I found a 540c with a broken power supply plug (the 4 pin, mini Din like). I tested it Ok with temporary contacts but since this machine is very interesting, I …
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Now, the conventional wisdom is that the OS was "System Software" as its official name from release 5 through 7.5.5; but that the "Mac OS" splash screen came al…
posting from my 540c using th onboard nic with a newly acquired AAUI-RJ45 tranceiver. snatched one + an origninal apple LC PDS card with AAUI connector from eba…
I spent most of the day getting my new to me Q950 sorted out. Things went pretty smooth once I was told how the lock switch worked. Thanks BigD! I picked it up …
Well, I managed to make a few conquests over my spring break, all with a fellow MLA'er, Sawtoothdude! First of all, came to me, as a trade for my SE, was a BOXE…
all are 3.5 floppy disks apple japanese language kit norton diskdoubler pro for macintosh 1.1 5th gen diskdoubler connectix ram doubler microphone lt for macint…
SCSI, ADB, LocalTalk.. Everything you could want from USB. How hard do you think it be to make?
Misdiagnosed as an Apple IIe mouse, this M0100 (1987) mouse may be of use to someone. Not for buyers outside North America, though. The shipping cost to Austral…
This isn't a question or anything, just a scenario I dreamed up for fun. Say you have a nubus ethernet card with both AUI and RJ-45 on it. Into the RJ45 jack yo…
well after fellow 68kmla member phreakinus or whatever you say it went into a rage and busted the screen on his icebook 500 and pounded the keyboard many of the…
Announcing the commencement of the http://68kmla.org/wiki/Centris/Quadra_Guide - because LEM don't have one [xx(] ]'>
We all know that the Mac Plus will boot with 512K, 1 meg, 2.5 meg, or 4 megs of RAM. How about 256K or 128K? If I took a couple of 256 K 30 pin sims and cut the…
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I just received my q950 and am having a few problems with it. First, it wouldn't boot from the hard drive. It would show the smiley mac then go back to a grey s…
So I have a quadra 700, and I have a series of seagate SCSI drives I can put in it. This week's drive is a Seagate Medalist ST39140N, 9.1GB, 7200rpm, very nice.…
I've searched the forum, but have been unable to find a thread on modding the logic board of a Quadra 605. I'm not really a vintage Mac guy (yet I suppose!) I g…
So I got a great deal on a Wallstreet, but the screen has these weird comb-shaped white areas that point to the left on it. They are vertical. And the screen is…
I pulled out my IIe that I haven't touched in years and found the video to be scrambled when I turned it on. When you boot without an OS (no floppy drive) it sh…
So today I discovered that the uni is throwing out old Ipex P3/450s. Anyway, I asked if I could get some parts, and they threw me a 256MB PC133 DIMM Which will …
I picked an old PC, clearly already upgraded several times: The case belongs to a generic 386, (with the ever-cool TURBO! button) ASUS mobo, P1 133, 64Mb ram, n…
Swapped in a new mobo to an iMac G3. The problem: video artifacts. A series of dots and lines, in a grid-like pattern, across the entire screen. When the initia…
Want to install a modem in my PowerBook 180c. Have two modems: PowerPort Silver A501 PowerPort Gold A502 What are the speeds of these modems?
How very very unfortunate... 14:44 anthony.freenode.net *** Banned: You have a host listed in the DroneBL. For more information, visit dronebl.org/lookup_brande…
Hi I have an old Apple IIgs I got from craigslist. Does anybody know how to capture the ROM onto an image so I can use it with an emulator? I have a 1.4" floppy…
I have a beige g3 266mhz desktop. I installed a new hard drive and reinstalled os 9.2.1. it will boot from the CD drive, but if I boot from the hard drive it wo…
Finally put it on the net.It is not as bad as I thought. It is like dialup..It has 136mb of ram, 4gb hd, Paintbrush Li video card hooked up yo a 21" IBM monitor…
I thought that the System 7.5 was the last one on floppies ... we got the winner here http://cgi.ebay.com/Macintosh-Operating-System-7-6-35-floppy-disks_W0QQite…
Hello, I have a DaynaPort E / Z, but i don`t know how to connect it to my Mac, I don`t have wires Does anyone know how plug it to my mac and what voltage needed…
A while back there was a site that was using a Mac Plus for a web server. I can't find it. Anyone know where it is? Or ANY site that is being run on a Mac Plus?…
My Plus has no battery, and it gives the sad mac screen when I try to turn it on... I believe I read somewhere that this is because it has no battery. Does anyo…
I've been looking for a list of the first 100 software packages released for the Mac. Any one have such a list? It would also be interesting to get a list of al…
While I still don't have my PowerBook 540c out of storage yet (to browse via WiFi,) I did just get an Asanté Mini EN/SC, so my PowerBook 280c is finally on the …
The Road to OS X Panther (10.3.x) B&W G3 Revision 1 Motherboard (NOTE: I did this in Jan of '07 and posting it here for future reference) After a couple…
Well on Tuesday and Wednesday nights I have late classes at uni, and as I've mentioned before, I live about an hour's drive away, and have no car. My parents ar…
Hi, I posted a message over in Compact Mac asking if anyone knew of a list of software that was known to work on a 128k Mac. Today I had a quick look at the 68k…
Mac OS 9 is bootable via USB, correct? I swear I remember hearing you could do it. Can someone help me through this? I'm trying to install OS 9 back onto my iBo…
The last month has been interesting. 3 Powerbook G3s Wallstreets (12", 13", 14" LCD) all working (1 battery, 1 20x cdrom, 1 floppy drive) all free (I had to buy…
Does anybody know the font name and size of the "Macintosh SE" insciption in front of the computer?
Got a Centris 660 av with a Daystar card in it. It is connected to a Daystar angle adapter. The Daystar card has a 040 chip on it. There is no id on the card ot…
Ok, I just recently acquired a Quadra 950 Motherboard. However, the thing does not have a case. Could I mount it in a ATX case (and use the PSU of course). Than…
I've got a Quadra 700. I've got a 3.5" SCSI 500MB hard drive that I formatted with my LC III and put a System 7.6 System Folder on. The LC sees it fine when I p…
In a recent conquest, I got a battered old Performa 600 (roughly equivalent to a IIvx.) It wouldn't boot from its internal drive (it would do a "Mac OS" logo bo…
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Just what the subject line says. I recently got a Digital Audio, with a SuperDrive (well, it came with CD-RW, but I have an Apple-firmware-flashed Pioneer DVD-R…
Wish me luck. I bought a batch of semi-gutted PB G3s and one is a Pismo. Had no HD, HD cage and ribbon, processor, heat shield, EMI shield, modem, battery, CD d…
Well I stopped by Goodwill today and picked up a nice rolling office chair for 8 bucks. But I spotted one vintage apple product... A lonely cable all by itself.…
I managed to get an as-is PowerBook 140 for $35 shipped, seller reported it dead, but with my 3a PowerBook adapter it does power on and boot from the hard drive…
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