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Anyone have any experience with the 3dfx [voodoo video card] flashed for mac. I want to put one into a B&W. I found alot of info w/ Google, but not yet …
I have a 2.0GHz dual processor G5, (June 2004, 8 Ram slot model), that will not boot unless I heat the MB area around the Ram slots with a hair dryer for about …
With pics! Continuing from this thread Apple IIe (Enhanced) Platinum, with 128KB RAM, dual 5.25" floppy disk drives, 80-Column card, Printer card (parallel), RA…
Hi All, I recently got a newton Emate 300 in very good condition from forum member Joshc. It works brilliantly but I have one problem with it. The recognition o…
Rather than try to completely disassemble the iBook g4 I recently got that needed a new HD and optical drive, I bought this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl…
Tonight I just picked up a G5 1.8ghz DP and a 400mhz G4 Tower. The weird thing is apparently they removed the hard drives before selling them to me, yet there i…
Recently I bought one of these mouses of ebay. It is brand new and the buyer accepted my lower price offer. At that time I was looking at a 512 on ebay without …
Today I got a Powerbook 165c running 7.5.3 with power adapter off of craigslist for $25. After that I went to goodwill and got an Applevision to DV-15 adapter f…
I have successfully gotten power to my Desktop EN/SC adapter, but the LI (Link-integrity) light keeps blinking on and off really quick. my 10/100 switch doesn't…
Is there a way i can backup my Indigo G3 iMac as I am going to have to place it in storage with a friend and the machine was supplied without restore disks. The…
Well, I could never figure out why this mac never liked to work right. It enjoys crashing. The symptoms are locking up at random, or if you leave it idle it and…
So last night I won this. Really just wanted it for the boxed System 7, always wanted one of those. I already have a retail OS 8.5 (that I got as a birthday pre…
Powermacintosh G4 MDD iMac G3 eMac G4 Powermacintosh G3 (broken) and some other Powermacintosh 4400/200 Powerbook Duo 280c Powerbook G3 "Lombard" (Broken CD-Dri…
Even if it is just a cooling fan. My 030 SE runs just way, way too loud. The 1GB hard drive (salvaged from a "parts" 7500) sounds like a VTOL aircraft! The only…
I have been trying to fix up a 7200/90 I got at a yard sale with various extras I picked up cheap. I just installed OS8 then I installed a sonnet g3/400 pci upg…
I've got a request for MacApp 2. I'm doing my own searching, but if anyone knows how to obtain it, I would welcome it. And so would this guy: Hi, I'm looking fo…
Hey guys. I'm finally gonna open my SE FDHD :beige: Two questions, I've let my Mac unplugged and with power button switched on for almost 3/4 days. Do I need to…
So I've been looking for a copy of the old shareware program for System 6, Mac Talker, by James Joaquin. This page is the only one I can find that's supposed to…
Found this gem at an electronics surplus, new in box. Two little adjustable gray transceivers (look like infrared) that plug into the serial port and ADB port f…
I have had this newton for a while, but I could never quite get it to work to my satisfaction. It refuses to remember the current date and time! If you enter it…
I feel a little silly asking this, but I've been surprised by some of the hacks people have made work. Any chance I could open pdf's on my SE/30?
I recently got 3 G4 14" iBooks, but all of them have issues. - One is a 1.33 Mhz, Wasted screen, missing parts and the motherboard powers on but displays no vid…
Hi Friends, Recently, the moderators and I have dealt with a few forum members who were more or less spending most of their time causing problems for the rest o…
I have gone through a variety of different avenues (DAVE, LPD, Linux Server) to provide a bridge between Windows Printers and the Macintosh LW 8 system. I am no…
In my research on TCP/IP on Classic Macintosh I tried to run NSCA Telnet 2.6 and 2.5 on a minimal system equiped with only 512K. Without any succes…. To run it …
I've got several SE/30's laying around, I want to build the best frankenstein I can. How do I evaluate or determine the best motherboard out of the batch? Thank…
I picked up a couple of powerbooks here on the trading post. both missing HDDs. imagine that. one i knew about, one i DIDNT know about. Regardless, i picked up …
This is a new one for me. I have an Apple full page display (640x870 greyscale) that I hooked up today to two PPC towers, in combination with a variety of colou…
I have a RAMFast SCSI Card I will be putting into the Apple IIe Platinum I have, but I need the utility disk, Unfortunately, I don't know where to look, and am …
After spending about 3 hours figuring out how to make a ADT Pro boot disk (that also included audio-booting the stupid thing 3x in the process, I have finally g…
. . . rises to the surface! Here's all the new IRS Funded Goodies arranged on the MacCoffeeTable™ I've mentioned: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": …
Hey Guys -- I've always been into retrocomputing, but now that I have a family and kiddos I don't have as much time as I once did plus I've parted with most of …
Does anybody know of a dynamic DNS client updater software for services like dyndns.org, zoneedit.com and such? I've googled quite a bit to no avail, but search…
Hello everyone, I am new here, and since there is no introduction forum, I will start off with a short paragraph about myself. I have been collecting old comput…
I have two I-O Data IDSC21 adapters that I bought ages ago. I'd like to know if anyone else here has one of these and is using it successfully with a 68k Mac? I…
No it is not a Mac, but it is relevant to me because it is a bit retro and fits in with my mostly Mac studio. It is a beautiful, black Z-80 based MSX computer w…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Asante-Technologies-Network-Card-Mac-SE-MacCon-RJ-45-/120668572204?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c18684a2c No relationship or know…
I love using my SE/30's but get so tired, of getting them setup exactly like I like them then dropping a drive a month later. Then going all over AGAIN setting …
Hey everybody! The surplus store at my university recently started having a few G5s show up after a relatively long service period. Based on some of the prices …
I bought a PDQ on ebay for $5 plus shipping. It works fine except for one thing. After a short time of use, the internal drive will startup and do a self-check,…
I removed the cardboard thing from the analog board of my 512k to check the soldering. Now I wonder, is this part actually required? Would I hurt anything if I …
My 1400c, which is my second-fastest Mac, fells just plain sluggish. My Performa 6300Cd, an older, slower machine running the less optimized Mac OS 7.5.5, feels…
Here's the first scan from "Expanding your PowerBook" MacWorld FEB '93 showing Sigma's SCSI Portrait Monitor. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Nex…
Great score today. Some wanted offerd a collection Mac's. "Get them or I'll will bring them to the garbidge heap...." I didn't to think twice... I have now.... …
What to do when you have two disused IBM 160MB SCSI drives and an empty drive enclosure? Hack the enclosure so that both drives fit into one unit! This did requ…
OK, so I'm downsizing big time as we all know (took ANOTHER load to Goodwill today) but I found something pretty cool in my closet today while I was clearing ou…
Hi, I recently bought a G4 Gigabit mobo from an ebay seller. It arrived few days ago undamaged, but after testing it this aftertoon, I detected a weird problem.…
Anyone know what model this is? Which slot it's for? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "T…
Well, I am rather lost as the version of Premiere bundled with the VideoVision card is too old to support video capture from it. There are no bundled tools for …