I'm going to my grandma's house tomorow, so i'm hoping that the Preforma 630CD i stuck in her attic when i was ~6 years old is still there! *crosses fingers*
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What is this on this 512k? Its in the second picture over the power button. Looks like SCSI to me. http://cgi.ebay.com/Macintosh-512K-Computer-M0001W_W0QQitemZ3…
I just spent 5 minutes washing tar off my hands. Today I received a MacDirect SCSI enclosure with some Conner hard drive in it from eBay. It was described as wo…
Was there an upgrade path for original Apple II users? If so how far could one go before having to buy a whole new computer? II Plus IIe IIe enhanced IIe Platin…
Just thought I'd share :beige: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content c…
Anyone ever heard of this offshoot of Goodwill, called the Goodwill Clearance Center? There's one now right behind the "Super" Goodwill where I am, near Ashevil…
Well, I just had my week made. I was out this evening, when I hadn't planned on being out at all and was kind of not wanting to drive places. I happened to be d…
A friend has picked up one of these for me. We're just trying to track down an ADB adapter so I can hook it up to my Mac before he sends it out to me. I've only…
Here's another auction by danapplemacman with his usual collection of fantastic photos. An obviously fantastic example of an operational 128K for any collector,…
Hey all, just joined up. Glad to find this forum. Anyway, I'm trying to locate an old ad from the mid to late 80's that featured a Compact Mac (Plus or SE) sitt…
Hi, I have a II GS with an Apple SCSI card hook to an external HD and ZIP drive. For the moment I have to disconnect the ZIP because it is somehow interfering w…
The old kind, that is. :beige: Bought two of 'em on eBay the other day. Will come in handy - I don't have any spare auto-inject FDDs, only manual-inject.
A guy selling UNIX gear at a computer show I went to in March told me about a recycler in the area, and I finally made it over there last week. There were a num…
The other week, I did the Outlook recycling joint in Mornington. No Macs. But, there are Mac Bits 1x internal floppy drive on sled. 1x internal AppleCD 300 Plus…
I pulled my trusty BookKeepin' 2300c out of mothballs when all my other computers were temporarily belly-up. It's a nice feelin', all warm-n-fuzzy even, to fire…
Please go pick this up now! I'd gladly reimburse for a couple 57X's next time I'm over there. Also a $5 IIgs, some early PMacs ... good day for vintage computer…
I want to use a zip drive with my SE30. Where can I get a suitable Omega driver on a Mac disk? I would need installation instructions as well. Rollie44
Hi guys, Today I managed to win an auction for a Commodore Amiga 2000 from a local seller. The seller was great (and may be a source of more vintage gear in the…
I stopped in a Goodwill computer store today to check out what they had. The prices were good on some items, OK on others. However, one display that I was drawn…
I invited Faith no More round....... Maybe not But my Stylewriter 1200 printer had been a faithfull workhorse for many years, until my second son was born (seco…
So on my original Macintosh LC (the one I just rebuilt) it refuses to play nice with any external SCSI device. The weird thing is that internal SCSI works fine,…
So I bought a NOS floppy disk drive cleaning disk with cleaning liquid. Problem is that the cleaning liquid bottle won't dispense liquid. > Should I be a…
HEY EVERYBODY! MY NAME IS RICHARD, AND THE REASON I AM MAKING THIS POST IS THAT I WAS WONDERING SOMETHING ABOUT SCSI "MICRODOCKS" FOR POWERBOOK DUOS. MY QUESTIO…
I just got a mac plus today. When i bought it I didn't think it would be as stuck as i am now. It was only the computer, nothing else, no system disks, keyboard…
There's an electronics waste/collection place by my house, and every once in awhile, I check out what's in the dumpster behind the building. So far I've acquire…
So before I came here, my Macintosh LC (my original one) had to be parted out because there was only a grey screen on startup and the floppy drive was totally d…
Well I finaly got the Duo 280c to boot! It has a full 40mb of ram! Sadly, the lower mouse button fell off. Spindler Plastic..... It has 7.5.3 on it, and a Duo M…
Wow! My total CPU count has doubled in the past week, but my wallet remains at a constant size. 8-o First conquest: Power Mac 8100/80 from the library of a neig…
Finally made another trip over and got the following: boxed MacAlly multi-port adapter (lets you use several serial devices on one serial port) untested Duo Typ…
4 meg of memory and a 40 meg HD!! I guess that would make it an SE 4/40? It's a little slow for System 7, but it runs. The small screen is sharp and bright. Eri…
I finally have an M0001 original mac :beige: (no 128K badges) and I also have a copy of system 1.0 on my hard drive. I could probably figure out a way to make b…
I picked up a broken quick silver yesterday for the handles I needed for my quick silver inside the qs was a superdrive, zip drive and a ati rage card got that …
While I was out running errands today, I stopped into a Goodwill store that I don't usually visit (it's all the way across town from my usual routine), but this…
Can anyone recommend a good utility for monitoring the ADB port? Something that can show what's connected, device handlers used, or addresses, etc. Thanks.
I spotted a Apple property tag on this Macintosh SE SuperDrive. Link (last photo in the auction) Would this necessarily mean that it was a late stage testing pr…
You guys may have heard of this dude before, Herb Johnson? Apparently he has a bunch of cool and semi rare stuff for sale, including 6100 Nubus Adaptors, which …
Freecycle FTW... hopefully no-one nabs before me! "I have a Mac 512K (circa 1984) and Mac SE30 (circa 1987?), including operating system disks. Also an Apple Co…
The following article mentions that the APDA distributed a generic SCSI driver in assembler... http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.04/04.01/ModifyingSCS…
I am curious as to what the reliability rates have been with 2.5" SCSI hard drives for older PowerBooks. I've got a few of these drives, one of which is dead an…
Could anybody give me a quick link to download this? Gamba's site has this, but I've had some strange issues opening the .bin file and CNET has this too, but it…
Hello Everyone, Okay, my Mac Plus caught fire and nearly burned down the house (godaweful smell too). So, for Christmas this past year my husband bought me a re…
I've got a PowerBook 165c that, except for the case, functions reasonably well. I purchased a battery for it a few years ago and it gets about an hour on a full…
I have had for a few years a 20" ColorSync monitor from c. 1997 in which the included ADB ports do not work. On a ColorSync, a failed ADB port is worse than it …
. . . were any ever made? . . . or were USB cards made for a PB with ADB already on it? I'll admit to getting lazier w/age, but I topped out on the 1400c &a…
Hi, Normally to answer this question I'd just open my Mac 512k and look, but it's out of my reach at the moment. What I'm wondering is, what 400k floppy drive m…
Sometimes conquests or liberations can be a bit expensive. My last conquest is of that kind, though in my opinion it was worth it! For about $140, this is what …
. . . Come True! 8-o I was looking for my Original Iris Chests because, back in the day, I’d bent up two custom galvanized steel wortops for them. However, I fo…
I just washed all of my IIe's keys. All of them went back fine except the space bar. I do not know how to put it back on. How do you do it?
I have noticed on an old 333 MHz iMac logic board that there are traces for what appear to be: J12 = Mac floppy drive J11 = CD analog audio J4 = Serial port (Us…
I have a G3AIO (MolarMac) running MacOS9.1 that refuses to recognize a ColorOne Scanner connected to its SCSI port. The ColorOne is terminated properly. The cab…