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So, I ended up with one of these in a big lot of video cards. I know that the Micron Xceed Color card can be used with an adapter to run the internal display in…
what spawned this thought was Dougg3's ROM simm, then bunsen mentioning how cool this ROM simm would be in a SE/30, used as a serial terminal emulator, i was th…
Got these from a friend today for free. iBook G3 clamshell tangerine (in a box with styrofoam) - 300Mhz - OS 9.0 International English - 32MB RAM - 3GB HDD - CD…
I had an old 12"x12" Wacom ArtZII (Digitizer II) that got damaged before I really had a chance to play with it. It was the Mac version with the DIN serial port …
I recently bought a couple of Digital Audio G4 PowerMacs for small change. One of them was a dual G4 533MHz, which I promptly got running Leopard Server (via Le…
Not much of a conquest, but I bought a 128MB 72pin SIMM for $20 shipped and it's Mystic compatible! 4k refresh, 32x32 organization. It fits in the CC motherboar…
Here's the story--I've got a 13" RGB, the later Trinitron model (Macintosh Color Display), which normally displays at 640 x 480. For the most part, this is a go…
I finally found one looking around the detritus of my office's storage space. Turns out it was the server of office downstairs until they upgraded earlier this …
In approximately 10 years of collecting Macs I've never even seen a Workgroup Server 9150 in person. I saw two on craigslist last night and picked them up today…
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It´s the 2nd night I played with my 9600/300 my workhorse and daily desktop Mac. The problems are irreproducible for me, nevertheless I will write down what I t…
While an pizzabox LC is turned on, it emits a squeaking sound which eventually fades over time. What's wrong?
Hello, I've got a Power Mac G3 Beige (266) with a DB-15 display connection. Since I don't have any compatible display I'm trying to use my LCD VGA ( Acer B193 1…
The hdd in my Classic died a few weeks ago. I've been so busy with other projects that I just haven't had the time to open it up and swap the drive. Last night …
While shedding some tears over the loss of such a tremendous amount of data on this site, I have decided to do all I can do to restore what's left of it via Goo…
So, now its time to open the thread for this project. For those of us that are less-fortunate to have a working SCSI HDD, and for those who DO have them and are…
As title just a quick question... Will the AC adapter designed for the PowerBook 100 work/fit on the 145b?
I have one that has not been plugged in since 1992. I plugged it into my Mac Plus the other day and when I hit the power switch I heard a faint pop from inside …
Anyone know if the original, non-backlit Mac Portable has a fuse on the motherboard? I've seen references to one, but don't know if they might have involved the…
I just picked up a Macintosh TV. It doesn't power on. When I plug it in and turn on the mains in the back, I hear a short buzz/chirp. It doesn't turn on by pres…
Hello, I scored a 400Mhz sawtooth and don't know too much about this machine. it has OSX 10.2 installed. I have found CPU upgrades that will take it up to 1.6 G…
I have a Radius PrecisionColor Pro 24XP NuBus video card. It won't do any resolution bigger than 832x624 at any color depth, even though it can do 832x624 @ 24B…
I have been playing around with a nice dual 800mhz G4 that was abandoned for what I believe were GPU issues. I managed to swap the video card and everything wor…
I recently got a performa 6116cd for my collection to replace my dead 6100/66 powermac. The board is dead on the 6100 but i did salvage the dos compatibility ca…
I'm sure you would all agree that the dining room is not the best place for a Mac . I can explain how it got there, but that's another story (essentialy, it fou…
. . . or so it would seem. I hope the folks at LEM don't get the notion that I'm picking on them, but I've found more info that's missing/apparently mis-posted/…
This is the power supply board from a 1990 Jasmine 20MB Direct Drive. I plugged it in after 20 years and heard a faint pop and then nothing. No power. Upon taki…
Hey Guys, I've been away from the 68K macs for a looooong time. I picked up a IIci and got a great deal on a 24bit nubus video card on ebay, Rasterops for $35! …
I Had 3 of these, 2 were 66mhz powermac, 1 was 60mhz performa,( with out cpu cache stick ) anyways, i was messing around with the Heatsink on one of the PM, 610…
Would someone take a look? Pic is probably a couple of meg in size ("bad" ? circled in red, "good" ? in blue) http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3443/capsuq.jpg…
Barn is right... mouse poo ick. got a NeXT Station with megapixel display, Sun SPARCstation 5 with monitor, BeBox, and a DEC Multia. along with a pile of 'stuff…
I've got a couple of goodies coming from Sonnet, my favorite accelerator supplier (since the untimely demise of Radius :'( ) for my favorite (BOTH from Radius […
Just got this off a guy who wanted to give it a good home for free. Have not even got it home yet to test but I am stoked. That full page apple display looks co…
So I just pulled my 1GHz TiBook out of the closet for the first time in a while, only to find that it's now forgetting the date & time and leaving the L…
Got this up in Covington for free from a guy who got it from his grandmother and wanted it to have a good home. Plugged it in, booted it up and nice os 7.5 with…
Hi everyone, As I've posted in the conquest thread... you guys know I had an Indigo iMac G3 which suffered from case problems. Well I pulled some strings and en…
I haven't used a Mac in over 20 years, so assume I know absolutely nothing. And to prove how little I know, they may be the most nubie question ever: Just bough…
Does anyone know of a utility to read/write to PRAM? I'm thinking of something that could be used to restore system config on bootup when the machine doesn't ha…
Conquered a few devices lately. Vintage iDevices. Up first, my friend threw his old iPhone 2G at me. 8GB. Screen is in good condition, won't go past iOS 3.x.x s…
Hi, I'm wondering how many of you have already started with recapping 128K-Plus Analog Boards or the SE series. Even though the capacitors still look fine and t…
As i have come across lots of IIci and IIcx cases, and less PSU's to run other than one (!) of them, i thought, as i really do not like the design of, putting a…
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I have an SE/30 and of course has low sound and no boot chime ( I have some spare analog boards to try as the caps and board look pretty good ). My biggest issu…
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. . . I was wondering if anyone remembers seeing a good howto on hacking the original equipment power switch on the back of a compact or II Series Mac to act li…
Wow. I picked up 2 new laptops for my collection today. I had to drive about 10 miles out of my way to get them, but I think its worth it. I still have to go th…
I have already posted about this in the PowerMac forms, but decided to post it here too. I posted on my local craigslist looking for old Macs. After having some…
I bought 2 PowerBooks today with a lot of accessories for $30. The models were 5300c and 165. The seller was nice enough to let me go to his house and test out …
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