Well, not really using a mac SE. but i used a CRT from a Mac SE, Analog VGA circuits, one big ass color wheel, syncro circuits built on a breadboard, and VGA ou…
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Went to the dayton hamvention flea market and seen macs galore. shelves of compacts, all 10 or 15 dollars each. I picked the only one that said HyperDrive 20 on…
So this is a topic that I've gleaned a lot of spotty information on from this forum and elsewhere, but I still haven't figured out anything that works. Basicall…
In storage somewhere, perhaps a storage unit, bus locker, trunk, possessed by someone who I don’t have the name of yet: Mac Classic 1mb Apple I (unmodded) Lisa …
Grabbed a 512ke and an SE with 2.5mb ram, 800mb floppy and 20mb miniscribe for $10 each from craigslist today. The owner works for Intel in Hillsboro and was ge…
I came across a file on a certain server based on a hot online protocol. Can't remember which server exactly. The file, "aux-0.7-bin.tar.gz" seems to contain ju…
I recently got Linux (Debian 6.0 sid) running from the command line on a Quadra 605. A number of other people got the parts together, but I wrote up the method,…
Does such a thing exist? I'm running my LC III without a PRAM battery and on startup the 32-bit memory addressing is turned off by default. I could just pop in …
I was rummaging through some old CDs earlier and found a copy of NetCD. Now that I've managed to get my external Sun CD working with my LC III I wanted to try o…
Somebody did a very "Low Rent" version of one back in the day. It was done using wires and SIMM Sockets clustered and flopping about on the existing socket. Dr.…
Scored these two guys last weekend. LC 475 SE/30 $20 for the LC 475 and $45 for the SE/30 ,each came with a keyboard and mouse. Good deal IMO. Although the 475 …
My 33mhz LC 575 hardly feels fast. It's chip has no cooing whatsoever - completely exposed. Even when the memory is upgraded, it still feels sluggish. Would a h…
I can finally say im done collecting Macs now as ive reached my goal of getting every USA Released compact mac. Its taken 10 years but ive finally done it. This…
Successfully swapped in a full 68040 into my "new" LC 475 last night. It's a 33mhz '040 from my parents' old Quadra 950. No, sorry, it's not available - they on…
Hi all! One of the VRAM sockets of my Quadra 700 has a bent/broken pin... thus it wouldn't recognize the SIMM, disabling the other three good sockets also :-( T…
The main case is easy but - Is it possible to Retrobrite the front panel of a compact Mac WITHOUT removing the CRT assembly ? (ie: cover/tape up the screen very…
I have an external AppleCD 600e. Would it be possible to convert this drive to a CD burner to burn CDs with an SE/30 or other compact mac? Any recommendations o…
I took a stop into Half Price Books today after lunch and scoured around. Lo and behold, they actually had software in the clearance section! I didn't know what…
Been on a fixing up Macs spree this week. Got the beastly Quadra 950 running good. Man is it a quick machine for its age Been playing some old games on it, I in…
I was rummaging through my old photos, and ran across an OLD performa 5200 hack i had done. I patched in an intel pentium III system board into the original ana…
I was doing some reading of the first MacUser issues, and came across an oddity: an article on the new Font/DA Mover with an accompanying illustration that show…
Will this RAM stick work with a Mac SE 30? 1MB 30-pin 80ns 2-chip Non-Parity SIMM (p/n AFJ) http://www.memoryx.net/afj.html
Did anyone ever make a cache card compatible with the Centris 610? Mine is upgraded with a full '040 and runs A/UX. I'd imagine a cache card of any sort would r…
Just bought my Second Compact Mac its a Macintosh SE/30 it has a 92mb HDD and 9mb ram and runs System 7.1
Hi All, I recently purchased a Mac Colour Classic. Everything tests fine but I would like to expand the VRAM from the current 256K that is soldered on the mobo.…
So I had nothing better to do today... { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested c…
How would I be able to record sound on a compact mac? Specifically I am asking about the SE/30, but I would guess there were some common types of hardware to al…
I have a Power Mac G4 that I have running 9.2.2, 10.1.5 and Ubuntu 6.10. I am wanting to try a different OS than the ones that I have, I have a Quadra 660av tha…
Hi, I'm setting up an SE/30 with CD-ROM drive - an Apple CD300 unit. What files do I need - extensions etc. - to get this drive to work under System 7.1. Does a…
Well I responded to a craigslist ad, had a bunch of vintage computers so I ended up with the following Apple Network Server 500 132 in stock configuration- all …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
So... It's been a while, guys! On Tuesday I met Danamania, did a tech trade... I gave her my SE/30 and Colour Classic (they needed a loving home ...) and got in…
Has no internal CD-ROM, instead it came with an external one. 36mb RAM, noisy 250mb HD, Supra 33.6 modem, couple system floppy disks along with ClarisWorks and …
My 68k Mac army has just doubled in size! Just the base unit, but it's in nice shape and everything is working (they even built the low cost computers to last b…
A few months ago I realized that although Amiga and Atari Falcon have had 060 accelerator cards made for them in the past, no mac or accelerator card for one ha…
Howdy, folks. I have a RasterOps Accelerator II - a 7" Nubus card with 4x 30-pin SIMM slots and not much else. Apparently it provides color QuickDraw accelerati…
This one's made by Novy Systems, but Novy Systems made a number of Mac SE accelerators and I can't pin down which one this is: I'd love to know what the jumpers…
I just got one of these and I am a bit nervous to plug it into a mac. It is stated as using SCSI-2, and I am not sure if 68k macs have SCSI-2 or SCSI 1 external…
So pleased. After many years on dial-up I finally got a DSL broadband connection and looking at my lonely little Mac Classic I just wanted to get it hooked up t…
I have always been amazed that the surface-mount 68040 versions have been so much harder to find for sale that the socketed kind. Well, I just found somebody wh…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130470543090 I was going to bid $200 (just in case it went cheap), figured it would go for around $50…
I feel a little silly asking this, but I've been surprised by some of the hacks people have made work. Any chance I could open pdf's on my SE/30?
I love using my SE/30's but get so tired, of getting them setup exactly like I like them then dropping a drive a month later. Then going all over AGAIN setting …
I found a TEAC DVW-DV11 standalone DVD duplicator at the thrift store for $30. It says as-is, but appears to be pristine - no dust on the rear fan blade or on t…