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My Mac Plus that I got a little more than a month ago has always lagged at startup. Well, The display shows the alternating pixel "fake gray" for a few seconds,…
So I trade a p4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram, Gateway that I never really used to ckhthd for his huge collection of macs and mac stuff. Never owing a mac except an apple I…
well fall semester starts tomorrow and i wanted to get rid of some junk, so i headed down to the electronic recycling depot to drop off an old printer and a few…
..and it turns out there is yet another pile of items waiting for me! ImageWriter II AppleCD 300 LaserDisc player with two boxes of educational Laserdiscs Compa…
Yesterday: First conquest worth mentioning in a while craigslist: one 9600/300 w/ sony monitor. !. On location: I find a nice lady wishing to get rid of more ol…
The local Craig's list finally had something good on it. A former Apple dealer advertised a bunch of vintage Mac stuff, so I went to look today. Amazing! Probab…
So I was having lunch with my aunt and uncle yesterday and we started talking about my mac collection. My aunt mentions that they have some sort of mac word pro…
20lbs watermelon for $10 http://www.troubleshootnow.com/coius/watermelon.jpg Red and sweet in the middle
Are the battery cells in Pismo/ Wallstreet batteries matched in any way with the battery controllers? In other words, is there any point in re-celling a main ba…
Wow. I just found a huge lot of stuff. Here is a quick list: PowerMac 7100/66av -Is full of nubus cards A second 7100. Its a /80 Powermac G4 Quicksliver 867- 1.…
I just found a really cool booklet (even cooler to me as I'm a graphic design major) in great condition entitled "Guidelines for Using the Apple Logo, Signature…
Im thinking about buying an Apple two but i have some questions first. It would be a IIc+ or a IIe, which would be best for in the UK? From what iv read Apple I…
Some more parts from my wife's friend.... - Mouse Systems ergonomic keyboard - Microsoft Wireless Optical Scroll Mouse Blue USB - need to clean out the mouse du…
Eariler in the week, was speaking by email with someone who had an old Mac she had picked up for her daughter. When she got it home, she realized it was useless…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2742454903_fa24d8659d_b.jpg If receiving my really sweet 300dpi AppleScanner in original box with manual weren't enough to s…
I want a drum machine, but don't know what to buy.... I got a "USB roll up drum machine"... it's pretty cack.... it just isn't responsive enough, when drumming …
I bought a good clean G4/466MHz DA from a reputable dealer, and successfully tricked it out with an AGP Radeon 7500 so that the Mac could drive a 20-in ADC Cine…
Just a few days ago, I picked up a complete Commodore 64 collection. The batch was given to me by the original owners, who simply needed to clear some room in t…
Hallo, sorry for my bad English.. I can buy Macintosh 128 with keyboard, mouse and bag in perfect condition. In my country these computers are very rare. Seller…
This little gem should be arriving next week. Hopefully it'll be an improvement on my p.o.s HtC Windows pda which despite being modern is very unreliable and a …
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html I believe that's where one should look first. How do I copy it onto a floppy? I know it has to be an 80…
Sweet! Just popped in to Savers in passing on the offchance of any Mac hardware, and there was a black Apple Extended Keyboard II as issued with the black Direc…
On my local Craigslist, there was a guy selling the following lot for $125: IBM xSeries SCSI U320 15K 73.4GB P/N 26K5150 IBM xSeries SCSI U320 15K 73.4GB P/N 24…
So my Mum and I went to the markets this morning, where I found a stall selling a little portable quad-speed Creative CD-ROM drive. Its a SCSI-2 drive, with a 6…
Wondering if anyone has an idea, how many SE's were built and sold by Apple, during it's production run...Wonder how many are still left, staying outta the olde…
On a whim, I put up a "wanted: vintage macs" on Freecycle and if I do say so myself I have found quite the score: LCIII (good condition) PowerMac 6100 (great co…
Lately, I've been trying to organize and clean my apartment. It's quite a difficult task because I have so much crap! I'm a pack rat (trying to get better) and …
I got a IIcx at a yard sale last summer, but now is the first time I took it out to see if it is good. It has 4mb of RAM and a 350mb SCSI drive running 7.1. I l…
I can't figure this out. When I turn on my Apple //e the just says "Apple //e" at the top, and nothing else happens. I was expecting a prompt for Apple Basic. T…
Are there any known 5.25" External floppy drives that will work with a Mac? Or would it be possible to modify something? - ft
https://www.lemonsauctioneers.com/lotimages/humble07-17-08/99.JPG That pallet looks like it has an eMac in it. What do you think?
I picked up 2 KVM Cables (VGA/PS-2 Keyboard/PS-2 Mouse), 4 SATA Cables, a USB 2.0 all-in-one Memory card reader and Power brick to power SATA Drives externally.…
Today was the NC State surplus sale. For $26, I got a Dell Dimension 8200 (1.7 P4/256/20/DVD), a cool Braille/clicky keyboard, and an SGI Indy in Blue. No Macs …
Woohoo! I am now the proud owner of an ImageWriter II and manual (thanks to jkoci). It arrived safely (made a trip from the E. Coast to the W. Coast) and works …
Hey guys i need your help with something. I purchased an old ADB Gravis Blackhawk joystick. I know it works because when I move the joystick the pointer corresp…
Just purchased (off a MacTalk member in Perth) an Apple Newton 2000 MessagePad (upgraded to 2100 specifications). Included in the bundle were all cables and ada…
Conquests have been quiet here lately, but last week I got a PowerMac G3 (Blue and White) @ 350 Mhz, 256 MB memory, 40 GB HD, a matching (Blue and White) 21in A…
Hey guys. I my recent conquest, I found a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 200 PCI. I thought this would be the perfect upgrade to my ATI Rage 128, and hoped I could finally…
Goodwill Computer Works Store in Houston I just found out about this today. It opened back in March. Who knows what I've missed. This is what I got today: Perso…
Tonight when I needed to copy some CDs for tomorrow I find out my new iMac doesn't like CDs with paper labels! I've been wanting to get an older Mac again and I…
Yes folks, Reservoir Waste Transfer Station comes through like a champion again. A near-pristine black Director's Edition PowerMac 5500/250 with the AV in/out c…
9.1 GB 50-pin SCSI drive(Seagate Barracuda): $5 64 MB PC-100 stick: $5 They even have a Athlon XP "Palomino" there for $5... I'd suggest anyone in the Bay Area …
Maybe someone will recognize this issue... Booted my SE, keyboard doesn't work, mouse does. Keyboard and mouse in separate plugs. Turned off SE. Plugged mouse i…
I got my PowerBook 180C in the mail today! I was expecting a bare PowerBook, though I got: Club Kidsoft, (Shrink wrapped), AOL, Compuserve disk in sleeve, Anoth…
Picked up a working Quadra 650 and a PB 5300ce. The Q650 is stock and works well. The 5300ce works but has two problems. the power connector is loose and the is…
Finally snagged a MacTV mouse and spare (sold already) keyboard with black adb cable off ebay for a nice small 9$... also finally tried out the IIGS keyboards m…
Hardware 68 Pin to 50 pin scsi adapter CO Star LabelWriter XL G3 450 cpu Sonnet Cresendo G3 400/512 came out of PM 7500 edited Macally USB Keyboard IR reciever …
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This has been on my mind for years, and have never acted on it. But where does it say that an LC or Classic is stuck at 10 Megs of RAM? Most II Series data bus …