus. This is my first 68k Mac purchase in awhile. Anyway, I noticed an "800k" d…
· 7 posts · started 7 Sep 2011 - 23:22 · last 9 Sep 2011 - 00:21
I have a friend that sent me an email with an interesting question: For a long time, I've wished there were a website or database that provided a timeline of va…
· 2 posts · started 8 Sep 2011 - 17:22 · last 8 Sep 2011 - 20:07
Can anybody comment on the quality of video captured on PCI Power Macs (ie 7500, 8500, 8600, etc) compared to video capture cards of their day? I've owned sever…
· 28 posts · started 18 Sep 2010 - 04:21 · last 8 Sep 2011 - 00:35
... are a whole new experience when playing on Fast mode. LoadRunner is insane! ZIP! ZOOM! Splat, dead. :lol:
· 4 posts · started 3 Sep 2011 - 01:46 · last 7 Sep 2011 - 20:13
Hi everyone!! I have got what seems a tricky problem. I have got Cubase 2.5 which (still missing to confirm that System 7.x is mandatory to run it) under System…
· 15 posts · started 9 Nov 2008 - 17:08 · last 7 Sep 2011 - 07:03
I picked up a couple of packs of 25 of rainbow floppies for $5. They're pretty cool. Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, with a black media cover. I like them…
· 6 posts · started 31 Aug 2011 - 04:40 · last 6 Sep 2011 - 18:59
I'm working on a project as detailed in the Room of Duo to get a PCMCIA card slot into my Newertech UltraDock.(Should be arriving in a few days) However, the ca…
· 4 posts · started 4 Aug 2011 - 18:54 · last 6 Sep 2011 - 03:46
So there are lots of 020/030 accelerators for the SE and Plus (actually not sure about 030s for the Plus but I think so anyway). Some of them have RAM slots tha…
· 2 posts · started 5 Sep 2011 - 18:49 · last 6 Sep 2011 - 03:39
As an avid Radius collector, I couldn't pass up this (Darker Than PowerBook [] ]'&gt Gray LCD on eBay. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next",…
· 1 posts · started 6 Sep 2011 - 02:56 · last 6 Sep 2011 - 02:56
Hi, has anyone got a schematic for the Apple Vision 1710AV? I would be so thankful. Im going to build a stereo system out of it. And btw. if you notice there is…
· 1 posts · started 5 Sep 2011 - 18:11 · last 5 Sep 2011 - 18:11
Just thought I'd let everyone know that I had success using a Trendnet TEW-424UB 802.11b/g wireless adapter with my 700 MHz G3 iBook running OSX 10.4.11. I had …
· 9 posts · started 3 Sep 2011 - 16:15 · last 5 Sep 2011 - 12:30
I bought a Mac 512K system a couple of days ago, and the guy who sold it to me used to work as an Apple repair technician. When I told him about my interest in …
· 1 posts · started 4 Sep 2011 - 18:13 · last 4 Sep 2011 - 18:13
OK, I bought *another* compact Mac today, a Mac 512Ke. It booted up fine from a 6.0.8 floppy, and everything worked fine. I left it on while I went to another r…
· 10 posts · started 3 Sep 2011 - 01:15 · last 4 Sep 2011 - 16:34
Hi all, Since I have a bit more free time on my hands, I've decided that it's high time I cure my Centris 610 of its Chimes of Death. (see my other post from...…
· 6 posts · started 2 Sep 2011 - 15:02 · last 4 Sep 2011 - 13:17
Woohoo! I've got a working Mac 512K, my first Mac in over a decade! I purchased the 512K system yesterday from a woman who recycles electronics. It booted to th…
· 10 posts · started 1 Sep 2011 - 23:32 · last 4 Sep 2011 - 10:01
I borrowed a friend's SE/30 that had been in storage for years. It's got an internal hard drive that works, with System 7 and a copy of Norton Utils, among othe…
· 7 posts · started 1 Sep 2011 - 07:39 · last 4 Sep 2011 - 02:28
Hey folks, I have a G4 Quicksilver from 2001 with an 800MHz processor. I'm going to be beefing up the memory to 1.5GB but I had a question about the CPU. Curren…
· 5 posts · started 3 Sep 2011 - 00:24 · last 3 Sep 2011 - 20:02
Just scored a nice Graphite Airport Base. ;D Unfortunately,the card itself is an Orinoco Silver, not the Airport one. But the base is powering up and apparently…
· 7 posts · started 22 Jul 2011 - 21:04 · last 3 Sep 2011 - 16:48
Picked up a really nice keyboard from the dump shop recently. It's a black, IBM branded ex-bank teller USB keyboard made by Cherry, with a mag stripe card reade…
· 11 posts · started 19 Aug 2011 - 00:57 · last 3 Sep 2011 - 07:12
It's been so long... and I've forgotten how you make a startup floppy disk. Assuming I have one Mac that's already running the System version that I want, and I…
· 4 posts · started 1 Sep 2011 - 15:19 · last 2 Sep 2011 - 05:46
What are your thoughts on this? http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14498
· 7 posts · started 31 Jul 2011 - 05:59 · last 2 Sep 2011 - 00:38
Well not really a conquest, but a rescue plan from another collector that needs to clear his house. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us .. I…
· 14 posts · started 24 Aug 2011 - 13:39 · last 1 Sep 2011 - 22:31
So recently I have been having some problems with my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth, here they are (in no particular order): 1) When I hold down the option button to sel…
· 3 posts · started 31 Aug 2011 - 00:47 · last 1 Sep 2011 - 02:22
My sister's B&W Powermac went completely bonkers, so I handed over my Ruby iMac. Originally it ran just fine with 400MHz, 128MB RAM, and OS 9 (Japanese)…
· 25 posts · started 19 Jul 2011 - 02:44 · last 31 Aug 2011 - 19:57
http://www.etsy.com/listing/75862378/vintage-mach-iii-joystick-with-original?ref=sr_gallery_6&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=joystick&amp…
· 1 posts · started 31 Aug 2011 - 19:24 · last 31 Aug 2011 - 19:24
I'm considering buying a Mac 512K system, and the seller sent me the image below. Any idea what would cause those wide diagonal bars?
· 4 posts · started 31 Aug 2011 - 04:04 · last 31 Aug 2011 - 06:50
Thanks charlieman for the inspiration. http://www.mac128.com/m0001 I've set up a database on http://baseportal.com/ which seems like an excellent way to go abou…
· 46 posts · started 7 Oct 2007 - 23:08 · last 29 Aug 2011 - 20:56
Made it to the local flea market this weekend and found a Powerbook 520c with power supply and HDI30 SCSI adapter. Seller had no idea if it worked or not. Power…
· 3 posts · started 16 Aug 2011 - 20:25 · last 29 Aug 2011 - 15:58
My landlord gave me this original Rev B Bondi Blue iMac G3. It's spotless. He had it sitting up in the attic and no longer had a use for it so he said I could h…
· 6 posts · started 26 Aug 2011 - 00:02 · last 28 Aug 2011 - 22:35
Hi all! I am looking for hints to set up a CF (or similar, eg. SD) to the SCSI interface of a Plus? Anybody here that suceeded with a project like that? TIA, Ma…
· 3 posts · started 15 Aug 2011 - 08:48 · last 28 Aug 2011 - 08:07
I noticed that the battery life on my MP2100 is really bad. I never get the 30 hour life touted by Newton fans - instead, I usually get 2 hrs. at best. The myst…
· 3 posts · started 24 Aug 2011 - 17:35 · last 27 Aug 2011 - 17:12
My recently acquired Apple IIc read disks perfectly but when I try to format or duplicate disks (with ProDos v1.1.1 or 1.0.2), after the normal drive noise (lik…
· 12 posts · started 12 Aug 2011 - 09:01 · last 27 Aug 2011 - 05:47
FOR FREE! Well, mostly. It came across the LEM swap list as a free Color Classic and Centris 650, pick up only in North Carolina. My buddy Brian lives in NC and…
· 6 posts · started 24 Aug 2011 - 00:28 · last 24 Aug 2011 - 18:46
A gutted SE/30 and a Seagate Dockstar NAS combined into a 1.2GHz ARM server - with both a homebrew ADB converter to use the original keyboard, and a homebrew AR…
· 9 posts · started 20 Aug 2011 - 11:57 · last 24 Aug 2011 - 16:10
I found a nice website selling new copies of vintage Mac software for affordable prices. Seeing as how I have a 128k and was seeking the perfect OS for it, (and…
· 2 posts · started 21 Aug 2011 - 15:44 · last 21 Aug 2011 - 17:48
Hi, I'd like to issue a challenge of sorts. Which do you think is faster, and why do you think so, for doing computationally intensive tasks, primarily compilin…
· 5 posts · started 20 Aug 2011 - 04:57 · last 21 Aug 2011 - 05:50
. . . :O My, lidless ATM, DuoDock+ just booted up PowerDuo AND 2300c2 with LCD enabled! 8-o IIRC, it has never done that before and had a known good DeclROM/Soc…
· 5 posts · started 19 Aug 2011 - 18:40 · last 21 Aug 2011 - 03:27
In a few idle moments (well waiting for tests to finish running) I was reading up on the 680x0 bus in the 68030 User's Manual. I've read the description of the …
· 24 posts · started 11 Aug 2011 - 00:21 · last 21 Aug 2011 - 03:14
I have a highly upgraded 9600 that has a pioneer DVD burner on an ata/66 card. It has no trouble seeing DVDs but I'd sort of like it to play them. Anyone done t…
· 11 posts · started 14 Apr 2011 - 17:28 · last 20 Aug 2011 - 20:02
{ "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try aga…
· 13 posts · started 25 Jul 2011 - 22:20 · last 20 Aug 2011 - 09:11

Source PPCMLA

Dunno if everyone is aware of this resource, so I thought I'd post it: http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/ There are some interesting anomalies, like the Mu…
· 4 posts · started 21 Aug 2011 - 08:42 · last 5 Sep 2011 - 15:02
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