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Is there a proven way to adapt an early PowerBook keyboard, stripped to its spartan self, for use on any beige desktop bus i.e. ADB? Specific instructions/ sche…
I am having a heck of a time getting PCI Extreme/Quartz Extreme to work on a Beige G3 with a Radeon 7000 32 MB running Mac OS X 10.3.9. I have tried just about …
As I posted in Conquests I recently bought and just today got an Apple ][e Platinum. It came with a 5.25" drive and an RGB Monitor (which I'm pretty much using …
Yesterday I installed 7.1 on an LC475, with an early "Apple Keyboard" and a square mouse attached. These were OEM SE/30 peripherals, as far as I can gather, but…
Thats me saying that it is now on! what with time zones and all that - even tho its not for another 12hrs here. have fun
From two different craigslist ads. I got the IIs yesterday, came with a load of software and quite a few manuals, as well as a Monitor II, two disk II drives, a…
Just bought another gigabit g4 off ebay just for the hell of it. actually its going to replace my current backup machines( yikes g4). its a 500mhz dual/512mb ra…
Hi, had a really nice score on eBay - I bought a PB540c for $20 (surprisingly no other bids at all), listed as untested but with heaps of pics, including one sh…
A 266 and a 300 if I'm interpreting the labels on the CPU boards correctly. I haven't powered them up yet because all my spare power cords are in use at the mom…
My friend gave me what looked like a plain old Beige G3 with a usb card and an ethernet card. But when I looked at the processor, what did i find, but lo and be…
After starting up my G4 (AGP 400MHz) it doesn't recognise the keyboard which is a Macally ikeyslim. The keyboard has two USB sockets , one has the mouse in it t…
So today i was at a customer's place, and we were looking for a USB cable, so he was going through some old computer stuff of his. I saw an old 10Mbps hub there…
Hi all, I was browsing eBay a few days ago, thinking "Hmm, I have never owned a tower Mac. I want one." I was looking on eBay again today (at a relative's house…
I had to format the harddrive on my powerbook 150 and I lost everything but got some of the things I lost (apps, system folder, ect) from my friend, but I lost …
Hi all! I´ve just bought an apple ProFile external hard drive (5mb), just for curiosity. When you plug it, it turns on and averything seems to be working fine. …
So while all you guys are getting G4s and Xceed cards from Freecycle (lucky... ), the only Freecycle Mac score that I can make (got it yesterday) is this one...…
Hi there, My name is David. and I stay in Carluke, Scotland. I decided to join the forum because of the amount of info and knowledge that all the members have a…
A local school was going to send all the old computers, to the recyclers. The Mac tech sent out a email looking for Mac users. I was the only one to reply. His …
This is from the same site that Quadraman posted in this thread http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=922 This guy has created an adapter so that you can att…
So. I've got a Sawtooth, single 400MHz, OS9.1. It's been running fine since I set it up again a few weeks ago for doing some music like back when. I only have o…
...and look what happens. Three years later, I finally remember this place and decide to check in. So, what's new? I've gotten up to date on most of what's happ…
I would like to voice two concerns about the rules: First is the very top-down nature in which they were dished out, with the thread locked to artificially stif…
It says Apple Computer 1983-84. 128k 512k 630-0101 630-0118 The white pads were blank. There is a Mac's a million card from Sophisticated Circuts Inc mounted at…
My Sawtooth won't sleep. It has a PC power spply, and when I try to put it into sleep mode, it says the case is open. Even though it's closed. Is there any way …
Anybody know of a way to change the start tone on the powerbook 150 to another macintosh start tone? Any apps or hacks that would do the job?
Using Think pascal 4, I get the error ... "project.Rsrc could not be opened. It may be missing or in use by another project" This never happens the first time I…
I can't seem to log in with Firefox. I looked around and found this: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=364780&start=0&…
http://www.gse-reactive.com/ Lots of interesting things still being sold for the Apple II line here.
Wheee! A SPARCstation IPX for $0.99+ship. Loaded up with three 72 pin RAM sticks (with 32 chips stuffed onto each one). Now the internal struggle begins - NetBS…
I went to my local little used computer store today, to see about getting some RAM for my 6500. I saw a big box in a pile of stuff that somebody had donated wit…
I've got a very odd problem with my 6500/225. it absolutley refuses to play Quake properly. the game will start, and it doesn't crash but after a random number …
I put out a request on Freecycle for any unwanted working/non-working Macs...I got a response from a guy who supposedly had a IIsi to give me. Well, I went out …
Hi all, I just acquired an iMac G3 (266MHz, tray loader) that was suffocated by its previous owner (pictures to follow). The FBT is shot. Now, I know these can …
I think I have an SE with the "Simasi Mac" as described at http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html The computer turns on to a screen much like the…
It started on Wednessday. I picked up a Dell Latitude C600 (no drives, battery, or RAM), Inspiron 4000 (no drives, battery, or RAM), and an IBM ThinkPad 365ED (…
I think the Mac 128K that I got the other day was upgraded The floppy drive, as far as I can tell, is an 800K model. Additionally, the ROM chips have an "83 - 8…
Hey, I used to post on 68kMLA a long time ago when you were on that weird forum system hosted on that other weird site. Anyway I'm back today because I just got…
What would need to be done to the iMac slotload CD and DVD drives to use them in on a regular IDE bus? Plug the IDE connector in off-centered and make a power a…
Does anybody know if there's any way to overclock this machine? It's a wonderful machine, but it tends to lag a bit on some of the CPU-intensive tasks. Any poin…
Hail friends! I have finally been able to acquire the computer that I have been after for a good 12 years since I saw my first Apple ][e at a friends house. Her…
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I just picked up a B&W machine from a friend. Price: $0 Specs: 300MHz G3 16MB Rage 128 60GB (dead) HD CD-ROM Ethernet / Modem / Firewire USB 1024MB RAM …
I am trying to read my Newton Notes that have been synched to my PowerBook 540c. I tried WriteNow, Word Perfect, and Apple Works..but each changes the file to l…
I've pretty much won a Power Mac G4 on eBay. It must me an AGP graphics because it's a 450mhz single. My highest bid is much higher than what it's at and nobody…
I am waiting for 1400c\166 to be sent to me. I am going to run 7.6.1 with appearance manager on it for as long as possible
Before the site crashed I had this bookmarked because it was an ongoing project for me. I've got the cables I think I need but I can't remember the program I ne…
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As promised in this thread, I have to report that the 16-17 bounces of the Safari icon in the Dock at opening have been reduced to two. Removing Users/self/Libr…
Hi everyone. I am selling my PowerBook G3 if anyone here is interested. Specs: WallStreet 14" screen 292MHz processor 192MB RAM 8GB HD 20x CDROM module Good bat…