Here's a question for you A2 experts. Looking thru my Apple II stuff, I found a "Zeus RAM Card", which is evidently an early version of the Apple II GS RAM expa…
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I've searched for instructions ( text and pictures ) to show me how and what to do. I took the metal case off and it seems to me that the 8500's RAM slots are h…
Picked up an Asantefast 10/100 ethernet and a Radius 24 bit accelerated video card. Not sure what model the video card but I know it's not a Thunder GX. It coul…
I just picked up a PowerBook 5300cs off of eBay. It just arrived today along with the manual. It is in near perfect condition and it is still running 7.5.2 and …
I've got a Kanga G3 Powerbook which I picked up recently for essentially nothing. It's running 9.1 and its RAM is maxed out. The battery even holds a 2+ hour ch…
http://homepage.mac.com/pillowcase1/PhotoAlbum56.html Very nice. Every Apple fan should have one.
Hello, I have just received this macintosh SE/30 a few hours ago, and every time I try to turn it on, I get these vertical lines and the start up chime does not…
I recently searched out a Power Macintosh 9500 (ended up with 17 other Gw & G4 freebies as well) for various bootstrapping projects and have it online a…
Akimbo was an IP TV service that folded back in 2007. When they folded they gave me back the money for the set top box and told me to do what ever I want with i…
Hi, my first freebie of the year - and a good one! Went with my father-in-law to a tip in Essendon, dumped our crap - checked out a skip with keyboards plastic …
Is the Macintosh Performa 575 motherboard the same as the Macintosh LC 575? Will this motherboard work in my Macintosh Color Classic?
Via a local kijiji seller: a 400MHz G4 AGP Graphics with 1GB RAM and a nice, quiet 20GB hard drive. It was filthy (smoker and dust) so it was disassembled and w…
Hello all, I had a question that just popped into my mind. I had seen an adapter that changes USB to SCSI and since the hard drives that are in the old 68k Macs…
So an eMac at my school has been acting up. I checked the CD Drive cover and it indicated to me that it is a 1.25ghz machine. What the machine does is, Sometime…
WGS 95 has 48 RAM, Q950 has PPC upgrade 601-100 MHz, full 256 RAM, the other two didn't boot, one had sad bong and other probably PSU problem.
So I'm starting to go through my collection to decide what to keep, and what to dump, er, pawn off, er, offer to the MLA members... The first two are a IIvx (th…
I'm trying to get an old mothballed Quadra 700 back going like it should be. I've got it running System 7.6.1 and software wise everything seems to be doing qui…
I accidentally snapped the end of the yoke off a SE CRT recently but I can't get it disconnected from the power board. The red line with the suction cup at the …
My friend just gave me a G3 they had at his printing company that was going to be thrown out. It's not too dusty in side, although I haven't booted it yet. Ther…
I opened my SE 4MB dual 800k today for the first time. I'm still terrified of CRT's, so I could not touch anything. However, I noticed that there is a DE-9 port…
If so, have a look at this: http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-10-POWERMAC-G4-COMPUTERS-MIXED-LOT-LQQK_W0QQitemZ110481109021QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=i…
Hello everyone, I got a box of parts not too long ago, mostly PC stuff, so I was surprised to find this inside. Looks like some kind of Audio Out PDS card. Ther…
Pickup a Mac SE. 1mb, 800k, 20mb hard drive AND (drumroll) a Radius 25mhz 020 accelerator. :O It doesn't boot, I get a checkerboard on the screen, but I hope th…
I made a run to the local computer recyclers last week (to pick up an imac G5 to fix for them=> now fixed and returned, only needed an os reinstall) and …
Just got the A OK to take the B&W G3 in the lab home! I am going to combine both of them to make a great server! WooHoo!
It turned on before but the hard drive was dead, swapped the hard drive, tried turning it on but it doesn't do anything. I hear the CRT have a slightly high pit…
Anybody ever try putting a Sawtooth motherboard in a B&W case? Since it looks like the motherboard in my B&W is dead, I'm thinking it would make…
I just bought one of these off of another member From what I gather, it's got an Ethernet port, CD-ROM, Zip Drive, Maybe a battery, Active-Matrix screen, 180Mhz…
I am pleased to present what I believe is the first online, comprehensive archive of the comp.binaries.mac Usenet newsgroup. This newsgroup, started in April 19…
Now that the 7600 is ripping mp3 and surfing the wed I feel the need for a dvd burner any suggestions? I will soon get my atto ul2s installed I would like to pu…
Managed to grab a Powerbook G4 15" High Resolution model off of ebay for $200. It has a battery charging issue, which seems to be a common ailment with the alum…
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Advertised as: 800MHz G4 tower with 512MB RAM and 40GB hard drive (self install) 17" Apple LCD Turned out to be: Dual CPU 1GHz, 512MB, 80GB self-install Seagate…
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Was there ever a PCI video card with an ADC port? I seem to have this surplus of ADC monitors now, and I thought it might be fun to run two or more at a time of…
Well, my Portable is back to its old tricks: Power on, chime, die. Doesn't matter what I unplug from the logic board, I can't even get it to do what it did yest…
I'm getting a Hooper (PB 3400c) in a couple of days - decided to try my hand at restoring one, since I've done a lot of work on 5300's. The one I bought (for $2…
My LC520 has external scsi and running OS 7.6.1. ( At one time i had an external hard drive via scsi but that external drive and it's replacement had a horrible…
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Last night, I decided to try recovering my Portable (Backlit.) Yes, the main battery is beyond hope, so I am using a high-power PowerBook 100-series brick. My s…
I have connected my performa 6116 with a pc monitor 14"(no good quality, everything looks blurred) and i think of looking for another monitor,better. I don't ca…
Hello all, I installed a micromac ThunderCachePro on my CC and nothing really seems to be faster. I bought this card back in 1997 and decided to give it one mor…
I have a 22" 1680x1050 LCD monitor hooked up to my B&W G3 that has been chugging along fine at that resolution for quite a while now. All of a sudden, a…
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Hello everyone If you're like me, then you've been frustrated that THINK C++ 7.0 doesn't support all the newest features from the C++11 standard. Well, you prob…
The laptop sale that I began on 68kMLA will be conducted here instead. http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12656 Please re-post your lot numbers; t…
I've got a Kanga I'm trying to refurbish, and it exhibits odd behavior in sleep mode when not plugged in. The machine will go to sleep and stay that way as it s…
So, my SE/30 has some burn in on the Tube. And I think the caps may be going on it- the screen gets random interference about once an hour that lasts just for a…
What are your experiences with the 9500? I got my first 9500 in the summer of '05. It has been configured as a server of some sort and it came with a full heigh…
As a favor to dad, I recapped his IIfx for him. It was just two (2) caps - 47µf @16 cans that goes bad, they are on the right side, one under the power switch a…