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Been watching a NeXT Station Colour on eBay all week and...I won it! Amazingly not a single other person bid on it so, for a measly £25 (+p&p), I landed…
· 13 posts · started 15 Feb 2008 - 09:47 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 21:19
On Wednesday a man put an ad on my local Craigslist saying that at noon Thursday he was going to give away all his Mac stuff and that it was available on a firs…
· 7 posts · started 15 Feb 2008 - 05:44 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 19:32
I just received a 6500 motherboard that i have put in my 6400. The 6400 had 7.5.3 on it. But when i booted up, it said it was not compatible. I tried looking fo…
· 3 posts · started 13 Feb 2008 - 21:43 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 19:01
I saw this on Craigslist, the list of Macs is shown below. It's reallllly tempting, but I have no room for any of it. Someone on here I'm sure could use a Power…
· 4 posts · started 11 Feb 2008 - 22:30 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 18:59
Hello everbody, This is my first post to any forum, please be gentle. I wonder if anyone here can help me. I have spent quite some time reading the posts but ha…
· 12 posts · started 11 Feb 2008 - 19:19 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 16:33
I still have two boxes to go through but this is what I've gotten out of the haul so far... 3 Microsoft Word 5.1 1 Microsoft Excel 4.0 2 Microsoft Works 2.0 2, …
· 14 posts · started 14 Feb 2008 - 20:40 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 07:53
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What would happen if I installed three sticks of ddr 400 ram in a PMac G4 that took PC2100 ram?
· 3 posts · started 15 Feb 2008 - 04:13 · last 15 Feb 2008 - 04:27
I have a rather large iTunes collection (113gb), and I want to back it up to another drive, but only the songs that ~didn't~ come from ripped CDs... since I alr…
· 3 posts · started 13 Feb 2008 - 17:23 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 21:38
Hi everyone, Recently I've had questions about connecting my iMac G3 to the Internet. Well, I'm proud to say that I am writing this post from that iMac! All I d…
· 7 posts · started 13 Feb 2008 - 18:32 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 21:13
According to Low End Mac, the 5500 uses 7.5.5 through 9.1 for system software. I found a 7.6 universal CD on eBay and bought it, intending to put that on the 55…
· 5 posts · started 12 Feb 2008 - 00:15 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 16:33
Just landed a LaserWriter 12/640 PS for free at my local Craigslist. Brand new ink cartridge and a AAUI ethernet transceiver. The guy said he couldn't get it to…
· 5 posts · started 11 Feb 2008 - 23:14 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 12:39
Hello, I have a Mac Classic 4/40, with an external Zip drive, that had system 6 installed on the hard drive. When I booted a Zip disk with a fresh install of Sy…
· 2 posts · started 13 Feb 2008 - 08:55 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 09:40
hi again, sorry for leaving some posts unreplied, i had a harsh time during holidays. soo.. i finally traded my macbook for a powerbook g4 15" 1.5 ghz. it is th…
· 4 posts · started 8 Feb 2008 - 15:12 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 02:52
I found a LW Pro for $40 - unsure of the exact model. Needs a toner.... I already have a Brother HL-5050 printer, but why not 1 more eh? Should I jump on it?
· 6 posts · started 12 Feb 2008 - 04:42 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 01:21
Hey there. I have a peforma 6200 with 64mb ram and os 8.6. I'm trying to install flash plugins for IE 5.1.7 and whenever I access a site that contains swf files…
· 1 posts · started 13 Feb 2008 - 00:01 · last 13 Feb 2008 - 00:01
Hey I am looking into a better OS for my iBook to use. But I need compatibility, OS X works but its such a memory hog for my wee iBook. I do need something that…
· 7 posts · started 12 Feb 2008 - 19:56 · last 12 Feb 2008 - 22:34
Picked up an Ibook and an Impulse Reply 200. It is the first Ibook I have picked up. Does not work. More than likely the motherboard is dead. But as far as I ca…
· 7 posts · started 12 Feb 2008 - 03:28 · last 12 Feb 2008 - 22:08
Hello all. I want to add more USB ports to my Sawtooth. Do I have to get a Mac-specific card, is there a specific chipset to watch out for, or will any one work…
· 5 posts · started 12 Feb 2008 - 12:53 · last 12 Feb 2008 - 16:57
I got a pack of inkjet paper by accident at the store despite being a laser and dot matrix guy exclusively right now. It works fine on my HP LJ1022 but not my L…
· 1 posts · started 12 Feb 2008 - 04:03 · last 12 Feb 2008 - 04:03
So now that I have an MDD and am moving out of the mid-90s hardware-wise, I need a keyboard for the thing. I like the old ADB Extended Keyboard II. Are there an…
· 11 posts · started 6 Nov 2007 - 23:22 · last 12 Feb 2008 - 01:16
I just received this from a friend of my mom's. I need to check out the specs a bit more, but it's got a Celeron (Pentium III based I am guessing) and it came w…
· 11 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 00:03 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 23:02
Well I had the flu this week. First time in my life too. 103.2 fever aching everything, loosing balance, coughing like no tomorrow. What a steal
· 8 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 15:49 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 16:56
I have this stubborn Classic. The clock sets to 1/1/04. I replaced the battery. It still says 1/1/04 and is difficult to change! I have to click on the number a…
· 3 posts · started 11 Feb 2008 - 05:15 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 07:40
Wow, this is crazy - I've gotten more retro-computing stuff in the past week or two than in the past 6 months! After spotting a Craigslist posting a few weeks a…
· 7 posts · started 11 Feb 2008 - 04:50 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 07:03
Does anybody know where I might find dust covers to fit my compact Macs? I currently have three in my fledgling collection but only one came with its own dust c…
· 4 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 21:29 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 05:58
Hi, I have a Power Mac 7100/66 hard drive and wish to use it with Power Mac 6100/66. But I am not sure if my Power Mac 7100/66 hard drive is compatible and will…
· 6 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 16:20 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 05:55
I have been trying to find this game for a while. I got a torrent to try it out but that didn't work (It would keep asking for the disk) and it is not on the am…
· 3 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 17:39 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 05:42
Just got a 512MB module for my MBP for free from a friend who upgraded her peecee laptop... now I have 1.5GB... Definitely an improvement! Now I can run paralle…
· 1 posts · started 11 Feb 2008 - 05:25 · last 11 Feb 2008 - 05:25
Got a PB145b with a battery charger, spare battery and a HDI SCSI/DOCK adapter. The powerbook works perfect for 4-5 minutes then quits. 4mb ram with 80mb hd.
· 1 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 23:45 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 23:45
Just the other day, I picked up a double-helping of cool items for my retro collection. First, I bought a fairly grungy (but cleanable!) Kaypro II from an elect…
· 7 posts · started 9 Feb 2008 - 07:03 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 21:08
I haven't seen much on here about these delightful examples of portable computing (at least, not much positive), so I thought I'd have a go at it. I've pulled t…
· 9 posts · started 5 Feb 2008 - 09:23 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 18:16
I want to swap the keyboard from a PowerBook 145B to a PowerBook 150. Is this possible? I have everything on the PowerBook 150, it is more stable, more snappy a…
· 14 posts · started 1 Feb 2008 - 00:31 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 17:50
I have a friend that has iBook G3, 500mhz with the dreaded 'squeeze the left side for the screen to work' problem. He brought it to me before a trip and I repla…
· 9 posts · started 25 Jan 2008 - 10:55 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 15:10
where can I find this for mac os 8.6? I tried adobe, versiontracker and no results. I can only find 7. I need it for my mac that has os 8.6. Well any help is gr…
· 3 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 03:16 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 12:07
Got at the last AUSOM meeting… LC 630 (Needs Minor TLC) Anyone want this? Will swap. I already have one. PM 6100/60AV (My first AV Variant) PM7220/200 Other odd…
· 2 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 00:19 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 11:28
The other day, I stopped into a thrift store near the CompUSA where I used to work, and while I was browsing, I spotted a slightly beat-up PowerMac G3, which th…
· 2 posts · started 10 Feb 2008 - 05:39 · last 10 Feb 2008 - 07:18
A question: When running a system with Quickdraw GX enabled (and yes, the OS is properly configured), why can I not see the additional characters supposedly inc…
· 8 posts · started 2 Feb 2008 - 04:00 · last 9 Feb 2008 - 23:31
An "Apple Macintosh 16" Color Display", the one that was released at the same time as the first-generation Quadras. (And one of the few CRTs to have truth-in-ad…
· 1 posts · started 9 Feb 2008 - 08:29 · last 9 Feb 2008 - 08:29
Hi guys, I was just wondering - has anyone been successful in getting a PDS Dos Card (such as the one that came with the PowerMac 6100/DOS) to work in a Quadra …
· 10 posts · started 8 Feb 2008 - 19:48 · last 9 Feb 2008 - 07:28
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