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A week or so ago, I bought a Macintosh SE (SuperDrive) from eBay. The seller sold it to me for $60 + 17.68 shipping. Which given the price this and other compac…
I recently obtained a couple of compact Macs with Sony SuperDrives. In both cases the drives wouldn't read disks. I did the usual servicing of the insert/eject …
Hey there! I feel that it's somewhat lame that my first post to the 68k MLA forums is to ask for assistance, but "it is what it is" I guess. So here's what I've…
Tonight I was enjoying some Wizard's Fire (and of course, the built-in Brickout game for when you want to take a break from your game to play a game), and when …
Hi all, I looked through the archives here for any mention of 500-series PRAM batteries (it turns out that they are actually full-on 50-mAh backup batteries, no…
Hi Guys i have recently restored an LC , apparently working , starts , boots sounds but ADB port does not work, i have recapped LB but the problem still remain.…
Looks like I have literally burned out the logic board on my IIsi. I powered it up today after a few weeks in storage to test some RAM sticks, and it was behavi…
So, I got myself into a bit of a bind. Everything was going perfectly well with the recap of my SE/30's logic board until I got to the axial caps. A combination…
Hello guys, it is me again. Today I got a Plus for 75 bucks and was told that it was not working.It's showing white horizontal lines. What to do? Both the analo…
I have a Mac Classic that I purchased in 1991. It was my only computer till 1998 when I placed it in its carrying bag and stored it in a closet. Sometime in the…
Ok, just finished a full recap on two of my powerbooks 100s. Got a little lazy and just used Uni's cap reference page since I just got too excited and pulled ev…
Hi everyone I'm digging up my old mac classic with the hopes of reviving it. I know its gonna have lots of problems but i hope it ends up a happy mac story. The…
Hi ! I found a mac SE/30 some 5-10 years ago, and I switched it on. I still remember the horrible sound the hard drive made. Yesterday, decided to fix it, so I …
Hello, to help someone trying to resurect a lisa1 I added twiggy drive support to my emulator (IDLE). Since some twiggy floppy were imaged by bitsavers.org ther…
Ok so I have a few working widget hard drives for the Lisa... I have recapped the boards where required.. They run pretty good... The next question is do I do a…
I have been given an Imac G4 Sunflower PSU to have a look at, anyone here has already repaired one. Is there any Capacitor related problem with those as well.
I have just recently added 2 X 32Mb DRAM sims to my Centris, both brand new, made by a company at confirms these are compatible specifically with a Centris 650.…
Hello, I was trying to fish the 26 pin header through the back of my Lisa, so that I could connect an Apple Lisa 2/10(XL) External Widget Port Adapter. Unfortun…
Hello, Somehow today I killed something in my IIgs. I am not sure if it is a display issue or a logic board issue, honestly. I do not have a screensaver saved i…
I have a Macintosh Plus and a System 6.0.8 Boot Disk (800k floppy). This is the same boot disk I've tried unsuccessfully using on the Macintosh SE. So, after I …
Hi, has anyone experienced this issue, or could offer any input on what it could be
I was cruising eBay and saw an Apple IIc for a decent price ($26.50 Buy It Now). Turns out it was a IIc Plus and I didnt really know the difference but I just k…
Hello! I recently scored three ED Macs, two Macintosh Plus EDs and a Macintosh ED (which is a 512ke). The Mac ED only needed a quick reflow of the J1 connector.…
Time ago we thought OSX talk could damage our main interest (OS9) and we cleaned all OSX stuff to enhance our OS9 strength. Those days are over. OSX talk can't …
I'm not sure if any of these tools will work in the older versions of Live. I will try tomorrow.The trigg.me midi trigger looks really nice.http://4live.me/
Good morning 68k KMLA First I just want to say you have a lovely forum and its helped me out a great deal to get Performa 6400/200 working. But I have runned in…
Hi guys and gals, I have been given a present of a PB G4. The number on the back is A1106, which seems to make it a 2005 15" Alumin(i)um 1.5MHz or 1.67MHz Power…
Two months ago, after finding out that the RCA 1802 assembly never seemed to be ported to the mac, I decided to try creating one. And so, ASMac18 was born. All …
Hello everyone, I have a minor problem with the video from my apple Lisa, it seems to be displaced to the right of the CRT and folds over at end. Is there a way…
Hello guys, I am a fifteen year-old non-expreienced collector from Turkey. After buying a IIe for 40 bucks, and trading it with a PS4, I got a II Plus from an a…
I have found a nice "Power Mac" : there is a Pentium 4 inside, and a BIOS. It's a Developer Transition Kit from 2005, the first officiel Intel Mac, with Mac OS …
I'm running 7.5.5 on my Mystic CC without any analogue board mods, so I'm limited to 512x384 or 560x384. I have a handful of apps that throw an error saying 640…
So I've been having some video issues with my color classic and I'm trying to track down the exact cause of the problem. When I acquired the machine a ways back…
Hey guys, I got my II Plus a day ago, but it does not boot. Some strange characters appear, and colors. Some chips' legs were not properly sitting so I reseated…
Hi, I'm thinking of getting a set, and I found one that's within my budget, but it doesn't include the power supply. How should I proceed? Is the PS relatively …
Trying to clean the floppy drive of a Macintosh Plus, now every time I insert a floppy it will automatically eject it. Disassembling the 800k floppy drive I rea…
hello! recently i got a another 128k. i like best 128k. and this is my 4th 128k. but it has some problem on the logic board. there are no bong sound, but someth…
Both of my 475's had this issue... and I've noticed others have it as well. They are missing the little screw-ins (is there a real name for them?) for the DB-15…
Hi I own 2 working macs at the moment: a 1Mb Plus running 6.0.3 or 6.0.4 and a 8Mb SE/30 running 7.5.3 I bought the /30 to create floppies for my Plus but now i…
Hi all, I posted here a while ago about a SCSI problem with my SE/30, which I managed to resolve. Since then I’ve replaced the surface-mount capacitors (haven’t…
Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We took the forum down after some messages posted in the lounge that questioned what exactly the terms of c…
Quick question.... When I buy an alignment tool for the pots on my color classic, do they need to be plastic or some other non conductive material? I have seen …
Hi everybody, after more than 20 years my classicII seems dead. But I hope it's something which I can repair, but I need a hint maybe: The symptoms are: During …
Hi.... My Color Classic has always had a perfect screen. No bleeding of colors, no off colors, just perfect in every way. While I was running it today, I reboot…
It seems that in most, if not all Color Classics I've seen, the display does not use the entire width and height of the CRT screen real estate, but leaves about…
Suggestions appreciated on how to fix... my first pad fail (yup I'm new at this recapping thing... good times) { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Ne…
Hello, I'm new to the forum and Macintosh. I recently bought a non working SE/30 on eBay that came with a nice surprise in the form of a (hopefully working) net…
Hello, I just received my first powerbook, a 180c. The laptop itself seem to have survived the trip but not the power brick, no voltage on my multimeter. When I…
So, I was thinking quite a bit about this. I have a 2009 MacBook Pro which I bought a couple of years ago to replace the TiBook and Quad G5 as my daily machines…