Hey all, I don't know if any of you remember me, but quite a while back I was interested in building my own 68k microcomputer. The best way to understand what I…
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Found an iMac at the side of the road on the way to work this morning. It's and Indigo and, based on the serial number, is a G3/500 (early 2001). The bad news i…
I just realized that I don't really have a thread dedicated to this ongoing project, so, in no particular order: SuperIIsiHack™ related threads: IIsiColorPivotI…
Had about 60 with me. Came back with this: Power Macintosh G3 Blue and White, completely stock running OS 8.5.1 with SCSI card installed. One of three 64MB RAM …
Recently snagged for peanuts a dysfunctional (blasting fans) and somewhat incomplete dual 1.8ghz G5 tower. It needed a few parts as it had been deprived of the …
My Q605 came in today, and much to my disappointment, the casing's tabs for EVERYTHING broke off during shipping. Power supply is lose, HDD, Floppy, MoBo, every…
Hey, What am I supposed to use to capture (or view) video on the Quadra? It's hard drive was wiped at least once before it made its way to me, and any AV softwa…
I have two PCI-Express-based "Late 2005" PowerMac G5's One has a 2.0ghz dual core CPU, and is a perfect-looking (new, mint) case. The other has a 2.3ghz dual co…
I have a nearly immaculate Classic II, which I recapped for sound. (the issue was there before the recap, BTW) I have 3 new, fresh 3.6v PRAM batteries, which we…
So, I've had this little Mac Plus for forever. It's never let me down. I acquired an Apple branded external SCSI hard disk drive (part # M2115) which has a 9gb …
Been thinking of doing simple Video input (Firewire) and Final Cut Pro editing on the go. I headed over to ebay and found a really nice deal. I found a non-unib…
Havn't realy seen much in the way of good Nubus cards untill a few days ago when Austingoodwillcomputerworks had all kinds of ATTO Silicon Express Nubus cards o…
Is it a cap problem? Q605 chimes upon powerup but no video, doesn't even respond to Cmd-Opt-Power. Removed all RAM, VRAM, expansion card, and drives and same re…
A guy from Florida who found my Apple site sent me an email to tell me he was cleaning out his closet and found a bunch of Macs that he wanted to get rid of. He…
I have this DayStar Turbo 040 40mhz Card & IIsi Adapter card. But I was wondering if I can just use this accelerator card with my adapter in my SE/30? T…
i have a flat g4 mac with bad pic on desktop after its warmed up is it possible to re flow the ram/gfx chip?? heat and flux??? etc or fine an good m/broad?? ANY…
After getting this CRT Studio Display, I realised that I made a big mistake. It was too heavy. Taking it home was a big headache. Anyhow, the photos: { "lightbo…
This is my first conquest in a long time. Due to circumstances outside my control, half of my collection and most of my spare parts are stuck at a relatives hom…
Hello, I have a Macintosh Plus. It has worked well in the past few years. Yesterday when I went and switched it on it worked fine for about two minutes but then…
I have been waiting for one of those for something like 2 years now. It's our second brand new computer in 17 years, the first one being a Win 98 PC that i mana…
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160977181427?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 £1.04 - now I will have some spare parts for my running Pismo …
So I thought the caps were the issue since I put the motherboard in a converted plus and it wouldnt boot. Recapped it no luck. looked at the roms and noticed da…
Did the Classic originally contain screws securing the logic board to the metal chassis? I ask because mine is just sort of floating around in the metal slots. …
Hello, I have a macintosh LC that seems to be having some hard drive issues? I turn on the mac and for a while everything was going well, the OS was loading and…
Anyone here have a PB 100 battery that still holds a charge? I just want to know if there are any still functional after two decades. Also, if you do have a PB …
Running some tests over a few hours with the IIsi case open, I found that the CPU and the two LSI system chips seemed to get steadily warmer, quite hot to touch…
Recently acquired, hard drive spins up but stuck on pattern screen. Reseated RAM and CPU boards, reset power management. Any idears? It booted once successfully…
Was looking for one for a long time, and missed a really cheap (and complete) one lately. Just collected an almost complete unit for (what seems like) a fair su…
I came back from a short vacation to a non-booting IIci. The keyboard power button results in nothing but a click of the power supply, a short power-on of the m…
Color Classic 2 - 100uf 1 - 10uf 6 - 47uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea)http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16T-F/?q…
Excuse the simple question.. I want to play safe. I have a working Plus logic board, and I have a 512ke that fails ROM read. Replacing electro caps with tants d…
Ok I dont wanna jump to hard here but do people not notice the threads on these things? that the plastic needs the coarse thread and the metal needs the thin th…
I had a spare IIsi board (the PSU went to Zuiko -a 68kmla member) so i decided to try to clock it to 25 mhz: First step is to remove the 40 Mhz oscillator { "li…
So last Sunday I went to fire up my TiBook 500, which worked perfectly the last time I used it. Hasn't been fired up in about a month, so naturally I expected t…
This listing has been popping up a few times from a University sale on my local Craigslist. Hopefully I'll be able to pay for it within a week or two, as I'm ge…
Hello 68kmla, It's been a while since I played with my vintage Macs. I'm getting back into it by refurbishing a spare Macintosh SE with a RAM upgrade and a new …
So I finished my first ever recap job on my LC II, which had sound problems and gave me a Sad Mac on startup with any hard drive. Obviously my soldering skills …
Been having intermittent startup problems with my IIsi. That thing when the relay snaps off as soon as it comes on. When it behaves, the whole system starts up …
Hi, How can you ID which is ATA Bus 0 ? Terminal? Open Firmware? Disk Utility? Look for label on logic board connectors? Other? Detail: After the "Ultra ATA-100…
GAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8-o The apartment still reeks of it! I'm still amazed that it didn't quite set off the smoke alarm. If I hadn't been almost next to …
Hello everyone, I'm having a little bit of a difficult time taking the motherboard out of an LC. I can't seem to separate the fan from the motherboard. I'm sure…
Last night I collected a haul of Apple spare parts and various other bits and pieces. Of the spare parts I've so far managed to build: (1x) 2.5GHz MacBook Pro (…
Hello everyone, I am trying to get a Macintosh Classic Color to turn on. I am using a keyboard that once belonged to a Macintosh Power 5400. I used the on butto…
. . . :O Sorry a system error occurred."Finder" __floating point coprocessor not installed. Click to expand... I get this error when I try to do a screen shot. …
Why? I have no idea. I think the price was reasonable. http://www.ebay.com/itm/221194806594?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
This may sound like a vague question, but is there any way to use the composite output of a Raspberry Pi with a Macintosh Classic's CRT? I know the Classic uses…
I'm planning to recap my IIGS monitor since it's over 20 years old. What would be the best capacitors to do the job. I'm used to recapping logic boards and PSU'…
While feeding my demons and searching for p0rn of insects getting drunk on rotten fruit (i'm a complicated man, don't ask), i came across this page: http://www.…
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I got these a while back but haven't been back to PPCMLA for a long time to tell about them. They are in my Powermac 9500. Games really fly on this machine now …
. . . still way too much on my plate, but things have come together much better than last year's suddenly picture-free thread: HELP! Noob Building a Parallel Po…