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It was a 3D mac game I downloaded many years ago. I used it on Mac OS 8.6 or 9. There was the hammer that you hammer nails in each level, a screwdriver to screw…
ok it is with much shame and embarrassment that i must say that i have a mac plus, and to get more than 1mb of ram working i cut the resistor -this was part of …
Fellow MLAer antoine64 sent me this Classic II in trade for a Cube power supply, and the plastics are just about perfect! Only tiny and faint marks on it, the r…
Hey Guys: This doesn't really apply to Marketplace but my Superdrive is on the fritz. It can't really read discs well and has been burning duds for the last mon…
Great haul today, as a result of winning some items on eBay and a 2 hour drive. Got the following: - Macintosh IIci, boots but couldn't get any video using my D…
I got some 2x256mb pc100 sdram chips recently, and they dont work with the iMac. They appear to be double-sided (chips on both sides). Is there an issue with do…
So I hit the North Shore last night and grabbed some stuff. Nothing too crazy: 6100/60 max ram, no hard drive, dirty case 6100/60 ? ram no hard drive, dirty cas…
Finds at the Goodwill across the street from where I work: Apple Extended USB (white) for $5, in excellent condition. Apple Pro Mouse (white) for $4, in excelle…
Picked up one last week and three more today from the recycler. All are 700 MHz Graphites. A relatively rare model of iMac, some say the rarest of all the CRT i…
OK... Order mice you've used from favorite to least favorite. You can put stuff like touchpads and pen tablets in here too! Apple Pro Mouse Wacom Tablet Hockypu…
Am I disliked on this forum? I'm just curious cause I know I'm of much help when it comes to macs older then the beige g3. :-/
Hi! I've just acquired an old Macintosh Classic. It is U.S. version with 110V power supply. I found out that someone probably tried to connect them to 230V beca…
[ To achieve a more widespread response, this post has been duplicated at archlinux.org (my distribution's forum). ] As a sort of toy to play with in recognitio…
I finally have a conquest worthy of mentioning! I recently acquired an SE/30. Turns out the battery is all corroded and damaged the motherboard, and the hard dr…
Hi, I picked up an "as is" Powerbook 1400cs/166 from eBay for ~ $25 BIN, untested. It arrived tonight with the specs of stock 16MB RAM/1.3GB HD, floppy drive, a…
I just got back from picking up a couple of Newton batteries from a fellow on Craigslist. One is a OMP battery(?) AND wall charger (Apple branded, part number H…
So I am curious. My 8500 has served me well (Thanks Orion!), but I've always wanted to toy with a dual 604e or 604ev card. Will the 8500 accept such a card and …
Hi, The time is almost here to get my Macintosh 512k working again. Pretty soon I'll be able to afford a replacement analog board for it. But I have several que…
So I am the clever and relative user of this forum Software, the torrents & LinkLists are not tolerated. You should find them yourself, taking your hand…
So the title pretty much explains it all. Sometimes when I insert a disk into the PowerBook 180, the Mac restarts! Seems okay when it does, and it only happens …
Hello. Can you find the System 7.5.2 disk images for Power Macintosh 7300 and 8500 for download? I've see the article in Apple System Software Recovery CD 1 dat…
I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, …
Are the av cards (TV mostly) for the 6500 etc. compatible with those for the LC630 etc.?
OK... I have successfully compiled every varriation of Mini vMac, plus hacked the source code to create a "Mini vMac '128Ke'" on *cough, cough* Windows, but whe…
Hi all, My most recent conquest was an eBay gem: PowerBook 500 with PowerPC for $35, "untested." It didn't have an AC adapter or a battery. So I bought another …
Hi, I saw a post about recelling a 500 series intelligent battery and it got me wondering if anyone has had any luck with recelling a Duo's NIMH battery. I love…
QuickSilver G4 Board A much needed replacement. the other one was acting up. And because I was stupid: 933MHz G4 CPU (OC'd from 733Mhz) I tried to push my G4 up…
Recently acquired a IIci, and it appears to work quite well, but there is one problem that is really annoying me. When I choose to Shutdown, the dialog saying "…
First, my apologies for the use of the word "simultaneous" without the morpheme "-ly", as is expected in the prescriptive grammar of Standard English. I ran out…
Ok, so if you read my buildup thread, you know that I have a 300 MHZ beige G3 minitower that I'm trying to install tiger on. It has 768 MB ram, rev. c ROM (reco…
Following the protracted switch between service providers the RetroBBS is now back online, hopefully without any significant interruption from now on. Mark
I had a bad hd and replaced it 2 weeks ago bad sectors. now it has stopped starting up 1 it chimes 2 i get a gray screen no pin wheel 3 nothing happens. i have …
Here's one for the conquest books... THREE brand new, sealed, shrinkwrapped, never-before-been-used copies of Word 5.1. These three are getting installed on my …
I've got spss 4.0 and haven't had any luck finding manuals. I was wondering if anyone has a scanned manual, or even SPSS 10 (which works pretty much as SPSS 13 …
Mr Power Macintosh 8500 has stopped functioning properly. While I was using Photoshop 6, the screen froze, and I was forced to press the shut down button to tur…
Hi, I'm culling some of my collection, and have been contemplating whether or not to get rid of my Iomega Jaz 1GB drive and about five 1GB discs. I recall it wa…
Please forgive my SCSI ignorance here. It seems that I've maxed out the tiny 2 GB hard drive in my Power Mac 9500. I do have an external USB drive, that only wo…
A sad discovery for vintage Macdom: I cannot read these pages on my OS9 Pismo in Mozilla. Any other browsers experiencing these problems on older machines?
I recently noticed that the Artmix CF PowerMonster SCSI adapter is once again available on eBay. There are several threads which reference this adapter on the f…
I've sent a few faxes before, but I don't remember it being this hard. I'm doing this through a computer, not a fax machine. I have scanned several documents in…
Hi, I've opened a public gate-way (read-only) to comp.sys.apple2 at my site. http://macgui.com/usenet/ I will be adding more newsgroups shortly. Any suggestions…
Maybe this is merely a coincidence of connectors, but is this what looks to be a NuBus-based computer? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "li…
Anybody got a Portable and/or PowerBook 100 up and running they would be willing to do a ROM dump for an emulator analysis? Thanks
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220396704412 I saw this on eBay last night just before bed. Thought, "eh, what the hell" and but a ma…
In the last month-or-so I have acquired three 68040 accelerator cards for use in a IIci PDS (cache) slot, and other Macs through an appropriate adapter: DayStar…
Ok, here's the deal. I have a Mac Classic II I'd like to play around with. Problem is I don't have a pc with a floppy drive, nor do I have any HD floppies. What…
Ok, the video is in reference to: 1. Yuplan keyboard install 2. 96 MB RAM install 3. CardBus hack 4. Internal Wifi installation Exciting? http://www.youtube.com…
I've noticed something new in posts lately: images. How do you do this, i.e., embed an image (.jpg or the like) in a post here?
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2) Download from http://www.uaudio.com/support/uad/archives.html the UAD Powered Plug-Ins v3.9.0:This seems to have been removed from the UA site! Anyone have a…