Today my uncle said that he was going to a flea market to buy a recorder player. I couldn't cone with him but he bought a Perforna 400 and a Performa 405 for $2…
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My Mac 512K started up with the sad mac icon and an error code. The error code is 01FF8F. For what I've been able to track, this might be a ROM error. Am I righ…
Five or six years ago I made preventive recapping on both my LC & LCII before leaking appears... They were still working fine since (Pram battery never …
Hi! I wonder if you can change the monitor resolution in Mac OS 7.5. If there is, where then?
Hi everybody! Just quickly wanted to share a little hack-or-something I did today. I connected the SE/30 to my Arduino Uno via serial which was running an inter…
I've got an iMac G4/800 Flat Panel. It's the original "high end" launch model (everymac.com info page), that boots into both OS X 10.1+ and OS 9. I want to max …
Has anyone managed to boot a 540c off of a PCMCIA Rev C. card cage on System 7.1.1? I'm trying right now, and I keep getting a bomb involving "System" - "Bad F-…
So I finally got keys for the car I had my Quadra 700 stuffed into the trunk of... pulled it out last night and just got to it today to see which video card was…
So I got me a 660av CD and it wouldn't boot. So I stick in 7.5, it boots, 7.6 it boots. So I start from a 7.5 floppy and put in the cd thinking what the hay. I …
Sometimes I do silly things, like buy items out of curiosity. Might be a could days before I get a change to play with this so I am wondering if anyone has any …
Just want to know whether it'd be a good investment ifyou still use OS9 if you can get it for cheap?Thanks
I know there are numerous discussion on the topic of discharging CRTs for compact Macs. however, I have found conflicting information regardin the propwer groun…
This morning, I went to church. I left with an Apple IIc Plus. One of the guys in the instrumental ensemble had one, and he said he would bring it in sometime. …
Yesterday I visited an auction from a small company that sold kitchens and went bankrupt. As it turned out, the owner well, to say the least, liked Apple Comput…
So with all of the work I have done with my Portable this year I have been back and forth from the local batteries Plus to get cells at least twice, but more ti…
Mark Alldritt gave us a free license for his beloved Script Debugger: https://twitter.com/alldritt/status/540987874858893312 Reg# LNS024-071-592 SD3.0.9Install.…
I just got a 266mhz G3 “outrigger” mac to replace my now defunct 6500 as my OS 9 machine. Everything works fine except for USB, which is provided by an internal…
I am on a quest to find a sub $100 Aluminum 17" PowerBook G4. In 2004 I would visit the only Apple store here in Boise, ID known as MacLife. It was a very small…
So I boot up my Mac SE/30 and 32 bit mode is off and its not seeing all of the memory installed. I select 32 bit mode, do a full shut down, reboot and its fine.…
So I found a discount electronics shop/surplus shop, with a huge selection of old and new stuff. This place is amazing, the people are nice, the prices are fair…
Hello all, I go to a local university auction fairly regularly. I know the auctioneer well and have attended for nearly as long as I've had money of my own to s…
Hi! I have bought myself a iBook G3 16VRAM. When i start the iBook the cd drive searches for a cd, the hdd spins up and a fan is running. The charger light on t…
Thanks to member defor, my Genesis MP is now rolling along in full 4-way multiprocessing glory! I got all the pieces together a while ago, but life got in the w…
I don't remember seeing anything about applying this common SE/30 memory trick to the IIcx. Google came up with squat, so has anyone tried this or installing OS…
I got an email last week from my electronic surplus shop, I almost skipped over it, but I figured they may be having another sale or something. It turns out, th…
Picked this up today for 1/33 of what that tag says. Great condition case, but no Radius like it says! Anyways, pictures. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox…
Just picked up 3 new in box PhonetNet units with terminators on eBay for $6. Also grabbed another 6 used units for $8, also on eBay. Will come in handy when I g…
Hello all, Beside me I have a Macintosh SE/30 with a clean install of System Software 7.1 running off a 2.1GB IBM hard drive. The problem begins when I try to c…
Hi ! This is my first post on this forum, so if there is an introduction topic please let me know I'll go over there to properly introduce myself... I am postin…
OK--a few years ago I got a brand new iMac G3. Never used, never opened. Tonight, I'm going to have the chance to get another one. I'm going to have to make sur…
Power Mac 8100 was bought as non working. I plugged it in and after 4 seconds, something blew in the PSU. When I opened the PSU, I found out that fuse was blown…
I've got an SE/30 with really weak audio, so I'm guessing it needs a re-cap. I've done the dishwasher trick and cleaned the board well with alcohol and I got a …
Hello Guys, I have an IMAC G5 4,1 which has a 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo Processor, 2GB RAM, 250 HD and is iSight. I recently thought about upgrading its processor t…
Is the MASS Microsystems DriveLok a rebranded Syquest drive? just curious. I found drivers on my Q700 that I was getting ready to reformat. and I had to go look…
Okay, so first; I'm a SCSI newbie. I got a LaCie K525 drive for the cost of shipping. It's got a Yamaha CDRW drive inside the enclosure. I hooked it up to the Q…
Just today my color Classic show the question mark after several years, pull out the HD and using a case plug it into my Classic and the disk is ok using Norton…
I looked and looked but other than the system software I can't seem to find what software was included with this machine. Anyone have a hive of knowledge they c…
Hello, I am trying to restore a 128k Macintosh. The issue is that its logic board came with Macintosh Plus roms, and all I get is black vertical lines from the …
[SIZE=14pt]Hi all,[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]Just joined this site and would like to introduce myself....[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]In 1993, I had bought my first computer whic…
I recently bought a AsantéTalk box. It is not so simple to get it working in my network: a mac SE, Basilisk II emulation, Netatalk on FreeBSD. I think it has to…
A few recent threads here and elsewhere got thinking, researching and reminiscing, always a dangerous combination. Dunno if it's an original approach, likely no…
many thanks to Lokki for this originally released in july of 2004, (v4.14 released around dec2004/jan2005) we now have this mac os 9 version of Abletonthat supo…
I won an X1900XT mac edition video card that the seller said powers on but no video. Took a chance he either didn't have the 6 pin video connector installed or …
Just received the latest addition to my collection, a 14 inch Wallstreet model. It appears to be in fantastic condition, except for one little detail: The fan n…
Have a 512k that was giving error code indicating bad ram. After changing the ram, get a nice bong and question mark. When floppy is inserted, the welcome to ma…
Here is an adventure trip for you. I have a couple of those 36GB and 72GB savvio drives that everyone is using to replace in their 68Ks. Well, I wanted to stick…
I could use some advice on how to get an unusual 170 running again. About a month ago, I won a JLPGA PowerBook 170 only to receive a badly damaged unit. The scr…
I recently acquired a very good condition (cosmetically) 1400c/166 from eBay, and have been playing with it a bit. The first thing I noticed was when I plugged …
Doing some work, I got a Raspberry Pi to run on solar batteries and partially charge up an external battery for night time use; adding a few more solar cells wo…
Digging through my stash again. Anything special needed to support the pivot functionality (driver?) Are these desirable or common? Considering if I may bundle …