I got the SimasiMac when I first powered the SE/30 on. By turning it off and back on, I got 'normal' screen with the floppy icon with blinking question mark. I …
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Im looking to restore my Mac II back to factory.. Whats the Original SSW it used.. It has the factory 40MB HD in it and then 8MB RAM
What size of battery is used in the MP2100 for clock and RAM backup?
so i got that Pismo i've been after for so long on eBay, and although the description said the DVD drive worked fine, it actually doesn't read anything at all (…
Not a conquest, but perhaps a find. I visited Ready Access Memory's website and noticed this page: http://raminc.com/macsoftware.html They may or may not still …
My 180c has a few dead pixels and I'm wondering if anyone has found a good way to get rid of them on the screen.
Hi all, I found one of these colour calibrators at a car boot today in Wandsworth - it's in shrink wrap still! I don't have a use for it but wanted to rescue it…
I don't know if you can actually tell that they're leaking in these photos. I am not much of a photographer. I was preparing to put my four pre-SE compacts (512…
Just this morning picked up: SE/30 with Ethernet card PowerBook Duo with Apple branded carry bag 9600/300 G3 Server (300MHz tower) with Apple SCSI card and Appl…
Anyone know what the part numbers on the memory chips are? So I was toying with the idea of recreating the Xceed again and reading through the 221706.pdf docume…
Anybody who ever wants to design some home made Nubus cards might want to buy these: http://cgi.ebay.com/90-NEW-Tyco-Amp-650473-5-Connectors-VME-VXI-Eurocard-C-…
Found this today.. Aopen P166mhz MMX Pretty Basic Except the 128MB RAM that was installed in it.. Im going to part it out since I dont have a use for a pc of th…
Last night I just noticed that the Umax C600 has three PCI slots and a comm slot. The C600 is based on the PM6400 architecture. That is, it uses the same chipse…
I bought one of these and a Lapis DPD card for $23 last week, and there appears to be very little information about them out there. Looks like a 20 MHz 030 and …
Finally tracked down a new (unused) in box with all its documentation, a Sonnet 1.8Ghz Duet CPU upgrade. Now I have to just wait for the package to arrive from …
My PM 8500 has been driving me nuts for many years now. Occasionally when the room temperature/CPU load is just right, the fan will start to whistle at around 5…
My first computer, a Performa 600, has been dead for about a year with a bad power supply. Looking at it recently and getting a wave of nostalgia, I decided tha…
I fired up my quadra 950 tonight to check it finally. HOLY RAM Has 196MB RAM Installed 12x16MB 30pin Simms and 4x1MB SIMMS I really dont know what to do with th…
I need to know the ratings of the 4 tantalum capacitors on the PDS card. Two on my card blew (still don't know why), and I'd like to resurrect it. Also, is that…
I've been keeping an eye out a Compact Mac for a while, and have a particular fondness for the case of the Mac Plus. However the specs of the Plus are a little …
I rescued a IIsi. It was missing the PRAM battery. Put in a new one, set it up and powered on. Nothing. Un plugged it, plugged it bac in. Powered on, the comput…
Hi, I got this videocard cheap it is a HIS Radeon 9250 for PCI. I tried to follow all the tips on Mac elite, but the flasher program wont even start. it always …
I went to GoodByte's today looking for a laser printer. No laser printer, but I ran across an Apple //c with AppleColor Composite monitor, an external 5.25" flo…
Ethernet cards like the MacCon made for the SE/30 and the IIsi had a PDS pass-through connector. What was this pass-through connector for? Can an SE/30, for ins…
I have a G4 Cube and a 17" ADC Monitor. It works initially but after a sleep or restart the ADC monitor will not turn back on. I have to turn the cube completel…
I have a Mac Bottom HDD that i picked up. I took it apart. it appears to have an MFM HDD inside, Microscience drive. But strangest thing of all, it has a 9 pin …
I have 2 Quicksilvers that I use. One has a 1.25Ghz G4 upgrade with 2MB L3 cache and is pretty fast. The other machine is a G4-800 with no L3 cache and kind of …
Found this in my latest conquest. Since the HD appears to be dead or missing (not detected and not powering up). I don't have a photo yet, but I was wondering i…
I'm trying to use a Griffin Mac Sync Adapter (model no: 0220-UNV) and a Mitsubishi VGA-Mac DB15 adapter to get my IIsi's video to display to a Dell LCD monitor.…
I had some hard drive problems and am reinstalling systems on my FrankenMac at home which looks like a PM9600 Enhanced (Kansas) to Apple System Profiler. I'm tr…
SSIA; this was one of those things which "seemed like a good idea at the time ;" The full length GF4 is a bit of a problem in a QuickSilver (in my opinion), bec…
Dug my IIci out of storage and pluged it in. It powers on with the keyboard switch but: 1. no chime 2. no video. I'm using a VGA adapter that works well with my…
Found an SE/30 at the university surplus today. Came with a black Apple branded canvas bag, keyboard, mouse, some original paperwork. $15! Despite how clean it …
Hi There, I just wanted to see if anyone has any clue about this particular issue (not so much an issue I guess but annoying nontheless). So I've aquired this n…
Hi I have rebuilt batteries for my PowerBook 170 and my Duo 280c (with a type I battery). I used cells with higher capacity than the originals. The problem is t…
So my Cube died a week or so ago; after a power outage, it would not restart. I suspected the PS, as I could not get it to run a 4" computer fan when I touched …
We are a couple of weeks from the Summer Challenge! About Retrochallenge In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing…
Well ive really fallen for my little IIci, Its small, and works perfect Has 64MB Of Ram installed, 400MB Hard drive, so im wondering what I can do to use this t…
I have a 25 MHz 68040 Sonnet Presto NuBUS upgrade. I was recently at my local surplus and bought an 80 MHz crystal and an 040 socket. Should I happen across a 4…
Hey guys, After finding an Indigo G3 'easter egg' in April, I wanted to add an iBook from the same era to my collection. So the past two months, I've been check…
:O What else can I say? I was flipping through the manual and it has some of the coolest options! And it's an old NuBus card! Easily the coolest feature of this…
I'm interested in having just one PB 1400 battery that has decent runtime. Both of my aftermarket BTIs (from Wegener) are now fairly shot. Anyone here doing bat…
On a recent trip to the recycling center, I found a Mac TV. When I brought it home, it would not turn on. I though the power supply may have died, so I decided …
I responded to a listing on LEM swap for checkerboard SE/30 for 25.00 and a floppy-locked Plus for 25.00 The Mainstay: An SE/30 that boots to this: { "lightbox_…
Never owned one of these in my life but I remember using them at school. Both are in working condition. Model 1 - Ireland built 1990 8MB RAM 40MB HD Ethernet PD…
Hi All, I recently got a Performa 6200CD that someone was giving away on freecycle. Other than needing a new hard drive (former owner removed theirs), it seems …
Hey, just forgot to post it but a month ago just scored a Slot-Loading Bondie Blue iMac G3 for 20€ It's in pretty good condition, everything is working. It was …
I have a Powerbook 190cs that is really irritating me. I was updating from 7.5.3 to 7.5.5 when it froze up at the very end. It will see its hard disk, but befor…
My stock Performa 250 is now a :cc: Mystic! Specs: Full 040 36MB RAM 1MB VRAM 2GB HDD resource edited Mac OS 7.6 { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "…
I found this card hidden in another box of undocumented NuBus cards while looking for boards for my IIfx. It's totally decked out with additional ZIPs and four …