I hope someone can help me! I have a powerbook 1400 which I use daily, however a short time ago it began having two bars on the right side of the display. These…
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I've recently availed myself a sealed copy of OS/2 Warp 4! Woohoo! I'm hoping to find the time (in a month or so) to install it on one of my machines here! :-/
...And if FWB HD Toolkit fails, then your beautiful nine gigabyte Seagate Barracuda drive is dead. It's dead, Jim! I swapped the 2 gigabyte drive out of my Quad…
today picked up a: PB 145B - looks good, not working PB 165-Works perfect PB 190cs-Looks good, not tested yet PB 520c-Has issues Power Sniffer Looks like a chub…
I got my lombard from ebay today, 333 mhz, 64 mb ram, 9.2.2 This runs os 9 great and thats where its going to stay i think. WamCom is a nice browser too. I have…
Yesterday, I scored a Desktop G3 and a 20th Anniversary Mac (should I upgrade this one to 9.0 or OS X or leave it as is)!!! They're coming along with some ram f…
In the last week the rubber skin on my graphite clamshell has started peeling away from the bottom part of the case, where I tend to rest my palms. It's only a …
Hi, One of my 3 Macs is a Macintosh Centris 610. It works really well, there's nothing wrong with it, but I noticed something strange when I turned it on a coup…
My Plus with HyperDrive 20 had some flicker going on. I wouldn't mind so much but it's my nicest Plus so I thought I would ask you guys what you thought may be …
I hooked up a Kensington ADB trackball to my G3 Mac and in both OS9 and OSX when I right click on the desktop (the trackball has two buttons), I don't get a con…
Hey Guys, Im looking for Lisa / Mac Portable Parts in Australia, I am currently participating in the Retro Challenge, but I'm now in a predicament! The Lisa 2 I…
As is typical with these displays, mine has developed the click-zoom failure (where a slight audible 'click' is followed by the display quickly zooming in befor…
A customer owns a Dual 1.8ghz PowerMac G5 that has issues. He also bought a stripped G5 containing a working mainboard. I get to take the non-functional mainboa…
Ok, equant, here's an interim method that might end up being the final method. It doesn't absolutely minimize power, but it provides a large reduction with almo…
I've got an iBook G4 (different iBook than the display plagued one) that has some sort of electrical gremlin going on. It's experiencing a few odd symptoms that…
Hey, is there a retrochallenge hall of fame page? We have had some great efforts and fun since what? 2005? So would be good, even goal worthy, to have a Hall of…
I recently got a 32Mb memory module for my one of my PB 540Cs. After installing the module into my first 540 the machine doesn't boot up(screen stays blank but …
Just saved a 7600 I got it for 15$ I bid on the other 2 meg vram and 4 sticks of 5v dimm. I also have a 400 mhz g3 coming i will run 8.6 or 9.1 for usb support …
I picked up three PowerBook 165's today. All three will turn on but only two will boot. Unfortunately the screens on all of them are pooched and the cases are h…
I had been having a heck of a time getting several cards to work in my PowerMac 9500. No amount of arrangement could get them to work, until today and just now.…
Someone gave me a bootable CD several years ago. It was called Apple Legacy Recovery CD. Had all the system OSes on it, all the apple software, it just had a bu…
I have this PowerBook 1400c/166 that has been working great until recently, when I turned it on and I got the infamous "death chimes" I went through the system,…
Hi all, I have a chance at a cheap, or free, Color LaserWriter 12/660. The owner says it needs repairs, and they believe the problem is a bad fuser. Should I ta…
Yep, someone gave me a fully functioning 512k with an internal HyperDrive. And, I was wondering what these puppies are worth. I'm not likely to sell it anytime …
Should we make a 68k version of the sites of the ilk of myspace, facebook, and the slightly superior IMO imeem? I know they have there detractions.... but the a…
Hi All, I need an inventory/sales solution. I would like to be able to keep a log of all of my eBay purchases and details, the cost of fixing it, and how much I…
I just spent the better part of the afternoon troubleshooting a Power Macintosh 9500 w/ a 333Mhz G3 Upgrade card (MAChSpeed ZIF Carrier) and went through hell. …
Not wild about the paint job but otherwise a very nice MOD Check out this guys other fun mods as well ...
Today, my PB 160 developed this strange issue randomly. It boots normally, than goes to a bright yellow screen and sometimes starts flashing. Is this a RAM issu…
How possible is it to transplant hard disk platters, at least for the purposes of data recovery when a drive mechanism is otherwise physically dead? In particul…
Hi, My dad has a platinum PowerBook G4 laptop that has been acting strange lately. When you hit the power button, a gray screen comes up and the little wheel ma…
Anyone know a link to the Wish I Was control panel? - a google search with various methods gets non-related stuff
Does anyone know where I can find a higher resolution LCD for my poor clamshell? I love it to bytes but I cannot for the life of me use 800X600.
Hey there! I'm having a few problems with my iBook G4's screen. 1. Sometimes when brightness is all the way up or almost all the way down, the screen flickers b…
I dont know if the problem is in the CRT, or the analog board. but the horizontal convergence is gone. vertical convergence is A OK. the ALPS white pot on the C…
Hello, I really don't care much for the computer in this auction but I am more concerned with the monitor itself. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&a…
As I previously posted I have a Wallstreet 250Mhz and I had a display cable problem. The problem has returned and no amount of reseating will correct it. Its th…
I got a very good condition Lombard recently, but it doesn't have an OS. I want to put 8.6 on it, but the CD I have isn't bootable. Can anyone help me? I tried …
Followed the take-apart instructions for the Pismo to change out the sound card. There were significantly fewer screws than there were places for! Then I got to…
I recently got an 8500 with one of these, and it seems to show up as 200 mhz under 7.6. I need to figure out what the DIP switches are then. Does anyone know?
hi everybody, so i have a powerbook g4 aluminum. so i yanked the power adaptor cord. and so it is really messed up. the plug is just one thing, but i think the …
Anybody have Gamba's email? Looked all over his pages and couldn't find it. http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/index.html
Hi, I have an external enclosure that is having strange behavior... All tests have been done with a SCSI terminator on the enclosure. If I connect the enclosure…
Just came across this. Seems like all 800K drives not being used with 6.0.4 are at risk of having their heads ripped off. Anybody know if this is compatible all…
What are the likely causes for a 40MB Conner HD which spins up, sounds normal, but does not appear on the desktop and cannot be mounted by HD SC Setup off a Sys…
So I plugged in this old PowerBook 100 and everything seems to work fine. The backlight comes on, the HD spins up and seems to load a system and the same for th…
Hello can anyone help me set up my MP2100... The card in question is a Lucent WaveLAN Silver I have the appropriate drivers loaded and All my info setup under O…
If I were to hook one machine up to another. say two powerbooks, one booted from internal drive, and the second booted into SCSI disk mode, would the CD/DVD-ROM…
Hi all - I have too many Powerbooks that I've accumulated over the past year or so, and I need to thin down. Here's the herd: PB 100: I'm keeping this guy, peri…