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I've been toying around with my 660av recently, and a thought occurred; Instead of fighting tooth and nail over accelerator cards, why can't we "remake" some of…
Do any of you remember your first experience with the Macintosh II? Were you blown away, by it? With all that 68020 Speed / Color / Expandability and the mathem…
8 megs of ram ?! I have 4 megs to solder on there Please let me know what you think? [attachment=0]Screen shot 2013-12-30 at 2.28.51 PM.jpg[/attachment]
Hi All, My vintage Mac projects has been sidelined due to kids and other life stuff... A few years back back I posted here about my trials with some parts that …
I got this yesterday, yes birthday of the mac. I tell you what, when I opened the box and saw this beauty I was shocked. I've yet to see a machine more polished…
Hello all, A new logic board arrived from Chicago for my Macintosh IIci. I promptly cleaned it and replaced all of its capacitors. The startup sequence follows …
From what I understand about the compacts (including the SE/30), because the video timing comes from the lobo, you can't OC them. Maybe with an external monitor…
hey guys i have a Macintosh II Mainboard here.. i'm about ready to do a re-cap on it. the only thing that might keep me from making it work is , the 4 ROM Chips…
Mcdermd has been hosting this really great website, It Breaks down the Models and has info on how to over clock http://www.applefool.com/clockchipping/ So far m…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-Apple-Mac-Macintosh-SE-Model-M5011-Computers-1987-Retro-Paint-Decor-/281186080947?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&h…
So far this is what I found: What's available, out there in the wild (for a reasonable price) Macintosh SE - $9.99 { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next":…
Anyone noticed that some glyphs from good ol' Cairo are used in the Unicode standard? I'd thought they'd looked familiar, but never connected the dots. Of the "…
I find the Opti 2 port ones work well. you can get them all over ebay used.. doesn't matter if it says MAC COMPATIBLE or not. like this: 6+ bucks, Free shipping…
Hi all! I bought new hard drive and my quadra won't recognize it. Hard drive is 36gb seagate cheetah ultra u320 and earlier owner used it with quadra 650. I tes…
First, these images are not mine (there, I feel better now) I am wondering if there was a rhyme or reason to these covers. Of the two original Macs I have, each…
I have Disk 1 and 2 of the Macintosh 68000 Development System © 1984(690-5012/3 - A). I am just curious if anyone has some info on this, specifically if there a…
Just went to the recyclers over the weekend, and found a Mac SE/30! Pretty yellowed, but does boot... to a :?: . Damn. Also has a lock in the lock slot so I nee…
I am now swapping good parts for bad parts in non working 128k/512k A/B's I was able to fix this one one, the issue was this Deflection Yoke Connector fried. I …
When installing these modern scsi drives in vintage macs, a couple pop tops and some goop hold the hd nicly, I was using modified Stand Offs, but pop tops work …
Hi all, I came across a compact Mac SE last weekend, and noticed one of them had a sticker on the front saying 'Prodigy SE by Levco'. I did some research on Goo…
I just discovered, to my surprise, that my IIsi recognizes 2MB RAM sticks, a hundred or more of which I have had lying around for the past five years. Until ton…
Hello! I am looking for an installable ssh packet for A/UX that is running on my IIfx. I found ssh packages on different ftp-servers, but the packages are all d…
Since it's a MetalMiniTower™ a standard ATAPI/MOLEX connection adapter on the @$$ end of a 'Book's Slot Loader hack just had to be done . . . . . . so I might a…
Here's another cord that I picked up. It says 'Motorola' on it. It goes from a serial plug to two 25-pin SCSI plugs, one male and one female. What could it be? …
I traded my q700 to mcdermd for a SE/30, he got me good! The SE/30 he sent me had like the worst CRT i have seen yet! lol - (i'm just kidding, mcdermd is the ma…
Just reconquested something that I thought I'd given away a few years ago. Found an XEBEC Systems Apple Host Adapter stuck between the wall and the upper drawer…
Hi, Just wondering what else a IIfx ROM SIMM works in apart from the SE/30? Thanks JB
Hey there, everyone! Long time reader, first time poster.. These forums have been a great help to me in bringing some dead Macs back from the brink. I've recent…
Hi All, I've been trying to get ADTPro working on a Mac Quadra 605 for the past several nights without (complete) success. The ADTPro server software in install…
Picked it up from the engineer who built it last night... Best part is, unlike most of these prototypes I buy, this one works! Need a new battery but off the ch…
I have a legal collection Mac ROM images (i.e., I own each respective Mac.). Amongst this collection are some copies. As many of us know, each ROM starts with a…
I'm assuming that because it doesnt exist (from my quick googling) this would be quite a major piece of work? Imagine being able to get an original 128K Mac ont…
Just found this morning a stick of ram, was 512 mb so was worth a try for one of my powermacs. had no issue with it, no complains, no black screen, nothing... h…
I've been trying to get a 22" Cinema Display for a while now. Had one on Craigslist in my neighborhood appear for $75 a couple weeks ago, but they never respond…
I think if you compare the 2 machines by their processor you will find that you have much more respect for the Classic. originally sold for(1990):US$999, US$149…
The logic board connector is the same (looking). The ports even line up with the holes in the bucket. Any electronic reason this wouldn't work?
I finally got around to booting up version 3.1 of the Apple IIgs Diagnostic disk and an image appeared on the screen: I guess the clock battery still works!
For your 3D printer: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:106678/#instructions (not mine, btw).
So about three years ago, I bought a box full of Mac Plus motherboards. Hey, everybody needs motherboards, right? Because of... the reason. And since then they'…
I've often wondered/dreamed/plotted that a color classic inside of a se/30,classic,classic 2 would be the ultimate compact. I don't really like the color classi…
What expansion card is that on Macintosh SE ? Looks like DIN connector to me.
Just picked up one of these guys: http://www.forcedperfect.net/hardware/cards/applepowermacintoshupgradecard/ It states that it's a 66mhz 601 chip which "runs a…
I ask purely out of academic curiosity, as my Quadra 840av has either 48 or 64 MiB in it now, don't recall which, which I am in no danger of getting close to th…
I just picked up a large bag of IIx ram. I'd like to test the Simms and figure out size etc Problem is I do not have a IIx I do, however have an lc and LC II - …
This thing was pretty dirty, When i sprayed the pledge on it you could see the filth liquify, so, i used some paper towel to wipe it down and give it a little b…
Got a great Macintosh 512ke. Had to clean up the floppy drive and re-align it with the front bezel but she boots up fine with System 5.1. It came with the M0001…
Using a Farallon ethernet card, I've managed to hook my LC475 up to my home network with relative ease and am able to access my FTP server and browse the web. F…