Hello fellow MLAers! After many years of eBay researching i've finally found and won the bidding for a Quadra 840AV which was always "the" Macintosh i wanted to…
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I have a Performa 630 which recently refuses to remain "off". A few minutes after shutdown the machine starts itself again. A new battery did not change this an…
Hi there, I recently installed a radius accelerator, the one specifically for the Mac SE. It went in fine, it boots up and shows the Radius logo, loads the os a…
Hi all, I'm familiar with all the woes that afflict iMac G3s, but I have a situation that's a variation on the theme, so I'm hoping for some help, or at least s…
Hey guys, I have a Macintosh 512k machine and a 3.5 Floppy Drive (from my Apple IIgs items). I read that this Mac has a 400K floppy drive built-in, and that the…
after installing RAM in my PowerBook 520, i seemed to have noticed something. Which I am not certain if it was there before or not, but the screen seems to adju…
Does the ANS require attached video to boot like many old Macs do? I got mine set up last week then moved it back into its niche (sans video), but could never l…
Ebay seller IC-China has just listed a stack of new ZIFs; some G4s and some G3s. Have a look in their shop under Chips->IBM and ->Motorola. I just…
Picked up one of these for my 5300c at ISU's asset recovery store. Paid only $2 for it. Anyone know where to find drivers??
So one of my customers called me last night. Recently she was using her iBook G4, and then she shut it down and went to watch TV. She came back and powered the …
I just obtained a working Lisa 2! Mine is the one that does not have an external parallel port. However there are a few things missing Most notably the floppy d…
Does anyone know where I could obtain some new cells for my powerbook 1400's battery? Or if it is not possible to obtain new ones, are there any alternative cel…
Hi, not very Mac related, but cool to me and hopefully others. The story goes that I was helping a wealthy friend of my parents clean out his massive house in p…
My Powerbook 540 is experiencing vignetting on the screen, and I'm curious if there's a known cause/fix for this. At first, the problem isn't aparent, but as I …
Hi guys, As some of you will have already seen, I just picked up (along with a bunch of other stuff) an Apple IIgs, which is now set up on my desk, along with m…
I know that this is a question that seems a waste of internet KB, but I've always been wondering...do all iMac G3's sound the same? I mean, my Latin teacher has…
About a month ago, my PB 150's hard drive died and I have been looking for a solution ever since. Do you guys know of any suitable hard drive replacements? Also…
A 9500/150 here, a known good HD installed internally , the machine gets to the happy Mac and goes no further. The same drive in an external enclosure connected…
I found a cube on craigslist today with 17" adc and got it all with boxes and manuals for $100 im so happy I have a cube now.
as some of you know I recently got a cube and I feel that it needs a more usable video card (it may also just be boredom who knows?) and I have recently posted …
I am looking for a mobo for a mac IIci in working condition mine has a sound problem most likely a capacitor issue. i only have 1 channel
I last used it about a year ago, a 520c with (I think) 4mb of ram and some flavor of system 6 or system 7. At the time, it booted with no problems. Today I boot…
I have a beige G3 with: 233mhz G3 128MB RAM Voodoo 2 12MB 80GB HD craptacular IDE CD drive two USB cards 8MB VRAM The thing has given me so many errors I can't …
Symantec put this up for download a while ago, but their download doesn't work. Does anyone have a suitable download link in .sit format?
Barring space considerations, and socketed vs unsocketed 040s - a QuadDoubler or similar 040 upgrade in Rocket ... possible?
I found a 540c with a broken power supply plug (the 4 pin, mini Din like). I tested it Ok with temporary contacts but since this machine is very interesting, I …
So I got a great deal on a Wallstreet, but the screen has these weird comb-shaped white areas that point to the left on it. They are vertical. And the screen is…
I pulled out my IIe that I haven't touched in years and found the video to be scrambled when I turned it on. When you boot without an OS (no floppy drive) it sh…
A while back there was a site that was using a Mac Plus for a web server. I can't find it. Anyone know where it is? Or ANY site that is being run on a Mac Plus?…
My Plus has no battery, and it gives the sad mac screen when I try to turn it on... I believe I read somewhere that this is because it has no battery. Does anyo…
I've been looking for a list of the first 100 software packages released for the Mac. Any one have such a list? It would also be interesting to get a list of al…
Mac OS 9 is bootable via USB, correct? I swear I remember hearing you could do it. Can someone help me through this? I'm trying to install OS 9 back onto my iBo…
I'm having some problems with a Quadra 660av I left unused for a few months. When I turn it on, it crashes after about 15 minutes of use. Sometimes it simply fr…
So, this most recent weekend was the Baltimore Area Hamfest, and, as usual there were some awesome "recently vintaged" computing finds, as long as you were look…
Hi i picked up a SE/30 on ebay it runs great now.. has 8 megs ram and a 340 meg drive i think, anyways i was having boot problems weird sounds coming out of the…
I have been offered broken 22" apple cinema, the old white tripod type with the ADC connector. I found the service manual but haven't had time to troubleshoot. …
I've just installed SuperClock on my Powerbook 160 and, surprisingly I don't know how to adjust the time! Can someone help?
Our PM9600 was working just fine, until this morning. It started to boot, loaded all the extensions, then the bomb!! System error type -127. I tried rebooting s…
well, not by myself, but stupid law says you need a learner's permit before getting a full license. and I think I just remembered something... I sorta needed a …
my iBook G4 has a crooked screen for a while, but now I want to fix it. Not really sure how it happened, but when i close the lid, the screen and main assembly …
Hi everyone, Thanks for looking at my post, just so you know, I DID use the search button before posting. I just picked up a bunch of old Macs SE, SE FDHD, SE/3…
I went to electronics class on Thursday to find a stack of old units sitting on the shelf, the idea was we were going to dismantle them and learn about them int…
Does anyone have some experience with Lexmark wireless printers - as a G4 iBook on OS X 10.4.x works fine with this printer but a G4 iBook on OS X 10.3.9 does n…
When you're not logged in and go to a nonexistent page you get the "The action you have requested is limited to users in the group user" error. This is a proble…
my main and newest mac, a bondi blue 233mhz imac has worked well for me for a long time now. but i decided that i really need to upgrade it if i want to keep it…
I need help with rawrite2 when I run it it asks for source disk image but it doesnt do anything, if I type the name of image or the whole path to image?
I'm using System 7.1 on a Centris 610 with an apple Multiple scan 1705. Any help is appreciated, especially if it's before i have to go to bed!
Just got my Duo 280c out of storage, and decided to test out a recently acquired Type I battery. Oddly, right off the bat, the Duo would refuse to run at all if…
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I was looking through the Powerbook 500 series developer note: http://tech-insider.org/mac/research/acrobat/9405-a.pdf And thought it was interesting that the P…