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Hi. I just got my hands on a Macintosh Classic II, shipped to me for free from a guy who said it worked fine. I plugged in the keyboard, mouse, and power, and f…
Hi, I am in the process of setting up my apple 2GS, and was informed I really need to get Guss. I have been unable to locate a download. Is this available somew…
As I got my PB150 out today to prepare it for the tutoring that I will be doing with it (which also happens to be my RetroChallenge project this year), I notice…
Well, I'm just tossing the idea around in my head (maybe this belongs in mods more?), but I can't find any info on somebody doing an ATX conversion of a G5 iMac…
A while back I found a 400mhz G4 Sawtooth for $5. After replacing the DVD-ROM drive with something I can actually use, it works except for one strange issue. Ea…
I recently acquired 2 color classics on CL and while I can boot them from an external CD drive, format the HD with drive setup 1.7.3 and install the OS, 7.1, 7.…
So I picked up this G4 Dual 1GHz MDD tower yesterday for under $50. It had no HD, RAM, or Video card. So without that all it wouldn't boot, the LED power light …
Ok, so it turns out that my uncle has an old apple II that's been sitting in the back yard with no protection from the environment for about 3 years. what i wan…
Hey Guys, I've got a question for you. So I've got this Colour Classic upgraded with a Performa 5500/6500 logic board and I've been experiencing intermittend is…
Now this is an odd find: On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training C…
Hi I wanted to introduce my parents to Apple, so i went looking for a last generation iBook G4. I found an iBook G4 (mid 2005) 1,33Ghz It came with Mac OS X Leo…
I booted it up and clicked "about Finder" but all it says is version 1.1... nothing about the amount of memory. I recently came across one of these but I have n…
Our player piano tech has a pretty nice year or so old macbook pro, and today he happened to snag the power cord just right where it ripped mostly out of the br…
i have to questions: 1.hi can someone please tell me, that will i be able to do file sharing with a pc running netware 5.0 and me running prosoft's mac client 5…
Help! Does anyone have Classic OS drivers for an Adaptec 3940UW PCI card? The Adaptec site isn't any help and a google search mostly comes up with Windows drive…
To diagnose my connectivity issue, I took my PB 1400cs down to the cafeteria today to see if the guest wi-fi was stronger down there. A physician came up to me …
I have 7.6.1 and I'd be interested in running on my IIci--since I have an accelerator and sufficient RAM it's not a dog--but I sense that there is a lot of extr…
Working for an Apple dealer has several perks. Occasionally we get some damaged or outdated hardware that customers have given us to dispose of. I haven't come …
Recent problems with my MDD inspired me to get my first TiBook as a portable media machine, but I still need to get my tower working again. It is so flaky now I…
For those who are online with PB 1400s via a Lucent Silver or Gold card, a question... My home connectivity is fine. Work connection, using the guest wi-fi in o…
Hi Board. I have a Color Classic that recently started to behave weird. When I boot the unit sometimes a weird sound occours (kind of like a fizzling sound) las…
kinda looking at my //c, it sometimes has boot issues and i have never seen the video pop up, starting with its brick on a leash I thought I would check its out…
Good news: I got a lovely 81/110 for only $10! Bad news: there were some "video" problems that turned out to be a leaked Backup Battery. The owner said it would…
I posted this to the macos9 list, but I'll also post it here. Obviously, you can get it from www.classilla.org. 68kMLA finally renders correctly! Letting Classi…
So I've been looking at putting a new clock crystal in my IIsi to get the full 25MHz out of it. I notice on Marc Schrier's page that you can get it up to 27.5MH…
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At some point over the month or two, the forums are going to move from their current home at http://68kmla.org/ to a brand spankin' new server and (not so new) …
I searched and found a thread about cleaning up the 'regular use' dirt off of a compact mac, but my problem is a little yuckier. At some point in my Mac's life,…
How "matched" do 30-pin SIMMS need to be? Is it enough that they be the same size and not less than the specified speed for the machine in question (but not nec…
Sometimes you just know when a question is targeted to one person ... So, Tom, if you have any input on this I'd be grateful. The 128K board looks virtually ide…
Here's a question: If I roll the dice and get another 1400c for the purposes of cannibalising its RAM to add to the one I have that is sitting at 32MB, will tha…
Hi all! As I said in my Micron Xceed post I managed to snag a local SE/30 with horizontal-line video, and a logic board replacement fixed it. I've read the http…
So I have a few dead 128K logicboards which were at one time upgraded to 512K. Meaning, the RAM has all been upgraded and they were fitted with Mini-Mux boards …
My SE/30 is currently in the process of an overhaul and return to stock condition - this includes returning its original analogue board to it, instead of having…
I went to work (volunteer) at the recyclers today, and while I was walking around the facility these 2 caught my eye. I am the only person there who works on ma…
Since I scored some old 68k music software, I put together a very nice condition SE to use it on. So far it works great. The hard drive I am using is a square e…
Since the death of my beloved TiBook i've been searching for a new Powerfull PowerBook. Today i bought a PowerBook G4 12" 1,5Ghz (but with 512MB ram) Superdrive…
I posted about this prior to the 68kMLA server crash, but since the data was lost I felt it time to review my past work and post an update. As many of you know,…
I posed this question on the "bringing back to life" thread but did not get any response most likely because I slipped it in as an afterthought. Although it wor…
Ok first time posting here with real macs... There is a old place in my tiny town that bills itself as a flea market, In reality its a gigantic shed full of fla…
Hey guys, A while back I got a dvd burner for my pm g4 400 MH, I was running 10.4.7 and I could burn disks, but know I upgraded for my usb 2.0 card to work it w…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…