Was with a customer today, when he showed me some old stuff the he had, and told me to take whatever I wanted. Saw an Apple OEMed Maxtor 10GB which I grabbed. N…
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Well FedEx smashed up my favorite compact mac in transit to its new owner. So Is it possible to transfer the innards into a CLassic case? I would assume no, but…
I have G4 AGP (450Mhz) which I have just upgraded with a Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz processor and I have been running it ok for about a week and a halve with tiger 10…
I found 3 classic macs on the dock of a Computer place i go to. One is a working Macintosh SE, the other is a nonworking SE FD/HD and the other is a Mac Plus. I…
I nearly pulled the trigger on Sawtooth last night but thought better of it. It had a Sonnet upgrade in it and the final price was below what I would have put i…
I am having some trouble installing a system on a CF card installed in a 2300c via an IDE-CF adapter (Chinese & utterly generic). The attempt thus far, …
So my friend offered me some gear: an 8600 which I stripped. I took the RAM (8x64MB sticks), the VRAM, CPU (Sonnet 400MHz G3 512k Cache), AV Module, PRAM batter…
Free. Zero. Zip. Nada. I'm not sure of its specs yet except it has a Seagate 40gb hard disk. The reason it went for free is some complete idiot decided to flick…
Hi, I'm in a good mood; today me and my dad were over at the house we're trying to sell, to clean up the yard and stuff. While there, I picked up our hp Photosm…
Got this from techfury90 a few days ago, for free, I guess it could be considered an early birthday present. (My birthday is July 18th, btw, so get your package…
I spotted a "SCSI DVD-RW" external drive on eBay that was selling at a reasonable price. The enclosure was definitely Wide SCSI but the mechanism was ATA/IDE. I…
I got this one from the flea market. It came with a P3-600 processor, no memory and no hard drive. I've added some memory and it is now running Damn Small Linux…
I'm wondering, why is it that when I play an MP3 on my Performa 6200CD in iTunes, that it only plays the mp3 and then isn't responsive at all? In some cases if …
I noticed Arfink and Gobabushka are looking to use a Tandy 102 in the challenge, that is cool. Do either of you have the expansion based that allows the Tandy 1…
[For those of a non-UK disposition, the title is what's called 'Yorkshire' - an offshoot of English whereby letters and sounds are just randomly ignored] I land…
Both from Mactalk, yet to receive: - Stripped G4 Quicksilver with "1Ghz" CPU. I'm 99% sure Apple didn't make a single processor G4, so hoping this is a dualie! …
...or, "Can I start early?" I know I said that I couldn't do an endurance challenge real well, but on the night of 10 June, my Pismo was forcibly removed from m…
Ok I have asked at the lisa list but I will also ask here (68kmla has always been so helpful) so if you are part of the lisa list I am sorry you have to read th…
658 pieces of BU40.... --wait for it--..........7 transistors starting at $.99. I checked the datasheets and the ratings for collector-base and collector-emitte…
Just picked up a Lombard 333 Powerbook and a Tangerine iBook 300 = $0. The Lombard has 128MB/4G/CD -no DVD decoder- and the iBook 64MB/6G. Both in perfect worki…
Well I bought a Monitor II, Apple IIe, Disk II, Parallel Pro Card, 80 column card, etc. It was complete in all the boxes, with manuals and disks, and extra part…
I am wondering. You can put a 6200 motherboard into an LC 580. You can also put a 6360/6400/6500 motherboard into a 6200/6300 IF you also change the power suppl…
Hi there, Recently got a Classic II, which sat outside for a number of days... I let it dry for some time (about a week or so), before trying something else. Af…
You know that guy I got the Compaq LTE 5300 a while back? He said he had more stuff for me a few weeks back, and today he delivered. Highlights include: A Belki…
Maybe we could have a thread for stuff like this? Just an idea. Anyway, Today I took trash out to the dumpster and found these screwed to some fiberboard: http:…
The other week I went with a mate to a recycling centre, and after a quick look around, headed for the computer section, pretty bare, couple of PCs, and then I …
I noticed that the BBS seems to support multiple terminal types. What types, other than vt100, are supported? Specifically, is there Tandy 100 or Tandy 102 supp…
this has got to be one of the more decked out PM 9500 Systems out there. Though not everything is as decked-out as can be, the harddrive is over kill I picked u…
They're home!!! Today I got (for free): A Beige Mac G3 (9/6/1998), an iMac G3 (233 Mhz), a Macintosh Classic (June 1991), a Style Writer II(1992), two Power Com…
So yesterday I went to power up my iMac, only to have it not boot. It worked fine on Friday night, so yeah. I power it up, and I the fan runs, and the power LED…
as you all have seen the thread about the 9500, it refused to boot to video last night. It's using a Radeon 7000 PCI, but now it won't even boot to video with t…
Got the following from a local Freecycler last week: - Lime iMac/333Mhz tray-loader - 9600/300 - Sawtooth G4/400MHz I'm installing 10.3 on the iMac. The 9600 ha…
I picked this up in the trading post from thisoldmacsupport. He had it listed for parts, as it wouldn't boot. The pram battery was dead and the hard drive fried…
Not been around much lately (bad personal stuff) but have still been liberating with notable new additions being: A pristine eMate 300 (complete with original P…
First conquest post... and let me remind everyone that Craigslist is your buddy [] ]'> Picked up a Powerbook 180 with AC Adapter for $20. It wouldn't tur…
i checked out my local pc store they hate macs. it looks good but no ac adaptor and it has bad written on the battery will the machine start with an ac adaptor …
Does anyone know what the voltage of the PRAM Battery in an LCII is? Is it possible to emulate it with AA(s)? Thanks!
I know that this thing is an accelerator for an SE. But, there were at least three different accelerators with similar specs from three different companies, and…
Hi there... I bought a couple of extended II motherboard to test. I'd like to have some functioning spare parts to address bad eveniences. I deeply washed them …
Hey guys, new user on this forum. I have an old Quadra 650, first computer I ever owned. Used it for years but a few years ago the HD burned out. I figured this…
Hi, I've not had any cheap luck on eBay for months, Friday the 13th came through though! Centris 650: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&r…
What kind of hard drives work with the PowerBook 500 series notebooks? Are they interchangable with other Apple laptop hard drives? Thanks for the info.
I finally had time to open up an SE/30 with an eye to geometry today. Well, okay, partly I was checking whether this new batch of 50V 105C 470 uF caps would fit…
Over the last day or two, I've picked up a couple compact Macs and related parts. I got an SE, but its hard drive (one of my favourites: the Miniscribe 8225!) w…
I saw an ad recently from someone about 50 miles away with two beige G3's without hard drives for free. One is a desktop and the other is a MT. I don't know if …
yeah, I have one of these beasts. I upgraded the RAM heavily, and put in a large 20gb HD. For the longest time it was booting with no video, but something told …
I have an LC 520, and it no workie. I set it up, flick the rear power switch to on, and it makes a really quick (seemingly shorter than usual) CRT-energizing no…
Well last week I powered up my iMac to discover it had gone deadskies. It'd boot to the Apple logo (Jag 10.2. 8) , and then freeze, and display static. (like a …
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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…