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Hi all I'm going to replace my internal SE/30 HD with a period correct (more or less) SCSI 50-pin HD. I do not want more than 2GB on that hard drive. I know the…
Forgive me is this is listed somewhere, "Search..." did not retrieve any threads. I have a Mac Classic II which had a PRAM battery leak all over the place killi…
I'm pretty excited, I won a TAM on eBay that seems to be in great shape, except for one thing - the screen appears to be dead. http://www.ebay.com/itm/181936816…
I recently bought a Mac SE/30 which would boot from the Floppy and briefly from the SCSI drive after cleaning. But during a fresh install of System 7 the SCSI d…
Hi Folks, First post here on the forum after lurking for years, hopefully its not presumptuous leading with a request but I'm in a bit of a jam: { "lightbox_clo…
It's insufferably slow! I have an SE running 7.1 - 800k FDD, 4MB RAM, SCSI2SD with a 256mb microSD, and an (Excelan/Kinetics/Shiva) Etherport SE. I also have ne…
XBHS1997's thread reminded me of my Tangerine SL iMac, which has had a most peculiar problem since new: the screen will flicker and shink upwards from the botto…
OK, so, I know very little programming. I took a C programming course in college, and I got a... well, I got a C. I didn't really understand it all that well. H…
This guide was distributed to persons buying SIMMs from MacConnection (I think there was also a videotape available). This 1991 version covers Macs from the Ma…
My trusty old Radius 81/110 doesn't want to power down. I noticed a few weeks back it started up on its own. Took it apart and looked around, the battery is 3.6…
Hey guys, I ordered tantalum caps for my LC III and didn't think to look at the size codes of the caps before I bought them. The 100uf and 10uf caps are size B,…
If you cannot afford, or cannot find, a Lisa, now at least (about 33 years later) you can read the brochure. Interesting (to me) to note that it used a 68000 pr…
Hi. I recently found a Lisa 2 at Moscow - http://www.vintageapple.ru/#!product/prd12/1930604025/apple-lisa-1984- and want to buy it Looks like it is a Sun Remar…
First, let me apologize by saying I am brand new to this forum and I don't know if this has been covered in years past. Please bear with me as I familiarize mys…
Was wondering if you guys like the 17" model powerbooks over the 15 or 12" ones and why. The 15" seems like a decent size to carry around and the screen space i…
This was originally published in MacUser 1988 March. MacUser also provided people who asked with a standalone printed version of the report (printed on thicker …
I finally got my hack to work. This will also work with a 128K. I have some sort of SCSI upgrade I found in that huge lot I helped acquire. It sits on the ROM s…
Hi I'm trying to help out someone who posted an ad saying that his classic wouldn't start anymore. He is 78 and French, so he doesn't speak English at all. He u…
Does anyone know what the heck this is?? I am trying to find drivers for this accelerator board, but have no idea what it is.. The S/N is blank, and it has no w…
So I was making some backups of more of my software, and started working on MacTerminal. It's 400k floppies in that older format (not HFS, the older one I can't…
I know 256 colors is the requirement for SimCity 2000...but are there any ways to trick the program to run on a black and white machine? I'm using it with a few…
Is there any way of installing System 7.5 on the Classic II, i swear ive seen someone on youtube running it (or maybe i dreamt it) i can upgrade to 10mb ram if …
This may be a stupid question, but can you not connect a microphone to a Mac SE? (My Mac Classic II has a microphone jack, my SE does not). thanks,
Hi, been trying to get my 'newly' re-capped Mac Se/30 to fire up with a either its existing internal 40MB SC OS 7.1 (which worked pre-recapping) or a new (refur…
I was wondering. Is there enough power on a SCSI cable that if you used an EL Wire it'd glow? I've seen SCSI terminators that light up an LED. Would be cool if …
Has anyone got a manual for the Outbound 125, that either they would be willing to send me, or copy, whether via scanning, or just phone camera photos of each p…
Hey there! Have an odd question and am wondering if it is at all possible. I have a dead Macintosh IIci that has been recapped but still does not want to boot. …
Hello all... So I have replaced in my Lisa's the Power Supply and Video Board caps.. including the X2 film caps... many of mine were cracked... (not good)... at…
ok the LC520 was intensionally slowed down. The LC550 just has these parts missing. LC520 is 25mhz LC550 is 33mhz ( big difference ) All you have to do is remov…
I've just gotten a Power Macintosh 7300 but I can't get it to start up. When I press the start button the LED blinks once then nothing happens. Does anyone know…
Just in case anyone is ever looking for the driver for this touchscreen window I figured I'd just post this.. I was not able to find it anywhere online and then…
Latest addition to my collection! Unfortunately purchased slightly too late from a recycler, the smashed screen, surround and drives had been disposed of but th…
I have a G4 A1138 that works except for the backlight (shining a flashlight shows the apple logo on the screen and text from a bad boot crash). I just replaced …
Picked up a couple of XRAIDs. Couldn’t resist, they had 14 500gb ATA drives each. I bought them for the drives but I may try getting one going. I do have some F…
I recently purchased an SE w/ Superdrive locally for $30. This computer has dual 1.44 floppy drives and has an internal 30meg HD (after opening up the machine i…
Does anyone have a cap list for the SE-30 analog board? I found this one here, and I think the analog boards are the same between SE and SE-30 Macintosh SE Anal…
I observe: in a compact disc published in 1997, its Apple Partition Map is named MRKS. Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on 'mike_mulligan.cdr' #: type name …
Hi, i am working on the MIST port of the great Plus Too Project (http://www.bigmessowires.com/category/plustoo/). I am currently working on SCSI. It's mainly do…
So back in high school I took a class in Pascal. I enjoyed it. The thought has entered my mind that it could be fun to tinker around with programming in Pascal …
My Macintosh 512k has a funny floppy drive. As soon as you turn it on the floppy motor (im assuming) keeps spinning so you hear a noise as soon as you turn it o…
So I was looking at the System 7 source code, when I saw this Makefile. (Surrounding it is the dbLite, the PB Duo 210; SuperMario, a universal 68k ROM; and a un…
I decided to try putting more memory into my Mac II (currently at 8MB). I purchasd 4 4MB PAL SIMMs from MemoryTen and dropped them into Bank B. The first time I…
I acquired this in a lot of boards a few months ago. Any idea what it is? I've tried googling the part number but couldn't find anything.
Hi, I'm writing an operating system for PowerPC Macs in order to be able to reuse them with an OS adapted to the modern world as far as possible. It will be a d…
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C7W5L44?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 off brand #40 developer by the gallon { "lightbox…
I recently recapped and refurbished an SE/30 to the point where the sound is loud and clear, and everything else seems to work great except for the display itse…
I have recently acquired a PowerBook 540c. As so many of us have found, the case plastics are so feeble as to not reliably stand up to disassembly of the machin…
Hi; I'm in the process of saving some old macs; I've encountered a difficult issue: only a specific MiniScribe 20mb hard drive works on a se/30. If I try anothe…