Hi All, My son's trusty Powerbook 540c has recently started to shut down at random while in use. After this happens it will not restart unless I unplug the powe…
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After allowing at least five of these to slip past me on eBay over the last few years, I finally picked up a Duo 2300c in good condition. It's physically near m…
A while back I attempted to install Tiger on my 266 MHZ Beige G3. Today I received a Sonnet G4/500MHZ CPU I had bought off eBay. I installed it and tested it. I…
Just found this little charmer. Yellowed as can be, and gives a "043420" error code when turned on. What I found interesting, though, was the "Maccessories Swiv…
UPDATE: PDFs are being created, please scroll down for a list! [] ]'> So back in April I went to a computer show and got some really awesome Apple items …
Onoes! The DIY SCSI PCMCIA drive and SCSI RAM disk projects that have been referenced here often are offline. Wayback machine has zilch. I'm now trying to retri…
This is actually three seperate conquests, in a way. One was entirely accidental. Seems these classic Macs just fall onto my head now I'm not looking First: 14 …
Hi, Today I picked up a WorkGroup Server 9650/350 - nigh on my idea of the "ultimate" Mac (just short of a Quad G5!). Super expandability with a super case to w…
I am having a LOT of fun picking around in these ROMs. I was trying to extract the easter egg images from the Mac SE ROM, and I've hit a bump in the road. There…
How big an improvement in eMate performance (not storage, which is an obvious enough improvement) with one of these installed? Apparently the width of the syste…
I'm using my SE/30 as a distraction free writing machine, but one of the biggest issues I have is the keyboard home keys on the D and K keys. Its an "Apple Keyb…
What use of an old Mac Quadra 700, with floppy drive and all orginal accesories? What comes to my mind: Overclock to 33Mhz, Arcada machine? Case mod? Or some ot…
Just got a Macintosh Plus from local auction site. Comes with Macintosh Plus 1Mb, Mouse, Keyboard and a box of original manuals (with disks). Too bad the case i…
KANSAS CITY, MO -- April 12, 2010 -- KansasFest, the 21st annual convention dedicated to the Apple II computer, is now open for registration. Users, programmers…
I found tons of discussions on mode32 but I'm a little confused on whether or not I need it. I just did a clean install of 7.5.3 and under About this macintosh …
Is there any way to re low-level-format a stepper 20mb miniscribe? i have one pulled from a macintosh SE and its giving me fits. of course. it works perfectly f…
Hey ya'll! I just got a free iBook G4 for helping a friend migrate data from it to her MacBook, then connecting her BlackBerry to her MacBook! Specs: 1.07GHz G4…
With the help of Byrd, I recently did a successful ROM switch from my 'dead analogue board Mac Plus' to my 'dead ROM Mac Plus'. Of course one mac had to lose, n…
Agreed today to buy this lot from a friend for $60 (text of the advert follows): 2 beige G3 Macs, 1 desktop, 1 tower 2 desktop Apple 6100/DOS Centris 660AV IICI…
I'd like to see if anyone else can test this theory... I installed Opera 10 on my 1GHz G4 iBook and enabled "Turbo Mode" which renders the pages on Opera's serv…
i am now the proud new owner of an imac g3 500mhz. yay! i got it for a bargain- 10 dollars at a yard sale! also, i just upgraded the memory to 512 megs from the…
Hey guys. My Colour Classic, as first mentioned in Bundleconquest, is doing something very strange at the moment - I adjusted the display geometry so as to make…
Perhaps there's someone out there who can enlighten me about this problem. I have a G3 400MHz Lombard with 10.3.9/9.2.2. It refuses to charge or run on the main…
I was wondering if anyone has any free software that they have used for the early versions of OS X (10.1 early). I have been looking for software because I want…
It has been quite a while since i found anything worth buying on ebay. Usually it is broken or overpriced before shipping. I found a relatively local seller who…
Hallo, I'm trying to get Cubase loaded up on a Macintosh Classic which is in my possession - it's going to be used for writing MIDI sequences to trigger events …
Is there a possible way I can use the StyleWriter I got in a recent conquest? It's the first StyleWriter, not II or anything. I got a Performa 400 with the Styl…
The campus PC repair shop has a "scrap pile" of old machines, mostly PCs, which are destined for the recycler. In the past year, I have purchased a desktop G3 a…
I'm looking for Mangia! It's a recipe software for older mac's, Does anyone know where I can find this thing? I've looked high and low, and it's nowhere to be f…
A 14" AudioVision display from 1993-94 came to me in a lot around four weeks back, and I have just gotten around to cleaning it and hooking it up to test (via a…
From MECC: Super Munchers Museum Madness Broderbund: Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego and from Mindscape (PC) Creatures! I miss this game. Gonna have to see if …
I have the original graphite Airport base and wondered if anyone has upgraded the internal card to anything better than an Orinoco Gold card? Is there anything …
One of my 12x drives pooped out...I just ordered a new old stock TEAC CD-224e (24x). The 12x drive that failed is a TEAC CD-211e. I seem to remember ordering th…
I just got what I consider one of the most attractive Macs Apple has ever made - the graphite iMac. Mine's a 600MHz Summer 2001 model, decked out with 512 megs …
I'm trying to get a HyperDrive 20 to work. The drive sits in a Mac Plus and seems to physically dead, as the logic board on the drive is working, but the drive …
This was something new I found recently on an old beast full height 1GB external SCSI Hard drive (from 1992). ABI Prism DNA Sequencing Software from 1994-1995 e…
First off, I would just like to say that the 6500/300 is one of my favourite PPC macs - probably because of the great audio (subwoofer!), relatively powerful CP…
Anybody seen the latest dock connector port pinout? I understand it changed from the iPhone 3G to 3GS. This one shows only the 3G. But here's a question, why ar…
Under 24 bit addressing there is 1M of address space assigned to each Slot. Does that mean that a video card would be limited to 1 MB of VRAM when using 24 bit …
I'm almost in total disbelief right now. Went to the tip shop today. We haven't been going as frequently since its been kinda lame over the past few months. So …
Calling all experts... Has anyone of you ever done this or have any inside info on how to do it? What I would like to do to the above mentioned machines is: 1. …
Today I was given a free Power Book G3 'Lombard' 333 by a coworker - 384Mb RAM/12Gb HDD / CD with 2 hour battery life and Apple 45W non UFO power adapter. PRAM …
I've had such rotten luck with getting a working LC motherboard, that if this doesn't work, nothing will. I call this a super conquest for me, even at $25. :bei…
So, I finally took the 280c out of storage where it's been since renovating the home office. Unfortunately, it seems to have developed some kind of keyboard pro…
I own 2 quadra 840av's and was wondering what software everyone used or is using to handle the video input and ouput, etc. Including anything they use for watch…
I believe the SE/30, and IIx ROMs are identical. Since the Mac II can be upgraded to FDHD, does that also upgrade it to the IIx ROM? I know the SE/30 can use a …
Hi there. I'm testing some of my external 400k drives. Some of them have a perculiar problem which is completely the opposite of most of these drives: When you …
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I borked the motherboard of my B&W G3 a while back, during a failed G4 upgrade? Anybody have an inexpensive one (pref rev. 2) available? Mike, I seem to rem…