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My plus mouse seems to have developed a problem with it's wire losing electrical connection right at where it attaches to the mouse body. If i flex the wire to …
Hello! I'm a lurker around here but I thought I'd post this so I can pointed to some much needed resources. I just purchased a very, very nice Lombard from its …
Would someone take a look? Pic is probably a couple of meg in size ("bad" ? circled in red, "good" ? in blue) http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3443/capsuq.jpg…
. . . or so I would hope, it can't get any worse than the way they shipped these things. I'm hoping that configuring the airflow as originally conceived by the …
I was wondering about the feasibility of making new 30-pin SIMMs and wanted to see what thoughts members here might have. Finding 16MB modules can be bit tough …
Barn is right... mouse poo ick. got a NeXT Station with megapixel display, Sun SPARCstation 5 with monitor, BeBox, and a DEC Multia. along with a pile of 'stuff…
Hey, everybody. While I'm in the process of repairing an SE/30 logic board (SCSI failure), I figure now or never would be a good time to post here for reference…
I'm proud of present you a new Mac Os 9 application: FreeStyle 1.0. Well not so far, just a new version of the "Waste 2.1b1 Demo" text editor. With several cras…
If it's genuine and the backstory is true, this one is my coolest conquest in years. Well, I have to confess I haven't conquered that much lately… I bought that…
Hi everyone... my first post I've been following the boards for a while now and thoroughly enjoy reading about Compact Macs...my new hobby. I've been a Mac user…
I received this along with a dual floppy Macintosh SE for free. The 20 MB Hyperdrive would spin up, but the data had become corrupted i suspect because it was l…
Since my Perfomra 475's hard disk appears to be broken , I had decided that there was another way I could use my mac. My plan was as follows: I had made two dis…
I've got a couple of goodies coming from Sonnet, my favorite accelerator supplier (since the untimely demise of Radius :'( ) for my favorite (BOTH from Radius […
I have a :lc: (Performa 475). It had a dead PRAM battery, so I had wired it up to a voltage regulator that I had built, powered from a transformer. I then chang…
Just got this off a guy who wanted to give it a good home for free. Have not even got it home yet to test but I am stoked. That full page apple display looks co…
So I just pulled my 1GHz TiBook out of the closet for the first time in a while, only to find that it's now forgetting the date & time and leaving the L…
Here is another brainstorm topic if anyone has some comments into technical issues with this idea. I am trying to see if I can adapt the PDS pass-through slot o…
Hello everyone, I have an old Macintosh Plus, which I bought off eBay. I wanted to use a mac serial decoder to find information on it, but the serial number on …
So, I've got an ongoing problem with one of those "manta ray" looking Etherwave adapters. I had it working with 7.5.3 and Open Transport - TCP/IP worked nicely,…
Got this up in Covington for free from a guy who got it from his grandmother and wanted it to have a good home. Plugged it in, booted it up and nice os 7.5 with…
Hi everyone, As I've posted in the conquest thread... you guys know I had an Indigo iMac G3 which suffered from case problems. Well I pulled some strings and en…
I am looking for the free update from 8.x to 8.1.2 from the now defunct Connectix. If you have a copy, please post or send a PM, thanks!
I haven't used a Mac in over 20 years, so assume I know absolutely nothing. And to prove how little I know, they may be the most nubie question ever: Just bough…
So I'm close to having my second most favoured Mac back; a Powerbook 5300c I used all through high school, only to have the screen shatter! Well Beachycove was …
Could not resist as saw this offered for free. Powermac G5 with replaced 80Gb HDD. No idea of model & speed, the ad did not say and i did not ask ;D How…
Found this morning an Apple II Joystick, this is not an Apple branded product, but an Hayes one. It was boxed and dirty, and when i asked for the price, i get a…
So with a load of macs I got last month or so I got 5 accelerators for macs and have 4 identified I think. So I'll describe them maybe you can shed some light a…
I just saw this today, figured I would share it with everyone. Apple has disabled software update for all Macs running OS 10.3 and earlier, and also Mac OS 9 (a…
Bought these from fellow european, Slomacuser, among a pile of Macintosh games for a friend (split the postage). Can't wait to install that card to maxed out LC…
I have been using os 9.2.2 on this machine for months with no issue. I had panther installed only to use my hp deskjet f300. I havent booted panther in awhile b…
I bought one of these today untested, but with a 7 day return period if it doesn't work. It looked immaculate and would, I thought, make a very nice companion f…
Anyone have the MacPaint Woodcut file they can link to? I'd love to be able to display it again on my Mac. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next",…
Does anyone know of a utility to read/write to PRAM? I'm thinking of something that could be used to restore system config on bootup when the machine doesn't ha…
Just poking around the back of the local computer store today, lots of stuff, mostly printers. Found: iMac FlowerPower - Man, is this thing UGLY! Mainly took it…
Hey, my first post! So, I was wandering about my local thrift, and in the "collectables" section I see what looks like an older mac laptop in pretty good condit…
Got these today from a friend, a sales guy who have worked with Apple since 1980/81. He find these from his summer cabin among lots of other things. Hope i can …
Conquered a few devices lately. Vintage iDevices. Up first, my friend threw his old iPhone 2G at me. 8GB. Screen is in good condition, won't go past iOS 3.x.x s…
Hi, I'm wondering how many of you have already started with recapping 128K-Plus Analog Boards or the SE series. Even though the capacitors still look fine and t…
While working on another project I thought it would be best to double check some info on how the Sun Remarketing SCSI card for the Lisa would behave with the Li…
Do they have them? for the CPU? and if so which software OS9 or should be used to get the data? Just wondering because I would like to swap out all the fans to …
Does anyone know where to get a replacement ribbon for the ImageWriter II printer? I got one with my IIgs and I'm going to need a new ribbon.
I scored a working HD20 for $45. Not bad considering they're pretty scarce in working order and they usually go for $100+ on eBay. My 128K and 512k are on the b…
Yes, it is actually a chore to put a 5.25" hard drive in your Lisa. There regular drive cage has no mounting holes to accept a regular 5.25" device. There's onl…
As i have come across lots of IIci and IIcx cases, and less PSU's to run other than one (!) of them, i thought, as i really do not like the design of, putting a…
I have been thinking for a while about the various versions of the Macintosh OS that came on machines such as, for example, the Performas. Remember 7.1P? That's…
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I have an SE/30 and of course has low sound and no boot chime ( I have some spare analog boards to try as the caps and board look pretty good ). My biggest issu…
i have the eMac Mac OS 9.22 installed and i am dual booting OSX 10.4.11 Everything in Tiger is fully updated. I've been using it lately as my every day computer…
So I have an SE/30. It's FD is dirty and I want to upgrade its RAM. BUT whoever had it last was a real idiot not to replace the screws, instead gluing it back t…