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One of my OS 9 machines is a G4 (AGP) with an Giga Designs G4 1,4 GHz upgrade. It worked quite well for about 2 years now, until 10 days ago when it began to ha…
the computer that I am working on is: 1.33 GHz iBook G4 1Gb of ram 60 Gb Hd Running 10.4.11 Tiger the problem that I'm having is: 1) there is an apple wireless …
I am looking for these, as I would like to port a package to Lisa OS 'office' Does anyone see references to these on their legacy cd's or developer cd's? I am e…
I had bought some new equipment for my IIfx for connecting it to internet. I hadn't used it for about two years and it worked perfectly then, and now it won't s…
Sorry, I'm a little excited. This machine has been my Eleanor for many years. I've wanted one ever since I was a wide-eyed teenager staring at one in the displa…
I replaced my IIci's PRAM battery and cleaned it up a little. However, now I have a strange software issue: The mouse works, but when I get to the desktop, it s…
Ok, the title of this topic is maybe not the most original… sorry for that! I recently conquered a "dead" PowerBook 100 which cost me next to nothing. It came w…
Folks, I did all the work this past Spring, but it took me until now to upload the photos to my Flickr account. Simply put, I used both liquid and gel versions …
I've been running this 8500 with a Sonnet 500MHz G3 processor for years. I've had no issues with it and I've been quite satisfied. I've rigged this machine with…
Hi, I received my PB 3500/Kanga G3 Powerbook the other day, and set out fixing it up with a new HD and general spruce up, it came with 5GB HD and 64MB RAM (32 +…
System 6 Heaven System 7 Today ... :?: ... OS9forever Something is wrong with this picture. Discuss.
Hey everyone, FIrst time poster here. :scrambled: I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction as to what I should do with my Powe…
A question has been troubling me of late. As many of us know, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find main batteries for the first PowerBooks taking Li-Io…
I was loading Tiger onto an eMac. I booted off the external drive and opened Disk Utility and noticed the internal hard drive was red, and SMART status reported…
My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essenti…
Hey, I bought a Macintosh SE at the weekend and was so excited for it to arrive. When it eventually did arrive i turned it on to be welcomed with an electricity…
Hi everyone: I'm a new member here, and I came across this forum while searching for information about my Macintosh SE/30's debilitating SimasiMac condition. I'…
Yes, it's true. Even I am human. For those who don't know, I run the sound, lighting and technology department at a local church. I have been using my Pismo (un…
I pulled this outta the trash at my school. The ZAQ keys are dead. It looks like coffee, any fix? My cheapy Logitech Classic 200 is getting old.
Okay, so I've gotten through a couple Shadowrun novels recently, good reads. And I was thinking how cool it would be to have a Deck. And then I thought, Hey, I'…
Hi all, I know at some point I've seen some youtube video of a problem like this, so I thought I'd run this by you guys. Last night I decided to turn on my Maci…
My Macintosh SE suddenly reset itself multiple times in a row while I was just typing in Note Pad.
Look at this Ebay auction! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477983782 I couldn't believe this when I saw it. I think the price migh…
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After months of lusting for one, I finally got my mitts on the last of the ADB PowerBooks. It's the 300MHz model and the lot came with plenty of extras: DVD dri…
My Umax Astra 600S is over ten years old, so I guess it's not surprising... The glass has come loose and is falling into the well of the machine. Under ordinary…
A DB-15 to VGA adaptor with DIP switches! I'll keep this one in NJ and my other non DIPPED one in NY . Is there any advantages to having DIPs?
I just did a search for "SE" "ROM" and "Plus". The three terms together, nor each individual term returned any hits. Is there a minimum number/type of character…
GOOD NEWS! I was working with Wolf over at LEM's Vintage Mac forum and came up with an extremely simple way to copy HFS disks and images using Terminal (and I h…
My PowerBook has done this for a loooong time now, but only tonight have I managed to snap some clear shots of this phenomena occuring. Wake the machine from sl…
I have recently acquired an 867MHz Titanium Powerbook G4. Since having it the past few days, I've learned this thing has got a huge set if problems. Most of the…
From a local Freecycle pickup. Blueberry 400mhz DVD. 256mb ram and 10gb hard drive. Needs a keyboard. So far it works fine. Not sure what I'll do with it. Maybe…
Grrr! > So last night I pulled the old Mac "128" with its SuperMac 2MB RAM + SCSI upgrade outa the closet. No boot. Hard disk keeps recalibrating over &a…
I picked up a couple of 800K external drives and neither will eject a disk after being cleaned & lubed. In both cases the first little plastic gear in t…
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?noteondjtzz I haven't gotten around to compiling OSX builds yet, I need to install xCode onto my iMac (I just nuked it a c…
I'm beginning to really pull my hair out. ready to start smashing things. I am in a bit of a pickle. since no machine besides this SE/30 that i own has a floppy…
After installing system 7.5 my machine actually works a lot better, I haven't been getting any weird startup issues or anything else of the sort but as of today…
This question was posted in the software forum in a thread about System 7.0.1. Some have accused Mr. Thomas of being a spammer, although I am under the impressi…
So, since redundancy beats single points of failure, here is a snippet you can run in a bourne compatible shell of your preference. The goal is to have a comple…
I was thinking that maybe instead of just the "Software" forum we could have Sub-Forums for each of the system softwares up to OS 9? I'm not sure if this has be…
These issues aren't so major, but i'm after some ideas as to why they may be occuring. 1. When powering up the Mac from a Cold Start (such as turning it on afte…
I've been thinking about this for a little while now, and it seems to me that in my old Elementary school, there were candy iMacs that could go all the way down…
Last night I opened my 512k to record all its capacitors (I think I've found a way around my worries about lead, so now I'll be ready to replace those capacitor…
Hi all, I've posted before about my two PowerBook 2400c units that don't work. They both have a different problem. I've had little luck in trying to get trouble…
Hello all! I'm hoping that one or more SE gurus here can help point out something (simple?) that I've missed. I'm new to the compact Macs, but enjoy tinkering w…
Hi, For the first time in several years, I have unpacked my very old friend the Macintosh SE. We have moved house and I no longer have space to store her, so mu…
Anyway, yesterday I call my Grandpa (who had noticed that one of his friends had a couple old Apple ][gs, and I ended up getting one a while back), and tell him…
I read this on the site: Server bustedPosted on: 06/24/2009 So, it appears that the server issue is a intermittent logic board issue which is responsible for th…
This thread will give you a very bad impression of me, I'm sure. A few years ago I acquired an old SE 30. The other day I was showing it off to friends online, …