Hey all, went to try and play a little with my q840av now, but for some reason, it doesn't start? It's been a while since i tested it, but when i put it away, i…
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My awesome friend is giving me a pair of G4 towers today. He got them from a college near where he lives. The one is a DP 450, the other a single 466. I have to…
Hi everyone, Hopefully this'll be the last you'll hear about my iMac's problems. I'm getting ready to buy Mac OS X Panther for it. However, before I buy this OS…
Hi, I have a Powerbook G3 with the bronze keyboard, a 400mhz processor, and 320mb of RAM. It has OS9 and OS 10.3 on it. Since OSX disagrees with the DVD drive o…
Saw an advert for a non-specific Apple Mac the other day on my local Freecycle and after a few enquiries I found out it was a Performa 630 located very near to …
hi everybody, this is my first post, and i am so glad i have found this forum. i think it is a great community. i have loved macs since my early childhood (i ca…
My Belgian/French 540 is alive! [1] It has 7.5.3 on it, and I can't figure out how to change the bit depth. I want to set it to 1 bit so I can play Dark Castle.…
I dug my Mom's iMac G3 out of storage (In the basement). Anyways, upon booting up, i encountered the video only using 5" across of the screen than the screen is…
Right now it has a old 5400 rpm harddrive, what will be faster: new 7200 rpm HD or a SCSI card with scsi HD ? Bert
Following on from last weekend's Freecycle haul it's been a bumper time for liberations in this corner of Mac-dom. Not only did a 9500 turn up yesterday but a 7…
Hi, I have been registered on this forum for some time but I havent participated much, until now when I realised how important the 68k Liberation army is. I per…
I need to know which is lighter on this system: Pentium 233Mhz MMX 128MB PC-66Mhz 40GB HDD DVD/CD-RW (pulled from another machine) These are the two anti-virus …
Is the old myth true that they can only be used one way or the other? I want to turn mine on its side so it's a "tower" yet I read in Mac Secrets that once they…
After months of absolutely nothing appearing on my local Freecycle group, someone advertised a Quadra 840av. I duly stuck my hand up and said 'yes please' and I…
Great instructional pictorial. Anybody we know? http://picasaweb.google.com/radius226/CompactMacintoshDisassembly
Well this is my 4th unusable PSU (3 for my IIsi and now the one from my 7200) I discovered the problem is that I literally blew off about 5/8ths of my PWM contr…
So from what I have read, it is possible to get OS X to run on a 233mhz tray load iMac. What would I have to do to get to be able to run it? Or would it be bett…
Okay, so I have a set of 2400s that I've acquired over the past few months. The first one I picked up was a pre-production Japanese model (I'll put pix up on Fl…
I have been using my PowerBook 150 A little more and I think I'm killing the battery charge. I have to plug it in for a second to get it to start (The pram batt…
Does anyone know if the angle adapters (pds-pds/ pds-nubus) for the IIsi have L2 cache onboard? Or to put the question differently, is it possible to get L2 cac…
I just received ( I love when stuff gets delivered and I don't have to go get it ) [}] ]'> the machines mentioned in the subject. The G3 mini tower; 266,…
I have a Mac Classic that, on startup, immediately goes to an After Dark screen saver (the fish one) that is password protected. Is there a way to get around th…
Continued from the thread in Conquests: Well, looks like I have enough stuff here to make one really really really nice ][+ and one parts unit. Unit #2 doesn't …
I'm wondering, right now I have an iBook G4 with tiger, 768mb RAM, a 5400rpm 80gb hd and its the 1.07ghz model. I'm wondering, what are some ways other than mor…
Have any of you ever returned to an older Mac having got used to a newer one and found the older one to be a lot worse than you remembered? Since I got my G3 I'…
I've noticed for some time now an interesting little thing that my 540c does. It's running System 7.6.1, and every time you click on the battery monitor in the …
Anyone know where I can get Revision B CRTs for Classics cheap? Just the CRT, don't need an analogue board or a whole Mac. (If you don't know the difference bet…
We all know the aging early Compacts are prone to leaky capacitors which are all guaranteed to fail and need replacing as they near the quarter century mark. In…
I was surfing around on eBay the other day and ended up buying an iMac G3 for $20.00. The computer has not arrived yet, but the ad said that it is password prot…
I have a Rasterops 24L Nubus video card that uses jumpers to set resolution. There are 3 switches, anybody know what the settings are for them?
Ok, ok, i know it's not an apple, but well it's retro! I just got today a BBC Master in mint condition! I haven't played with it much yet but it does look quite…
I have two laptops sitting in a box. Both need a hardrive, which I just picked up. One is a 1400cs and the other is a 5300 also with the low end screen. Both ne…
i got a 500 mhz ibook here which i orginally intented to buy to swap the logic board out and put it in my 800 mhz but i am having second thoughts now the 800 mh…
Curious about people's thoughts regarding which trackball powerbook I should get. I'm only interested in getting a powerbook with a trackball, so let's leave it…
Hi! I recently acquired my first iMac G3/500 from a relative who found it while working as a garbage man, but I can't get it to boot any OS. When I first turned…
There are two Apple numbers on it. 820-0662-A 820-0662-01 On the front there is two rows of six PSRAM and the same on the back. 24 chips total. 1990 Could this …
Today I picked up a 6116cd from a lady on Freecycle. She also has a 6400/200 that boots, but she wants $25 for it; so if anyone lives in the Poconos area of PA …
Well, the hard drive is on its last legs in my iBook G4. It makes a clicky-type spinning sound in a rhythmic manner. I'm not willing to shell out the money for …
I just acquired a card labeled "Apple High Performance Processor Card Model 1100" and on the side of the card is 820-0823-A. Supposedly for a 9500. I tried to f…
Hi guys, I've just taken ownership of a super-clean SE/30 (along with a ton of vintage accessories and software - more on that later), but this system seems to …
I have a bizzare compact Mac: Front says M0001E, but the back has the typical 25pin SCSI port (with the alien pre-standard SCSI symbol on it), and the "About Ma…
OK guys, I've spent some hours trying to ID a couple of Quadra boards I have - searching all over the web. Haven't found affirmative answers yet. Main source of…
I went to start up my Classic II last nite and it came up with a checkerboard pattern on the screen. A bit of Googling and it looks as though it's a hardware pr…
Has anyone come accross one of these? I went to collect a Power Macintosh 5300 from someone earlier, and when I got it home (which resulted in my arms and hands…
As you guys know, i overclocked my eMac 700 to 900. Well, a bit later I tried to downclock it only to find that I did a horrible job. So tonight I sat down with…
Hi, I've got an old SE/30 that is having some motherboard problems, some of the little pot capacitors have become brittle and fallen off. I'm looking for someon…
My Mac Plus' analog board went out. While I could just replace the components, I thought it would be much more fun to switch out the CRT and analog board with a…
Went to the local recycle center today and sitting right on the computer table was a Powerbook 180. I snatched it up in a hurry and set about looking for a powe…
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Just wondering...what computer would a performa 6200 compare to? Then what can I do to make OS 9.1 faster? I removed extensions and control panels... Then, I'd …