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Hi all - I've just picked up a Mac IIfx - which I am very pleased with. I will have a number of "newbie" type questions over the next few weeks - just as a word…
Earlier this week, a very generous college professor of mine came to my apartment and dropped off a Mac 512k and a Mac Plus with his letter of recommendation fo…
Happy birthday to me! A friend just handed me a Toshiba Portégé 3110CT subnotebook, bag, external floppy and port replicator. No power supply and no internal op…
I acquired a Stylewriter II recently, it's in quite good shape, has the original cables, packing materials, and box. Does such an item have any value? I looked …
Onoes! The DIY SCSI PCMCIA drive and SCSI RAM disk projects that have been referenced here often are offline. Wayback machine has zilch. I'm now trying to retri…
This is actually three seperate conquests, in a way. One was entirely accidental. Seems these classic Macs just fall onto my head now I'm not looking First: 14 …
I'm using my SE/30 as a distraction free writing machine, but one of the biggest issues I have is the keyboard home keys on the D and K keys. Its an "Apple Keyb…
Agreed today to buy this lot from a friend for $60 (text of the advert follows): 2 beige G3 Macs, 1 desktop, 1 tower 2 desktop Apple 6100/DOS Centris 660AV IICI…
Is there a possible way I can use the StyleWriter I got in a recent conquest? It's the first StyleWriter, not II or anything. I got a Performa 400 with the Styl…
Hi there. I'm testing some of my external 400k drives. Some of them have a perculiar problem which is completely the opposite of most of these drives: When you …
Last week I scored some beautiful Black hardware: - NeXTstation TurboColor, with SoundBox ADB, and ADB keyboard and mouse, pristine. - NeXT MegaPixel 17'' displ…
First off, hello. I am a new member here. Secondly, I was driving down the street today and saw what looked like the top of a mac in a pile of trash on the side…
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Anybody tired SE ROMs in a Plus? Any reason not to try in terms of risking damage? There is some software that will only run on an SE. My SEs are packed away or…
I bought a set of System 7 Pro disks from a friend to use with my recently acquired Classic II. However, I've come across an issue with two controls in the cont…
Hello all, I recently purchased a dual floppy Macintosh SE off eBay for a mere $20! I'd been really wanting to mess around with some old Macs earlier. Then I fo…
Help, I tried to book up my SE 30 the other day. When the Key board and mouse are connected, the SE will get to the welcome mac screen and will not complete the…
How can I make boot floppy disk if I have only new Macbook Pro and don't have a working vintage mac? There are many instructions how to make it on an old mac, b…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Power-Mac-9500-132-CD-Floppy-Network-Tower_W0QQitemZ250584449182QQcmdZViewItemQQptZApple_Desktops?hash=item3a57ff409e#ht_1472wt_941 I know t…
On top of my other conquest, I just picked up separately a free LaserWriter 12/640PS from my dentist's office (they had bought new equipment). I had been eyeing…
I've got about 10 disks which go to the Jasmine MegaDrive which I can't read because the drive in question is presumed to be lost to the ages, though I still ha…
My Mac Classic has started to ask strangely. It boots up just fine from the internal HD or from a disk and everything looks alright but I can't click on anythin…
Dropped into the local Salvation Army Thrift Store today. On the back shelf was a white mouse. I had not seen this type before. Flipping it over I saw the famil…
8-o I just found this pic while googling "AppleDesign" and have never seen a Q700 equipped with any other feets than the rubber Ho-Chi-Minhs from the IIcx/IIci.…
. . . recoupment? I'm not sure what to call my latest . . . re-acquisition! When I was in Philly, my (very wonderful) ex-wife brought down a few boxes of goodie…
I actually got these a few weeks ago, but since I just got around to trying one of them out tonight, I figured I'd finally post about them: 1. USA GeoGraph (MEC…
Well, i had another lucky day at yard sales today! for all of $36 i got: - 2 monitor cables- connect my macbook to the TV-$1 -ipod video 30gb, not outputting so…
Who can tell me how to hook an external Zip drive to my Performer 630CD? I have access to a Zip 250 external drive but don't know how to hook it to my Mac? Are …
It looks as if the ink is almost gone, yet last week the ink was replaced and was used maybe twice to print a couple text documents and all is well. Just today …
YES! :b&w: EDIT: Info that I found out after typing all of the below, but decided needs to be first: It's a 1983 manufacture! Serial number F352035M0001…
I went to a junk store today, they collect a lot of stuff from people. I found an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 in the box! (Box in great condition) and an Image…
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PB 140, 2x PB 180c (one is broken), 2x G4 Towers (733 + 466), Apple ADC monitor, various Apple Service Parts, and a shrinkwrapped Apple 600e CD-ROM. $46 off Cra…
In my semi-weekly search of Craigslist, I found a week old listing for a 128. The lister says it has a 256 KB RAM upgrade (which makes it still less than a 512,…
I picked up a G3 Platinum Minitower overclocked to 466MHz today, with a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI card installed (the one with DVI and VGA). The Voodoo card was, of cou…
I have 1 SCSI hard drive. just 1. i have 2 classic macs that use SCSI hard drives. the LC III+ and the Classic II. Which one deserves it?
All this was given to me. Pristine condition Centris 650 with pristine Apple Display. Literally this setup looks and works brand new. Pristine-looking Personal …
I posted a link to an album of some of the furniture I've been working on in another thread. It was a little premature on my part, but I was trying to help a co…
THANK YOU LEMSWAP. Performa 6360 with AV kit sans fan Multiple IIsis, including a clean IIsi case Multiple LCs Apple processor upgrade (PCI) Multiple SCSI HDs (…
i was looking around in a local thrift shop today, and i found an apple m0100 mouse. it has the serial type connector, but pin #6 is broken off. for $1 i could …
Great week in conquests for yours truly: - two Newton: a MP 120 and a MP 2000 upgraded to 2100. Both work perfectly! The 120 lacks its stylus and is in German. …
What type of Hard Drive does the Color Classic use, does it use SCSI or IDE? Also will 2GB be compatible with this machine, and where can I purchase one online?…
Does anyone have any photos or other information about this machine? I know they never went beyond the prototype stage but it would be fun to see more pictures …
I was in the process of imaging my copy of ClarisImpact 1.0v1. I imaged Disk 5. Success. Disk 4. Success. Disk 3. Read error at the very end, but ShrinkWrap man…
I have a duo 210 that won't boot, and I seem to have lost the floppy drive for it. I want to get access to it so I can fix my finder and system files (played ar…
I have a model M0115 keyboard (Apple Extended Keyboard) that will make a computer turn on simply by plugging it in. If I attempt to shut down the computer, it'l…
Anyone seen one of these yet? being able to use a ball or optical PS/2 mouse on an original macintosh 128/512/plus without using the original mouse. I am making…
The keyboard that came with my G5 died after an accident involving a beverage. So I need a replacement, and I hate the feel of the new flat notebook-like Apple …