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Great haul today, as a result of winning some items on eBay and a 2 hour drive. Got the following: - Macintosh IIci, boots but couldn't get any video using my D…
Finds at the Goodwill across the street from where I work: Apple Extended USB (white) for $5, in excellent condition. Apple Pro Mouse (white) for $4, in excelle…
Picked up one last week and three more today from the recycler. All are 700 MHz Graphites. A relatively rare model of iMac, some say the rarest of all the CRT i…
OK... Order mice you've used from favorite to least favorite. You can put stuff like touchpads and pen tablets in here too! Apple Pro Mouse Wacom Tablet Hockypu…
Are the av cards (TV mostly) for the 6500 etc. compatible with those for the LC630 etc.?
Hi, I'm culling some of my collection, and have been contemplating whether or not to get rid of my Iomega Jaz 1GB drive and about five 1GB discs. I recall it wa…
Please forgive my SCSI ignorance here. It seems that I've maxed out the tiny 2 GB hard drive in my Power Mac 9500. I do have an external USB drive, that only wo…
Hi all, In one of my last conquests, I got a box full of cables and adapters. Always useful! In that stuff I found half a dozen of those adapters: Click for ful…
Hello, I decide to try some painting on a old Mac 512k i get from an "iron seller" (not sure of that word) wich was not working, it was very used caused it has …
Many years ago, back when I was in elementary school, I stupidly deleted the System and Finder files from my Macintosh SE. Back then, it ran System 7.0.1. Becau…
So a couple of days ago I put a message up on the local Freecycle asking for a compact Mac. Just today the lady who runs our local Freecycle emailed me. The goo…
Last week I won an LC III in box, on eBay. I wasn't expecting it to arrive yesterday, but I noticed an Apple box just sitting on the porch (I love how UPS never…
Do these exist? There is one drawing of one that comes up with a Google image search. No actual photograph. I've never seen a big tall LaserWriter Pro.
Well, on both 180s, right where the Screen Display cable meets the motherboard, the case has a slight bulge on the bottom. No matter what I try to do, this stay…
Does anyone have some tips on desoldering the large, I think they are 120 pin EURO DIN connectors that are used for PDS sockets? I would like to desolder one to…
Today I responded to a Kijiji Ad that said there was a store room with "some" apple stuff in it. After going into the store room, I found the following: 2 x Cla…
I have a certain fondness that a lot of Mac collectors don't have -- I love Apple's printers. I wish they hadn't stopped making them. I have an ImageWriter II, …
I got a Mac Plus from a Kijiji ad today. $50 with it's keyboard and mouse, and it came with a Kensington System saver and Lacie external HD. Along with it I was…
Hi all. I was wondering how I should have the disk drives hooked up to my IIgs, and how many I can have. I have 3 5.25" drives, a 800k drive, and a external FDH…
I cant get the HD to spin up in either of my Powerbook 180. Both are 120mb IBM.
A friend of a friend called me wanting to know if I wanted a Bondi iMac. I think it's a B/W G3, but she said it had no handles but two hard drives. ??? 8-o I'm …
Hi there, Though a hardcore macuser (and collector) for a long, long time, I have to confess that I am a complete newbie in the Apple II world. I do own an Appl…
Dos anyone knows a Mac HTTP server which can run on a Mac Plus ( 2 MB mem) with System 6.0.8 with one 800K floppy drive? I almost had it done with MacHTTP 1.1 o…
It just doesnt work as said. I removed and remounted it too. Should I try reseating the ribbon keyboard cables? Or could it be software?
Some you might remember the desktop G3 I got awhile ago. Here's the setup: 1.) Desktop G3 with OS 10.2 and the usual printer/modem serial ports 2.) An Apple IIg…
At Computer Hardware club at my school a few days ago there appeared a mysterious black box, apparently from nowhere. Close inspection revealed it to have a SCS…
A couple of months ago, I decided to slow down on my conquests. I'm running down on space and time to take care of all that stuff. But there are some times I ca…
I liberated a mac classic yesterday from a charity store. It's going to serve in my dorm room to write school reports, print out stuff with a stylewriter and a …
Using my Q950 for some little audio work with 2 digidesign 442s. It's great. Wish I had a nuverb card, though :-/ Anyway, when I click shutdown from the special…
Anybody got a VST expansion bay floppy drive used in their Lombard or Pismo? If so, will it handle 800K disks, or just 1.44MB?
Would it be possible to connect an old floppy Superdrive via USB?
A Gateway Server, with 4 Slot one CPU slots, with 2 occupied with600mhz PIII and 512mb RAM. I am putting debian on it now.
Well, it seems I'm on a roll lately as far as getting computer's goes. Today I managed to get the following from a guy who was moving. He listed it on Kijiji, s…
Hey everyone, We have been doing a bunch of cleaning at work. We have uncovered boxes full of old stuff. The boss-man says that he'll be sending most of this st…
Has anyone got any secrets as to unjamming the eject mechanism on a 400K floppy drive? I have removed the mechanism from the electronic parts and tried lubing w…
Well, a friend and I have made a deal with a local charity (Computers for kids, they put together computers for the less fortunate....and children too, apparent…
I got an Ultra 10 for 50$. Has 512mb RAM,333mhz UltraSPARC IIi,Sun Creator3d Card,4 Port Ethernet card,9gb 7200rpm HD, and a "Sun OS 5.10". Comes with the keybo…
I know it's not Mac, but I found an absolutely killer lot of Tandy stuff, mislisted on ebay. A Tandy 200, with literally everything you could want. Previously o…
All: I have a Mac 512K that, at some point in its life, received the 800K drive upgrade (including the 128K ROM upgrade).I'm going to get my hands on a 400K flo…
A few weeks ago I managed to get (for FREE): a IIsi system in good condition with a monitor that supposedly worked when I got it, but when I got it home it no l…
Yay, I'm back after two months! Nevertheless, I got a free PB 100. It only lights up when I press the keyboard, though. It was also kinda not in the best shape …
What is the difference between the 3 128K ROM sets ? Pina writes that there were three versions. You can determine the version by pushing the interrupt button a…
Well, in addition to the iMac I picked up, I also scored a number of SCSI items. -1 LaCie Jaz Drive (No cartridges) -1 Compaq 20/40GB DLT drive (Really big, and…
This *RARE* 128K sold for less than $300 in an open auction on eBay. In beautiful working condition, with original keyboard, mouse and cords, it also comes with…
The Quadra boots to a grey screen with a cursor or mouse in the corner and does not continue any further. I can't think what it could be. I was swapped a hard d…