So what are you guys using for AGP video cards in AGP Powermacs these days? I have a ATI 9000 in one of my Quicksilvers, Geforce 4 MX in the other and a GF 2 so…
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I have a 15" PowerBook G4, model number A1095. It already has the dead memory slot problem, so I put a 1GB stick in the working slot and removed the one in the …
I just picked up an old Toby framebuffer (820-0198-A7) to use in my IIcx. The card seems to lose sync every few seconds - I'm trying to narrow down the cause. I…
Gentlefolk, your suggestions are invited for the following insanity, spun off from discussions here: Your dream 68k setup? SE/40AV - it's a Quadra 840AV-based M…
So I dug out the old SE which I got new in 1987 and have been dragging around from house to house, because my kid wanted to play Zork, which apparently is now o…
For a long time, maybe since 1995 I had a Quadra 840AV motherboard and power supply in the closet. It came from a discarded, stripped machine at work that was b…
So I saw an estate sale advertised in my area on Craigslist a few days back and went to it this morning for one item in particular. On the site page for the sal…
Possible conquests.. for free. 1x Ci, 1x 6100, 1x 7100, 1x 4400, 2x G3 powermac, 2x G4 powermac. Now wondering wich ones to pick up. WIll pass G3's and G4's unl…
High comrades, a somewhat weird question: Is there someone in North America, willing to buy these two items for my 7100av and mail it to my place in Europe? htt…
. . . finally! I sourced a Radius PrecisionColor 24X to compare with my remaining pair of Apple Macintosh 24ACs! [] ]'> The new toy arrived today from a …
Well, I swore I'd never buy another one of these. Saw a listing on eBay, it was cheap enough so I took the plunge. The listing was very vague, just said Dual US…
When I got this monitor at first it had one dead blacklight inverter but it did work. I put it into storage for six months and now when I try to use it (prior t…
I recently scored few used Mac's and one IICi had this card inside: Viking Controller Mac II/GS & color. http://68kmla.org/forums/download/file.php?id=8…
I bought a second PowerBook G3 Wallstreet & accessories off EBAY recently: http://www.ebay.com/itm/250925797720 I had hoped to snap it up for under $100…
After finding this forum, I decided to pull my apparently quite rare(*) SE/30 from it's Targus bag in my basement. Amazingly, the PRAM battery was still intact …
Hey everyone, Been a couple years since I've been around here - and quite a while since I have actually scored a Mac of any kind... got a couple new ones in the…
So I never did get my dead PSU MDD up and running. It's just been sitting there doing nothing with (what I believe to be) a dual-1.24 G4 CPU. I just got to thin…
A year ago, I bought a dual 2.0GHz G5, and as I had successfully repaired a dead dual 1.8Ghz unit (though even then it would only run stably under X.4), I decid…
I noticed that apple part # for dual 2.0 GHz (2003) and dual 2.7 (early 2005) is the same, is it possible to swap them? Ben
Hi Guys, I'm new to this forum. I bought a pre-loved SE/30 that had intermittent booting problems, every 2nd boot from cold, it would display a black-and-white …
I was searching for my Apple II workstation card and found my small stack of Avid NuBus cards. I thought it would be nice to pair the cards together while I ahd…
Hi there, I am currently recapping a SE/30. Unfortunately, some solder pads (and their environment) are completely gone away due to the leaked capacitors. So I …
A collector was selling his kickass SE/30 setup so I jumped at the opportunity: Micron Xceed w/ CRT adapter Diimo 50mhz 68030 card (w/o FPU) 128mb RAM 2gb HD 7.…
I've been running my 7500 battery-less for the last few days and the combination of Network Time and PRAM Auto Restore is working fine. The only minor complaint…
Got an Powermac G5 2.3 Ghz dualcore, 2.5GB RAM, Superdrive, 320+160GB HD, GeForce 6600, small bend on the front leg, just like my current 1.8Ghz single has. Tha…
I picked up a LaCie 4GB external SCSI drive at the hamfest as i got the other drives from. It looked like it had been opened before, so i pulled it all the way …
Helllllloooo there, my classic II fan sounds strange. It works fine but sounds like a hard drive (there is no hard drive inside). Has anyone replaced the fan on…
Liberated today Powermac G4 MDD 1.25Ghz DP, 2GB RAM, 120+160GB HD, DVD-RW, Ati Radeon 9000 PRO. This thing is noisy! Needs to clean it up from dust and replace …
Well, I finally got my TAM! It was in Customs for almost two weeks... Everything is great, just as I had hoped. Hardly any marks on it, and came with pretty muc…
Saw an sales add for Macintosh IIsi, 20€. 20Mhz 68030, 9Mb RAM (1+ 8) , 1.4Mb SuperDrive, NO HARD DISC nor keyboard etc. Should be clean and working perfectly. …
OK, no box or drives, but... •7600 mobo with 64 (16x4) MiB RAM and fully populated VRAM sockets. Includes speaker and A/V connectors board. I think I'm seeing a…
Heyo, As I'm slowly working towards a variety of casemods using compacts, I want to seek the opinion of members as to which of the compacts are the most common.…
Okay, I had completed a recap of the logic board for member of this forum. New capacitors in place and thoroughly cleaned of debris. I go to attach the board to…
. . . I posted this Internal CD Hack just about 10 years ago. I gave this pampered IIfx a good going over after I brought it to the Apartment from my Storage Ro…
As many of you are aware, my little IIci just doesn't have the juice to run much more than 8MBs of RAM and a 25MHz 040 Radius Rocket. So I was wondering if it w…
I just recapped my Mac IIci. I was very careful. But I did wash by hand and dry the motherboard, just as I have done with other boards without problems. All the…
I hate waiting for something I know will be here today. I won a 867MHz 12" Aluminum PowerBook on eBay the other day for a whopping $66. The problem? The superdr…
I have my eye on Powermac G5 Dualcore 2Ghz with 3.5GB RAM etc. But wondering, should i bother to get it to replace (have an space issue with "collection") the 1…
So, I have a 1gb 80 pin SCSI hard drive I wanted to use in an SE/30. So I bought an 80 pin to 50 adapter for it. However when I boot up the system with disk too…
Preliminary research and thoughts: Inspired by the recent spate of video hacking on compact Macs, EvilTim's MPxPlayer, and of course the Poor Man's Greyscale Pr…
Well, the Color Classic is refusing to power on. Inspected the logic board, caps look okay. Replaced PRAM battery, no difference. The PS makes a slight whine wh…
I just got my Mac Classic boards back from being recapped and resoldered. The analog board works like a charm--no more jittery video! The logic board looks grea…
I had this card bookmarked on ebay but forgot about it. Kind of shocked it went for $180 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orange-PC-MS-DOS-Coprocessor-card-NUBUS-Mac-Int…
So, I recently traded my spare Pismo to BGoins12 for an MDD without a power supply. Over the weekend, I put a post on the LEM swap list looking for one. Disappo…
Last night I commented on OWC's blog about their Black Friday 2011 specials. I was inspired to make a comment because I recently acquired a couple PowerBook G3 …
Morning all, I'm currently restoring a SE/30 and am wondering if I should try to get hold of a new monitor as the existing one is showing a reasonably high leve…
After toying around with the simple EGA video out stuff, I started thinking about bench testing/troubleshooting for the compact macs. Would anyone be interested…
Well this is going to be a fruitful day. So far I have picked up a box of Mac Cards for $20 and it included: 11 Video cards including a 9800pro Mac Edition, ixt…