Hi all, I have a Quadra 700. Everything seems to work, except that it has one quirk. Whenever I turn it on, it starts up, gets to the smiley Mac, and then immed…
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Ill be honest, Ive never owned a portable before until recently. I finally got around to recapping it. Recapped it, now trying to figure out this weird issue. P…
:b&w: Hello all, I've recently acquired a Compatible Systems RiscRouter 3000e, although the router did not come with any software. I'm trying to locate …
After a year of hard work, some fluke chances and a lot of patience, I finally have a dream Macintosh II system assembled. The reason I call it Absolutely Apple…
Hi all, Following my success with FWB hard disk toolkit and the flash drive, I decided to use it to repartition the hard disk of my Quadra 650. This resulted in…
Customer wanted it disposing of so I wiped the HD and aquired it to replace my mums dual 450 Sawtooth. It's the very last of the eMacs, the 1.42 Ghz which I bel…
Lincoln, IL - Apr. 20, 2012 - David Finnigan and Mac GUI Vault announce today the first paperback book exclusively about the Apple II to be published in over a …
Hi there! In the progress of restoring my SE/30 I got my hands on a IIfx ROMSIMM that I've been playing around a bit with over the last few days. Apart from any…
Some very VERRRRY preliminary hacking. The scope of this project shall not include hacking of any Kaleidoscope specific resources until permission is granted or…
you guys aren't going to believe what i just got for $110 :O :O 2.7ghz G5, no hd, 2.5GB RAM (now 3.5), came with airport extreme and antenna 2ghz G5, no hd, 2GB…
I found a few things at my local surplus. First, in the FREE section, I almost had a heart attack. A large, brown, Apple box that said A/UX Media & Manu…
Hi, It's not a peripheral per se, but... I have an ATI Radeon 9800 (I think) with ADC and DVI ports, and it just suddenly went dead one day. I was able to get i…
I'm writing this in the hopes that any other mac collectors that manage to find one of these very elusive "Micronet Raven Pro 2" Nubus cards won't have to go th…
. QuartzGL QuartzGL (called Quartz 2D Extreme when it was introduced in Mac OS X Tiger) is GPU acceleration for the Quartz 2D API. As of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, …
I need to open my recently acquired iMac G3 DV to adjust the focus on the screen and upgrade the HDD. I can kinda tell that the plastics are brittle, and was wo…
I guess I should have left dirty enough, but working, alone. :-/ I was moving the IDE card and all the HDDs from my comatose 466 DA over to the Quicksilver 2002…
Some new conquests: 2 x Macintosh IIci (for parts) - one OK PSU, both motherboards had few broken SIM-slots. Gave them to a friend for projects/parts. Kept the …
What are the best HDD backup options for an OS9 tower? I don't assume I can simply drop four drives in the box and setup some kind of RAID array . . . I never t…
Today, I scored these: iMac G4 NuPower G3 500mhz Beige upgrade in the original box. Powerbook 280 complete. I picked up the LC575 as it was still sitting there,…
Okay my quadra arrived today and of course I have a bunch of questions for you guys. I am attaching some pictures of it that will help you guys know what I am t…
I got hold of a Macintosh Display Card 8•24GC rev B ROM today. Can anyone see on the chips how much vram this is?
I've recently had to transfer my re-capped SE/30 logic board into another (SE/30) Mac, as I'd managed to damage my analog board with some resoldering I tried to…
I am happy to report that after a couple of months of planning and research, I've managed to replace the caps in an old Classic II. I soldered the new caps on l…
I have some questions about the System Saver that the post office says should arriving tomorrow. First up is, once I get the System Saver (to avoid DMCA issues)…
Hi all, I have created an album of photos from my recent restoration of a Quadra 700: https://picasaweb.google.com/108602450026684563488/Quadra700Teardown
I'm sure you've all had them. Let's hear about them. Big and small. This is quite small, but it was disappointing all the same. I was going to snipe a G3 PowerB…
I just won this mouse on ebay. Does anyone have any experience with using this? Does it use a standard ni-cad rechargeable triple-A battery? I know it has two a…
I got what I thought was an absolute steal today: An iBook G4 in amazing condition for 30$. I had no assurance on the computer's working state, but was willing …
gday, I'm learning hypercard from an old tutorial off the net, the picture xcmd script example tells me to request a filetype of 192. is there a list with filet…
As I continue building my MDD setup for long-term OS9 use, I'd like some recommendations for expansion cards. Requirements: 1) Useful 2) Compatible with OS9 Wou…
I have an iMac G4 (15", 800MHz, 60GB, 768MB, Superdrive, Airport) that I recently wiped and tried to reinstall the OS. I have tried many versions of Mac OS incl…
Available for $5 on craigslist, right near me. Is it worth it for eBay parts?
Hi all, Quick question: I need to reattach the insulator card to my Mac Plus analog board. It was originally attached with double sided foam tape. What do you u…
wikipedia said these were plagued with power supply issues, i happen to have one, that came from that load of mac's i received over the weekend. this one happen…
I picked up a powerbook duo 280 at the hamfest. It fired right up and started booting into MacOS 8. But the screen is bad, starts that tunnelvision shit when yo…
So I got a FWB Jackhammer SCSI card the other day. The seller said it was causing crashes and I was hoping it was just an extension or hardware conflict. Unfort…
Hey all, I just purchased a Visioneer PaperPort Vx off of ebay for super cheap. It comes with the AC adapter and a serial cable. (RS232) I've got all the driver…
Hi all, Here is an album of pictures of my Mac Plus. https://picasaweb.google.com/108602450026684563488/MacPlus You might find the screen shots interesting. . .…
I have a PowerMac 6100 that I want to add a CD Burner to, it doesn't seem to read disks with it in, and I thought MAYBE since the cable on the SCSI CD-R drive w…
I found this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130693272424 and thinking of picking up a few, will they work in older Macs (with adapt…
Alright. After testing the Mini vMac compiled for use with the same applications I run often on my 128k (thanks to it almost perfectly emulating a 128k), I sit …
Hello guys, I'm new on this forum. My first Macintosh I haved used was my dads one. A Macintosh IIcx in 1991, IIRC. It was a pleasure to use this easy to handle…
I'm working on a Kaleidoscope Scheme to Appearance Theme converter. I am able to read a resource fork via a roll-my-own technique, but to write to a resource fo…
C1, C7, C12, C13 are 47uf 16v, C11 is a 220uf at 16v. These capacitors form a supply filter network on the 5V source. (If bad, will cause simasaimac condition. …
My first ever non-eBay conquest. Craigslist. Included keyboard and mouse. First tell me what you would have paid (be honest), and then I'll tell you what I paid…
Hi, I don't know if this is the right place for this (anybody: please move this at your discretion to the right place if you deem it necessary), but here it goe…
Will this work in the 7600? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Power-Mac-intosh-ATI-Rage128-16MB-PCI-Video-VGA-Graphics-Card-630-2858-OEM-/380430850818?pt=PCC_Video_…
I want to buy a nice pair of speakers for my powerbook 540c. I use it for playing old adventures like larry, indiana jones 4, legend of kyrandia etc. What do yo…
Lucky this week, I have scored tonight: A blue and White Powermac G3 { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lig…
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I purchased an airport extreme card that fits in a G5 tower but the connector for the antenna does not seem to fit (plus there are 2 antennas and the card has o…