Yup, and too bad I am 23 before I got it. Anyways, I have been talking about the VW Beetle that I got and have been restoring. Well, I am happy to announce that…
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Ok, the Lombard works as long as I don't make it overheat. For learning PHP/MySQL it's pretty good and runs cool. I ran it off of battery for a few hours yester…
I just upgraded my old Power Mac 7500 with a 500mHz G3/1mb L2 upgrade card (Sonnet Cressendo). Prior to the G3 upgrade, the 7500 had been running a 200mHz 604e …
I'm having a bit of an issue going through the vast array of machines and floppy disk's I've "conquered" lately. My Quadra 650, Mac IICi, and SE FDHD all runing…
I have been using my Newton at least once a week (usually during the boring weekly tech report meetings of endless powerpoinr slides of tedium). I love my Newto…
Hey all! I'm new here as a user, but I've been browsing the forums for the past couple years... I decided to become a user since I now have a working 68k Mac in…
I have recently gotten a PowerBook 180c and want to change the desktop pattern to a 640x480 PICT image. I open it in simpletext and copy the whole thing, though…
It's just on three days since I last logged into this site (GMT 1648 Thu 27 Aug 2008). During the interval, neither 68kmla.org nor 68kmla.com returned anything …
These were from my dad who purchased the Canon EOS for more than a grand back in 1988 or 1989 and the camcorder a bit later. The Canon EOS doesn't work, but I'l…
After the successful SE/30 re-cap I decided to do a Classic II board. A Classic II board was the first board I ever did. I think ever other pad got lifted off. …
This is more of a question as to what I just found, not sure which forum this should go in... Just found some varied Mac games and what looks to be a nice condi…
I've sent multiple(5+) PMs to iamdigitalman with no response, and I doubt it's his fault... I've taken care to PM him when he's on, but still...it's the same. (…
ok, here is my situation. my old mac lc3 just had a bad os update and the firmware is either (A). dead or ( B) needs to be reflashed. but the problem is that i …
I have received Mac OS 6.0.8 in the mail today from TheNixer. I performed the installation on my SE, restarted it, and sure enough, the Finder now reads System …
In the process of re-capping an SE/30 board. I did 2 caps yesterday without any problems, it tested fine. I did 4 caps and ran out and decided to test the progr…
My dad bought this for me this afternoon: '75 Classic Beetle (VW Bug) Unfortunately, i won't be able to drive it until later this summer. I was too sick to be a…
I have a Macintosh HD20 that came with my Plus, and it doesn't seem like the drive itself has stood the test of time. When I boot up my Plus with the drive turn…
Prison Board is still going strong with dialup and telnet access. Ruben is a great and flexible sysop. He added more lines to accomodate the additional users. Y…
Runs Palm OS 5 I think... My dad could never get it working (found out, he didn't get the antenna all the way. I understand why, it doesn't want to go all the w…
My favorite G4 of all time is the MDD and I've never owned one, until now. I shopped around looking to replace my G4 GE and found an auction for a dual MDD 1GHz…
I guess this goes here. It's neither a NuBus or a PCI Mac. It only has PDS. 5200/75 LC shows question mark booting from hard drive. When booting from Mac OS 8.5…
Hey fellow Newtonians! I need your help in fixing my eMate! The short of the story... I had it sitting in a chair under my dining room table. I had tomato's sit…
Well, the domain was supposed to be renewed last night... but I guess something went wrong with it. Until we get it sorted, the forums will be up here at 68kmla…
My Power Mac G5's power supply failed. One of the brown pillow-shaped resistors started burning up as I was using it. The one next to it burned a little bit as …
Just got a new battery for my Lombard. When I push the button on the battery it shows three lights so I assume it is charged. However it will not boot the Lomba…
Yes, I weakened and bought the iSub I was selling for work. $47. When I get around to repairing/modding it, I'll post in Peripherals. I also nabbed a nice iMac/…
I have a PowerBook 1400, and sometimes, when I plug it in to AC power, it doesn't recognise that I have done so! It gets a draw from the adapter only about 75% …
I'm searching for someone in Canada that can help rebuilt battery for those 2 models of Newton. Anyone?
Nowhere else to post this, so here goes: Well, having entered in the second week of the RetroChallenge with only a vague idea of what I was going to do, I've fi…
Typing this on a 1.42 GHz eMac, one of four I got in a pallet along with other stuff for about $25 total. Apple has fixed two eMacs free of charge after I calle…
I have one of these and the raster is stretched wide, slightly beyond both edges of the screen. The adjustments inside don't make it any better. The service man…
I got a huge stack of old computing magazines through a Freecycle conquest a while back and have slowly been going through them. As I went through the December …
I'm using the boxmac emulator "Mini vMac" but when I try to play a game with it it won't run. The menu says Disk Image & I figured that that was the sof…
In a way. Here's an issue I've seen with iBooks running OS 9 before: as soon as the desktop loads, the powerbook falls asleep. Wake it up, it falls back asleep.…
I have a different username I'd like to use. This would be a permanent change. Should I just create a new account, or can somebody change it? If someone could c…
Plugged a known working power adapter into the 1400c. Pushed the on key and nothing. Pushed the reset button at rear and the light at the top of the screen come…
hi!.. i just changed the ide cable of my g4 mac and now in the Disk Utility im get my drive in red { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightb…
Got one of these today, partially disassembled. I expect it probably has the bad video issue common to these. I don't currently have enough spare parts to try t…
While searching the net the other day, I found this. So far I've found some incredible deals but lack the dough to procure any. Enjoy! [8D]
So my PB is sluggish (has been for the last year) and everytime I play YouTube videos (much less DVD movies), the system overheats in like 5 minutes. Within 10 …
Hi Folks, it has begun... Unexpected my first Project is a great one! Last week I got an originally boxed Macintosh 1984! And I unboxed it I started the Replaci…
I was reading about how you can change the pop up images in os x for the volume and eject and such. The files are in System>Library>CoreServices&a…
It's really hard to find a CD in a store these days. They either have Top 40 junk or are so bogged down with compilations, etc. that there is no room for music …
I have an Apple Newton that I got for free. Judging by pictures, it must be either an OMP or a 100. How can I tell which one it really is? It's kind of a neat l…
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I have a 400mhz Lombard with the DVD decoder option and the original 6GB hard disk. When I do something processor-intensive for an extended period of time on it…
I've been getting into really low-level and rudimentary OS programming, but the only systems I have that are well documented enough to work with are my lame old…
A couple days ago, I picked up a DEC Alphaserver 2100 from my work. It came complete with two DEC SCSI arrays filled with drives, a DEC terminal and the beast i…
refurbed and shipped for a total of $105.94 4GB iPod Nano Silver (entry level) Got it from apple directly FYI: this is my very first iPod I have EVER owned. I f…
Hi everyone. I used to be a member here a while ago (maybe before the change to the new forums) and since had to recreate my login, but i'm now glad to be back.…