My favorite G4 of all time is the MDD and I've never owned one, until now. I shopped around looking to replace my G4 GE and found an auction for a dual MDD 1GHz…
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The local Craig's list finally had something good on it. A former Apple dealer advertised a bunch of vintage Mac stuff, so I went to look today. Amazing! Probab…
Hey all - I've been thinking of a project built around an SE, and had a couple of questions. One of the things I'd like to do is drive an LCD as the primary dis…
I guess this goes here. It's neither a NuBus or a PCI Mac. It only has PDS. 5200/75 LC shows question mark booting from hard drive. When booting from Mac OS 8.5…
OK, so the story was that at school around two months ago, there had been a ton of Macintosh (and PC)-related items that had been taken out of storage and were …
Hello everyone, I have a Macintosh SE that I was going to put up for sale on craigslist cheap or free since it seems to have an issue. When turned on the hard d…
My family had a Quadra 840av for a while -- it just went to the recycling center about a year ago. I just looked it up and I'm kind of pissed that I didn't know…
As some of you who venture into the depths of IRC may know, I recently installed Gentoo onto my powerbook lombard. Everything has been doing great, but I got ki…
Hey fellow Newtonians! I need your help in fixing my eMate! The short of the story... I had it sitting in a chair under my dining room table. I had tomato's sit…
So I was having lunch with my aunt and uncle yesterday and we started talking about my mac collection. My aunt mentions that they have some sort of mac word pro…
One of the many things I got in a trade today was a sweet AGP G4, but I can't seem to get it online, I set the network stuff to automatic and tried rebooting an…
Hi everyone! Im glad this forums are still alive. Im working on liberating an old Quadra 700 which I got as a gift, and I also got an external Yamaha SCSI CD bu…
Got burned out trying to ressemble my Pismo, so I took a Lombard on my long trip. It worked great, without giving me a bit of trouble, but it became a big weigh…
20lbs watermelon for $10 http://www.troubleshootnow.com/coius/watermelon.jpg Red and sweet in the middle
Yesterday at the local Goodwill computer works I picked up a sealed box of 10 Verbatim 800k floppies for $3.00. These are prefect for the 512k I want to get goi…
hey guys, I am trying to get my beloved eMate 300 synced to my desktop. I recently bought a USB to DB-9 serial adapter with mac drivers. It works flawlessly wit…
Well, the domain was supposed to be renewed last night... but I guess something went wrong with it. Until we get it sorted, the forums will be up here at 68kmla…
Hey everybody, I hate to resort to this shameless begging, but here goes... We aim to provide this site as a free resource but, as I'm sure you can imagine, we …
Hi Folks, Sorry for this posting this here instead of the trading subforum, but I wanted to make sure anyone that needs the things i have gets this message. I a…
Me and a freind liberated a IIe from school and it works great, and is sweet to look at and play with but with no software it is just eyecandy. I was wondering …
I was at a favorite thrift store of mine and I found 2 IIe's with various card in them got both for $25 before taxes, neither of them are working (one just soun…
OK so it's not exactly a Mac (well it's in no way a Mac in any sense and has no connection with Macs, Apples, Cupertino or Lord Jobs) but picked up a cardboard …
I have a question, my dual 450 G4 is having logic board issues, I am wondering if I can swap that CPU to my single 450 G4 powermac.
After my misfortune with the Quicksilver G4 (which may still see life) I have been given a second chance at an upgrade with this haul, along with one of my all-…
My Power Mac G5's power supply failed. One of the brown pillow-shaped resistors started burning up as I was using it. The one next to it burned a little bit as …
Just got a new battery for my Lombard. When I push the button on the battery it shows three lights so I assume it is charged. However it will not boot the Lomba…
Are the battery cells in Pismo/ Wallstreet batteries matched in any way with the battery controllers? In other words, is there any point in re-celling a main ba…
I have been reading about how you can use a Quicksilver CPU in a Digital Audio powermac, but it has to have a 12 Volt connection, anyone here know how to do tha…
Wow. I just found a huge lot of stuff. Here is a quick list: PowerMac 7100/66av -Is full of nubus cards A second 7100. Its a /80 Powermac G4 Quicksliver 867- 1.…
Before I begin I'd like to apologize beforehand for my complete ignorance in this matter. I know how to reinstall OSes for my other Macs, but ever since I got t…
Hello all :b&w: I saw a dead PowerBook 2400 floating around a local auction website and starting price is just HK$99. The seller should be an experience…
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This is the second PowerBook 165c I've owned. The first one was given to me many years ago and I used it for a long time until I started getting problems with t…
Yes, I weakened and bought the iSub I was selling for work. $47. When I get around to repairing/modding it, I'll post in Peripherals. I also nabbed a nice iMac/…
I saw on ebay a Powermac G4/733 with a 20 GB hard drive. Model number was for a G4 Sawtooth. Picked it up for 101 bucks with shipping. I am amazed that i got a …
$25.00USD Need to get ready for my PowerMac G4 I am getting from MacDan So I figured, why not get a decent card? It may have been expensive, but anything other …
I have a PowerBook 1400, and sometimes, when I plug it in to AC power, it doesn't recognise that I have done so! It gets a draw from the adapter only about 75% …
Sealed New In Box LaCie 4 GB SCSI Drive - $10 Claris HyperCard Development Kit - Promotional Not For Resale - $4.94
Now THIS really piqued my interest (found this thanks to Slashdot): http://news.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view/2008_08_04_Designers_on_quest_…
Does anyone know enough about HyperTalk to help me solve a fairly basic problem that's giving me grief? I need to make a countdown timer in a field, which is ac…
OK, picked up a brand new in package Apple IIe card of ebay and a used Performa 550. Current OS is 7.5.3. plugged the card in the PDS slot. inserted the IIe car…
I ordered 20 800k floppy disks from DisketteConnection.com for my Macintosh SE, and they arrived today. Needless to say, after the SE formatted it, the floppy d…
Alright, here's what we got: A IIsi that won't show video. Have a real mac monitor, so we can take away all the hubub about getting a vga monitor to work. Only …
This is an idea that's related to the System 6 Browser topic, but I don't think it belongs in that thread. How feasible would it be for someone (not me) to writ…
As some of you may know, among my Macs is a Macintosh Centris 610. Is it pronounced Centris six ten, or Centris six hundred and ten? -Apostrophe
I just found a really cool booklet (even cooler to me as I'm a graphic design major) in great condition entitled "Guidelines for Using the Apple Logo, Signature…
I had put up a wanted ad on freecycle about two months ago stating that i was looking for darkroom equipment. I got a reply back a couple days later stating tha…
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http://www.sweetwater.com/publications/sweetnotes/sn-earlysummer98/page-03.htmlaccording to this graph, mac os 8.1 was current at the time of the v4.0 releaseor…
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov99/articles/applenotes.htmyamaha ux256 (2000)http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov00/articles/yamahaux256.htmmotu midi timepiec…