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Hello, Having a problem getting the Pismo to boot anything other than whats already on the hard drive. I have several versions of OS9 on CD, OSX 10.2, 10.3 &…
Heyy people, i have a 540 newly aquired. I love it! It gets dark corners after a while..can i swap a color lcd on this? The corners arent that bad but will prob…
As stated in the Conquests forum, I recently came into possession of a 733MHz Digital Audio G4. It had no hard drive, no monitor, no keyboard and no mouse. My P…
1) Can someone explain to me Termination on SCSI and why it is necessary? 2) Does an iomega ZIP drive need to be terminated to work properly with a Mac Plus or …
Hi, I would like to teach myself how to do some simple programming of a classic Mac, such as those mentioned in the subject line. I am poised to get Inside Maci…
So I was trolling my email box, when a email popped up saying free SE/30 and LC to a good home. Usually I miss these and hit my head against a wall, but I got r…
This was quite a steel. I traded an older Toshiba Satellite laptop from 2009 for a Early 2008 MacBook. Decent condition. Although, the battery doesn't work, som…
Hello! I haven't used my Kanga G3 in a while and thought I would play some starcraft on it today. Any CD I put in doesn't spin up. I see the little green LED li…
Thanks to someone on another forum, I got access to a Quadra 840av. Long story short, I bought it for $75, because it did not post. The person selling it was ab…
First things first-It is in the forum rules, but let's repeat it here: "Please do not post links to illegal or pirated software". Having said that, I have been …
I just got a IIe to IIgs upgrade board for $75. Gonna keep an eye out for the case.
I am so stoked. I finally found a boxed copy of Star Trek The Next Generation: A Final Unity!!! No pics yet as I don't physically have it yet. My buddy found hi…
Today found 2 grape imac g3's on the side of the road in my neighborhood. One's a fruit tray load 333 with 6 gb drive and 160 mb ram running 9.2.2. The other on…
Macintosh LC 550 2 - 100uf 1 - 10uf 6 - 47uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea) http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16T-…
Ok so I want to hook up my Quadra 610 to the internet just for fun and to do some Light Browsing (Yes I know it wont be fast). It currently has an AAUI-15 ether…
I made the first pass at building another 2300cTB for an SacrificialHackMac and thought I'd share a piccie. I've done this in a DuoDock with and without active …
I have it all the way up, however, it feels like it should go a little faster. I have to move the pro mouse all the way across the mousepad to move the cursor a…
. . . project is now right on the front burner and the temp setting is HIGH! :approve: Utmost thanks to TylerEss for his kind offer to sell me his JackHammer! […
Macintosh IIci Processor Cache Card 2 - 47uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea) http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16T-…
so... my droid charge bit the dust for the second time. verizon wireless decided that instead of giving me a different phone they would replace it with an equal…
My Color Classic saga continues. An LC 550 logic board brought my CC up to "CC II" status. It's so much faster! And so much RAM! All is well save for two proble…
Is it possible to mount disk images FROM a ZIP disk and install TO that same ZIP disk? Take this scenario as what I am asking: Load all of the system 7.1 or 6.0…
I am playing with my 8600 recently and like to make it a productive machine again. As I got it very late (some day 2005 or something, and didn´t use it very oft…
Hello! I just got a Macintosh Quadra 900 today. I planned to install A/UX on it, but that's another thing, first I wanted to have at least MacOS. It got two har…
A box fell on my back-caseless Color Classic's CRT and snapped its neck. I have no reason to believe anything else is wrong with the little guy, so I've been lo…
I posted on my local craigslist looking for old macs. While no freebies have come up yet, I have gotten quite a few odd emails. 1 wouldn't take a fair amount fo…
Well, I've got a working HTTP block device driver. Woohoo. Basically, it's a block device driver that takes a file on an HTTP server, and presents it as a disk …
I found a box with a load I got with a bunch of so called Mac trash. All bags marked non working no boot. On a whim I took a power supply from a 6100 and plugge…
Hi! The other day, my floppy drive broke . I've traced the problem down to a faulty HD/DD switch (the one by the eject button), and now all I need is a replacem…
I know about the Nubus-based Photoshop DSP accelerators but are there any similar PCI cards? I think I remember seeing something like that years ago but I can't…
Ok went and picked up the two MDDs. As always the add was not correct. No such thing as a 1.5. So one was a 1.25 single and a 1.0 single. He threw in 2 ADC 17 i…
What was your first computer? mine was a C64, it was all i had, and all i knew. Load "*",8,1 cough… Next was IBM PS/2 286 Microchannel, Blah! it was not a bad m…
V.S. from lem: "Adding a video card was a popular way to increase performance and free precious RAM; another boost came from adding a level 2 (L2) cache. This p…
I know the minimum processor speed for Leopard is 867MHz, but my eMac just falls short of that. I was wondering if anyone has tried this with the original 800MH…
Well, I'm back to the collecting game. This time, it's a roadside pick. Scored an absolutely mint II+ with Microsoft Softcard, Epson APL card, Microsoft RAM exp…
I recently got my Pismo up and running again; the issue turned out to be a fried CPU card, and I got a replacement on the cheap. Unfortunately, the new card is …
Do any versions of baskilisk or minivmac out there support using an actual internal zip drive?
I just picked up a Performa 550 off of Craigslist. They thought it was dead, but I helped them test it out (i.e. the power switch doesn't actually turn it on) a…
Hi All! Stumbled on this boxed Macintosh Plus and ImageWriter II on craigslist for $ 70 Both items have been used, but are in excellent condition including most…
Ok got this unmarked card in a performa 400. It confuses me. No brand name but the main processor on the card is a 68020 at 20 MHz, with fpu, but the performa h…
My googling has revealed a few *nix flavored PHP servers, but I'd prefer to run the Mac System if possible. Any such thing?
Hi folks, I'm having an issue with one of the 128ks I'm restoring. When attempting to boot a known good 400k system disk in a known good 400k drive, I get a sad…
i made a bid on it, then later on, I actually looked at all the pictures, said woah, and dropped my sandwich, kicked the bid up. was happy to win, it comes with…
hand made wire wrapped 68000 computer on a bread board. All I could find is this, Of coarse it would be much more awesome to see a 68000 macintosh se running Li…
I have the PC version of the Radeon 9800 pro video card purchased as an upgrade for my G4 AGP (Sawtooth). I bought it from eBay as the description said it was t…
Hi! This might sound unreasonable, but what is the best way to acquire a free Mac ? I'm looking for an SE/30, but almost any compact past the Plus would do (not…
Is there a rule of thumb when looking at a 30-pin SIMM to determine its capacity? All my 30-pin machines are compacts, and I don't always have one open, so just…
Hello, i was considering posting this in trading post but, i figured it would be good general info incase a googler comes across this thread. I happen to have a…
Out of my 20+ vintage Macs, I've only had 1 or 2 hard drives die on me. The hard drive in my Color Classic died this weekend. I opened it up to install an Asant…