I've always known about the zip drive. I remember how useful it was. How we had 2 drives die to the "click of death". The whole nine yards. Long story short, I'…
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. . . liberated just in case I ever decide to update the username to a more Mac appropriate Trash80toG-5 . . . . . . and to running Classic under Tiger. ;D http…
Usually my Craigslist is sort of misses, just newer stuff and Power Mac G4s. The other day I saw a listing for an original Macintosh and jumped on it. Even more…
Hi guys! It's christmas... The long gone multimac.ch archive is back online, at . The guy's a fellow swiss collector, who's managed to collect a huge amount of …
Been weeding through my compact mac collection, taking the batteries out so they won't blow up on me, and came across something weird. This 512k had a big blue …
Are there any instructions for removing the top part of the eject mechanism for the Mitsubishi Superdrives? There's a really good guide for doing this on the So…
Yes! On September 4th I was over at a basement "yard" sale of ye olde local church, and it had been over for two weeks, so they were going to recycle/ throw out…
Met up with CelGen this afternoon and traded my Mac SE PC Drive interface for his spare Nubus PC Drive interface... -J
It seems I have started to have enough Apple stuff to warrant my own thread! My current collection consists of: (1) Macintosh Portable 5120 (which Uniserver, Te…
Hi all, I've been getting back into the Mac liberation game lately and I seem to be acquiring more machines than I have keyboards/mice and monitors for :beige: …
Hi, I have a very nice functioning Portable but I'm worried about the 20+ year old HDD. I'd love to replace it with a CF card, but for that I'd need one of thos…
I'll keep this short. Two thought: PS/2 and VGA KVM with home-made adapter cables as ADB/Mac video switcher (PS/2 socket = ADB?) 25 pin printer switch box ditto…
i need one for the Macintosh SE i need one for the Macintosh LC 1 i need one for the Macintosh LC 3 i would like one for the Color Classic - but i am not greedy…
A couple of years ago, I decided to do a hack that'd be what I thought of as a Mac Mini. I eBayed a 12" MacBook Top Panel to test its suitability for the side p…
I recently bought a personal laserwriter 300 with toner cart in it, and a boxed unopened one.
So I have a Macintosh Plus and a Powerbook 180 - these are my only pre-OS X macs (and, coincidentally, my only floppy disk equipped macs). Since neither machine…
Hi, so here I'll list the last machines I've added to my collection if you don't mind. Few days ago got another Ti 1ghz (have two already, but working so-so) , …
Picked up a non-working Lisa 2 over the holidays, apart from all the work needed to get it going, I have never really been able to work out how the serial numbe…
I helped someone out with a SCSI HD issue and received a MAXA NUBUS Snooper card with software. Came with version 2.0 of the software. Unfortunately the softwar…
Hi Folks! I've finally decided to post details about my "vintage" mac setup on the Internet! I say vintage with quotes, as I don't really know if a 9600 would c…
I currently do not have the ability to test here but has anyone ever tried connecting a LaserWriter/LaserWriter Plus to a Lisa and seeing if it would print both…
Hi i like to know if possible to connect an internal macintosh 3.5 superdrive to the apple IIgs. Also if this is possible if somebody have a guide or pinouts to…
i had some spare led strip lying around was going to chuck it out but i thought it wouldnbe cool if the floppy hole was to be lit up by some led. result is belo…
This is probably of interest to about two people here, including me, but anyway. You know those cheap roll-up USB keyboards and drumpads you see around the plac…
Before I start messing around, can anyone refresh my memory on sleep problems with installed PCI to USB adapter cards? As best I recall, it was mostly about PCI…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Laser-quality-Color-Printer-Star-SJC-144-MC-For-Macintosh-New-in-box-/151738281175 If this was only $20, I'd buy it just to play…
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…
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…
My much loved 180 has succumb to tunnel vision and is now used with an external display. Still wanting to take a 1xx around with me, I was given a very nice 180…
This may have been posted in the past, But I had just stumbled across this: http://www.dasarodesigns.com/schematics-and-resources/?drawer=files*Apple the 800K f…
I have a problem with a 400k external Apple drive. I can put a disk in and gently push it down to seat properly (drive obviously needs a clean), the drive will …
I found a 250MB Avatar Shark drive, along with 4 disks. It has the PC Parallel Port cable. It also says on the box that SCSI interface cables for Macintosh comp…
I have a double 800 k SE with no ADB, i know the problem is coming from the Logic Board, using a different board works great. Any idea where to start with ?
Figured I would wait till I had a complete system before posting this thread. My first post in this forum was in the compact mac section regarding a Macintosh S…
I've got a couple of teardrop ADB mice that I've cleaned inside and out with alcohol, and they're lovely in most regards. That said, I can't seem to find a way …
I have a Performa 475 with a bad original 160MB hard drive. It exhibits the spin up / spin down symptom. From reading the forums, that seems to be a problem wit…
Someone is offering to sell me a Wacom Digitizer SD-311e, but it doesn't have the cables for connecting to the Macintosh or power. The power cable seems pretty …
Maybe this is no news for you guys, but for me it was. Today I connected my Floppy Emu to the internal floppy port in my LC III and it worked perfectly. It moun…
Last night I picked up a Pioneer SCSI DVR-S201 DVD burner with firmware version 2.02. Hope to upgrade that when I can. So far I’ve had it read commercial DVDs a…
Just got back from the Salvation Army store with my latest: an Apple Quicktake 150. No cables or manuals or anything, but it looks to be in pretty good shape. K…
So I have done a few LWII (HP Cartridges) wiper blade replacements and they work great!!! Basically all the HP and LWII cartridges by now need them replaced.. T…
Deos anyone know of a good source of replacement cartridges for Stylewriter printers? I need them for the Stylewriter l, and ll, as well as models 2400 and 2500…
At the office, we have a few older HP inkjet printers that were taken out of service and replaced by newer models. They were taken out of service because they s…
I have been given an Ibook G4. I nice lady gave me some items maybe a year or two ago. I was surprised to receive a new mail last week from her, advising that s…
Dear forum members, According to SCSI requirements, the first and the last devices in a SCSI chain should be terminated. Since I have Iomega ZIP drive connected…
Hi everyone, Tomorrow, I'm going to pick up a (non-upgraded) 512K Mac that someone needed to get rid of (fine with me). It is a good-looking machine, and still …
Hello everyone!! I am a new Apple Lisa 2/10 owner!! I am so excited!! I have been wanting one for a LONG time. Only problem is that mine only came with one memo…
I've always wanted to get ahold of one of these machines, not this one specifically, but the earlier classic macs, and I found one at a garage sale with a few a…
Hey guys, I just picked up my first compact mac a few days ago. It came with the keyboard but unfortunately, no mouse. I was wondering if there were alternative…