Hello: This is my first post here and I am hoping someone will be able to suggest what I should do next. Sometime ago I was given a 180c without a power supply.…
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WoOt! I won one of the items I have been looking for, for a while. 1 used Powermac 6360 for $36.65 ;D Hopefully it arrives in good shape, but so long as the pow…
Link Cost $15 shipped, not too bad hopefully. I plan to max my second Macintosh LC out with one of the sets and save the other two for later projects.
I pulled my trusty BookKeepin' 2300c out of mothballs when all my other computers were temporarily belly-up. It's a nice feelin', all warm-n-fuzzy even, to fire…
I picked up 4 b&w g3s which I believe 2-3 of them have hd/ram a beige g3 a perfect condition powerbook 180c w/ power adapter an performa av (might be us…
I need to be able to remotely access our network/internet connection while away from home. If I were to connect to an Apple Remote Access server, I know it woul…
I just had to share. I've had a string of bad luck with a 2400c I had so I bought a cheapo "parts machine" off of eBay awhile back and thought it'd be good to c…
I'm trying to connect a SCSI HD to the Mac Plus, but for some reason, it's not recognizing it. Actually, it's not even recognizing that the drive is connected. …
I am stumped. I bought a new 1.2gb Apple-branded SCSI seagate "hawk" for my 550. First bit of weirdness, the screw holes for the sled do not match up. I cannot …
Hello! I'm upgrading my performa 630 (now have 136mb ram), and i'm looking for a full 68040 chip (with FPU), anyone knows where to get this cheap chips? (no eba…
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Please go pick this up now! I'd gladly reimburse for a couple 57X's next time I'm over there. Also a $5 IIgs, some early PMacs ... good day for vintage computer…
Anybody got a link for a free download? My head hurts from all the freakin' marketing-ploy garbage polluting Google hits these days. jt xx(
Hi, In a recent post I commented on having to strip down my Powerbook 2400c to replace a scratched/dim LCD panel with one I purchased on eBay for .99c many moon…
Now that I've got a long Torx-15 screw driver, I'm having a lot more fun in the repair shop with my old Macs. I finally got to see why my Classic II was present…
I found an iBook G3 clamshell on Craigslist today for $50 which said it was "locked" and needed to be "unlocked". What they meant was they didn't know the admin…
So I was working on a client's Mac Mini, and I found a 10.2 Disk 1 in the CD Drive. I shot an email to the owner and he said that he had no use for that and tha…
I want to use a zip drive with my SE30. Where can I get a suitable Omega driver on a Mac disk? I would need installation instructions as well. Rollie44
I picked up a g5 dual 2ghz today it came with no ram, the fans in front of the g5s are missing, no video card and no ram (it does have a super drive though). No…
Well I finally got to testing the 5300s I conquested in the huge powerbook lot a few months ago, and the failure rate of apples first PPC and its 68k brother, i…
Hi guys, Today I managed to win an auction for a Commodore Amiga 2000 from a local seller. The seller was great (and may be a source of more vintage gear in the…
What happened to the cheese thread in the Lounge? I was interested to learn if any members from Canada had tried a cheese I mentioned (Le Migneron de Charlevoix…
I started the restoration of the Macintosh SE today. It had been sitting with its cover off for a week, and had been sitting for a week before that. Today I mad…
I need to get my hands on the Newertech MAXPower G3 PDS 1.0.3 driver. The copies from Newertech and emac sales are both corrupt. EIther they were compressed on …
I will be receiving one of these SCSI-to-GPIB (IEEE-488) adapters in a few days. Only cost $20 plus postage too. Trouble is, it's over 20 years old and not even…
Hey, I created this account in case I get an iMac G3, and me and my brother share a PC, so as you can see I'm a bit of a beginner when it comes to computers. :-…
I stopped in a Goodwill computer store today to check out what they had. The prices were good on some items, OK on others. However, one display that I was drawn…
I have just bought an indigo G3 400mhz (slot loader cd model) off eBay for £10 Sure I admit it's not as if they are not readily available but it's my first owni…
i have tried everything, but it just dosn't boot, and the old cd drive is destroyed so i can't install the system, anyone knows why this happens? just an incomp…
Well, I have an overupgraded Powermac 7200, with G3 Card, 208mb RAM, ATi Rage VR, and Gigiabit Ethernet. The ATi Card Driver was terrible. It would cause the sy…
Hi everyone, I am hving a little problem with my Quicksilver machine, wonder if you can help. I purchased have a 2001 QS machine. I would like to run Mac OS 9 o…
I've had to ask this before... and now I have to ask again.... Though this time it's been a while. Videomonitor pro had a code lockout as it was shareware.... a…
I recently acquired an AsanteTalk Ethernet-to-LocalTalk bridge for my Macintosh Classic II. It was never used by the person who gave it to me, and it looked pre…
I don't know what to say.... a forum devoted to 68K Macs? I think I have found heaven on the internet. I really don't know what to say, ummm... err... I'm a lon…
I invited Faith no More round....... Maybe not But my Stylewriter 1200 printer had been a faithfull workhorse for many years, until my second son was born (seco…
I bought a modem/router with ethernet ports and wireless. I connected it to my Quadra 650. The display on the 650 started flickering/rolling. Is there any reaso…
So on my original Macintosh LC (the one I just rebuilt) it refuses to play nice with any external SCSI device. The weird thing is that internal SCSI works fine,…
Okay, I've read the famous PDF about classic mac procedures, and I'm pretty sure I need to fix the solder connections on the J1 connector. I'm a little unclear …
After hearing about it for years I finally bought a copy of Hard Disk Toolkit. It's version 2.0 and the manual is a hulking beast of a book. I've used just abou…
I didn't use the word problems in the title because i mostly have small issues with it. I'll list 'em here... The battery is dead and will not hold any charge. …
I made two posts here exposing a recently registered user to be a spammer: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10574 The spammer's post, as well as my two posts, were r…
Somehow I'm pretty sure I managed to score a working LC575 motherboard with an ethernet card onboard, and it is supposed to arrive in the mail later this week! …
So I bought a NOS floppy disk drive cleaning disk with cleaning liquid. Problem is that the cleaning liquid bottle won't dispense liquid. > Should I be a…
Picked these up at the HAAUG swap meet last weekend. I offered them all cash, but all refused. I'm puzzled by people's lack of appreciation for high quality cla…
I have successfully managed to resurrect my 20MB MiniScribe which I pulled from my SE that I acquired last month. The SE was powering on with the common flashin…
Hi, This is my first time posting here... I've been a Mac user for a long time, and have a few classic systems in my collection that are running fine now, but I…
Hi! I've been thinking. The only real way to make sure we still have powerbook 5XX machines that aren't in a million pieces for any meaningful amount of time is…
Hey, does anyone have the procedure to overclock the 6200 motherboard from 37.5mhz bus to 40mhz? Takashi's 6xxx overclocking site hasn't been around for awhile(…
Running QEMU's user-mode emulation to run WINE on Mac OS X powerPC? If so, tell me if it was worth it, I want to know if I should devote the time to getting it …
HEY EVERYBODY! MY NAME IS RICHARD, AND THE REASON I AM MAKING THIS POST IS THAT I WAS WONDERING SOMETHING ABOUT SCSI "MICRODOCKS" FOR POWERBOOK DUOS. MY QUESTIO…