I am not sure where to post this, so why not here? Something that I had not realized until this week is that the LC5xx series' styling is strikingly similar to …
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Just as a heads up, on Jan 5th 1999 was the day the PowerMac G3 blue/white systems were announced. This pertains to the 300, 350 and 400MHz models, although the…
A Packard Bell Multimedia m415. Quite the unusual machine using an unusual lobo. It also supports both FPM and EDO. I put 64mb EDO in it. It has 166mhz PI which…
Internal ATA 0: CD-ROM + CD-RW problem is that both CD Drives do not work together. If CD-RW is set to MASTER, CD-ROM is SLAVE, only CD-RW is working. If both a…
Well, I was looking through the cabinets at Computer Hardware Club at my school, desperately looking for a new project since my last one, a Ubuntu file/web serv…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Mac-Performa-6500-225-Motherboard-820-0816-C_W0QQitemZ130285686664 Obviously it's some sort of TV card, but what exactly is it? I've n…
I have a 1024x768 LCD screen which I have connected to a KVM and then to a mac via a 10 switch vga-dongly-adapter.. Out of curiosity I tried using 512x384 mode …
...namely, Malone's Infinite Loop (reputedly not the best of books on Apple, I know, but for $1.79 at the GoodWill, a hard bargain to pass up); and a PowerBook …
Oh yes. Reservoir tip shop strike again. Amstrad NC100 NotePad, untested, no PS, $2. I have been looking for one for about ten years.
Today I checked the mail on the way home from school and happy to see that my battery arrived. Brought it home and opened it up. It is a 7800 mAh battery, a lit…
Well, in my Quadra 800, my rasterops card goes loose in its socket if touched at all by the monitor wire. Thus a crash and death chimes on boot. So I have to: O…
Picked up a 16MB RAM card for $35 shipped and (i paid the extra $5 to go from 8 to 16) and an AAUI->RJ-45 Adapter for $10 shipped. I know people may thin…
I have an Apple IIc, and a power supply is on the way. Now all I need is a composite video cable in order to hook it up to my TV. Just wondering...does it have …
Okay, here's the official announcement: we're on for January '09 retrochallenge.net/2009/winter/ Good Luck!
I decided to build a budget performance desktop based on some parts from my brothers old Dell computer(used to be a 2.4ghz celeron). I had a Dell case, 2 disc d…
I recently purchased a Mac Classic II from ebay. At first, the computer did not boot with no startup or death chimes and no video. After washing the logic board…
How do you charge this thing if the main battery is dead? Remove it and plug it into the wall?
I am thinking more and more about the possible solutions for my LC problems. I swapped the power supply yet the video problems that returned last week persist. …
Now that I have my 475 up and running I have a question or two about its RAM use... About this Macintosh states that the system is using 30MB of the 36MB instal…
WHY WHY WHY Well now the Q800 Death chimes. The Mint well kept Q800, is acting stupid. Lobo out of the case- proper bong Lobo in the case- Death chimes grrrr I …
We all know Apple offered official upgrade kits for the original 128K Macintosh to 512K as well as 128K/512K/e to Plus upgrades, which involved swapping logic b…
Is it possible to hook up an IDE drive to an SE/30 via IDE-SCSI adapter card? Could the drive be used as a boot drive for system 7? What about system 6? Thanks …
I've got a dead Duo 270c and I suspect the PRAM battery. An on-line source calls it a 6 volt battery but that seems kinda high. Has anyone bought one, preferabl…
Today I acquired a Commodore Vic-20, 8 game cassettes, Commodore Datasette reader, and a Vic-1111 16K Ram Cartridge. Everything is in good shape, except that it…
Hello everyone This conquest is not mine, but a friend of mine. He picked up a great shape iBook G4 1.2GHz model with 30GB Hard Drive 512 ram and a carrying cas…
Had a horrible time trying to find out what was wrong with it only to discover after a lot of messing about it was my us/uk adapter had died for the charger so …
MDD 1.25 GHz Dual, looks like the OS 9 one. Doesn't turn on. Might be bad PSU. cost was $50
So, I have a choice. Sadly, I don't have enough for all 3, sadly. There is a Power Macintosh G3 233mhz desktop form factor. I don't see any other specs than CPU…
Hi, No matter where I look, I keep hearing great things about the Apple ][ series of computers. So what exactly makes them that great? My oldest computer is a M…
Well, its a good nubus card, with all resolutions supporting 24 Bit color, and is accelerated in quickdraw. Both sides of the board are covered in chips, and it…
Well today, January 22,2009, the Macintosh IIci, Serial #10441BU737 has had a catastrophic failure of the logic board power system. Before then, there were bus …
After months and months of waiting, I broke down and bought an LC off craigslist. It is the original LC. When I checked it out, i heard the startup chime, but t…
2400c 180/80 1400c/166 Free 9600/300 (500+ MB of Ram, but forgot the #) Free ATI Rage 128 PCI, Geforce4 AGP Card, Random SCSI PCI Card Techtool Pro 4 ($10!) Fre…
Hello everybody! I have a Macintosh Classic with a dead powerboard, and I'm not going to go thru the trouble of fixing it, instead, I was wondering if it is pos…
Hi all, My last conquest is a SE/30 I found on a swiss auction site. I wanted one badly for a long time, so I bought it although I knew from the seller that the…
I wrote a thread in August about a strange video problem I experienced with my LC. It re-occurred last week and again tonight. Setting the display to "thousands…
Anyone who has used Print Shop on the Apple II knows of its vast assortment of graphics libraries. However, for those of us who use the original Mac version, we…
I traded an iBook to my dad for this puppy. Works great but it is lacking on battery power. It's actually almost NIB, since when my dad bought it, he took it ou…
Folks, I'm going to be doing some upgrades on a mate's LC 575 at some point. Bit more RAM if it needs it, If I have spares i want to part with, and larger capac…
My LC won't boot at all. I have already ordered a new PRAM battery but while I wait for it to arrive I want to test my power supply and make sure it's still goo…
It Came with all the original stuff! The box, the quadra 800, and the manuals, wires etc. It has the 1gb Apple Seagate drive from the factory, and it is LOUD. I…
I spent today helping a friend of a friend move data from his old tower to his new laptop, which is a fairly simple process, of course. After words he asked if …
Tonight I set up my gigabit ethernet G4 with my new monitor, and very soon decided to nuke the 10.2.8 install with panther, which is what I happened to have lyi…
I was able to get a Power Mac 9600 300 with over 400 megs of ram and a Sonnet G3 300 Mhz processor card for 20 dollars.
I really like both the story and history behind this 128K/Mac Plus hybrid. The eBay seller has also posted some nice high resolution images on his own website. …
I searched for an hour and did not find anything about the Trick to "clock chip" my Macintosh IIsi so it has the full 25 MHz (or even 40 MHz?) performance that …
Anyone know where one can find manuals. I just picked up a PISMO and would like to have a user manual and/or a repair manual. It has a dead main battery and the…
My apologies for being away for a while...but I return with what may be the strangest LC problem ever recorded. I got my LC out of storage on Saturday. All was …
This might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone have a spare SE/30 logic board that's not going to be too expensive to post to the UK? I bought one cheap of…
Greetings from Brazil! I'm traveling down here, and took the time to take a look in the Sao Paulo Electronics District. Found some things: -a Performa 6230CD (W…