While sorting out another issue, it clicked on me that I couldn't use my ram expansion in slot 3 while the 80 column card is in....or...I can?? Okay, here's my …
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i always thought it was the second floppy port… i guess i was wrong… 16 pins? [attachment=0]Screen Shot 2013-12-31 at 9.33.17 PM.png[/attachment]
I have been picking up bits and pieces, mainly off Ebay, over the last while and the odd machine locally but usually just units without any extras. So last week…
I owned a few Apple ][ computers and used a IIgs often in school as a teacher's aid but I know next to nothing about them. Tonight I had the itch to fire a IIgs…
.. in the same dark, grey stylish color as the Powerbooks used to have.. Were such a device ever released by Apple or someone else?
It's late 1986 and you are at a computer convention. You happened to register in the raffle. You Win!!! Your Choice is a brand new: Decked out IIgs, Fully loade…
I was looking for a cheap Bluetooth adapter, the Dlink 120 is known for working fine without drivers, but is currently unavailable or hard to find. I had some m…
My IIsi has 7.5.3 on it and two versions of Stuffit Lite (3.6 and 4.5). Both show registration nag screens but registration is of course impossible, and neither…
Does anybody know a ADB mod to run more than the maximum of 3-4 devices?
Has anyone ever heard of the Typhoon floppy drive? I ran across several references to it recently while reading SWIM and New Age floppy controller documentation…
Now THIS is cool. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be load…
These photos are after I put in a new toner cart. The one on the left is immediately after I installed it a few days ago. The one on the right is from tonight. …
Does anyone know where I can find a maul for this printer. I just got one off Ebay today and I can't figure it out. It doesn't have a cassette. My SE with SSW 6…
I have a LaserWriter 360 Select coming for my Mac SE. I know this is a PostScript printer right? I heard that any PS printer can run on an SE. I have SSW 6.0.8 …
Has anyone seen one of these? It's a WriteMove printer by GCC Technologies that is styled after the Macintosh Portable. The WriteMove II was styled after the Po…
I just couldn't resist! Found two Mac Plus, one old yellow and one platinum, with keyboards, mice, hds, extra floppydrives and a imagewriter for almost free! To…
Hello all, In response to a fellow member's question about relubricating those full height Sony 400/800k floppy disk drives from early Macintoshes, I created a …
I have had this idea floating around in my head for some time now and it's time someone else knew about it. I'm not sure how to implement this, but I would be t…
Hello. I have a beautifully refurbished Graphite iBook. It came with an Apple puck mouse. However, the rubber on the mouse is rather sticky and the roller ball …
Since my Adtron doesn't take a 16GB CF card, I need to upgrade my TAM drive anyway. Will a simple IDE to CF card work or is there a special type required to rep…
I just ran across my duo dock II which is still disassembled from 2002 or so. I remember removing the FDD for some reason but its been 11 years ago, and its bee…
In the late 90s there were many fruit iMac-inspired color products and accessories. Some came in a couple colors from the factory (like the Handspring Visors) a…
The DVD-ROM I purchased has a jumper for 512/2k block size selection with regard to CD-ROMs. What is the appropriate selection for a Mac running SSW 7.1.x and h…
I recently got a Mac 512K (the un-enhanced version with the 64K ROM), and I've been amused at all the beeping noises it makes. Whenever I insert a boot floppy (…
Only a minor conquest, but I'm pleased with it as I am a fan of mechanical keyboards and have fond memories of typing on the Extended II when I was at school. I…
This morning, I managed to get ten free compact Macs. Yes, ten free compact Macs. One of said Macs is an SE/30. Now, before you go and get jealous, let's review…
I caught a mac plus that had been hanging out on our local Craig's List for a few weeks. The guy who had it lived a few hours away in Champaign and it included …
Apparently there are extended diagnostic tests stored in ROM. What's the sequence to pull that up?
As insurance against the day when my LC475's hard disk inevitably fails, I'm investigating the idea of booting from an external SCSI Zip drive. Zip drives seem …
I'm doing a routine check to see that both my LaserWriter Plus and IIg are behaving fine. The plus I have never really used because when I got it all the trays …
I have an external Apple floppy drive, model M0130. It doesn't take any disks I try to feed into it. Any given disk will only go so far. Here's a picture of its…
So I was able to login on proxim.. and download the microSCSI driver. Does this also work with the Farallon Ethermac SCSI? Or should I be looking for a differen…
Hi! As I'm sure you are aware, the Macintosh system will only send keyDown events for up to two keys. If one presses more than two keys, they will not receive a…
Never heard about it, pretty complete kit including case screwdriver http://www.ebay.fr/itm/KIT-APPLE-ANTIVOL-/290973377076?pt=FR_GH_Informatique_Ordinateurs_Or…
Yesterday I received a Powerbook 165 with a "bad" hard drive. I was able to format the drive and install 7.5.3 on it while I hunt down the system enabler for 7.…
Powerbook 540 & 540c (both are apparently in a permanently vegetative state, I'm guessing they just need a PRAM reset, or something else similar. Nothin…
Or what to do when you really, really want a Compact... When I got into vintage Macs I quickly realised that I really wanted a Compact Mac. For me the Plus is t…
The PB 520 I have doesn't like to eject disks. It makes the sound like it's going to spit them out, but nothing happens, and then it just remounts the disk. Is …
Here in Columbus vintage/older Macs are hard to come by. Every now and then I search through Craigslist for something I'm interested in (Powerbooks and Compacts…
I just wanted to share my happyness about the Apple Extended Keyboard II, that I am now using again on a daily basis. I am still using just oldworld Macs for ev…
Just collected today one of those for 2 € { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requeste…
I had a bit of time to spare today, so I went to the Goodwill Computer Works store in Pittsburgh. There's only one of these stores now for those of you who may …
Hi Everyone, I picked up an Avid Meridien BOB today at my local university surplus. It was cheap enough and came with some useful cables so I thought I'd buy no…
Finally got my first 'big' score, was watching ebay and a lot of 6 classic macs come up, put in a offer of £60 and was amazed it was excepted! Picked it up toda…
I know this sounds trivial, but after taking my platinum Plus out of its box for the first time in years today, I found myself really liking the shade of its ca…
Tangential discussion shifted from: You Know You're an Old-School Mac Guy When... p.7 . . . holding down the mouse button to put away removable media is intuiti…
My Quadra 950 boots perfectly but does not seem to want to play with a keyboard or mouse - neither work at all at any point in the boot process or otherwise - a…
I came back home to Pittsburgh yesterday. I've got my first day of business tomorrow (tutoring) so I'm using today to unpack and unwind a bit (already did my ho…
This ad hoc hack committee got its start in this thread: Anyway to use a PS2 keyboard with my Mac SE Superdrive? < room to copy relevant posts, etc. &…
Picked up a CC today with KB and Mouse. The case is in excellent shape. I think the logic board needs to be capped, doesn't want to boot, but it looks pretty cl…