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Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to get a near mint condition Macintosh IIvx for my collection. I don't have one of those until now. Down side is that I …
Does anyone know a Windows program that can burn the HFV disk files produced by HFV explorer? I tried imgburn but it doesn't work.
I think I'll bring in an Apple IIc to play games on during downtime. I need to transfer more of my A2 software to 3.5" floppies so I can use the IIc+ instead. (…
I figured some might like to read this, but some may not, but I figure ill go ahead and post what I did today as a good read for the day. I have an ibook G3 900…
I finally got my wish. I picked up a 2.5Ghz Core2Duo w/ 6MB L2, 17" MacBook Pro (see pics). It is in pristine condition. Been in it's box except for one month s…
Anyone tried this? Connecting two MacPlusses to one SCSI drive! Here is a nice question. How reliable is it, to connect two Mac's to the same SCSI hard disk? I …
I would like to bump up one of my Pismos from a 6 gb drive to a 20 or 40 gb drive. Rather than rebuilding the new drive up from scratch and going through all of…
I took a long weekend to visit my family up in Massachusetts this weekend, and decided to pull out my old vintage Macs tonight. They have been in my parents' ba…
I recently bought and installed a new hd for my 575: an HP SureStore 1.2gig scsi drive. Last night I had no issues initializing the drive and copying over my fi…
Hi guys I picked up an old Mac Plus a few weeks ago. I plugged it in, it made clicking sounds, no bong, no picture on screen. Have installed a new pram battery …
I got a G3 lombard that has issues that make me want to smash it all to pieces. but id rather avoid that situation and try to work through the issues. It was gi…
Hi all, With the recent acquisitions I came across recently, I thought I'd spend the weekend cleaning them up and try to get some of the busted ones working aga…
I heard somewhere that the 575 can only use certain types of SIMM's in its ram slot. What kind is it?
Does anybody know of audio software that will play on a Mac 512K? I know there were a few, but everything I've found seems to have higher system requirements th…
Hey all! This is my first post but I figured it'll be appropriate to do it in here since my conquest was what lead me to this forum. About a month ago I noticed…
Hi all, I haven't been collecting Macs for all that long, but if you look at my signature, I'm pretty happy with what I've come across so far. My most recent ha…
Although I already have a functional LC, I recently discovered a whole lot of old Mac II's and some others in the basement of my school. As part of a computer c…
... and back then I was complaining about the lack of conquests/liberations I got. Well, not any more! In the course of this year I got (all for free, mostly wo…
I found an LC520 motherboard and I need to replace the capacitors. Problem is, the markings on C9 have corroded off, so I can't tell what value it is. Does anyo…
Over the weekend I managed to get my LC520 back in working condition. Boots from HD just fine, but looks like I need to boot from a floppy and run Disk Tools. I…
I am thinking of investing in one good NiMH battery rebuild for my PB 1400 (but don't want to do it myself). The two aftermarket VST batteries that were my "bet…
How much is 16MB IIfx SIMM goes nowaday? Is there any other Mac that use the same SIMM as the IIfx other than the one that shares same motherboard?
I have a Power Tower Pro (Mac 9500) with *NewerTech G3 processor* card in it. It's running OS9. The good thing about the old system is that you have quite a few…
If you were to get a Mac SE/30 and replace the old internal 20MB HD, what would be the maximum capacity a SE/30 can take? Is 500MB too much or too little? If yo…
Can you swap the ROM chip and make the SE/30 run right off without doing some modification? Or is it require that you reformat the hard drive and fresh install …
Is it possible to add a USB/Firewire Combo PCI card on Mac 9500 (Power Tower Pro with NewerTech G3)? Bear with me, it's been more than ten years since I brought…
Yup. Customer and I worked out a deal. for $25 of work, I will be getting a 17" 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4 w/ 2GB DDR-2700 RAM, 250GB HDD, dead battery, and FW800/Dua…
Spent the weekend negotiationg a deal for what I originally though was just a box of cards. Returned home with the cards and a LOT more. Click here to see every…
The max component repair I have done is DC Jacks on a laptop. I have trumped my previous experience and am proud to show off what my skills have yielded. It too…
Hello, my Macintosh Classic II after several month good work dont start up I power on, it makes noise but no start up sound, and monitor is black. What did can …
Just today, I acquired (for beer money) a yellowed-but-working AppleVision 17" AV monitor, for which I have excellent plastics from an otherwise dead 17" ColorS…
Hi guys. I have here an expansion card. From what I can make out it has an Interface Controller of some sort and a bunch of discrete logic. I'm guessing homebre…
Yes, I just completed a massive downsizing project. Yes, I told myself I wasn't going to buy any new Macs unless I spring for a new MacBook Air. However, I've h…
I Liberated a B&W G3 yesterday. Except for some outer case dust, it is flawless....it looks like it came out of the box. G3 300, 512MB of PC133, 80+14GB…
Landed a PowerBook 1400c/166 + 64MB of RAM (yes, the full caboodle), and all the peripherals and even a rehabilitatable battery, for cost of shipping. In great …
We discovered a mystery in the field of graphics performance. There is a Power Mac G3 and a Power Mac G4 in this scenario. The G3 is running Mac OS 10.3.9, and …
Is it safe to extensively run a 7200 if missing the entire backpanel? This entire innards exposed. Not using PCI cards. They would wiggle.
i don't know if this is the right forum, but i have an Outbound Notebook, a 68k mac laptop clone, that i got at a thrift shop. it does not appear to have a powe…
I just got ahold of this baby. I noticed one problem though. When I start it up after several days of not using it, it turns on, no startup sound and some bars …
I have a Sonnet G3 PCI card that i removed from my 8500. Could i use that card in my Performa 6360 ?
I was given a couple of PMG4s earlier and I've been spending a little time trying to get either of them to power on. First up is a 2x1.25GHz MDD 2003 and the se…
I have just gotten me a TAM, and on Wikipedia it stated that you can run OS X with a G3 upgrade and xpostfacto 4 but with some limitations. Question is: Is it a…
Hi everyone, newbie to the 68kmla, and have one question regarding early Powerbooks with internal CD-Drive; I realize that first Powerbooks with CD-Rom weren't …
Hi folks I got a Cube today! Here's a list: - PowerMac G4 Cube 450Mhz, 128MB ram, 20GB hard drive, DVD, ATI rage 128 Pro - 15" Apple Cinema Display - PowerMac G…
I did a total recapping because of artifacts surrounding black and darker colors: the worst was a long shadow on the right after every text string. Now it's ful…
Well, its been a looong time coming, but I finally have a working Apple //e, 19 years on after I first used one, and actually 10 years after I got this one. Fla…
Hi everyone I own a PowerBook 100 but it's power adapter has a leaked capacitor. Still trying to get the PowerBook back working i bought another power adapter. …
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this is a partial list, for the other half of the list see the thread: os9 Compatible Audio Interfaces (without midi i/o) http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.p…