I heard a story recently about someone paying $200 for a Macintosh II motherboard. The idea was that it was some rare variant and not a prototype or something l…
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Heya folks. Just had an odd one come in to work, and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest what we should expect to get for it. Beige G3 tower in original box, fo…
As far as I have found, wire connected Fast Ethernet upgrades for the PowerBook 1400 are recommended rarely. Some years ago I have got a cheap 10/100 Fast Ether…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290249907010 I did not know this was possible, and is relevant to my interests.
I finally got this working!! For anyone who is curious as to what it looks like, I made a video of it on youtube. It's running on my Platinum //e. http://www.yo…
Wondering if anyone has an idea, how many SE's were built and sold by Apple, during it's production run...Wonder how many are still left, staying outta the olde…
https://www.lemonsauctioneers.com/lotimages/humble07-17-08/94.JPG 10 Graphite G4s and 7 monitors. $210. https://www.lemonsauctioneers.com/lotimages/humble07-17-…
So I picked up a Performa 6400/200, Apple CRT, and a box full of software and a MIDI keyboard today, all free from some guy out in the east suburbs. The hard dr…
Hello! Has anybody here replaced the internal power supply with an external one? Does anybody foresee any problems with undertaking this venture? Would two powe…
Hi Folks, it has begun... Unexpected my first Project is a great one! Last week I got an originally boxed Macintosh 1984! And I unboxed it I started the Replaci…
I was reading about how you can change the pop up images in os x for the volume and eject and such. The files are in System>Library>CoreServices&a…
Firstly "Filemaker Pro 2.0" - arrived this afternoon, will put it on the SE/30 when i get it fixed http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=166344490 and…
On a whim, I put up a "wanted: vintage macs" on Freecycle and if I do say so myself I have found quite the score: LCIII (good condition) PowerMac 6100 (great co…
I *really* don't know where to put this, but since this seems TOTALLY retro, you GOTTA see this. This guy built his own machine without ANY Prefabbed CPU. Just …
Apple Duo MiniDock Apple PB Duo Battery Recharger Model M1812 " " " AC Adapter M7783 PB 20X CD-ROM Module M2451 American Memory AMR PB5300/32 32MB New 8-o South…
Well, I picked all this stuff up this morning, and it is an amazing value. For 75$ I got: PowerMac 7100/400AV (G4 UPGRADE!) 128mb RAM 2gb HD CD RW 9 Another 710…
Friday night got three 1400 series Powerbooks. As of yet not working. A 1400c/166, 1400cs/166 and a 1400cs/133. On Saturday, got a PB 540c working with dead bat…
It's really hard to find a CD in a store these days. They either have Top 40 junk or are so bogged down with compilations, etc. that there is no room for music …
Chapter 1 is written...so far I'm happy with it. I shall work extensively on the book tomorrow on my day off (which I can enjoy for once now that I've done all …
I put up an ad on craigslist advertising two motherboards. (socket 775), one of them supporting a Core2Duo. I got the boards in a trade for a Pentium IV that ha…
I have an Apple Newton that I got for free. Judging by pictures, it must be either an OMP or a 100. How can I tell which one it really is? It's kind of a neat l…
I found a 22" Cinema Display today. Upon powering it, I find out it looks like this: http://i29.tinypic.com/qxwcp2.jpg I also scored a gigabit ethernet G4, but …
I loved my Newton Message Pad 130 and used it everyday, but one day the batteries died. I didn't get around to replacing them for a couple of weeks, but when I …
I have an old mac running system 6.0.8 I am currently trying to use disk copy 4.3 to write a disk image of system 6.0.3 When i try and load the image in disk co…
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I have a copy of the original MacTerminal, but does anyone know if the one that caused Apple to write the Comms Toolbox is available anywhere?
I have a 400mhz Lombard with the DVD decoder option and the original 6GB hard disk. When I do something processor-intensive for an extended period of time on it…
OK well its not really a conquest as i didn't really save this G5 from destruction. it would be more accurate to say i saved it from a life of sitting on a desk…
I've been getting into really low-level and rudimentary OS programming, but the only systems I have that are well documented enough to work with are my lame old…
Hey all, My new lombard works great except for one thing: after being awake for a while the trackpad starts to "jump" around -- when I lift my finger off of the…
Right now I use the same PCMCIA wireless card that has wireless-b,g with my Lombards and Pismo on 10.3.9. I am thinking of putting an airport internal card into…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_n10131702 Was the Powermac G4 a super computer? It depends whose definition you use.
On Craigslist a guy was offering a TiBook, and being the TiBook fan that I am, I clicked it, and lo and behold, they would trade for a iPod touch. This sparked …
Well, I picked up a second monitor at a yardsale yesterday, and I figured, "I should break out the PC card to use with this!" I got it working, thank god, all t…
What would cause a bright spot about 2-3" across in the center of a G4 iMac LCD screen? The screen is still usable, just the center is brighter than the rest of…
Trying to upgrade my ibook running 10.3.2 panther to 10.3.9. I downloaded the combo update but it unexpectadly quits partway through. And the 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 …
Out of all the apps that you can run on a 68k, what's your favourite? It doesn't have to be something big like Photoshop (though that's mine), it might just be …
Hi, Earlier I posted here that the sound coming from my Centris 610 was much quieter than usual. But I experimentally ran a program on it just now, and the soun…
After spending the day transferring data from a PC to two recent Macs, I transferred my mother-in-law's data from her computer to this PC and I got to take that…
I have a Quadra running MacTCP (under System 7.1) that I am trying to/ hoping to connect to the outside world via an SMC router. I'd like to use the Quadra as a…
Somebody here might be interested. Remember Kaleidoscope? There was a built-in version of this made by Apple in Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2.2. There were very few themes e…
Lately, I've been trying to organize and clean my apartment. It's quite a difficult task because I have so much crap! I'm a pack rat (trying to get better) and …
Today at Dollar Tree, I got a few things: 2 USB male to female cables (60") 2 Firewire 400 cables (24") USB notebook light Memory card case 4 electric outlet gr…
A couple days ago, I picked up a DEC Alphaserver 2100 from my work. It came complete with two DEC SCSI arrays filled with drives, a DEC terminal and the beast i…
So today Mum and I took another run out to the tip shop, which is just near the uni. And I hit paydirt again. As I'm walking towards the electrical section, the…
I have my PowerBook 180c with Ethernet (EN/SC Mini). IRC works and a few other apps work, though Appletalk is giving me problems. It has worked when I had to tr…
is there a place I can get a SCSI Driver for 3rd party SCSI Drives under OS 9 for a CD-ROM / DVD-RAM Drive? I need to get it working so I can a: Have a faster d…
refurbed and shipped for a total of $105.94 4GB iPod Nano Silver (entry level) Got it from apple directly FYI: this is my very first iPod I have EVER owned. I f…
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Very rarely do I get stumped, but I got one for you that stumped me: I have 2 macintosh Plus boards, both of them do the exact same thing. Both came in macs. Th…