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Over the years the local Deseret Industries thrift store has supplied me some amazing Macintosh finds. Here they are! hardware: Macintosh IIcx (4mb ram / 40 Mb …
· 3 posts · started 26 Mar 2008 - 10:06 · last 27 Mar 2008 - 01:59
I just got a 170 today and it's got a problem. When I start it up, it displays a pattern of gibberish lines and makes the chimes of death after the startup soun…
· 8 posts · started 1 Mar 2008 - 22:40 · last 26 Mar 2008 - 22:52
Not really mac related but still.... Found Wii Play w/remote for $19.99, and an extra individual controller for $14.99 both in original packaging! I already hav…
· 1 posts · started 26 Mar 2008 - 22:37 · last 26 Mar 2008 - 22:37
I liberated a Power Mac G3 (beige Gossamer) from the dumpster - it's fully tricked out! 768MB RAM, 300MHz G3, 6.4GB hard disk,OS X 10.4, first boot went into 9.…
· 11 posts · started 18 Mar 2008 - 06:28 · last 26 Mar 2008 - 19:52
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280209712270 I know Color Classics have gone back up in price in recent years, but this seems nuts. T…
· 21 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 20:14 · last 26 Mar 2008 - 10:27
Hi, No real point to this post, other than the fact that its another old school Mac thats being used to post it I've got my newly acquired LC475 up and running …
· 6 posts · started 24 Mar 2008 - 05:06 · last 26 Mar 2008 - 06:43
My 700 has a rather bizarre... "problem." When I cold boot it (boot it from a totally shutdown state) it chimes, tests the RAM, gets to the happy mac, blanks sc…
· 8 posts · started 9 Mar 2008 - 19:09 · last 24 Mar 2008 - 19:11
When you're not logged in and go to a nonexistent page you get the "The action you have requested is limited to users in the group user" error. This is a proble…
· 3 posts · started 24 Mar 2008 - 14:32 · last 24 Mar 2008 - 18:46
We just got our PM 9600 set up, but are having some problems .... I need to upgrade Netscape, but the download doesn't finish. Would also like to download OS 9 …
· 5 posts · started 23 Mar 2008 - 19:10 · last 24 Mar 2008 - 12:56
my main and newest mac, a bondi blue 233mhz imac has worked well for me for a long time now. but i decided that i really need to upgrade it if i want to keep it…
· 2 posts · started 24 Mar 2008 - 11:00 · last 24 Mar 2008 - 12:04
WOW! I AM VERRY Happy! Sega Genesis II Complete Sega CD II complete Sonic CD 2 Megafire Controllers RF Adapter 2x Sega Power Adapters Got it local too! Next:Mod…
· 16 posts · started 2 Mar 2008 - 02:11 · last 23 Mar 2008 - 19:44
Hi, For some odd nostalgic reason I have started to play around with Microsoft basic 2.0 on my old (512k) Mac. I'm particularly interested in any capabilities i…
· 5 posts · started 22 Mar 2008 - 21:18 · last 23 Mar 2008 - 19:40
Despite being an avid Mac user, I had never heard about this game until just a few days after it was released. It looks nice. I'm currently downloading the demo…
· 3 posts · started 22 Mar 2008 - 15:03 · last 23 Mar 2008 - 10:01
I need help with rawrite2 when I run it it asks for source disk image but it doesnt do anything, if I type the name of image or the whole path to image?
· 3 posts · started 12 Mar 2008 - 18:57 · last 23 Mar 2008 - 09:59
I am trying to get an OS on my PowerBook 145B after I borked the install of 7.5.3, I'm giving a shot at 7.0.1, I have mounted an image from the set of images (I…
· 2 posts · started 22 Mar 2008 - 02:36 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 23:47
Anyone still using Word 5.1? If so, which OS and which Mac? Just curious but does it run under OS9? Thanks!
· 10 posts · started 14 Mar 2008 - 01:04 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 23:31
I am currently running System 6.0.8 on my two Mac Pluses. I would like to upgrade to System 7.1, but every copy I've found on the web requires Disk Copy 6.4 to …
· 19 posts · started 17 Mar 2008 - 01:24 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 22:42
Well I just got System 7 on my PowerBook 145B and closed the lid... the left hinge fell out of its screw and ripped the ribbon cable... I now have to mourn the …
· 3 posts · started 22 Mar 2008 - 16:36 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 18:29
Today I got the ATi Radeon 7000 that I ordered, the thing is WONDERFUL! I had to take out the PCI Wifi card (Spent $60 on it ) and had to replace it with the US…
· 16 posts · started 13 Mar 2008 - 23:07 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 14:29
So the horizontal deflection on my AppleVision 1710AV has been playing up for a while, so today I decided to open up the monitor and have a look. I've been foll…
· 2 posts · started 22 Mar 2008 - 03:09 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 08:39
A fiend of mine had 2 512mb sticks of SDRAM that he couldnt get working in any laptop, i knew tht they'd work in the pismo, so he gave me them. I put them in, a…
· 8 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 13:13 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 08:29
Was not going to take it, but was told that these are awesome monitors. It is a 21" IBM P275. Trinitron tube. Macintosh Portable with no hard drive !st model Me…
· 9 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 06:49 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 03:07
Well, not an actual G4 machine per se, but a Sonnet G4-700 PCI accelerator for my 7200. Of course, it won't work until I replace the 7200's logic board with the…
· 16 posts · started 16 Mar 2008 - 18:59 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 02:55
I just finished making a Mac to PC null modem cable and installed stargate on my etower with windows 2000 and my powerbook 150 with mac os 7.5.3 and was hoping …
· 21 posts · started 23 Sep 2007 - 02:08 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 02:31
What exactly do the DSPs in those AV machines do? Are they basically like a special-purpose CPU for offloading certain tasks to? Is there any documentation on t…
· 5 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 18:30 · last 22 Mar 2008 - 01:56
My PC-Card slot died in the laptop (due to being structurally unsound) from failure of connection to the board. The missing cardcage causes the solder joints to…
· 2 posts · started 12 Mar 2008 - 21:25 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 23:04
Hi, Just wondering if theres any way to make an Apple Cinema Display work on vintage macs (with DB15 or VGA ports), or if it will work right out of the box. Tha…
· 7 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 14:57 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 22:31
Digitrax: Does anyone happen to have a copy of this DSP-aware sound editing program for the 660av and 840av Macs that they could share with yours truly? I have …
· 6 posts · started 19 Mar 2008 - 13:27 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 22:04
I was thinking about rebuilding a wallstreet battery, I was wondering if it would be ok to use ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE SOLDER as apposed to hot solder …
· 10 posts · started 19 Feb 2008 - 00:59 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 21:54
Just got my Duo 280c out of storage, and decided to test out a recently acquired Type I battery. Oddly, right off the bat, the Duo would refuse to run at all if…
· 4 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 02:16 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 20:39
Is it possible to add a DSP Nubus board to the 840av, so as to create a multi-dsp-processor machine for sound editing? I do know for a fact that you can add a D…
· 13 posts · started 7 Dec 2007 - 02:43 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 18:19
Do Macintosh SE's have color screens? Only I saw this on eBay and it doesn't look like it's only black and white. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…
· 15 posts · started 13 Mar 2008 - 17:23 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 16:48
I am fixing my PowerBook 145B (With my old PB 150 keyboard inside) and one of the things I need to fix is the fact that the keys are pretty stiff.
· 1 posts · started 21 Mar 2008 - 14:38 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 14:38
I am looking into replacing the PRAM battery in my PowerBook 150, I have not idea how to attach a new batter as it appears to be soldered down. I do not have th…
· 9 posts · started 18 Mar 2008 - 12:16 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 14:10
Found it while cleaning out. I forgot I had it. This will be perfect for my Quadra 700, which currently has a puny 40MB inside!
· 6 posts · started 18 Mar 2008 - 20:03 · last 21 Mar 2008 - 04:41
Does anyone know of a resource which lists the power efficiency of (older) macs? everymac.com doesn't have this information. also, if anyone does know anything …
· 16 posts · started 13 Mar 2008 - 03:03 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 23:33
I want to know what version of Simcity will run on my powerbook 150 with Mac OS 7.5.3. I have tried Simcity 2000 though it needs me to have a 256 colors/grays d…
· 8 posts · started 5 Dec 2007 - 00:38 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 22:33
Well, i got another commodore conquest, a VIC-20, with a working joystick, and datasette! now i just need to figure out how to hook it up to my 1702!
· 10 posts · started 18 Mar 2008 - 15:09 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 22:30
I just got this Performa 6360 and I had a PCI Apple 10/100 Ethernet card laying around so I installed it into my Performa so i could get it networked. Problem i…
· 10 posts · started 19 Mar 2008 - 08:14 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 20:45
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· 2 posts · started 15 Mar 2008 - 18:53 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 12:21
It's from the earlier version of the BBS for anyone just in case they missed it ! lol Click here > "68KMLA PhotoAlbum" USERNAME/PASSCODE > 68KMLA …
· 52 posts · started 21 Aug 2007 - 15:35 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 05:12
I just bought a 160 with no AC adapter and I've just heard that some models need a different type of Powerbook 100 series AC adapter. Mine is the one that came …
· 7 posts · started 18 Mar 2008 - 23:14 · last 20 Mar 2008 - 00:02
What would be the cheapest, easiest, and best way to record music from our audio tapes onto CDs? I would be using my G4 iBook, running OS X 10.4.11. Thanks. -- …
· 22 posts · started 17 Mar 2008 - 13:50 · last 19 Mar 2008 - 17:19

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I was looking through the Powerbook 500 series developer note: http://tech-insider.org/mac/research/acrobat/9405-a.pdf And thought it was interesting that the P…
· 5 posts · started 23 Feb 2008 - 05:20 · last 23 Mar 2008 - 11:32
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