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OK, I just purchased a IIci and it worked fine for a day. After copying the hard drive, and replacing the PRAM battery (It booted up fine with a dead one but I …
Hello: I am the new owner of a RasterOps 24XLi Nubus video card, and I am wondering if any of you fine p[eople mght have the driver to share? Thanks! Matt
There's an ad near me for a Mac Plus. It looks like there's discoloration from a label just above the "Macintosh Plus" on the left side. I guess that probably s…
I did pretty well on an almost complete set of 11" x 17" Think Different posters on eBay. I wonder why no one else bid? http://www.ebay.com/itm/171684155074 Edi…
There're quite a few new old stock online for real cheap. They look like ADKII, but what I'm wondering is if they have mechanical key switch or crappy key switc…
I own a PowerBook Duo 230, in decent shape. However, when I turn it on, it starts smelling strongly of fish. It has gotten a lot better, and seems to be working…
Dear all, I just have a quick question regarding hard drive replacement in a Performa 630. Since it's an IDE drive, can I replace the drive with any IDE drive, …
As some of you are aware, I have two hobbies--Macs and road trips--and I like to combine them at times. Last year, I went to Cleveland for a Mac II and then to …
Hello, I was wondering how to slim up System 6.0.8 for rom use when it occurred to me to see if I could use finder 5.5 with system 6.0.8 and sure enough it work…
About two weeks ago I switched from Roadrunner to U-Verse. The modem for Roadrunner was in my office, while the modem for U-Verse was in my living room and on t…
Someone is selling a Macintosh Classic II in my area and they are asking for offers? I know nothing about the machine (I think it works though) What are they wo…
Hello everyone, I have a mac classic with a problem: the power supply voltage is too low output. I have 4.5V and 11.4V ... I also changed the electrolytic capac…
Dear all, I'm a bit of a novice as it comes to recapping, and I intend to get a bit of practice in before attempting to recap my LC 475 and LC III. However, I c…
The 40S slowly starts to spin, there are a few short bursts of reading for a system folder. When I popped in a 7.6 disk tools disk, Drive Setup says the drive i…
I got an SE/30 from a member here for the cost of shipping. I crack it open and find this! I don't know how rare (or common) these are but it's pretty cool! I h…
Hi everyone, As you probably all know, the Lisa was the precursor to the Macintosh and shared a lot of the same hardware and software. I'm going to look at addi…
Wasn't really looking for another machine, was rather looking to get rid of some units, but monday, a lonely 20" Imac was lying on the street, just side by side…
Hello, i would like to change my apple internal 4x scsi cd rom on my performa 6116 with a fast cd recorder. I would like fast reading speed, not (necessarily fa…
So I'm installing a 9gb Quantum Atlas 10k Ultra160 scsi drive with a 68 pin interface into my PowerMac 8500. I have a 68 to 50 pin adapter to hook it up. So I g…
Im going to assume there is some defect with the RAM card I installed. But what threw me off is that it boots then halfway through startup it pauses to say some…
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Hello: I have a NewLife SE accelerator that works! However, I don't have the right driver. MacDriver Museum doesn't have it and despite endless Google searches,…
just snagged these two beauts. Pics attached. Both working good. The 520c power jack is loose I might open her and re solder it. Other than that no problems exc…
Hello all. I just received an LC 475 in the post - it was expertly packaged and I'm very happy with all of that. But wow - that's some capacitor leakage right t…
Was given it as non functional. So far seems to work fine except when an external monitor is connected. Then it has video issues. Not sure what I'm going to do …
I have a G3 iMac (I think it is 400 MHz). I was wondering if there are any IRDA adaptors that exist that are compatible with OS9. I can use USB or ADB (I have t…
Hi, just finished recapping my IIci with tantalums. Works nicely. You can see it getting a fresh System 7.5.5. :ii: The machine came with a rare video card I gu…
I got a Duo 230 in unknown state. When I powered it on, it worked, but it was unstable. I then examined the capacitors on the board and found that every one of …
Anyone know of a working source for System 3.2? It turns out what I have is actually System 3.3. I need regular System 3.2, and not the 3.2 HD20 startup disk. I…
Hi folks, I finally found a 128K here in Toronto. But the A/B is dead. As I have a spare board (known to be in very good condition) that I took with me from Chi…
Today I received a Color Classic and an Apple Techstep Diagnostic Tool! Only had time to tinker with them for a little while. The color classic only makes a sli…
I was surfing the web earlier this morning when I happened to find this. Now there's some *serious* hacking involved! A few things he's done: 1) He's got an ARM…
I have a 3400c that had some corrosion beneath the PRAM battery. It wasn't actually that bad, and I've cleaned the board with still unknown results. Hopefully t…
G'day, I've got a 5500/250 cranking and fed it upto 9.2.2 using third party installer. Specs at everymac say that big Bertha's capable of 1024x768 in 16bit. I c…
I just got my floppy emu and I got my HD20 emulation working, but I am wondering if it will work on an un-expanded Macintosh 128K? I read somewhere that the Mac…
I have been wanting a cube for a while now, and I finally found a lot of two with accessories on eBay for $200 shipped. I planned to keep two, but only kept one…
I have this LC I motherboard I want to sell, but I also have an LC II motherboard that needs a VRAM SIMM. Can I switch the one with the LC I to the LC II? For t…
My apologies - this is a really old topic with tons of suggestions and tools available via a web search - almost too much - but I'm not having much luck and may…
Hello All, Great site! I signed up to this forum about a week ago, and I've spent some time going through the previous posts. Although there is a wealth of info…
So, I just booted up my clapped out and flakey Dual 2.0 G5 which works sometimes when it feels like it, and it is for the moment, running without a glitch... I …
Greetings, i installed system 7.1 in my powerbook 540c and i want to enable 24 bit addressing mode in order to run an old game (Rex Nebular). Although there is …
I'm having trouble getting my TransWarp card working. It passes its internal system check, but it keeps crashing when I try to play Ultima V with it. I've done …
I'm trying to get onto my school's network. It uses some type of Cisco redirect page. The FAQ notes possible SSL and SSH issues but both Classilla and MacSSH ha…
I just had my iici motherboard recapped and it looks beautiful! The problem is, I can't get it to display anything. I have bank A full of Ram. I am using a db15…
Hello. I recently purchased a Mac LC III, and before I reinstalled the system using the original system disks (7.0.1), I noticed that there was a utility in the…
Argggg….Due to the fans starting really soon after boot, wanted to change the thermal paste, so disassembled it. Was very difficult to remove the board. It was …
I recently dug my old Mac Plus out of the closet, and was hoping to copy the data off the hard drive in order to use it with a mac plus emulator on the PC (Vmac…
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Legacy/dont forget about this (perhaps a sticky is applicable for this info?)Quote 2001-2008VST WrapperMark Of The Unicorn's Digi…
Hello everyone, I setup my IIGS (ROM 1 with an accelerator, SCSI, and RAM card) last night along with my PowerBook G3 (Mac OS 8.6). I was able to make a floppy …