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Below is the last few weeks of scores from evilbay. In addition to these, when I went to pick up some of the items from a local seller, I also bought the follow…
hi all- as you may know, i want to prolong the life of my Macs to the fullest extent. examples of this are, if i walk waway from it, i dim the screen to min, ch…
An iBook (12" 1.33GHz) purchased off of eBay arrived last week for one of my children, thus freeing up my old 12" 1.5GHz PowerBook that had been hers for homewo…
I still need to mitre the edge so it'll fit nicely, but so far I think it's turned out great. Took me about 2 hours to dremel the whole thing. { "lightbox_close…
Anybody know if this book is of any value for the average compact Mac enthusiast?
I have a dead 500mhz Sawtooth. It has been sitting for awhile down in the basement. It quit one day , after a few attempts to revive it, it went to the basement…
My Performa 6360 has a internet by phone port that i have never used since the day i bought this mac as a used unit about 5 years ago. Can i remove it without t…
I like playing the old multiplayer appletalk games, like http://macintoshgarden.org/games/nettrek. The problem is they are limited to local appletalk networks, …
Where can I get a tray loading External CD-ROM Drive SCSI 25pin for my Color Classic? I got the Applecd 300 SCSI 50 pin CD-ROM Drive, but it has no caddy! Is th…
In the near future I'm most likely going to be doing a RAM upgrade on an iMac DV 400 (slot loading) for someone. The poor thing is running 10.4.11, and only has…
Does anyone have any photos or other information about this machine? I know they never went beyond the prototype stage but it would be fun to see more pictures …
I was in the process of imaging my copy of ClarisImpact 1.0v1. I imaged Disk 5. Success. Disk 4. Success. Disk 3. Read error at the very end, but ShrinkWrap man…
I just came to own a LC III which powers up. I do not have System 7 disks (yet) but did install a Quantum 105MB HD. I am looking to find an installation manual …
I have a duo 210 that won't boot, and I seem to have lost the floppy drive for it. I want to get access to it so I can fix my finder and system files (played ar…
I have a model M0115 keyboard (Apple Extended Keyboard) that will make a computer turn on simply by plugging it in. If I attempt to shut down the computer, it'l…
I'm super bored and I have no other use for this eMac right now. So why not let people log into it with VNC and mess around with OS X? 75.17.80.165 port 5901 (d…
My current sig isn't too long, is it? IIRC, someone said "more than 3 or 4 lines is probebly too much" and it's about 4 lines of size=100 text, so just checking…
I have a PowerBook 145B and I want to go online with the Modem. Is there a way to do this? Maybe a Dial-up server?
All of my mac software (after being put into .sit files to save the resource fork) is stored on a Windows 2000 server running the AppleTalk protocol which so fa…
I received my replacement capacitors from Trag (thanks, Jeff) and have started to solder this morning. I have three finished, when I decided to put the board ba…
Recently quite a few people on the forums have been discussing hardware hacks that they have done to their systems (for example, Mars478's GrayBook). As such, a…
Anyone seen one of these yet? being able to use a ball or optical PS/2 mouse on an original macintosh 128/512/plus without using the original mouse. I am making…
. . . This was something I was looking for back in the days of the IIfPEx Hack . . . . . . which was lost in the storage room disaster. Anyways, if anyone has a…
The fan on my quicksilver 2002 power supply is making a lot of noise ie all most dead. can it be replaced or is another ps in order? thanx
There's a store nearby and I think I can get a single 1.25 ghz daughter card from a MDD fairly cheap. I have a Dual 1.00 ghz MDD with a burnt out processor. I'v…
I was looking at bare bones LCD panels, and I can find them for around $20 or so for an 800x600 panel. However, finding pinout information was impossible even f…
Have any of you used the AsanteFast 10/100 NuBus ethernet card under 8.6 or 9.1? Does it work properly? Any issues or special knowledge for installing the drive…
today is a bad day i installed system 7, didn't like it, and re-installed 6.0.8 via floppy disk, and all the software in the desktop folder was removed along wi…
I have an internal Assante ethernet that works with one of my SE/30 units. I have moved it to the other one, and this causes a boot error. I have washed the boa…
This monitor was given to me by a friend who had it stored for a few years. I was surprised that it came on right away and has a beautiful picture...until about…
Got this from school. Joins my other 2 Clams. It's the FireWire model, I installed OS X Server on it before as a fun project and it's still on there More Pics t…
I have an Apple //c with orig ROM. I have done the bootstrap via serial cable to my G4 laptop by way of USB - serial connector, and successfully pushed over .DS…
There are some PDF writers out there like Jaws, Print to PDF, ... but I wonder if there are any PDF viewers in existance, beside Acrobat Reader because I´ve nev…
Hey Guys~ I was in need of a game....but I wanted to know if there were some *nix games that I could play in th CLI. I was also wondering if it was possible for…
Learned a new lesson of the day: Dont plug in a superdrive pulled from an old LC575 series system into a mac 512k. It produces magic smoke and a dead chirping m…
What is the best way to keep my 0s9 macs up to date with my browser favorits, (10.6 is my laptop) I do have I-disk but i think its hard to find I-tools for the …
Got this gem today for the low low price of free. Almost mint condition. First Generation 10GB iPod with Scroll Wheel { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_nex…
I picked this one up on eBay about a week ago. I was looking for a cheap G4, mainly so that I could install 10.4 onto my PowerBook G3 Lombard's hard disk, since…
I am going to be getting a Purple iMac G3, tray-loading. It has Mac OS 10.3.9, 333MHZ, 2 hard drives in it (that's what they told me, an 8GB and a 30GB), 256MB …
Well, it seems my beloved Clamshell has run into a bit of a problem. The screen doesn't want to light up anymore. It still seems to be working, since I can fain…
I found one of these at the flea market with no power adapter, battery or hard disk. Would there be a way to use one of my Wallstreet/Lombard AC bricks on it wi…
Earlier tonight I picked up a cheap iBook clamshell for $20. Unfortunately it is barebones at 32mb/3GB/CD @ 300mhz. It has the following problems: - It boots af…
Hi, I just got something nice in mail yesterday - 13 books of the Inside Macintosh series I was missing, which I caught from a single eBay auction. Now I can re…
Both LEM (http://lowendmac.com/quadra/lc-630-ram-expansion.html) and AppleFritter (http://www.applefritter.com/node/24415) refer to the solder pads on some vers…
I have two complete Liquid Cooling Units (with two 2.5ghz processor boards each) and both have unfortunately leaked. I can confirm at least one set of processor…
OK, so I have to drive an hour and half to pick it up. So that'll cost me $40 in gas, assuming my time isn't worth anything (which it isn't on Sunday.) So a guy…
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There is two models of DDR xServe G4:A) A 133 Mhz System bus and ATA 100 Hard disk Interfaces and FW400.B) A 166 Mhz System bus and ATA 133 Hard disk Interfaces…