Do you guys reckon its safe to run HappyPlusClock 24/7 in an SE after removing/disconnecting that damn fan? ...?
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I was just watching my 1985 10" Sony Trinitron TV, realizing it was going to be obsolete soon when the US goes digital. When I realized it is about the same siz…
Well, today I traded my seldom-used iMac 400mhz for a nice beige desktop g3 - technically the iMac is still mine, it's just residing somewhere else. This one is…
On my new HP Vectra from 1985 I can't get any video on the monitor (also HP branded), there are DIP switches on the video card, but I have no documentation.
I found these in my garage. Turns out that my dad used to use these at his job at AMD. So there were a mix of 360k and 1.2 MB blank floppies. There was also a c…
As stated in a previous thread, my 7300 decided to kick the bucket just as I was about to put it back into service. I was lucky enough to find a 7500 here in De…
Okay guys, my first post here and I hope you can help. My SE/30 was recently suffering from Simasimac, but a thorough washing has cleared that problem. However,…
Over the weekend I picked up the following: Free: ATX case with 300w power supply ASUS P3v133 Slot 1 motherboard P3-550 processor (100mhz bus speed) 52x CD-ROM …
I have a few mates who work for an Apple reseller and whilst having coffee with one of them this morning he says that a client has just given him a working Maci…
Just picked up a Thinkpad i 1400 and XP Home on the original disk with an unused key code. The Thinkpad has a bad hard drive. It has a 300mhz Pentium MMX and 64…
96 mb ram, 4gb hard drive, wireless card, decent battery, 266mhz Pentium MMX. Had Windows XP Pro on it for some reason. I'll be putting Windows 98 on it.
So today I went to a garage sale on the way to a job. Mostly old junk there, but its ok, because I like these sort of garage sales. Anyway, I see a box with an …
Hi, I just went out today and got a long shaft Torx-15 screwdriver. It's long enough for the screws in the recess, so it should take care of all 4 screws. I wan…
So I've already touched on this on the G-Series Powermac forum, but I figured I'd extend it here. A while back techfury90 and I learned that ECU had a surplus s…
The video works on my Mac SE, but shadows are cast to the right of objects on the screen and the whole right side of the screen is bowed out a little. Also the …
I just received this powerbook. Bought it as is for parts. I plugged it in with the adapter from another model that fit. I tried it after a couple of hours, and…
Well, fixed the slowness problem, but now when I try to install a new 400mhz g3 upgrade card, I get a bong but no display. Ram is confirmed good, as is video. C…
Will a dead PRAM battery in a Duo 2300c cause a battery in the bay to not be recognized at all? ('X' over battery icon) I've cleaned the contacts, etc. already.…
Hello everyone, I bought a Mac SE with the following specifications: 1 Mbyte Ram, 800K drive, 20SC Hard Disk I've used and built only PC's nearly all of my life…
I bought one of these guys off eBay last week, and it showed up yesterday http://iannixon.com/images/2008/09/09/ It's a 1.8 GHz Pentium Duo, but the auction sta…
Got an older Dell from a brother's friend the other day. I didn't check the RAM when I got it, though I shoved a 256 MB stick and installed Xubuntu 7.10 on the …
I picked up a free HP mini tower from a local church that was giving it away. 733mhz celeron (going to be replaced w/ a 1.2ghz PIII) 64mb ram 30gb hard drive CD…
Would this qualify as a entry? I mean, because a Game Boy does have a CPU and RAM.
A work colleague was about to bin a PII compaq laptop she bought for £1. Needless to say I aquired it. It doesn't start up although the battery charge light com…
Got this for free from school. G3 300 processor, 64 MB of RAM, and the original 6 GB HDD (I'm fine with that)
Folks, I don't think you can get any geekier than this. Retro reverse engineering: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape If my wife ever found out t…
Well that's something no user wants to hear. I picked up my Apple IIe at a recycling event today. I powered it up for the second time ever. Got it all hooked up…
So today we went to one of the local tip shops (not the normal one, another, much smaller one). Never really has anything, though I did pick up my Gateway EV700…
Just picked up the PB150 off of freecycle this morning. Works great! 8mb of ram, 120mb harddrive, with O.S.7.6 . The whole unit is in very nice shape. It came i…
how can i partition my hd without deleting the info mac 10.4.X
What I'd like is just to have a timeline where you drag images onto it, pick a transition & it plays. Something like that. Thanks In Advance ! :b&am…
Here's what I'm thinking of doing... I have a Powerbook Duo 2300c (It's listed as FS in the trading post but I'm not seeing a lot of interest and its just *so* …
hi all ! How i can run power supply from mac without mainboard ? Supply is ASTEC AA15831. I want use only +5 and +12 Volts . Thanks for help .
Hello, I have a Power Mac 7300/200 running OS 9.0.4 with 48 megs of memory. Currently, the processor in this machine is a 604e, but I recently purchased a Sonne…
Some of you may recall the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver I picked up for the fantastic price of free not that long ago. It was destroyed by a student who fiddled wit…
Q700s are the toast of the town. How do you like that? I didn't ditch my 700, I just cannibalized the 230M hard drive from it, and am going to replace it with t…
I finally have my Lombard up and running (mostly). However it will overheat if left alone since the cooling fan never comes on. Currently I'm using one of those…
I'm looking into buying an iMac G3 (Slot loaded CD/DvD) w/ 500MHz, 256MB (up to 1GB on this model i believe) and Mac OS X 10.4 (tiger i believe) installed. At m…
Can one use a Color Classic as a monitor too? Does it have an DB15 connector? [] ]'> There is one PowerMac and one Color Classic ending soon on ebäh, bot…
I went to the Value Village today and got some normal conquests (USB card with two ports , Ethernet card, Yellow cat5 cable and a power cord for standard PSUs),…
OK, so I decided today was the day to switch displays, the good display from the Lombard with the bad power card and 333 MB, to the one with the broken display …
I found this at the side of the road during the hard rubbish collection: ;D http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/940/imac1cy6.jpg It's a 266 mhz, the sticker on it …
Hi, I have a Macintosh Color Display that I use with my Centris 610. Everytime I turn on the Centris, after about half an hour I put my hand on the vent holes o…
Radius VideoVision card with a VideoVision Studio Upgrade daugther board and a memory daugther board. Video card (unknown) with a MoviePak Adapter assy daugther…
My brother gave me a 6GB and a 60GB laptop hard disk to try in my Lombard. While 10.3 will install on the 6GB, the Combo update to 10.3.9 won't. With the 60GB i…
I'm putting together one good Colour Classic, from parts of three CC Carcasses...Here's a video glitch...When it boots up, the picture has a green tint..colours…
get this 75 bucks for a 867 mhz quicksilver with 768 meg ram the case was fantastic the videocard turned out to be a geforce 3 and inside i fine an atto ul3d sc…
I have a Centris 650 with the internal modem that was installed at the factory. I would like to move the modem to a G3 Blue/White tower. Is the modem compatible…
after i sold my tibook, i had the choice of an HP with an amd turdion, or this. it's an intel pentium(!!)dual core, with 2 gigs of ram, 250 gig hard drive, and …
Is 25 bucks for a 350/10gb/DVD reader/ZIP/64mb ram graphite a good deal? I have plenty of ram to upgrade it with, along with a HD.