I recently got a ast mac286 card and wanted to install it in my IIci. The iici from what i can tell is shot. I won't chime or has any sound, as it didnt before.…
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I have three ongoing frustrations with Mac OS Classic in general, and Mac OS 7.5 and 8.6 in specific, which I am running on my Quadra 660AV and my PowerMac 7500…
After a lot of tinkering, my Macintosh 400K/800K floppy emulator is finally ready! Yesterday I got read-only floppy emulation working from an SD card, in a roug…
Forgive me if this is old news, but we need to encourage this guy to finish this! http://www.bigmessowires.com/macintosh-floppy-emu/ or get someone here to fini…
Back story: Classic II I found in a dumpster a few years ago. Recently thought I was going to gut it and use the case for a separate project, so I cannibalized …
My SE started doing the screen-flicker thing. Looks like the image is a little squashed too. Too much space on the bottom. I'm at work on my lunch so I figured …
Just got this portable in, I plugged it in to test it, back light worked. I popped in a 6.0.8 floppy disk and it drew just enough power to reset the system. Aft…
As some of you may have heard on IRC, I started to port Mini vMac to Android. Since I don't have an android device, I have only been able to test on the emulato…
Hi! I have just found the pinout for the internal floppy drive connecter-the problem is, I don't know if it's the right one! Could someone please point me towar…
Not really vintage... surplus maybe. They're letting a Mac Pro go at work; the options are I can have it for free or I can sell it for them. I'm not interested …
Non-backlit, 1MB memory, sys 6.0.7 (on floppy) HD did not work Booted once when I first got it (after removing the HD), and I could not get it to start up after…
A first shot only, and as yet without WoL, but check it out and leave me a message under the "Message Pad" Tab: It is not über-stable, but that seems to be the …
I hope its okay that I start a new thread for this... it's the same machine as my prior post (Color Classic) but new symptoms. History: A while back I was havin…
Hi, I have a couple of analog boards with an L2 width adjustment coil whose inner cores are missing and/or crumbling. Is it possible to replace the coil outrigh…
Like the title says, for Christmas, my wife gave me $500 to spend on eBay. She knows how much I love vintage Apple gear and there's no way she could possibly bu…
Bought 2 iBook G3s off Craigslist today! Paid $25 for both and 1 charger. They both have their own problems, one has a DVD drive issue, other had the video card…
Hi, I have an "unsupported" installation of Mac OS X 10.4 on my early 2008 Mac Pro, and I'd like to run TenFourFox on it. It works when I run it on a Mac which …
Alright, to start this story off, a little introduction. I've been working at Goodwill in a training program for about two months now. The reason this seemingly…
For whatever reason, I am using a XServe G5 as a desktop system. It's cool, loud, keeps my heating bill down --- whatever. My question is there has *got* to be …
This question is about a game so I guess it would be ok to put it in the lounge (move it if i'm wrong). I recently purchased a game called Summoner on eBay. I w…
I've run into a small dilemma on my iBook G4. Every time the system either reboots with the adapter plugged in or looses power when I disconnect it, when I turn…
So 2 LC2 boards (performa 400 and 410) one works great other no sound, Ill take theloss as I have an LC 475 board that I will put in its place. Only issue it lo…
Posted to the Mac OS 9 list. It's been a long time coming, but Classilla 9.3.1 is (finally) released. Due to TenFourFox taking up a large amount of time to stay…
Hello everyone! Conducted a search, but was unable to find anything on this. My machine information follows: Machine: Macintosh Classic II 10 MB RAM 80 MB HD OS…
Just recently Skype changed things so that I can no longer use it with Mac OS 10.4.11. I'm sure there's been lots of discussion and hopefully a fix mentioned. S…
A couple of weeks ago i tested my new (to me) Quicktake, using the IIsi for that purpose. After 15 minutes, the IIsi turned itself off, with a loud bang and smo…
. . . possibility for a liberation (of the memory limit) for a 4/4 tone MemCheck error Chimes of xx( I just took shots of this MoBo for other topics, but I may …
So after messing around with my IIfx, I decided to look at the two IIci's I have. One acts completely normal. The board does have the metal-can caps, but looks …
I have (2) IIci's one is Nice, Clean, got some money into it as well! The other one was sent to me as a (parts) free beater(Witch, I got fully working again). I…
Like many of you, I have a number of apparently failed, or irritatingly noisy small 50-pin SCSI drives (most 250mb or less). I have been going through them. Sev…
Hey guys! It's been a while. I've been trying to upgrade my Classic from 6.0.3 to 6.0.8, but there's a bit of a problem: When I try to image a floppy from my PC…
Here's a bit of an odd question. When I first got my compact Mac (a Classic and an SE/30) I noticed that the picture was a bit off center so I opened them up an…
Hi everybody! Today I am going to tell you a most extraordinarily entertaining tale of a floppy drive, a boot disk, and a screw driver. So... The tale of the Fl…
I have a Mac plus working just fine from floppy. When I hook up an external zip, ID 6 no other device, termination is on... I hold the mouse button down while p…
Alright, so today I got a call from a friend saying that their iBook G4 won't turn on properly. I grabbed a display and headed down. Using an adapter, I got the…
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Have to repair my iMate after ten years of everyday use, the green and the white wire of the USB connection on the iMate PCB got detached somehow. Could someone…
I got around to scanning the paperwork, it's bad quality, but I don't plan to rescan as it was last-minute before I sold it to someone on LEMSwap: http://www.ea…
Uniserver and I were tossing around a theoretical question ... Do you think that socketed or soldered 68030 processors would perform better, worse or the same i…
Hi, Why is this? I thought I saw somewhere that I could cut a wire on the ribbon cable to fix this, assuming it's not the drive itself that's acting up (it seem…
Hi all, I had a little trouble booting my PowerBook 2400c tonight, though I did get it to boot normally. However, I detected a faint burning smell and now the a…
Hello, Having a problem getting the Pismo to boot anything other than whats already on the hard drive. I have several versions of OS9 on CD, OSX 10.2, 10.3 &…
Heyy people, i have a 540 newly aquired. I love it! It gets dark corners after a while..can i swap a color lcd on this? The corners arent that bad but will prob…
Hi! The other day, my floppy drive broke . I've traced the problem down to a faulty HD/DD switch (the one by the eject button), and now all I need is a replacem…
Hi folks, I'm having an issue with one of the 128ks I'm restoring. When attempting to boot a known good 400k system disk in a known good 400k drive, I get a sad…
Hi! This might sound unreasonable, but what is the best way to acquire a free Mac ? I'm looking for an SE/30, but almost any compact past the Plus would do (not…
Anyone know which version of RadiusWare works with System 6.0.3? Trying to egt my original Mono Pivot display (model 191) working with the FPD-90 Pivot II card …
Can someone help me understand what DiskCopy 4.2 is actually doing in my scenario? I have downloaded the System 2, MacPaint and MacWrite images from this site t…
So after some fumbling around, I finally got my 15K RPM Fujitsu drive formatted. I used FWB HDT version 4. So now it's formatted... but I can't boot from it. St…
ok, so far these vintage computers now have Internal 100mb SCSI Zip Drive in place of the hard drive: LC-III LC-II IIci Mac SE Also I have a Internal SCSI Zip D…