On my Quadra 800, I have Stuffit Expander 5.5 installed, and am attempting to decompress files downloaded from Macintosh Garden. It works on some files, but man…
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Hi everybody, my SE/30's battery exploded, and so did C12 (capacitor) and Y1 (I think a transistor). I've got a replacement for C12, but not for Y1. My question…
A friend of mine has offered to give me an imac g5 for the price of shipping. I don't currently have any PPC macs in use (got my b&w g3 in my closet and…
I acquired a PhoneNet PC card (ISA or PCI...not sure..). I'm wondering? Is there anyone with experiance with these cards? Will they work under Windows XP? And w…
Less than an hour ago, my first 68K conquest in ages. It's an SE/30, not sure of the specs yet, all I was told was that it booted a few years ago. If it's a goe…
It's a day of improbables in the United States. The US unemployment rate went under 9%, the NFL just may avoid a lockout, and I am now the proud owner of a Maci…
Hi everyone, got some helpful information here once before for my other mac, just wondering if someone could tell me where to find a boot disk for my MacTV, it …
I acquired a Shiva FathPath5. All the way from the USA to The Netherlands. I have set it up acording to this site: http://www.walshcomptech.com/fastpath5/upnrun…
A small conquest for me (it has been a while). Original Airport Card, 2 512MB SD-RAM SO-DIMM, and a 60GB Fujitsu Hard Drive. Grand total: $15 Apparently all wer…
Scored a gutted IIfx (all that remained from the recycler was the case, the board, the ROM SIMM, and the ram thank god) but parts like the metalwork for the dri…
I have just seen this sharp pda that a guy is selling, new in boxes and stuff, and im curious about this, anyone have more info? i see the newton logo, so its a…
Interesting problem. I have a Quadra 800, which is a super nice machine. I also bought two external hard drives. Unfortunately, neither of the external drives i…
I have 3 u320 ultra320 scsi drives 72 gb in size. I have a mac classic and Mac IIFX where the hard drives just recently died. connecting my 2gb 50 pin drive to …
Hi there. I would like to know which nubus graphic card to choose for a - IIx with Micromac Carrera 040 33 mhz - IIci with Daystar turbo 040 33 mhz upgrade taki…
I have an old 40 gig HD in a firewire enclosure that I want to reformat and repartition. OS 9 Drive Setup sees it on the FW bus, and it can be read and written …
I have a 5.25" Apple drive and I'm attempting to add a write-protect override toggle so I don't have to notch floppies. I'm having trouble getting it to work. W…
Hello, I have got my hands on a yellow mac classic. It has a dead floppy drive but I used the floppy from my LC and attached it with the case off to put some st…
I was reading the Wikipedia on the IIgs, and apparently they were used for developing Super Nintendo games (the SNES used a slightly modified version of the CPU…
Here I go again, this time I found a Pismo Powerbook, with 2 chargers. It appeared dead at first, then after unplugging the backup battery, the machine booted i…
I bought one of these recently for $10. Very nice old router with two ethernet (thick, thin, 10 base T) and two LocalTalk ports. Sounds like it can be used as a…
I went into Norvac in Salem, OR to find some caps for C1 on two compacts. I walked out with a $5 512ke instead. Everything seems to work fine on it. The screen …
Is there a speaker (reader) of Japanese language? The website trinityworks might provide several driver software solutions to fully use an Apple mighty mouse on…
First, the specs: 68030 processor 16 megs of RAM hard drive 240 megs (had to start Norton Utilities and then Norton Disk Doctor to find that out, couldn't figur…
Hi I was looking for some drivers for my NIC. And I found this site: http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/network.shtml But the link for the: Apple's NIC drivers v1.4…
Hi all, I picked up a "not working" Newton H1000 off eBay, which came with original pen and getting started PCMCIA card. Looks like it has always had a screen p…
Well Now it has happened to me... Having heard about poor motherboard design on the early tiBooks, I have been feeling lucky, and being darn careful, of the boo…
Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some 140 5.25" disks…
Today started a bit boring with not knowing what I would do to keep myself busy. After having lost twice with Warcraft III multiplayer, done the dishes and fed …
My latest über conquest from Weird Stuff: A complete in-box 24 port Farallon PhoneNet StarController Series 300. Picked it up for $15. Plugged it in and it powe…
I just found this mac while I was throwing away some old boxes. Long live the e-Waste bins in large office buildings! It still has its original 250MB HDD and th…
Anyone know the following? 1. Can BinHex 4.0 run on a Mac 128K? It was written in 1985, so I'm assuming so. I know it works just fine on my Mac 512K (What other…
I have a new lust object for my Pismo(s) - the 40gb price is out - $99 bucks. Has anyone bought one of these yet? The speed bump looks like...a thing of great b…
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and former co-worker told me that her husband had dropped his MacBook Pro down the stairs and busted the LCD. Of course, the rep…
I came across this in my cyber-travels, which tells us something of what Apple thought was going to be huge back in the early 90s. It is a magazine advert selli…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Chronicles The Computer Chronicles was a US television series, broadcast during 1981-2002, which documented the rise of th…
Hi there. I'd like to know the actual value of a rare rasterops 264/30 fully functional. It allow 24 bit colour on a Se/30 external monitor. http://www.youtube.…
I checked all the specs. 45 watts, 24v DC out. So going by that, it should have worked. The PowerBook plug is different from the iBook plug, so I had to make my…
Hi - Anyone know where I might be able to find/purchase some VERY old Midi sequencing software such as Performer 4 or Vision 2 or even earlier versions? Thanks …
I recently picked up a bunch of things for a total of $65. Here is the stuff: ($25 from CL) Macintosh Powerbook 165c: Good shape. Good Hinges. AC. ($15 from GW)…
I have 3 powerbook duos, a 230 in mint condition, a 280c in mint condition and a 280c in pieces not working (power supply area is shot, making a ticking sound) …
The other day I was playing around on my G3 iMac (see sig), and the Finder suddenly goes crazy; repeatedly saying that it needs my attention. It then flashes an…
See the MacRumors story on it. In short, the old Apple IIGS Demo Group Free Tools Association created an iOS App (works on both my iPhone 3G and iPad,) that is,…
OS9 supports HD spin down via the tool bar / task bar. 1. What was the earliest OS that included this feature? 2. Is a control panel available to do it in Syste…
FutureBASIC by Staz is currently freeware. Version 4.4 for OSX and version 5 (FBtoC) are current downloads. Version 4.4 removed support to compile for 68k, vers…
I got a Mac Classic from 1990. Logic board is tested and working. I just disassembled the case to check out the voltage on the main connector. No +12, no+5 no -…
I just got a IIgs the other day. Just the computer, a power cable, and what I believe to be a cable for connecting the computer to the monitor. After looking ar…
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Damn, I swear. I was hoping to post up the tale of two recaps of two LC IIIs, but success fails me. One LC III (a LC III @ 25MHz) was dead to begin with. The ot…
Any Mac's other then the PM6400/6500 Come with a Sub inside?
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