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Typical IDE (both 3.5 and 2.5") hard drives and connector has one blocked pin. The CF adapter I got has all 44 pins and won't fit in the connector that has one …
Lets see how much churn I can create here? According to this article, your laptop better cab be used as a hacking device against you and your Apple Laptop. Thou…
I don't have a CLUE what the hell is going on. So if I have a CD drive on either of the internal buses, they won't work. It doesn't matter if it's the only devi…
I just replaced the ram in my first 128k board… and i am happy to say after a lot of work, that it now works! so if anyone else needs a down grade or ram replac…
The internal drive in my 9600 finally gave up on me so I'm replacing it with CRW14416S 16x CD-RW drive. I have a pile of Yamahas and I'll use those over anythin…
Hi, Is anyone interested in building or buying a homebrew SCSI-to-SD card adaptor ? I have developed such a device which is already capable of booting and runni…
I have some machines that I need to de-yellow, but we have different products than in the US. I'm assuming I can use Napisan Oxi-Action instead, but instead of …
I am missing the felt pad and plastic insert that assists the 400K drives in reading a disk. Two had popped out on my machines, but I was able to find one and r…
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/disk/hd20/ This information was already talked about some what… and has already been seen by Mr. BMOW him self… htt…
Hello! I have a TAM with a strange problem: It works perfectly, boots up as expected everything is fine but only for about 6-15 reboots. After that the TAM got …
I have some 128k macs, but I can't get the floppy drives working at all. Until Saturday, they were all gunked with 30 year old grease, and using some helpful ti…
I have an original Mac, later upgraded to a Mac Plus. Just recently it's developed two issues. First, a capacitor has burned out. It is C38. Does anyone know wh…
Hello, I´m trying to restore a 512K but it will not boot. When I start the 512K it shows a diskette with a questionmark. I use a 400k diskette with system disk …
I have a Sonnet Encore G4/1000 that I'm trying to get working in a blue and white G3. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous":…
I was wondering if anyone has seen this upgrade before. I assume so, its a rather professionally done board. And the soldering on the motherboard looks factory,…
I was at the doctor's office today for an upper endoscopy, so I got the day off cuz of the anesthesia. Here's what I worked on, I'm gonna attempt to print it wh…
So I finally got a Duo MiniDock and Floppy Drive for the Duo. I tired installing Sys7.5 from a set of genuine diskettes but after a few seconds (head moves twic…
my buddy zackl is hookin me up. I guess he found a whole box of II and IIfx boards and a Bag o ram/rom's in a Barn sale!!! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbo…
[mod mode] Introduction: by jt/Trash/Trash80to . . . whatever! dougg3 has made the most incredible introductory post to date, period! It's quite the saga of cre…
Hello all, I went to use my apple IIe recently and did the usual of turning on the monitor first, waiting a minute then the computer. everything worked fine for…
Anyone have the Mac software for a Cisco Aironet 340 PCMCIA wireless card? I want to use it with my newly acquired Powerbook 1400cs. This page tells me to go to…
Hi All, I finally found a Lisa (2/10) recently, in non-working condition. I made some progress: I got it to power on, identified that one of the 2 memory boards…
I'm very pleased to announce that I scored a very nice looking Apple /// with a Monitor ///. Everything seems to be OK, but I just can't seem to transfer images…
Hello everyone, I have a Macintosh Plus that I got a couple of years ago. When I first got it I had a problem where I would turn it on, it would come on, get as…
Can a PowerBook G3 floppy drive be used to make 800k disks for use in a Macintosh Plus?
My second Mac is coming today... A Powerbook 160! Its coming with the User Manual, battery, charger, and some other cable I'm not sure about. I don't remember w…
I've not fired up Battle Chess on my SE/30 in ages. I tried it this evening for my daughter who wanted to play. Unfortunately, it gives me "Setup se Out of Memo…
Preamble: This build thread was first posted on Badcaps.net on the 16th of October, 2013 and subsequently posted to MacTalk and MacRumors' Apple Collectors foru…
Hello, I apologize in advance if this has been covered somewhere, but I searched the forum and couldn't find any info. Is there any way to add a CD-Rom drive to…
Hello all, What do you think of the AppleDesign Keyboard? I first used one with a Performa 5200 and it is was such a disappointment; it was a large step down fr…
So the difference between a 20-40 dollar " dial temperature controlled " and a "Digitally Controlled" soldering iron is like this. Most lawn mowers have a gover…
I am 90% sure that this is a dangerous sign of my budding senility, so reader beware. But I'm wondering how I could go about fitting an LCD panel into an 12" Ap…
Hi, my recently purchased Mac SE 1/40 has a broken HDD which I want to replace by a 500MB Quantum Fireball from a PowerMac 7200. When I boot with floppy (w/o HD…
Well, not the whole UI. The pointer still responds to the trackpad, but clicking, dragging, etc do nothing. Only the pointer moves. I suspect a bad solder joint…
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http://macvintage.tripod.com/iisi/overclock.html i know the graphics is kinda sluggish, setting disk cache to 1024K does help! but would changing the oscillator…
Hi guys, Just wanted to let you all know that the story of how we got the prototype Twiggy Macs to boot is now published. Although I don't agree with the title …
Hi Everybody, I recently got a SE/30, LC 475 and Color Classic for free! I've gotten the LC and SE/30 to work (Both needed a new HDD), but the Color Classic is …
I finally managed to find a reasonably priced ImageWriter II on Ebay last week. Description said unit did turn on but no further testing was done. Seemed safe e…
ok so i have 3 IIsi's, they all have nic's in them. They are all running 7.5 So the first 2 have an ok amount of ram one has 9mb then other has 17mb + 73gig 10k…
Hi, just picked up a HD20 off eBay that has had its interface/floppy cable cut off. I have a spare 400K external floppy drive, and I was hoping to use its cable…
So I got a new SE, internal drive worked enough that Disk First Aid would see it, but fail to initialize. HD SC Setup always said a suitable drive could not be …
Preamble: This investigative thread was first posted by myself on MacRumors on the 25th of November, 2013. Its aim was to provide information to the many Power …
Hi, I got a Mac Portable from Haplain, and apparently it's a bit of a fixer-upper (which I knew going in, because of my tight budget). It will come on, but it j…
This is more of a documentary attempt to revive a Mac Plus 1Mb. It arrived today and physically is in excellent shape - less horrific smell of cigarettes! First…
I've recently acquired a very nice SE/30 with a great looking Logic board I decided to wait with my conquest topic about it until I recapped the logic board. Di…
ok so i have herd reports of people with sound from the head phone jack. but no sound from the internal speaker. With the Classic 1 and 2. As we know, With the …
So, chances are, when you buy a compact mac, the red little devils did go kaboom. IMAG0172.jpg[/attachment] Now that's an amazing improvement, isn't it? Little …
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