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Upgrade to a 540 (33MHz) for a dollar No jokes. Not my auction, but macmetex is a reliable seller in my experience.
I was able to get a Power Mac 9600 300 with over 400 megs of ram and a Sonnet G3 300 Mhz processor card for 20 dollars.
In the Compact Mac thread I posted about possibly using my Color Classic as a virtual Apple IIe. In case that doesn't work out, I have a few questions regarding…
I just picked up off eBay a Fujitsu MAS318RNC 18GB 15K RPM HD that appears to be DOA. Have tried 2 different 80 - 50 pin adapters, 2 different SCSI cables, the …
2 questions 1 i have a 867ghz quicksilver with 10.4.11 and what looks to be a factory apple scsi atto install can i add ide drives "i have several" with the scs…
I really like both the story and history behind this 128K/Mac Plus hybrid. The eBay seller has also posted some nice high resolution images on his own website. …
I searched for an hour and did not find anything about the Trick to "clock chip" my Macintosh IIsi so it has the full 25 MHz (or even 40 MHz?) performance that …
Anyone know where one can find manuals. I just picked up a PISMO and would like to have a user manual and/or a repair manual. It has a dead main battery and the…
I acquired a IIvi the other day. Sadly, it expired within the first 5 minutes of being on I think the power supply is bad.
My apologies for being away for a while...but I return with what may be the strangest LC problem ever recorded. I got my LC out of storage on Saturday. All was …
Is there any Mac software than can do RAID 5? Disk Utility can't and neither can SoftRAID.
Hello everyone. My post serves two purposes: to introduce myself and to get some SCSI HD help. I've been building up a collection of classic Macs (68k and Power…
This might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone have a spare SE/30 logic board that's not going to be too expensive to post to the UK? I bought one cheap of…
I'm trying to set an old Quadra up as a local mailserver, sucking all the mail from one POP address at my ISP. This is the sort of thing that "fetchmail" can be…
Well.. I've got an iMAC G3 600mhz with 1 gig og ram currently running 10.4. I was wondering if it's difficult to install Os 9 on this thing, since I miss th OS.…
I awoke this morning to find an email notification that there had been a new post in one of our more popular threads here in the Compact Mac Forum. (I will refr…
Okay, I need some help on this one... My wife (bless her soul) has killed another PB, first my lombard, then my DVI and now my pismo. Alright, it was dead after…
So, having been able to play with the duo more. I have noticed that the screen has vertical lines that 'flow', half the screen one way, and half the other way. …
Is it possible to get screen burn on a 68k powerbook lcd if a machine is left on (without backlighting) 24/7? I know this can happen with a crt, but what about …
I set up the G3MT in the living room, which is not accessible to the wired network. I have set up a Netgear ME101 bridge, talking to a Netgear ME102 AP (which i…
Attention Brazilian Members! I have found 2 Macintosh computers in São Paulo that may be of interest to you. I have found a Quadra 950 and a 5200/75 in a Shop d…
According to alexa.com, 68kmla.org is ranked 561,566th most visited site on the web. You can download a text file of the top one million of their website. Thoug…
Picked up from my brother in law who just upgraded to a new iMac. Unsure if I'll keep it. I may use it to replace my Power Mac 7300 which has a G4 400mhz sonnet…
I'm updating my binhex and unbinhex tools to work on windows with Services For Macintosh AFP shares. Resource forks are held as a stream called "AFP_Resource" a…
Anyone know of any software that can display an image on a Mac Plus or SE desktop instead of the standard cheesy wallpaper from the control panel? I could have …
Greetings from Brazil! I'm traveling down here, and took the time to take a look in the Sao Paulo Electronics District. Found some things: -a Performa 6230CD (W…
Going to be collecting an older MacBook for FREE. Here's the catch: "...the hard drive and processor are fried due to a spill of wine..." I can get a new hard d…
Well -- grabbed a Classic II off Freecycle today -- little to no yellowing, 4MB of RAM, whiney caps. Original keyboard/mouse. Worked when I saw it at the guy's …
Hi all, I've just received a lovely working Powerbook 170 from ebay, the ebayer claimed it kept switching off, luckily it was a loose connection in the Power Ad…
My older brother gave me a GeForce 6200 AGP video card. It's in my PC for now but would not mind trying it out in my G4. Also I was given the use of my brother-…
just the chip and the voltage regulator from the IBM server it came from not a whoel work station so yes i got my hands on a pentium 3 xeon 1266 mhz 512 kb l2 1…
Hi, I recently got the task of fixing my friend's iBook G4. These are the symptoms: Machine turns on. Backlight comes on for 1/5th of a second, then turns off. …
Just another one of those curiosity threads, but who has actually managed to use all the ports on their 'Book? I just managed it a little earlier, and things go…
I was just wondering if anyone here who doesn't own any 68k macs uses emulators. I have been using 68k emulators such as BasiliskII on Windows since several yea…
Box full of ZIF processors. Anywhere from G3 233 MHz up to G4 450 MHz. Must be at least 100 processors and half are G4. From the recycler.
Hi, I installed the FDD that Scott Baret sent me, put the other HDD back in, and turned it on... It rejected my system disk every time. 3 possibilities of malfu…
Hey, it's been a long while since I've had a real conquest. This is gonna be my first conquest of 2009 and my first Freecycle conquest. I had put a post up on f…
I just got an excellent condition (little to no yellowing!) apple adjustable keyboard set for a total of $25. In running through my iMate I noticed that some of…
I believe this version will work with my Macally UH-275 USB PCI Card in my G3 minitower. I CAN NOT find a place where I can download this on the internet. Versi…
Okay, so I actually relatively regularly find Macintosh stuff at Goodwill stores in my area (around Asheville North Carolina), but today was particularly good, …
Just got one of these at a thrift shop for $9.00 CAD [] ]'> and it boots fine with only one dead pixel on the screen. The main battery is stone dead, and…
So tonight after I dropped off my iMac for the "Genius" to work on it, I bought this anti glare film for "MacBook", I cut it to fit my Vaio and I now have the m…
Just picked this up off of FreeCycle. The Apple Multiscan 15"av Display is very crisp. The speakers work well. The 7300/180 has O.S.7.5.5 installed. A 1.9gb har…
I have an OS 8.6b9 CD which won't mount, but I'm pretty sure still has recoverable data on it. I made an image of it using DiskDup Pro this morning. I started a…
I was paging through Mactracker, and stumbled on the Performa 6400 page, where it lists that an optional PC Compatibility Card. How popular was this card? I've …
Which is bone stock. The back plastic crumbled but the front is in good shape. One volume button is broken physically, it is a HD Floppy only model. It emits st…
...any more circles, and I think I'm going to flip out. SoI have a IIfx, with a radius video card, 128MB of RAM, a 4.xxGB, a 300e CD rom drive and a black termi…
Hmm. Never seen one of these before. I'm referring to the riser/adapter - scroll down for the larger image.