I believe one of the traces on my Duo's keyboard is severed or broken somewhere. I'm actually fairly sure I know which one (the one on the lower sheet which goe…
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a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is what I am getting out of my iic (keeping in mind I am using a 20mhz digital storage scope from kenwood that defa…
Yay, finally bought one off ebay after weeks and weeks of watching for something inexpensive and complete which never materialized. Payed a small fortune (~ USD…
Hello all, I am going to try this again ... The retro challenge last spring is what originally brought me to this fourm, course then I had a bad plan with a pal…
I was reading about various cooling solutions in the fall, and found a page or blog which mentioned an actual MDD G4 liquid cooling kit from a company, the comp…
OK, since NOT posting these here would make like no sense... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1651507/minivmac-dev-win32.exe These should be pretty much self-explainator…
Hi all- i have an iMac G3 slot loading with osx 10.2.8 installed. however, it's been acting very buggy lately. today it would not shut down until i removed powe…
I have a very weird issue with my MacPlus, it hangs at the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen regardless if I boot off the internal floppy, external floppy or a HD20…
hey guys, After a long hideing, I have come back, for classic mac's and what not, I have moved on to windows 7. I have to say I love it. But last week on firday…
I recently acquired a Sony Handycam mod DCR-SR68. It seems to be a nice little handycam....but when i went to import my vid clips to my Emac I found that it wou…
Can you believe it we managed to get issue two out! www.300baudmagazine.com Anyway- We have all original material, and now stand at 40 pages. Bigger better and …
There was a time when I didn't think i'd ever come back into the community again. I checked in on the troops recently though and really felt as though there wer…
I have not actually gotten the machine yet, but one of my good friends from huntsville has a mac mini and I asked him if he would sell it to me I was thinking m…
Forgive me and feel free to move this if it's not under the right category. I have a little problem with the Apple icon on the Apple menu on my IIci running OS …
So I picked up an Apple IIe with a Disk ][ from the local Goodwill. I want to buy some disks to use, but my google-fu is failing me. I seem to recall that it re…
My Macintosh IIfx. Still running after eleven years. In early 1999 I got a gift from a colleague, a graphic designer at the printing company where I had a job a…
Ah, what $60 will get you... I just picked up a //c with power supply, plus matching 5.25" external floppy drive and green-mono CRT. Includes original manual an…
Hello to all here and kudos on the great knowledge base that this site is. I'm here as someone who has proudly kept the same Performa 575 chugging along for ove…
Having not worked with floppies under OS X ever, I hope this is not too stupid a question... Is there an OS X tool to create disk images usable in, for example,…
I have a question. and i am probably confusing myself by thinking this. the mac plus ROM is 128K correct? Well i am looking at early mac schematics posted elsew…
Hello Macintosh fans, My name is Emiel, I am from Holland (somewhere in Europe). The first time a have worked with a Mac was in 1987 at the graphic and printing…
I acquired a Stylewriter II recently, it's in quite good shape, has the original cables, packing materials, and box. Does such an item have any value? I looked …
hey- just got a used iBook G4 from the bay, only $99! 8-o only problem is, the trackpad's faulty... so i bought a new top case for $12.99!. unfortunately, it di…
In my recent conquest to end all conquests (which it probably will, if my wife has anything to do with it), I acquired 5 x 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs. Naturally, I f…
I just saw an old ad for this thing, the Mac Charlie by Dayna, from 1984/85. Whatever happened to this thing? It was expected to be released in '85 for ~$1,200 …
So you just got a beige PCI Mac with no OS installed and you have Mac OS 9.1 and Ubuntu 9.10 for PPC Macs available for a clean install. Given how old 9.1 is an…
Does anyone know what opens HQX files? I assume it's StuffIt? If so, what are the TYPE and CREATOR for HQX files? The site where I downloaded all these files mu…
Ok, now I'm just really pushing things here, aren't I? Aside from my project to write a network game for the Apple II, I also want to look into Unix or any othe…
I know I should know this but: My SSID is hidden. Can I connect to in OS 9 using the built in Airport card? I know I can in OS X. This is the 500MHz IceBook. Mo…
Hello. I wanted to see what others thing of the mac clones. Any particular favorites? Mine is my PowerTower Pro. Its a hilarious fusion of mac and beige PC. Its…
I seem to remember, from a couple of years back, there being a full how to disassemble and work on/ fix a Compact Mac being archived in a directory off the main…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Symbolics-MacIvory-model-3-in-Quadra-650-workstation_W0QQitemZ110507745074 Has anyone heard of this one?
Anybody ever heard of a Total Systems Gemini 020, a logic board upgrade with 128k ROMs, 68020 16 MHz processor, power supply and fan? It requires loading a GemS…
I stumbled across an old blog post with some nice backgrounds for us retro-Mac types. Unfortunately the full-size originals seem to have disappeared. Maybe some…
The CD-R drive in my Cube is behaving erratically -- as in, not recognizing disks and randomly ejecting them. I would rather not replace it, as I have a sentime…
Looking for some advice... I have a B&W G3. It originally a 400mhz system, but a few weeks ago, I upgraded it to a G3/500 with a cheap ZIF from IC-China…
before I tell you the actual problem let me tell you what i did that led up to me experiencing the problem. So I found some software that I wanted to put on it,…
some may have already read this on lisalist... I'm still trying to run gemdos desktop but gem VDI does not run for now and I need to know if it's an emulator is…
PowerPC 7100/66 Mac OS 7.5.5 MS UAM client installed on the 7100. Connected to a 10/100 Windows ethernet network via a brand new MacSense Nubus RJ45 ethernet ca…
Hey guys! Another conquest, a few days old, but still fresh enough imo. First the pictures, then some of the stuff that didn't make it through the photography. …
I am buying this really beat up BlackBook from my friend for 140$ including an installation of Windows 7 on his current UMPB (Windows Tiny7 No key needed } ) I …
BACKGROUND: So I picked myself up a decent-condition, "not working" Classic II on eBay a month ago. The listing showed it powered on with the checkerboard scree…
PowerBook Pismo (FireWire) Keyboard Hack { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested…
Too rich for my blood, but read it and drool: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-PowerBook-1400C-Vintage-New-Sealed-G3-Ready_W0QQitemZ280461029188QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAppl…
Hey folks, first post here. For about a year now I've been working in the office of a warehouse/trucking company. The warehouse here is chock full of old junk t…
Shouldn't the beige G3 be in with the PCI Powermacs since it's an Old World machine?
i understand that there is a bit of a speed gain in a file system's performance when you mount it with asynchronous writes enabled, but there is the risk of los…
Hello all, I recently acquired a PowerBook 540c. So far, I'm very happy with it, blah blah and blah. Anyways, as I was snooping around the System Folder, I noti…