I picked this one up on Monday night, but didn't get around to taking pics of it until just today. Anyway I picked up a Dual 2 Ghz G5 from another member on Mac…
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Well, I've not played with these all in ones in years. But basicly, I have a SE/30 that had a dead hard drive. So I installed a 1gb with a fresh 7.6.1 install a…
For the PPC gurus here: Is the 9500 bus speed controlled by the CPU card or is there another oscillator? I can't seem to find any osc cans on some of the MB's h…
I added the note to the SCSI Voodoo topic: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=203746#p203746 but in short, searching for the bourns 4308-104-221/331 (8 pi…
I scored two new Macs at the VCF this weekend!! 1. Mac IIcx. Doesn't boot but has a 13" Apple HiRes. Caps look OK, may need a new battery. 2. Mac SE. Boots, Min…
Since so many troubleshooting threads wind up like this: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19583 An official detailed recapping guide for eve…
Hello-- So today when I went to use my quadra at my school, I looked at the front of it, and someone had pried the rainbow apple logo right of the front of my c…
I finally found a copy of SoftARC's FirstClass Server. Version 2.4, for a whopping 10 bucks shipped on ebay! First step is to make copies of these diskettes, se…
I've got an SE/30 logic board from a fellow collector for repair, actually recap only but they apparently send me the hopeless cases. It was dead, no video and …
Hey guys As some of you might know, I'm in the process of refurbishing some of the components in my Plus. After spending the past year with it not working, I fi…
OK, so I've been trying to remove the computers from my collection but I couldn't pass up on this craigslist find Mint in box 128k upgraded to 512k all accessor…
With the mono Apple II Monitor II are there any internal adjustments for horizontal width and centering ?
I prefer the old Picasso Mac Welcome to Macintosh boot over the System 7.5 boot screen. I seem to recall there was an extension or maybe a hack that turned the …
Does anybody know about these software packages? It seems like one of those things that might have failed, as I have never heard of it. Here is an article about…
Okay, conducted a hardware test IAW the following instructions: 1. Simultaneously press the CONTROL and RESET keys during boot. 2. Enter CALL -151 and press RET…
Sort of a pleasant little surprise...found a 15" IBM flat screen monitor (2005 vintage) for just $32. I was hoping to use it as a TV substitute but can't seem t…
I'm trying to strategize a setup for my slowly-increasing collection of MIDI gear, and one of the things I'd like is for it to be portable. To that end, I'd lik…
This thread has its roots in my MDD Zip750 thread conquest posts. NOT A RECOMMENDATION!I thought I'd made another major Zip conquest a while back. I picked up a…
. . . booted to crackling speakers and :?: twice, bombed upon booting from TechTool Pro CD in a known good drive. Now it doesn't power up, no biggie! ;D EXCELLE…
This current portable I am working on, on the 12V side its only making 1.38v when turned on, trying to track down the VREG responsible. Anyone have any insight?…
I have an 800k Sony drive that has stopped booting on a 512k or a Plus, but still reads\writes OK when attached to my IIsi. The IIsi has SWIM chip, the Compacts…
Howdy! Will soon acquire an Apple //c Plus, and have a Macintosh Classic II running OS 7.5.5. Am able to Appletalk between the Classic II and my Powerbook 3400c…
So I bought a 344MB IBM drive on eBay to replace the dead HDD on my Outbound laptop. The weirdest thing happens. When I plug the HDD in and boot, the top 1/2 of…
The SE's superdrive. If I swap it into an external 800k floppy enclosure, does that work as an external 1.44mb for the SE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL Sun Remarketing After Apple dropped the XL from their price list in September 1985, Sun Remarketing of Logan, Utah bou…
I recently obtained a 1Ghz PPC Powerbook Titanium (Model: M8859) as per this thread (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20660&p=200276#p200276). It works great…
Hi guys, A couple weeks back, I posted a question about using modern hard drives with old macintosh computers. A few of you mentioned that it would be easier to…
I have a keyboard suffering with two dead keys, I've tried following some of the guides online for removing the black plastic surround, so that i can access the…
I have collected a nice 110, this was supplied with 3 Sram cards. At first, none of those cards were recognized, all but one battery cell was flat. i removed th…
LC I 1 - 100uf 1 - 1uf 5 - 47uf 8 - 10uf LC II 1 - 100uf 1 - 1uf 5 - 47uf 9 - 10uf LC III 1 - 100uf 5 - 47uf 4 - 10uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cent…
Could some appropriately skilled solder-jockey replace those 8 chips with, say, the 8 chips on this 32MB SIMM sitting in the slot next to them? (Actually now th…
Yes, I just scored myself an Apple Adjustable Keyboard for ten bucks. Definitely a nice out of the blue surprise!!! It's missing a height adjuster on the back (…
Well, my Macintosh Plus decided it was no longer going to work. When I turn it on I get a grey screen with diagonal lines. See the pic below. I've had this happ…
Here it is. This is my early Transparent Mac SE. The clear case was created for smoke testing at Apple. They wanted to make sure the computer was being adequate…
Full error: D3E5- A=01 X=00 Y=08 P=34 S=F4 I came into an original Apple II, and when I initially plugged it in to see if it works, it didn't work. I pulled up,…
Hey Guys, I just did some trading with Deacon Frost on here for a Brand New ImageWriter II (1990 Series - Last one made), I wanted to take some pictures of the …
Recent acquisitions include: - G4 iMac (700MHz, 15") - my second one - couldn't resist! - G5 PowerMac (2003 Dual 1.8GHz) - my first PowerMac G5 - I already have…
Mustang EVT PtotoBook I guess it's fitting that “my Eleanor” is the Mustang EVT, the prototype of a souped up 5300ce. I've had two run-ins with this machine of …
Hey guys, can someone tell me the last version of iTunes for OS9? Also, does it allow listening to a shared library over the network? Thanks, Mark
I have a Powermac 7300 with a 400mhz g3 upgrade that only boot from the hard drive some of the time. It seem that when it wont boot that the hard drive is not s…
So I'm completely new to radius rockets. I have a IIci with the turbo601. Can the rocket be used in conjuction with the turbo601, to run one 68k system(rocket) …
Hey everyone. I thought maybe we could start a thread with the Software Update logs from Mac OS 9 on up. Since Software Update has been disabled for Mac OS 9 - …
I am the owner of a brand new ImageWriter II, I want to find customizeable label software for Macs OS 7-8 would be perfect... Can anyone help me think of one th…
I've wanted a Lisa for so long now but yesterday I finally made it happen. I picked one up for $150 down the street. It came with Lisa, keyboard, mouse, and pow…
So I really like having my 7100 back up and purring, it feels like old times. I'm playing some old games on there and exploring the by-gone era of software, but…
Have a SCSI CD-ROM player for my Classic II. Here are the specs for my machine: - 10 MB RAM - 80 MB Hard Drive - OS 7.5.5 The machine's sound works fine, so I c…
I've got a PM7600/120 that I've had for a while. When I got it, the system had an install of OS 8.1 that was incredibly slow. I wanted to install System 7.6.1 b…
Is there any electrical reason this Tank Farm and Coil couldn't be relocated an inch or two to the right? I'm thinking caps with heat shrunk wire leads and a wi…
So I have once again tried to upgrade the processor in this machine. I got another sonnet upgrade but this time it was for a pretty good price and I had the opt…
OK, so I got a nice, new-to-me 80 GB IDE hard drive from some guy on LEM Swap. I install it on my recently refurbished PowerBook G4 12" (which was running very …