I have a Mac IIci that I picked up online well over a year ago. It was filthy, and at the time I didn't have the necessary equipment to test it, so the first th…
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My quadra basically stopped booting yesterday. This is the sequence: Chime HD spins up Display powers up At this point I get a gray screen and the cursor can mo…
I mean the sheer, rash, thoughtless IDIOCY that happens in this video is appalling! This idiot OPENED A MAC CLASSIC and TURNED IT ON WHILE IT WAS OPEN.
Had some spare time today so I went to the local Lifeline thrift shop, where I saw a copy of The Road Ahead (a book Bill Gates wrote back in the '90s) on CD-ROM…
Hello! I just thought I'd say hi and mention that there is yet another person out there getting into the vintage Macs. After spending too many years on the hard…
You guys have recently brought up this old thread of mine. http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5447 It embarrasses me so much, looking back at it. When I w…
I went to my local liquidating Circuit City today, and I found a new untouched Sega Saturn with the price of $20.
I have not tried all of the version out there but for me the most popular of mine was OS 8.1
Hi, I've just made an astounding breakthrough with one of my Macintosh SE's. Okay, maybe that's exaggerating a bit, but still, I got so excited--okay, first a b…
How do I do it? I had a radeon in it and now I put it in my g4 mac pro. Now I want to put OS 9 on this beige g3 but am unsure how to get the on board video to e…
What it the easiest way to Emulate OS 8 or 9 with a PPC ROM on Windows Vista? Secondly where can I get the ROM's from? I have Quadra ROM's but want PPC ROM's. T…
I am not sure where to post this, so why not here? Something that I had not realized until this week is that the LC5xx series' styling is strikingly similar to …
Just as a heads up, on Jan 5th 1999 was the day the PowerMac G3 blue/white systems were announced. This pertains to the 300, 350 and 400MHz models, although the…
I'm generally happy with this latest conquest -- it's been a long time since I scored something nice. A Titanium PowerBook G4/400 has been donated to me. The am…
A Packard Bell Multimedia m415. Quite the unusual machine using an unusual lobo. It also supports both FPM and EDO. I put 64mb EDO in it. It has 166mhz PI which…
The Quadra boots to a grey screen with a cursor or mouse in the corner and does not continue any further. I can't think what it could be. I was swapped a hard d…
Robert2D3D is offering a 400K/800K software backup service on eBay for $10 including shipping. This auction is for Historical Preservation of YOUR Apple 400k/80…
Hi all, Funny, it seems there's a lot of topics about the 9500 these days. Actually I just "liberated" one of those beasts for myself two days ago. I got it pre…
Internal ATA 0: CD-ROM + CD-RW problem is that both CD Drives do not work together. If CD-RW is set to MASTER, CD-ROM is SLAVE, only CD-RW is working. If both a…
My little 12" AlBook seems to be having some issues with its superdrive. Any disk that I insert is sucked in, pondered for a few seconds, then immediately spat …
... just want to say Hello to all of You for a start [] ]'> I´ve been using CPUs since 1984 - Macs since 1992 - and over those years quite a lot of hardw…
I feel there are a few things on this board that need addressed: 1. From what I see in the conversations on here, there is a lot of file sharing going on behind…
I used an improvised system disk to boot my malfunctioning SE and ran Apple HD SC Setup to initialize its unrecognized hard drive. Now it boots from its hard dr…
Just wondering what websites do you guys know of where I can buy used vintage mac software? I know of retrosoftware.com and welovemacs.com but any others? Just …
Well, it works fine without its sonnet upgrade. With the sonnet it crashes randomly, a total lockup. Then sometimes when I reset Mac OS Wont boot, other times i…
Well, I was looking through the cabinets at Computer Hardware Club at my school, desperately looking for a new project since my last one, a Ubuntu file/web serv…
I got a Macintosh Classic II from eBay. Excellent condition, stock specs & I'm extremely happy with it. :b&w:
Were the beige Macs the same color as the Apple II & II+, most of the beige Macs have yellowed so much it is hard to compare them with the painted II &a…
I think JDW may be the resident expert on Hyperdrive Macs, but for anyone who has been interested in acquiring one, the price may finally well be right on this …
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Mac-Performa-6500-225-Motherboard-820-0816-C_W0QQitemZ130285686664 Obviously it's some sort of TV card, but what exactly is it? I've n…
I have a 1024x768 LCD screen which I have connected to a KVM and then to a mac via a 10 switch vga-dongly-adapter.. Out of curiosity I tried using 512x384 mode …
Found a Keyspan Serial->USB adapter on ebay, new in box, and won it for 99 cents, (plus $8 shipping :?: ). My Classic will soon become a terminal for my …
...namely, Malone's Infinite Loop (reputedly not the best of books on Apple, I know, but for $1.79 at the GoodWill, a hard bargain to pass up); and a PowerBook …
Picked these up yesterday (Sunday)… One is a Pentium-S (?) running at 150Mhz, 12xCD-ROM, 1.2gig HD, Soundblaster something, 32 megs of RAM. Case is clean, solid…
Took a peek at the back of my Color Classic and I see what looks like a composite video port in what I think is the expansion slot. The colored ring is a darkis…
Will my 9200 radeon card work in my mac 7600 i thought the 7500 radeon was the best that would run in them
Oh yes. Reservoir tip shop strike again. Amstrad NC100 NotePad, untested, no PS, $2. I have been looking for one for about ten years.
Hey everyone, I'm a long time Mac user, but am new to the tinkering and repairs side of things. I bought a Performa 575 off of eBay for really cheap, but unfort…
Today I checked the mail on the way home from school and happy to see that my battery arrived. Brought it home and opened it up. It is a 7800 mAh battery, a lit…
Well, in my Quadra 800, my rasterops card goes loose in its socket if touched at all by the monitor wire. Thus a crash and death chimes on boot. So I have to: O…
Picked up a 16MB RAM card for $35 shipped and (i paid the extra $5 to go from 8 to 16) and an AAUI->RJ-45 Adapter for $10 shipped. I know people may thin…
is there any way add os 9 permissions after os x is already installed? or can i add a partition after the drive is formatted?
I have an Apple IIc, and a power supply is on the way. Now all I need is a composite video cable in order to hook it up to my TV. Just wondering...does it have …
Okay, here's the official announcement: we're on for January '09 retrochallenge.net/2009/winter/ Good Luck!
Hi, Before I go ripping things apart, I was keen to see if anyone had tried the same. I've a Powerbook 170 - my favourite 68K portable, which suffers from bad "…
Hi - new to this, so please bear with me! I have an SE/30 running A/UX 3.02 and associated 7.0.1 finder. All working fine. I'd like to get this networked, but I…