Just picked up a very nice looking pismo. The first one I have had! No hardrive. Plugged it in. Nothing. Checked and reset the ram, added a hardrive. Checked al…
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. . . you be the judge! I was upset after finding out that a really nice USB KBD that I'd found and tested with HP_Mini at the Thrift where I liberated my 21” G…
Hi, In the old days, when my Lombard was much younger, when I would swap out batteries with my Lombard in sleep mode, my green light would keep on blinking, and…
I have two '12 RGB monitors with varying problems. One spent an extended time period in a heavy smoke area, while the other fell CRT first onto the ground in a …
Both are very loaded. Both are in a match to earn my favor. Its a death match between beige macs. 7100: 80mhz 601 & 512k Cache Maximum RAM 1gb HD OS 7.6…
First a bit of back story - Skip ahead if you want to get to the goods I did some work for a local church years back involving restoring a few older computers (…
Hey everyone just found a Power Macintosh 8100/110 on the curb in NYC. It has a MaCally Keyboard and a Kensington Mouse. Tons of upgrades towards the rear. Look…
OK... when i plugged in my adaptor and lcd monitor into my LC III, no picture. after messing with the switches on the adaptor i got a picture, but after unplugg…
Yesterday I received an email regarding a large amount of macs free. Today I went out to see what I could pick up. Well this place was quite a sight. Front of t…
my fan is noisy! i am sure that it is no noisier than anyone else's fan, but recently its been bugging me. has anyone ever ran their SE without the fan? i assum…
Hi all, I'm messing about with an SE/30 just now and wondered if anyone has managed to get compact flash cards working with them instead of hard disks. I'm usin…
My 5500/250's motherboard seems to be acting up. Thanks! -JRL
Is there some way that I can run my Powerbook 540c without a HD? All three of my scsi drives will not work, so the only alternative I have is running off a flop…
recently i got my hands on a 2001 QS 733 with a vile ati rage 128 pro card with a piddly 16 mb ram and the rage 128 just decided to die ...typical as it happens…
Good morning! So i have a G4 with gigabit Ethernet running at 400MHz (4x100), 512MB PC133 (4x128). I have a dual G4 533 (4x133) in my possession and would like …
From Craigslist for 20.00 MINT... He thought it was broke, it just needed a pram battery. Originally it was 30.00 got him down to 20.00 Upgraded the CPU (From e…
I just got word that an acquaintance has finally managed to pry loose a long-promised classic Mac. I had no idea what to expect from this or when (if ever) I wo…
Does anyone have a clue to why the "Hours of Use" (the one you get in TechTool) gets reset a few times a week? It should display something like 43000 hours sinc…
My wife's iMac G5 started running warmer than normal (75C to 80C) and the fan started getting noisy. So I opened it up for the 3rd cleaning and noticed all the …
(just noticed this may be in the wrong forum, sorry...) I just grabbed a cheap 6400/180 (see post in conquests), came with an M2943 multiple scan monitor. All s…
I just wrote a System 7.5 NAD floppy to complete the OS 8 on LC III hack, anjd was gretted with "Sorry, a system error occurred. bus error to temoporarly turn o…
Hi all, I have an LCIII which was working fine but now has absolutely no audio whatsoever. No squeaks, no interferance or bad ground noises - nothing. I have tr…
The chap I got a Radius Two Page Display (Radius Mono 20GS) from a year or so ago has just given me a couple of associated rarities after a bout of move-inspire…
Another Conquest here! (Sorry in advance since it is not really vintage, Judging by the conquest wars going on...) Got me an iBook G4 from a family friend! Said…
So I have my 840av working.... it's running off've a 2gig external hard drive. I recorded some video and saved the file which then has to be converted, but when…
I've got a partially restored Quadra 700. It came with nothing, no RAM, floppy drive, hard drive, or even internal device cables. It now has all the internal de…
Hey guys! A guy on Freecycle is shipping this to me. -- 2 Mac IIci's -- both have the motherboards, cache card, hard drive, internal 3.5" drive ... but I moved …
I figure i'll get better results if i post here. According to Mactracker, the LC III had 1 ram slot. If this is the case, what is the other slot that looks like…
Pisces DM-10 The ultra-rare, vertically flat (ie Color Classic bezel compatible), 10" Trinitron point of sale monitor as used in the famous Cube G4 Power Color …
Using www.googoe.com I can find only a couple of web pages about installing PHP on MacOS X. There doesn't seem to be a comprehensive (yet easy to understand) gu…
I just got a SimplyTV card by eMachines for my LC 575. It works fine through S-video, which is what I wanted. However, is there a way to get it to display only …
So after days of waiting for my Macintosh Classic II which was shipped to me via Parcel Post I finally got it! It started up perfectly the first time but after …
I snagged a boxed set of assorted translucent/transparent iMac era candy colored "Mac HD" FDDs today. They'll look nice displayed on the multiple workstation/di…
I finally got around to tearing down the old Macintosh 512k to see what the problem is. Visually the electronics appeared fine, so it looks like I need your hel…
Hi, I've been busy the past week restoring my dead SE/30 - I have a spare SE/30 machine for parts as well. Both had the Simasimac at startup, so I took about re…
I noticed this OS mentioned in one of Dr. Bunsen's posts, I thought ubuntu support was strictly x86! 8-o How does this compare with the NetBook Remix a/o the cu…
I got an LC475 with a 3rd socket beside the two VRam slots. It´s a little bit smaller than the two VRams, and I have no idea what this could be. At this picture…
Today's haul: Macintosh LC 475, AppleCD 300e Plus, Apple Personal LaserWriter printer, a SCSI scanner, a Performa Plus CRT, and a bunch of cables. The LC and CD…
Latest find, just today. At the Frankston Tip Shop And the more I saw of it, the more excited I got. Price was right. $5 Sapphire slotloader, firewire ports, VG…
So a while back, I received a bare Macintosh IIci motherboard. No RAM, and an old battery. I replaced the old battery with a new one and put in x4 2 MB SIMMS. W…
Been inactive a little while on the forums, but added two items just recently to my conquest list. Was lucky enough to pick up a PowerMac 7600/200 with a Sonnet…
I have been looking for a 6 slot PCI Powermac for what seems like years now (they are too pricey to ship usually) and yesterday I snagged 2 of them from a local…
Alright, I was using my Macintosh LC when suddenly the monitor's image stretched and it immediately showed a grey screen. I had no choice but to turn on and off…
So I visited a Salvation Army thrift store in PA that I tend to frequent. Usually in their electronics section in the basement only have monitors and printers. …
Hello again. I am still searching for a reason as to why my Kansas 9600 logicboard bit the dust a few months ago. I ran this machine since new, almost 12 years(…
My Performa 400 has been mothballed for about a year, but I finally cleared some space today to set it back up. The board was recapped before I put it away. It …
OK, this could potentially be the sickest score ever (for this old mac fan anyhow) This past week I found (get ready......................waaaaait for it. WAAAA…
I picked up 4 b&w g3s which I believe 2-3 of them have hd/ram a beige g3 a perfect condition powerbook 180c w/ power adapter an performa av (might be us…
I just had to share. I've had a string of bad luck with a 2400c I had so I bought a cheapo "parts machine" off of eBay awhile back and thought it'd be good to c…