Hey guys! I've been out of the Mac scene for a while now. Lots going on, and I've run out of room for my collection (most of my macs are now in a storage unit).…
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After the obvious ADB hack, which has already been done and is well documented: Hacking the modem connector's port A signals to the outside world as the second …
i replaced all the cap's, little of a pain in the butt, they were in-fact all leaking. except for the 16v 47, but i replaced that one anyways, none of the caps …
Traded one Macintosh Classic (problematic unit, works only with ram-extension board off) to these drives: - Apple 3.5" External (A9M0106) - Apple 5.25" Drive (A…
So today I acquired the "MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install Disc 1" and "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" for the, of course, MacBook Pro. I just wanted to make sure that the…
Hi guys, For evening classes I'm following we are learning command-linux and I thought about using my Wallstreet Powerbook G3 as an excersice tool. I looked up …
What a day. I was home on sickleave as i caught an bad flu and fever and postman brought me two packages. From Josh of Texas: Apple IIgs - with memory expansion…
I have an ancient Vernier Universal Lab Interface that came with one of my old Macs years back. I have the MacMotion and ULI timer software that was commonly us…
So craigslist paid off today. A nice older gentleman put his collection up for a huge sum hoping to find the right individual to "inherit" his collection. He ha…
Today had time to visit the guy who offered an Color Classic to me earlier this week. Later he found out it did not boot up, or did, but black screen. It had be…
So, I ended up with one of these in a big lot of video cards. I know that the Micron Xceed Color card can be used with an adapter to run the internal display in…
I was browsing through craigslist looking for an iBook G4 to have as a back up laptop, since original MacBook and MacBook Pro prices are still very high, and th…
what spawned this thought was Dougg3's ROM simm, then bunsen mentioning how cool this ROM simm would be in a SE/30, used as a serial terminal emulator, i was th…
Silly question, and it's not mission-critical, but there is a method in my madness: Is it possible to send out a wol packet on a LAN using something like MacPer…
I got a different board and CPU for my MDD (Dual 1Ghz 167 FSB) and was wondering if the 1.25ghz of 1.4ghz DP is worth getting since I hear they overheat. My old…
Hoping I can weed out some problems through software-based testing before I go back to reading schematics all afternoon. Mac Mothership has two different versio…
Got these from a friend today for free. iBook G3 clamshell tangerine (in a box with styrofoam) - 300Mhz - OS 9.0 International English - 32MB RAM - 3GB HDD - CD…
I had an old 12"x12" Wacom ArtZII (Digitizer II) that got damaged before I really had a chance to play with it. It was the Mac version with the DIN serial port …
Hi, According to Scott Baret's CRT Guide, the two aren't interchangeable. However, he doesn't seem to go into a great amount of detail, other than there are two…
As with all things too many projects not enough time. Six months ago I got an accelerator G3 500 for my 7200 for cheap right from sonnet the A series. So a shot…
I recently bought a couple of Digital Audio G4 PowerMacs for small change. One of them was a dual G4 533MHz, which I promptly got running Leopard Server (via Le…
I bought a Lisa 2 off someone and it was supposedly "not working" { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightb…
Not much of a conquest, but I bought a 128MB 72pin SIMM for $20 shipped and it's Mystic compatible! 4k refresh, 32x32 organization. It fits in the CC motherboar…
I tried to reinstall the driver map (the thing before the main partition) on my SE/30's original HDD using Apple HD SC Setup, and somehow it failed. I tried to …
http://lowendmac.com/imacs/700-mhz-imac-g3-mid-2001.html anyone have one of these? or worked with one? i personally only ever seen the 600mhz iMac g3
I am so pumped! I found a complete NeXT setup sans the monitor cable for $20. I am second in line to buy it. I am hoping the first buyer falls through... Wish m…
Hi, is here someone who is able to "convert" some perl scripts (blog, guestbook) to macperl ? They work well on linux perl 5, but I'll put them to work on my Ma…
Saw today an ad offering an SE/30 with box and software + for the same offer free Powerbook Duo 230. So i offered some and i got it, the guy called me soon afte…
Hi, New printer in the mix and would like to enable LPR printing on a 7.6.1 Mac. Several sites mention installing LW 8.6 as the solution. Apple's "older softwar…
Does anyone know of an extension or control panel that will smooth the screen fonts of system 7, much like the way Mac OS 8 smooths fonts?
I got my hands on a working Macintosh Classic It starts up and runs just fine, the only problem being that there's no sound. Everywhere I looked says that the M…
Thanks to the amazing efforts of dougg3 and others on this group, I'm on the way of putting a "decent" display during the startup of a SE/30 with alternative RO…
Picked this original Macintosh bag for free tonight locally. The owner had bought it from USA back in 1985. Did not mention if also bought 128k or 512k. He used…
Here's the story--I've got a 13" RGB, the later Trinitron model (Macintosh Color Display), which normally displays at 640 x 480. For the most part, this is a go…
Rich Dreher's CFFA 3000 is shipping! As of the 31st of Oct he had shipped 142 of the boards. I'm hoping that I'll have mine in the next week or two. Once it get…
I just plugged one of my several LCIII PowerCache Adapters into an LCIII for the very first time, but there's no PowerCache in the collection . . . . . . so rig…
This is surely old news, but i just had to see it my own eyes as i have an original disk of KARATEKA for Apple II. When you boot the disk from B-side, the game …
Hi, I tried (Chromi-)VNC V.3.4-a5 on my new (old) LC 475, it's free and works great on sys 7.5.5. But I cannot see more than a 32x32 cutout on the display if I …
The (dead) battery in my 190 seems to have leaked...there is something that looks like mold on the battery contacts. Is there any good way to clean the contacts…
I've found some anomilies with the Macintosh OS, and I'm wondering if they could be bugs (I though Macs were supposed to be bug free)? I couldn't find a bug rep…
I finally found one looking around the detritus of my office's storage space. Turns out it was the server of office downstairs until they upgraded earlier this …
Hi folks. I'm having some issues getting a 400k drive to read/write/erase. Initailly the drive mechanisim was so gunked up that I couldn't insert a disk into th…
In approximately 10 years of collecting Macs I've never even seen a Workgroup Server 9150 in person. I saw two on craigslist last night and picked them up today…
{ "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try aga…
Not sure if this is in the right place... I've been thinking over the last few days of getting my StyleWriter II out of the loft and linking it up to my Mac. I'…
I know there's a ton of threads about CompactFlash, but here's yet another. Who's actually put together a long chain of adaptors to put CompactFlash in their 68…
Hi all, So on my Lombard I currently have 9.0 installed, and I at least want it to get to 9.1, if not 9.2. I've tried the updates from the Apple website but it …
These were given to me by a friend and 68kmla-user julehti last week. These include some nice original SE/30 manuals (if i remember correctly, he bought an SE/3…
It´s the 2nd night I played with my 9600/300 my workhorse and daily desktop Mac. The problems are irreproducible for me, nevertheless I will write down what I t…
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I have an eMac 1.42 Ghz and I want to install OS 9.2 on it. I've recently found out that it can't. Is there some kind of work around or something. I don't under…