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I just got another TAM, and it has the same issues as big450. A chime when turned on, but nothing on the screen. I swapped the RAM and VRAM chips with my other …
While investigating why Floppy Emu wasn't working on the Mac 128K/512K, I discovered something very interesting in the original 64K ROM used in those machines. …
Hello, all! I have not acquired anything partcularly interesting a quite a while now; that has changed. I was able to purchase this off of another long time mem…
Hi there, I'm new to the forum and Macs in general. I always wanted one around the late 80's but could never afford one, so when I was bitten by the retro bug l…
I obtained a copy of OS 8.6 on CD today from a friend, and the first thought that popped into my head was "the 5300!" When I got home, I didn't know how I was g…
Hi everybody, Just as a heads up, the forum will be down for a reasonable amount of time tomorrow as we apply a very important set of patches to our current ins…
Hi to you all! I have an A9M0106 800K floppy drive bought off ebay, worked twice, then quit. Broken tiny white plastic gear on stepper motor shaft, Sony stepper…
after using a heat gun and I/C's from a 6500 board,,, i finally got HAP's Prototype TAM board working. i am just curious because i also soldered on the rom chip…
This one has been a little elusive for me but "ask and ye shall find". In one of my other posts, I stated that my 68k collection is almost complete but I needed…
A few years ago I was lucky enough to buy a NIB 850AV monitor from a parts dealer on eBay. The video and sound from this monitor are both truly spectacular with…
Hi All, Just bought some components separately to make up a G4 Cube system. After some research, it looks like the stock ATI card will not run the Cinema displa…
I took a punt on a used Ti Powerbook, model A1025. It looks and runs great - even the battery and PRAM appear to be functioning OK. Only minor quibble, it's an …
{move to Hacks & Dev; renamed} As subject. Either one, good working order. PM for details.
I've done quite a bit of Googling and I *think* I've figured the situation out, maybe, but perhaps someone here could help me confirm if I've got it right. My r…
Hey guys I'm having a video issue with a macintosh SE logic board that I just bought off craigstlist. It came with a set of low density roms which I used to get…
Picked up a Pioneer laserdisc player and a few 12” laserdiscs. I was reading that it can be controlled by a Mac but haven’t gotten any further. When I have some…
Someone next town sells a broken iMac. I placed a bid. Even if it's broken beyond repair, some parts should be salvageable. :lol: The seller says it's a M5521 i…
I have a PowerBook 100 screen which is broken in the left corner. A part of the screen stays black. I was wondering if it is something which is reparable? I hav…
I found one of these in a system I purchased, a Newer Technology NU167 PowerPC Upgrade for the Powerbook 500 series. It is tested and working. Anyone know what …
A kind person gave me a Duo 210 along with a non-working (we think) Newer Technology Ethernet MicroDock a while ago. The Duo works great. I'd like to figure out…
Well guys, All quantum drives are AFFECTED by this problem. Not 1 will live scott-free. So, unless you have a special platter compression tool, you cannot fix t…
iCab seems to work great on 7.1.1, but as soon as I enable Javascript and try to load a page that has JS on it, it freaks out and crashes with a "Type 3" error.…
So I bought a "new" hard drive for my Powerbook. It's an IBM 240 meg, and I'm installing system software on it as I type this. While I was taking this machine a…
Ended up with a pair of Lenovo thinkcenter (M57p) towers that were being discarded from a local store of a national pizza chain... and it does smell like pizza …
I found a potential simple, cheap solution to the auto-negotiating ethernet issue that creeps up from time to time with the old 10M ethernet adapters/transceive…
Hi, I was doing a firmware update this morning on the SATA card in my G4, and the OS crashed. After that, I was able to restart using the drive attached to the …
Im not too familiar with Apple II items but here it goes. So I got this Apple IIc machine years back from a flea market for I think $10 or so. It had no power c…
I picked up a ibook indigo from ebay fairly cheap. Problem is, it has school inventory marker on the rubber surround on the lid, and on the bottom. Any way to r…
Hi, I'm fixing up a nice SE for my brother, loaded to the hilt with games. It's running a 500MB SCSI HD with System 7.1 installed, but I've found most B&amp…
My Orinoco Gold (flashed silver) card doesn't work in 10.4 but it does work in OS 9. Are there any cheap cards that will work in 10.4? I don't want to buy the w…
A while ago, I acquired a box of cables and accessories (I mainly wanted an M0100 beige mouse in it) but there was some other oddities in there. Along with a co…
Recently, a Macintosh Classic managed to follow me home and I've become infatuated with the idea of using it. It seems to have a lot of problems, though.... Whe…
This whole project started about a year ago. I bought this Plus on ebay. Realized it was an upgraded original 128k. So my quest has been to down grade it. I nee…
I got the cap on the end of the 512kE's CRT back on and it fired up like a champ, so I threw the 128k board in for testing. I didn't get a blinking floppy, no, …
Damn that plastic is brittle. I used a reasonable amount of pressure on the little panel under the PB 520's screen to get at the screws and nearly all the littl…
Hi Everyone, This is my first post as a member! Glad to be a part of the 68kMLA! A few weeks back I picked up a Color Classic that was sold to me as dead, for a…
I was just pondering solutions tonight to the recurring issue i have of blowing the deteriorated surrounds out of G3 iMac speakers... My Snow has gone through 4…
Folks; I have been working on bringing an old Macintosh II back to life. I'm not new to the process, but this one is stumping me. replaced both batteries replac…
This is some re-work that i am doing for a member. It was sent to me already re-capped with tantalums. I am trying to diagnose issues with it. Removing some cap…
Who already recapped their pb500 charger ? Mine is giving a heavy smell of capacitor fluid when it's used so time to recap. Anyone with tips how to open the hou…
This is a issue I have been battling over the years. Finally a solution that works. I submerge the whole damm mouse in alcohol, let it sit, 10-15 min, that goo …
I just got a Quadra 650 board in, which is currently fitted with a 68LC040, and I've got it up and running. I'm trying to install Mac OS on the original drive, …
first off i would like to say i know absolutely nothing about the powebook 100 out of the 3, when i power them on 1- no boot - back light comes on - no tone 2- …
Hi! I've finally got round to having another go at my StyleWriter II. But there's a problem... Whenever I try to print, it says something like "The cartridge is…
Today I got a powerbook 170 and a 145b. According to the previous owner the 170 was the only one working. But apparently both are working, there's just a faulty…
my buddy just dropped 1700 on this lisa, we are trying to determine if this is a Lisa II or Macintosh XL, or Macintosh Professional the PSU is bad. He wants to …
Hi! I've been trying to decipher how the Mac interfaces with the Suprdrive floppy drive through the ISM part of the SWIM chip. I've almost got it, but I don't u…
So I received a LC475 from mcdermd early this year. When i got it, and opened it up, it gleamed and sparkled like stroll through bronners on the 4th of july (ht…
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There appears to be nothing special here, I just have never seen one with yellow silk-screening before. I know many pre-production boards seem to have yellow sc…