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Hey, I bought a Macintosh SE at the weekend and was so excited for it to arrive. When it eventually did arrive i turned it on to be welcomed with an electricity…
Picked up a Free Powerbook 3400 that the guy considered non Functional. I turned it on with another power adapter and it booted after holding down the PRAM rese…
These are many of my conquests since i started collection macs /repairing computers about 2 years ago: >iMac DV+, my first mac (now my friend's first mac…
I have the motherboard for a bondi blue 233 MHz iMac. I remember that this Mac cannot use a drive bigger than 6 GB for a start up disk. I remember trying to par…
Had some good luck with free conquests recently: Power Mac G4/450DP 2X Snow iMac/600's Beige G3/233 AIO Beige G3/233 DT PB 3400c 3X Duo 280c's IIci 5X SE's Appl…
This is sort of interesting.... The write-up gets the nomenclature wrong, as there never was a 604e that ran at 300Mhz; that distinction belongs to the 604ev, w…
Does anyone happen to have a copy of the TapGuard 1 or TapGuard 2 PowerBook utility, which is meant to keep a cursor from jumping around due to accidental conta…
Saw this thread in the archives: archive/topic.asp.TOPIC_ID=5781.html and it mentions "QuickTake Drop"... but the links are now dead. I have some old images fro…
. . . for $4.99 “as is” and it “is as” good as working! Not only that, but when I had to switch the “stock” Video Card outta the Quicksilver 2002 to test this f…
I have recently acquired an Apple Macintosh IIx which does not power on. No chimes, No nothing. I have replaced the power supply and both batteries but still no…
I just scored (for free) one LC 475, two Quadra 630s, two Quadra 650s, and a Beige G3 MT. I haven't been able to look them over too carefully yet (have to lay l…
Scored a working iMac G5 from my employer, but need to recap the power supply and motherboard before I dare to use it much. Got several others which aren't powe…
Hi folks! New to the forum but I've been around Macs since the 128. I still have several vintage Macs in running order and a few that aren't. Included in the co…
I naively thought that StuffIt would unstuff StuffIt files. I need to access the files in a .sitx file and StuffIt 5.5 doesn't recognize it as a valid archive. …
hi, I'm a PC. I used to be a Mac though. I grew up with Macs. my dad owned an SE and had internet access since basically I was born (if you can really call late…
Hi everyone, this is my first post in this forum. I am planning to buy a Macintosh Classic for MIDI purposes in a few days :b&w:. But I need someone to …
I'm looking to put together a '040 machine with an Apple IIe card. From what I know, I think I want to find a Quadra 605, put a real '040 in it, and overclock i…
I bought times ago a original Photoshop 1 on diskettes (main app is on one 800k I think), the problem is that the previous owner run it directly from diskette, …
This week I finished off my first reel of 500 47uF tantalum capacitors. Woohoo. I haven't been keeping records so I'm not sure exactly how many old Mac logic bo…
Has the forum's software been upgraded? I noticed a new search bar at the top of a thread to search, and when I recieved a PM from a member a small pop up windo…
Can a hard drive be successfully "cloned" using Disk Copy in MacOS 7-9 in much the same way that a drive can be cloned using Disk Utility in X?
How can you convert JPG or PNG to MacPaint files? GraphicConverter doesn't have MacPaint export as a option, though it says on the website that it will work.
Found this at a salvation army today, had no sticker on it so the guy said I could have it for $3.50. Came with two manuals and a somewhat dry but still decent …
It has confounded me for a while that I somehow have managed to not acquire an Apple IIe for my retro-computing collection, but that problem has now been solved…
I picked up a ColorSync 17 monitor the other day for AU$10. Working perfectly. I'm just wondering though, why has mine got no ADB connection? It's got ADB ports…
Hi, does anyone know which component is causing my iMac G5 to whine like a cat? As it does more processor intensive tasks it gets louder, and it sounds like a f…
Technically haven't actually grabbed it yet, I'm leaving work early in a bit here and driving about an hour to pick it up. Not the color model, 28 megs ram, unk…
Hello 68kmla community, 4-5 years ago I was given an ancient powerbook 145b by a relative but it did not have the powercord. I've recently purchased a power cor…
I picked up a 17" Apple Studio Display, and a Power Mac G5 from a music school about a week ago. - The CRT monitor works great. I have it connected to my 68k Po…
I have yet to confirm this, but "generally reliable sources" inform me that there is a company that is working on a WiFi module with an RS-232 interface for ind…
Got a phone call from my Sister this afternoon, and when I was done talking to her, I talked to her other half, and he said he had a wheelie bin worth of comput…
Warning-Warning-Warning Forum newbie question! How do I test an LC power supply outside of the computer? I've searched this forum, and didn't find a definitive …
Hiya all, some of you might of notice I recently acquired a very, very cheap PPC G5 2Ghz (DP), sub $150 system). Now as far as I'm aware this model doesn't have…
Hi everyone: I'm a new member here, and I came across this forum while searching for information about my Macintosh SE/30's debilitating SimasiMac condition. I'…
Yes, it's true. Even I am human. For those who don't know, I run the sound, lighting and technology department at a local church. I have been using my Pismo (un…
some one on my local craigslist is selling 2 powermac g5s 2.0 ghz dual processor that "One powers on but has no boot, Other one powers on but randomly turns off…
Got a brand new LC PDS Pro Audio Spectrum 16 from Tom Owad for $35 shipped. A little pricey to some, but it's really worth it for me. Also bought the following:…
http://www.users.qwest.net/~jgarbacz/ The site seems to have died out a long time ago.
The videos not great, but since I can't describe the issue well and since my English stinks, here's a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDssVHugr40 The firs…
I pulled this outta the trash at my school. The ZAQ keys are dead. It looks like coffee, any fix? My cheapy Logitech Classic 200 is getting old.
I got a 400Mh Boindi Imac, !!!!!!! This is my 6th Imac g3 this one is all stock from what I know , I am going to boot it when i find a keyboard and mouse!! can'…
I'm using an 68K emulator. The program I have to edit the drive in Windows will not allow me to move the only version of StuffIt Extractor I can find, version 5…
I have a few question 1. I have this clip thing from a centris 650 what does that do? 2.What are the pin out's for the power brick for the centris? 3.I have thi…
I just got my shipment of 2x1GB sticks of RAM for my PowerBook. I ordered them on Wednesday night, and would have had them sooner, but UPS ground doesn't ship o…
Today I drove about 75 kilometers to pick up a eMac listed on Kijiji for $160CAD. Its pretty sweet. Although it only had OS X 10.2 installed with 128MB ram, I p…
I only discovered today that these models are well suited to BeOS 4.5, being one of the few models "directly" compatible (without caveats). I found it at the lo…
I have a iBook G3 Snow and I would like to know if I could recell it easily and within $40? If not I might as well just buy a new in package battery off eBay fo…
Looking to buy, or trade for the Mac version. If interested please PM?
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