After posting a FS/FT post on Craigslist, I got a call regarding my Cat5e cable (both ends jacked) custom made for the person @ 75¢/ft. Well, he said he had jus…
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Idk anything else about it, besides its 1.25ghz and has a dead HD. Haven't gotten a chance to look at it, but while I'm putting a new HD in it(I have some spare…
I have recently managed to recell a 540c battery with new NiMhs, and have (once I was inspired to trash the Emmpathy Preferences from the System Folder) also ma…
I'm in the process of setting up a Mac IIcx as a LocalTalk Bridge/IP Gateway, but it has a really strange problem. It will retain a time that you set in the Dat…
Got this locally off Craigslist for $20. It's an older LCD (regular 4:3 aspect ratio, not widescreen), 1280x960 max/native resolution. It came out of a server, …
Here's a question for which I have not found the answer: The Apple II, as you should know, has some soft-switches, memory locations which cause some setting to …
I needed new clutch hinges for my Pismo so I won an auction on eBay that contained two sketchy LCDs and one set of hinges. So I have a couple of spare Pismo LCD…
I picked up a PowerBook 100 on eBay the other day that was sold as "working fine months ago, but charger broke and hasn't been used since". Well I got it home, …
I just scored a Compaq EVO N600c. Specs: 1.2GHz PIII-M Radeon Radeon 32MB Floppy AC Adapter 512MB (256x2)PC133 SODIMMS 40GB 5400RPM Hard Drive * No optical driv…
I was wondering if anyone here had used 68k macs for working with photographs? I was wondering this because I recently bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual film sc…
Hey guys! Long time, no log on. I scored myself an XBox last week on freecycle. I'm so excited about it because it's my first "good" console. I want to get onli…
I need the service manual. Serching high and low only gives me the slot load. I have removed the CRT completely and now I don't remember what the non standard l…
Hi Folks! I wanted to eliminate some desktop clutter, so I decided to move my iSight, which is placed on the desktop facing up at me, and to put it on my 20-inc…
I just scored myself an early-90s HP UNIX box! There's this hallway in the basement of one of the engineering buildings on campus where a few of the oddball eng…
I've received a Macintosh Classic from a good friend of mine. He's a collector too, and once intended to get into Vintage Macs. Sadly this never happened (he en…
Two days ago when I was scanning the local auction website I found a Macintosh Classic I paid HK$250 (about US$33) and grabbed this little Mac home. It was havi…
I ordered this about a week and a half ago, and it arrived today. It cost $126 shipped, and arrived in astonishingly pristine condition. Like most 1u dual-proc …
I had an instructor bring me a Powerbook G4 that won't power up. I tried resetting the PMU and taking the battery out, as well as re-seating the RAM. The charge…
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5104/photoaw9.jpg This picture does not do justice to the injustice these Macs have received. We will be parting basically all …
For once, the overused eBay buzzword "RARE!!!ZOMGLOLBBQ!!!1101!!" is totally justified. And the price, though high, has some level of realism, considering. Appl…
Since the battery for my PowerBook 230 Duo wouldn't hold a charge, I decided to take it apart. Now I'm staring at 10 NiMH cells that I need to replace. Unfortun…
I just need something that I can use at school, without worrying about it getting damaged or anything like that. I was thinking along the lines of a 3400C, or e…
I'm having trouble with one of my SE/30's. The SE/30 is booting from its internal hard disk, it loads all the extensions and control panels. Then displays the m…
I have a PowerBook 170 and am hoping to take it to a conference in March. I don't have a working battery but am looking to either buy one or find the means to r…
3 sticks of 1GB SO-DIMMs 3 sticks of DDR, 512MB and 256MB Price: Free The 512MB stick is going into my Grandma's computer to bump it to a total of 1.25GB. The 2…
Hi, Right now, I have one of my SEs on. The one I have on is the one whose hard drive needs reformatting due to the fact that it takes 1 min 40 secs to load pro…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! That crashing sound you hear is the sound of Windows breaking. No, I didn't throw my ThinkPad through one. Mi…
Ok so I figured I'd take my conquest thread here. Background: I purchased this IIfx not knowing of its condition. No idea on how much RAM and no HD. I plugged i…
I was talking to a friend of mine last night, who says he has some old computers that he used to use for composing/producing music, that he hasn't used in 10 ye…
I was on the MacSales site, looking at the G4 processor upgrades for an old AGP 400 Mhz Sawtooth, and I had some questions. It feels...expensive, but of course …
I've picked up a couple of Sun Microsystems workstations from a friend of mine. 1 is a SparcStation 2, and the other is a Sparc Ultra 5. The Ultra 5 has no hard…
Just collected a B&W G3 today, which I got off eBay for £10 ($14.39). Just updated the firmware and installed 9.2.1. My first PowerMac and this will be …
Just saved this PowerMac from going to the dump. Turns out to be a 6100/66 DOS Compatible. I have never actual seen one of these before. I cleaned off the snow …
While looking for something else, I just turned up in this document, note #2, that pci Macs in the 7300-8600 range support a theoretical maximum of 4 MB of Leve…
Went to the Recycler again, this time I picked up a Powerbook 520c, for free. It's in nice shape, except for the top cover, which is badly scratched. There's al…
After helping out at the flea market I got: 1) a DVD+/-RW drive for $20 (they're $30+ new locally) 2) An old ATX case with * Slot 1 motherboard * Celeron proces…
My SE/30 has close to 20MB of memory installed... yes odd number but it's what System 6 is reporting (fresh install, wiped HD) to my knowledge System 6 didn't h…
Just wondering what the largest hard drive you could put in an early Power Mac/Performa system would be. Just got my 6200 today (thanks again to Unknown_K) and …
I priced up a new system for light-gaming to leave at my friend's house. This is the system: ECS Socket 754 Motherboard w/ Sempron 3000+ CPU Galaxy GeForce 8400…
Hi, courtesy of a random PC forum I picked up a 12" Powerbook, in very mangled condition. Obviously someone couldn't wait unscrewing everything to get to the HD…
So I just received this 160 as a castoff from a friend's closet. It is my first pre-G3 mac. I am pretty psyched to get it working. The boot chime happens. Repea…
Spotted this 9500 on the 'Bay... http://tinyurl.com/aadhoe Looks like it has *all* of its PCI slots filled... but with what?? I recognize a few SCSI cards, but …
I finally found my Mac DB15-VGA adapter for my 7600, so I set it up, plugged it in, and POP! WTF? Oh... I forgot I was in Europe, and that the machine's power s…
Hello, I just got a IIci which is not working (death shime). At the moment the motherboard is drying after a good wash. Here is my problem: There is an empty wh…
I have a Mac IIci that I picked up online well over a year ago. It was filthy, and at the time I didn't have the necessary equipment to test it, so the first th…
My quadra basically stopped booting yesterday. This is the sequence: Chime HD spins up Display powers up At this point I get a gray screen and the cursor can mo…
I mean the sheer, rash, thoughtless IDIOCY that happens in this video is appalling! This idiot OPENED A MAC CLASSIC and TURNED IT ON WHILE IT WAS OPEN.
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For Sale: 1 PowerBook G3 "WallStreet" / 233MHz CPU / 256 MB RAM / 6 gig HDD / CD-Rom This machine has got a few bumps and scrapes, and the rubber was removed fr…