Hi all, So after the problems with my last 2400c, I bought another one. To recap, the first one turns on fine, but will not spin up an HD. I have taken it apart…
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Can any of you tell me a manufacturer and part number for the black connector on Ultra ATA cables? The reason I am wondering, and the reason this actually belon…
Hi. It's hard and expensive to find the Rayovac square batteries for the LC 575 and the Color Classic. Is there any alternative that also works well? Thanks.
I'm trying to get a Beige G3 MT to boot. Three sticks of RAM (PC100) has been added to it. When powered up there is no video. Everything else sounds OK. Current…
Yes, that's right! Specs: 1.7 GHZ P4 No HDD 512 MB ram small crack on case It came with Targus case, new battery, new FDD module, AC adapter, and the manual and…
Anybody got this combination working? I know the SiliconExpress IV is working fine, as I plugged it into a PPC Mac (I think it was a 7100? @ 80Mhz) and I was ge…
A local city had it's annual spring cleanup trash pickup this week and as I was driving through I saw a IIgs on the side of the road. I already have a IIgs Woz …
Hi all, I have an LC475 that I'm trying to get running. I was getting the diskette+?. I figured it needed a reinstall. Since it won't boot I needed the Network …
I have a Quadra 800 that is working. the case is beat up. I have a dead IIvx. The PSU is good. The case is nice. Can I put the 800 guts in the IIvx and use the …
This is the second one of these I have. I really like the shape of the case, which is the only reason I bother picking them up. The tech inside these is pretty …
I just thought I might let everyone know about my recent actual liberation, from NAU's surplus store, two members of the 500 series of PowerBooks. These are imm…
Found these when searching for a kitchen table at a county garage sale. They were $3 and came without the power supply... Anyone know where I can get one? I'm t…
Well, it seems my beloved Clamshell has run into a bit of a problem. The screen doesn't want to light up anymore. It still seems to be working, since I can fain…
http://gallery.mac.com/fourseason7444/100016 After much procrastination, I finally got around to replacing all of the electrolytic capacitors on the motherboard…
I finally got a newer PC after months of using a crappy etower. Its a generic P4 2.66 GHZ with 512 MBs of RAM. I have installed Windows 2000. Its a full ATX. It…
Wow, just the adapter, with no upgrade card or other peripheral went for $150. That's crazy. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&…
Hello guys, I got this little Apple IIgs a while back, but I've recently been playing with it some more. I thought I'd post some photos. I found it at a thrift …
On both of my new PB's, the bottom screws are stuck and don't budge when I use my Torx screwdrivers! How can I unstick these screws so I can take the dead flopp…
I spent most of the day getting my new to me Q950 sorted out. Things went pretty smooth once I was told how the lock switch worked. Thanks BigD! I picked it up …
well after fellow 68kmla member phreakinus or whatever you say it went into a rage and busted the screen on his icebook 500 and pounded the keyboard many of the…
So I have a quadra 700, and I have a series of seagate SCSI drives I can put in it. This week's drive is a Seagate Medalist ST39140N, 9.1GB, 7200rpm, very nice.…
I've searched the forum, but have been unable to find a thread on modding the logic board of a Quadra 605. I'm not really a vintage Mac guy (yet I suppose!) I g…
Swapped in a new mobo to an iMac G3. The problem: video artifacts. A series of dots and lines, in a grid-like pattern, across the entire screen. When the initia…
Finally put it on the net.It is not as bad as I thought. It is like dialup..It has 136mb of ram, 4gb hd, Paintbrush Li video card hooked up yo a 21" IBM monitor…
Ok, I just recently acquired a Quadra 950 Motherboard. However, the thing does not have a case. Could I mount it in a ATX case (and use the PSU of course). Than…
In a recent conquest, I got a battered old Performa 600 (roughly equivalent to a IIvx.) It wouldn't boot from its internal drive (it would do a "Mac OS" logo bo…
I've already posted two threads about my large haul, and this is the last. To recap: A guy I had bought some old hardware off before emailed me saying that he w…
OK, So after I got this cute little IIci, it got me thinking of my poor Quadra 700. It was in pieces, all over the place, and I felt bad. Now, I had been web br…
Well, I finally got around to ordering the processor replacement for my crappy Dell computer which died. I got a mobo replacement and it turned out that it frie…
Note: I did a search for "SE" and "SE/30" and got no hits. I think something is wrong with the search function (no way could it be an operator error : ) I never…
Can you connect more than one compact to a single external drive?
First, thanks wthww! I got three 256 MB SDRAM modules from him along with a Sonnet G4/400 processor. Now I have a Blue & White G4/400 with 768MB Ram! []…
I recently posted about a decent haul. I went back today, and got more. Easily 1000 disks worth of software, PC, Mac, Apple II. Some still boxed (At Ease 2.0, a…
Wow, Office Depot has really cut the prices on some of their notebooks, and in particular, the models with the now-defunct HD DVD format drives. And so, here's …
The Pismo project now has a (relatively) new and spiffy keyboard with all the keys still on it, and a half-gig RAM stick to replace a 128, so now it has 768 MB …
I recently took my G3/266 Rev1 down from storage hoping that I might be able to turn it into a semi-competent web browser with Tiger (possibly panther), and als…
Could a Beige G3 233Mhz (Rev A) be flash upgraded to a Rev C. model or is it a soldering job? Also what PCI graphics card would you recommend and would the bios…
I got an LC 475 and an LCIII along with a Stylewriter II and two color monitors. Can't get any video from the 475 but the other one works great
Something caught my eye near some bins today and on closer inspection I discovered that the bit of "platinum" coloured plastic that I had spotted from a distanc…
Wel, I went to my favorite place for old electronics once again, Astro Too, and found a Mac SE just sittin on the floor! So I managed to get it for free! There …
Hi, I have an Apple MultiScan 15 monitor, which i've had for about 3 years now. About 2 years ago, the image on the screen would turn "fuzzy" for about 10 secon…
Hi, I have a Mac IIvi and want to use a VGA/SVGA monitor with it. I have Rasterops Mac2VGA adapter. It has switches on it. Both 640 x 480 (VGA) and 832 x 624 (T…
I got a friend that says his PowerBook 1400c is not booting up. I am wondering if a half-dead PRAM is better than no PRAM, or is no pram battery better than a h…
Hi folks. I would like to open up my Mac Classic, but first I need the correct tools to do this job. I'm in the UK and I am looking for the torx tools required …
So i've got this 500MHz Pismo which I decided to start using around campus just to show up all these mac noobs who think they know something because they bought…
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Is it possible to develop for 68k Macs on my MacBook running Mavericks? If now, my iBook G4 or iMac G4 (can boot OS 9) running Tiger? Basically, if possible, I …