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Hi all, I'm a little excited as I've managed to score a fairly complete Original Macintosh (a 128K, but badged 'Macintosh'). I don't have the machine yet, I'm a…
The Powerbook 140 I got arrived with a blank LCD and nothing comes up when I boot it. The HD is dead unfortunately so nothing comes from that end. I happen to h…
I acquired a 68030 accelerator for a Macintosh SE years ago, and stupidly broke one of the 30-pin RAM sockets shortly after I got it. I do not have soldering sk…
So, I've got an RS/6000 44P Model 170 here, with a startup chime. I'm curious as to if Dennis Nedry or dougg3 wants to help me take a stab at this. I've got a c…
A few day's ago i got my first ever classic mac. :beige: Everything worked fine and okay until the display started flickering and i resolderd J4. But know my mo…
Well, i got a powerbook on ebay real cheap because the screen went out so they said. Arrived cracked screen, got destroyed in shipping. Unit powered on and bega…
Is there an emulator that exists that supports the Mac Classic? It seems like one of those Macs that's in between vMac and Basilisk II. It would be awesome to r…
I submitted this post in the PPC PowerBook forum, but since I have a SCSI compact Mac (and since there is an utter dearth of replies in that PPC PowerBook forum…
Hi, Well, this PowerBook works perfectly most of the time, but when under Leopard (It happened during install, too; I had to use target disk mode from my Quicks…
I've been thinking about a 7.5.3NAD for awhile now, and it may be possible. I do have a couple of problems: The Disk Tools disks are the only ones that look lik…
...The value of RP47? It looks a bit burnt, and I don't know if the bands are accurate (the color may have changed). It is for this project, and I suspect this …
My SE/30 is functioning perfectly except for the fact that I cannot get anything to recognize the printer port (serial port shows up) in things like techtool pr…
http://techshop.ws/durham.html You can't believe how stoked I am about this . . . . . . somebody told me about it at work today! [] ]'>
Saw a USB Zip 250 at the thrift store today. I've had bummy luck with the older ones in the past, mostly "click-of-death" issues. But now that I have a Classic …
I don't have a PowerBook, but I understand one of the issues for the older models is maintaining a working 2.5" SCSI drive for the thing(s). Have folks consider…
I have just created an FTP site with all my old mac software. There shouldn't be an issue with copyright infringement as the software is over 25 years old. &…
I'm a newcomer to the old Mac OS's, only really got involved with it due to buying some old compact macs through ebay. So this subject is probably old hat to ma…
Hi folks, maybe you can help me find a solution to my problem. While I wait for my SE to arrive, I've been playing around with MPW in Mini vMac. My usual host O…
Originally had a similar issue to the person on this thread http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16291 however my issue was resolved when removi…
So my Power Mac 7600 has a 300MHz Newertech Maxpowr G3 card installed. Problem is....I can't find an owner's manual online anywhere to set the DIP switch settin…
This will be my last question for awhile, I promise. Ok so I decided to revert my quadra to 7.6.1. The installation was a success, but the computer fails to boo…
I picked up a Sonnet Presto for my LCIII+ recently for a damned good price, been looking for one for a couple of years, so was stoked to get it! Only problem is…
So a month ago I was at a convention when I dropped my Newton from waist height. Of course the Newton survived but the hinges for the screen cover exploded and …
Hi I need help, I have a PowerBook 230, which has damaged the screen, I got a screen of a powerbook 210, which appears to be identical, I need some tutorial to …
Quite some time ago I got a powerbook 140, with a dead hardrive. I managed to get it working again by putting the harddrive in a fridge. This was however tempor…
Hi, I have an early eMac (700 MHz) that seems to have a weak power supply. It won't start up like normal. The hard drive spins up, and the fan works, but the sc…
Hi all, Following my success with FWB hard disk toolkit and the flash drive, I decided to use it to repartition the hard disk of my Quadra 650. This resulted in…
Lincoln, IL - Apr. 20, 2012 - David Finnigan and Mac GUI Vault announce today the first paperback book exclusively about the Apple II to be published in over a …
Some very VERRRRY preliminary hacking. The scope of this project shall not include hacking of any Kaleidoscope specific resources until permission is granted or…
Hi, It's not a peripheral per se, but... I have an ATI Radeon 9800 (I think) with ADC and DVI ports, and it just suddenly went dead one day. I was able to get i…
I'm writing this in the hopes that any other mac collectors that manage to find one of these very elusive "Micronet Raven Pro 2" Nubus cards won't have to go th…
I need to open my recently acquired iMac G3 DV to adjust the focus on the screen and upgrade the HDD. I can kinda tell that the plastics are brittle, and was wo…
What are the best HDD backup options for an OS9 tower? I don't assume I can simply drop four drives in the box and setup some kind of RAID array . . . I never t…
I've recently had to transfer my re-capped SE/30 logic board into another (SE/30) Mac, as I'd managed to damage my analog board with some resoldering I tried to…
I got what I thought was an absolute steal today: An iBook G4 in amazing condition for 30$. I had no assurance on the computer's working state, but was willing …
gday, I'm learning hypercard from an old tutorial off the net, the picture xcmd script example tells me to request a filetype of 192. is there a list with filet…
I have an iMac G4 (15", 800MHz, 60GB, 768MB, Superdrive, Airport) that I recently wiped and tried to reinstall the OS. I have tried many versions of Mac OS incl…
Hi all, Quick question: I need to reattach the insulator card to my Mac Plus analog board. It was originally attached with double sided foam tape. What do you u…
So I got a FWB Jackhammer SCSI card the other day. The seller said it was causing crashes and I was hoping it was just an extension or hardware conflict. Unfort…
OK so i will finally be upgrading the ram in my SE tomorrow. I am letting it sit all night unplugged just in case. Ive read several guides on how to perform the…
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So I replaced the power board in my 128k and I am now getting Sad Mac 040002 at bootup. From what I can gather there is some bad memory on the motherboard that …
As some of you may know, I like to play around with my Mac 512Ke and get it to work with modern devices. I refer to it broadly as a Mac 512K, and mention the "e…
For a Mac Plus with a Sad Mac code 0177A, there's no fix but a logic board swap, correct?
I noticed the flyback transformer on the analog transformer of my SE/30 has a crack that is glowing (top of the cylinder). Does this mean it is going to fail? S…
I pulled out my old IIfx to turn it on for the first time in a year or two. Didn't power up. Figured one or both of the batteries went bad. Opened it up and sur…
Just bought a 512k off of craigslist for $25. Pretty complete, with ImageWriter I, external 400k floppy drive, MS Flight Sim, Mac Paint and Mac Word, docs, etc.…
I was out doing a bit of dumpster diving over the weekend and scored a G5 with the dual 2.5, 1.5GB RAM and a SuperDrive. Doesn't appear to have any coolant leak…
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I purchased an airport extreme card that fits in a G5 tower but the connector for the antenna does not seem to fit (plus there are 2 antennas and the card has o…