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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
Might be able to get a G4 dual cpu PMac. It has no system disks. What cds could I use?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
my dad won it in a raffle. gonna be a real space saver for my desk when we hang it from the wall!!!
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…
Some of you in the #68kmla went through this with me, but wanted to spread the word. I had a client come to me with wanting me to reset the Password on his Powe…
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…
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…
Anyone know if the IIe Enhanced was sold in Europe? Or was it simply the European IIe?
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
I've been working, as some of you know, with Apple IIs, Mac, and the PC and i've run into a little problem with the //c and ADTPro. With my //GS i can do it and…
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…
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…
I'm doing some digging in Google for info about the latest additions to my Mac collection, and I found this interesting dialog comparing the graphics speed of t…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Hi, Does anyone have any experience/advice on sharing an OS X internet connection with a Wii, or any Wii experience in general. My Wii is connected to the Mac w…
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…
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…
2x IIci 2x External SCSI Hard drives 3x Monitors (2 Apple Color Plus, 1 Magnavox Mac Monitor) Apple Extended Keyboard 3rd party ADB keyboard Misc. cables About …
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…
Hi maybe some one can help I have 2 SE/30s both have been idle for over a year, the SimasiMac one did boot over a year ago, I had a little trouble with SimasiMa…
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…
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…
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…
Picked up some stuff to today...all FREE! from various locations.... -IIsi No OS, but all 4 ram slots are full and it has a Radius Nubus graphics card of some s…
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…
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…
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 …