G'day, Currently I'm recapping my old IIsi mobo after the video stopped working. Here's hoping it's just caps. Anyway, I've got a Daystar 33mhz 040 accel that I…
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Hey all, First post for me. I recently dragged out my SE/30 out of the garage. A friend was nice enough to donate it to my growing collection of retro computer.…
This thing has been one problem after another. Booted it up today to see this: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previ…
In my Quest for Towers... I acquired a beige G3 server to compliment my 9600s. I found it through LEM swap for a great deal. G3 Server, 333MHz processor, 512MB …
When the disk is inserted, the read heads go straight to the center, stop, then eject the disk. Is this just a disk drive issue or does it go deeper?
So I listed my powerbook 140 for sale in the marketplace, and this weekend i thought id test it to make sure it still works. Dead. Got my Fluke 117 Multimeter, …
Does anyone have one of these rebadged Canons from 1993? There seems to be little information on the web about them, and I can't even find a decent picture of o…
I have a HD20 SC that works great when attached to my SE, but will not boot up either one of two Mac Plus machines. The manual says I need the "Hard Disk 20SC I…
This isn't really a peripheral... Many compact Macs came standard with a lock roughly dead-center on the back of the case. The icon next to the slot is of two l…
Hello everyone, I have a SCSI ethernet box Asanté EN/SC which worked fine for many years but then stopped working suddenly. The symptoms are: no matter which ap…
I recently bought an Apple /// (256k model), Monitor ///, Disk /// external drive, manuals, and software. All of the units are cosmetically in amazing condition…
Anyone ever heard of this? I can't find it online. I'd be curious to see my Portfolio interface with a Mac. Let me clarify... this is a Mac application, purport…
a friend sent this to me In seamlessly compiling System 6/7 era software in a modern open source compiler to yield "real" OS X apps. Pretty amazing. The guy ret…
Okay... So let's not start with whether the SE can run a version of Unix or Linux (etc). If it had an FPU, maybe I'd be more interested in trying but my origina…
Got these in the mail today, $20ish for the lot. Supposedly dead, so going to reference and replace capacitors to see where that takes me. I better keep them in…
Hi, on System 7.1. and 7.5 I cannot choose another partition of my external drive to boot from. I can click on e.g. the 2nd partition/volume in the control pane…
Welp, it came to a point where I was without a daily Mac recently after my G5 2.0DP developed those logic board issues, and after percervering for a few days wi…
So I'm trying to figure out any sort of method to get information onto my imac without having to buy stuff. I'm a windows person so naturally I just have no ide…
Either the shimmering box or a random system error will come up randomly after 10-15 minutes of use. It doesn't matter what version of the system is being used,…
I just acquired a 14" PowerBook G3 233 MHz (Wallstreet) as an alternative to my Beige G3 tower for making floppies for my older Macs. It's a beauty for sure ( p…
I received two PowerBooks G3 for parts. One of them was complete, but not working, the other one was missing some parts, so I made one from two. But I want to g…
Have any of you experienced this with MDDs, or maybe other Macs? When I power them off after use, I cannot get them to start again until momentarily unplugging …
Posted this on FB, but not everybody's there so here.. Any software suggestions for imaging / reading Macintosh 3.5" disks (400k, 800k and 1.4Mb) more deeply th…
Anyone know of a model of inkjet printer with drivers to support a PPC machine running 10.4? I'm guessing by this day and age, one might find one with drivers f…
I have an iBook G3 14'' with ram installed but without hard disk and when I try to boot it makes 3 beeps and then nothing.The previous owner said that it was de…
I have been searching for a Mini DIN 8 to DB9 cable to use as a null modem cable from my Macintosh Plus. Would an Imagewriter II 590-0332-b cable work for this?…
I was recently given a PB180c to replace the one that died on me 12 years ago and I'm trying to get together some software to put on it. Right now I'm wondering…
Hi all, I have just gotten myself an SE for CHF50 and it brings back memories. It was first Mac that I ever used - on Dec. 16, 1989, SuperPaint 1.81. It was a r…
Hi! Do you guys know what this card is for? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The reques…
Some of you may have seen my WTB inquiries for a top end 9600 and Daystar Genesis this last week or so... Well, as I began reading and searching for a machine, …
Hello, i have the sonnet g3 at 500mhz installed in my performa 6116. I would like to ask what is the real speed that the performa can have with the card. At the…
Hi all. The Wikipedia article about "Power-on self-test" talks a little bit about the Macintosh POST. It says this about Macs after 1998: "In the event of an er…
Picked this up today dirt cheap (less than $5). Not sure if it was a Lisa 2 or XL yet but either way someone really didn't like money. { "lightbox_close": "Clos…
[SIZE=medium]Recently I bought an Apple IIGS from US. I live in Europe and want to convert the power supply from 115 volts to 230 volts if its possible. The PSU…
I've seen photoshop 5.5 available with media but is this the best version for Ppc with my setup?
After a long day of traveling I'm finally resting at my hotel with a trunk (pictured) and a back seat (not pictured) full of fun: It will be pretty obvious wher…
I have a Classic II with a couple of issues. Before washing and recapping it, it would boot maybe 20% of the time, and otherwise would give a checkerboard patte…
Neat article about BMOW's writeup about a rewritable ROM based on work from Rob Braun and Doug Brown: http://hackaday.com/2014/12/23/rewritable-rom-for-the-mac-…
I am testing a PB 170 which has a bad hard disk drive. I connected the HD-30 SCSI dock adapter to it, but at startup it won't enter SCSI disk mode, instead it j…
I think I have a disk with some early versions of BASIC for the Mac on them but it's hard to search using "Mac" and BASIC" on Google to do some research. I have…
I got my Mac 128k today. I was hoping it was fairly complete as discussed in another thread here recently: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/24452-orig…
I went to my electronics surplus shop today and my sales guy wasn't there so I was paying full price for everything. I didn't get much, just an extended keyboar…
Hey all, I'm new here so thought I'd say hi! I've been collecting for a few years, and I love macs. I initially had a small collection of Powerbook protos which…
Hi every one! I'm glad to be here. (This is my first Topic) I´m having problems to install the 7.1 at my LC III its been a long since since the mac is power off…
I am posting this because I wish it had shown up in Google when I was googling about my issue. Using a Duo 2300c with 7.6.1: I recently acquired an ethernet mic…
i have an iMac G3 400mhz without a hard disk that starts fine (bong sound) but no display. i tried 3 different external VGA LCD monitors but none of them displa…
So, this isn't really my conquest, but I'm at least storing, sorting, and repairing for a piece of it. CC_333, his mom, dad, and mori512 helped all helped out a…
Hi all, This is a newbie question — I have never done this before. What PCI card with video-in do you recommend? It will either go in my B&W G4 or into …
Any thoughts? My Power Mac 6100/66 is supposed to (I believe) be natively supported.