Today I received the Mac Plus from mcdermd (Thanks again!). Plugged everything in, got a "bing", short "whirr" from the floppy drive, screen came on, but never …
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Basics for first time cap job: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3932529 4.5" Mini-Diagonal Cutters Model: 6400061 | Catalog #: 64-061 $7.49…
Ok so I go online and lookup the sad Mac error code and it says 04 is a memory failure, 8 8 being the locations or what, and no breakdown of the DC. I put in Ma…
I've been playing with various ROM hacking stuff on the II series Macs, and I found this on eBay and couldn't resist snatching it up. It's a really weird shape!…
The title says it all - I am looking for a picture of an apple 7MB RAM card for the Macintosh Portable (Backlit). Fairly good resolution with pictures of both s…
I have a powerbook 100 from a recent acquisition. I noticed that the serial number fell inside some kind of a recall modification apple did. Anyone happen to kn…
Apple's Technical Note "DV14: SCSI Bugs" http://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/#technotes/dv/dv_14.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10002404 has an interesting t…
As the title suggest, the display on the iMac DV SE i just built is rotated noticably clockwise. It wasnt too oddly positioned when I booted it the first time p…
I recently received a 512k that suffered a cracks case from a combination if poor packing and USPS abuse. Is there a proper method to fix a crack in the front c…
Well, this here isn't exactly my system so I can't just rip it open and reseat the roms and such. While wiping the hard drives of some systems my neighbor has, …
i would say this tool knocked about 15 minutes off, my re-caps. just push and twist. love it. http://shop.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=1164820&p…
Hi all, It seems to me that (beyond the stuff common to all vintage machines like leaky electrolytic caps) there are three common points of failure in old Power…
Hi, I have several of these, and one works, but has a bad cord and plug at the computer end. The other one has a good plug and cable, but it doesn't work. I was…
I thought I had finished my accumulation phase, but... Tipped off by Byrd, I bid for a lot of Powerbooks on ebay, located in Canberra, Australia. Since freight …
OK, I know that this isn't a classic Mac snag, but I'm really stoked that I finally got my Raspberry Pi in the mail. I'm actually using it as I type. :lol: I ha…
Hey, I have just brought a LC to play with and noticed the keyboard had a habbit of typeing the letter 'L' by it's self, so i replaced the two 1uf caps in the k…
A few months ago I bought 2 external floppy drives for my 512kE, with the intension of putting the one in worst looking case in the 512kE as the eject motor wen…
I recently acquired two Mac 512k with the original 400k floppy drives. One of the machines had a jammed floppy drive so I did some searching and learned how to …
So...my SE/30 board came yesterday. Its awesome, and everything. Its been recapped too, which may/may not be a bonus. And I've almost got it running an OS. Almo…
Hi, I know this isn't a PPC PowerBook, but here goes anyway... I just got a MacBook Pro (model A1226, 2.2 GHz), and the video circuitry is acting weird. I suspe…
Esteemed folks; I recently acquired a IIci in a load of other Apple gear. It had been a developer's primary desktop for many years before it was shut off and st…
I have a nice powerbook 180, I would going to try to do the resedit hack and install OS 8.1. However, whenever I plug a SCSI CDROM into the computer it won't bo…
No joke. It smells like fish. I've had this machine for over a year and it's never smelled. All of a sudden, there's a strong fishy odor coming from the back. I…
photo-3 by oldmacs, on Flickr Just wondering what that could mean- It is on my PowerBook 150- It shows up sometimes and disappears and reappears while using the…
got G4 iBook for the kiddo, it's a 933 and has OS 10.4 on it. works fine. just wondering if there is a speed hit if I were to upgrade to 10.5 and if so how big …
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111055569304?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 i did win this i need to test it tonight to see if it works. all…
I'm running a classic 2 with 10mb of ram and system 7.01. I've installed thread manager and drag and drop extensions also. I can't seem to get icab to work. Whe…
I know this isn't a revelation to the old timers, but new people get their first compact Mac every day, and they come to this forum for help, so: The screws on …
I've started a new project. This one looks very doable. In the HDD area in the IIci, there's quite a bit of room, but not quite enough room for two HDDs. Howeve…
Thanks to bunsen and thanks to mcdermd. I didn't even realize this (until Mcdermd mentioned it) but i had the identical hard drive in my Macintosh Classic. The …
I've got a few Plus keyboards sitting here gathering dust, and I saw that there are a few people on the trading post forums looking for them. Is there a way to …
Is they a way to change the order extensions run in? I would like it if my USB extension comes up before my Linux boot loader(BootX).
Just blow'n away some dust and started up my Mac 128K. Booting alright with Finder 1.0! But I noticed a strange behaviour of my keyboard, a M0110 B. The qwerty …
. . . I was cutting up the packing boxes (they reproduce around here like rabbits for some reason : ) and made a belated conquest of the coolest looking and sli…
My son's 4th gen iPod classic has started giving him a "click of death" which I'm assuming means the hard drive inside has died. Is this something he can fix ea…
Per James1095's suggestion i just replaced just the (Lite Brown Caps) The Brand name of these pieces of crap is (ELNA) Long-Life These Certain caps are the only…
I recapped an SE/30 board yesteray but keep getting disk errors for the internal hard drive. I got the board dead, with SimaSimac, so impossibe to test before. …
Hello this is my first post in this excellent forum. I have started to repair some old Macintosh thats not working. I have had enormous help with information fr…
So i've continued work on my Portable (backlit), getting all the plastics cleaned up, etc. It's been booting fine, but now the it is having trouble that started…
What about the quality of the subject monitor? I have read that it has great picture and sound quality but i cannot find any photos in the internet to make an o…
Hi! I've just gotten hold of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 for Macintosh, and I'm running it on the emulator. I'm using the mouse yoke option, where the plane is…
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'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…
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…
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…
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…
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…