Is it possible to develop for 68k Macs on my MacBook running Mavericks? If now, my iBook G4 or iMac G4 (can boot OS 9) running Tiger? Basically, if possible, I …
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I was looking at some pictures of Apple Display cards and noticed some has 512k soldered onboard + 2 slots for 2x256k upgrade, and some has 1MB onboard and no s…
OK so my VGA adapter arrived today. The generic one with the switches. Well I have a Acer wide screen LCD that I want to use with the Macintosh IIci. I would li…
I picked up a Gigabit G4 logicboard 400MHz CPU with heatsink for $8 and change to experiment with. I currently have it mounted in a Full Tower Alienware case, t…
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Our PM9600 was working just fine, until this morning. It started to boot, loaded all the extensions, then the bomb!! System error type -127. I tried rebooting s…
[:I] ]'> Morning all I just found my old IIc after a move to Ky. I started playing with it and wanted to know if anyone out there can tell me how to buil…
Hi, I'm trying to salvage the data off of the hard drive of a PowerBook 160. I am considering buying the serial cables necessary to do a null-modem transfer to …
well, not by myself, but stupid law says you need a learner's permit before getting a full license. and I think I just remembered something... I sorta needed a …
I recently took my G3/266 Rev1 down from storage hoping that I might be able to turn it into a semi-competent web browser with Tiger (possibly panther), and als…
Will the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II and the Apple Extended Keyboard II work on an SE? Thanks, -Apostrophe
Could a Beige G3 233Mhz (Rev A) be flash upgraded to a Rev C. model or is it a soldering job? Also what PCI graphics card would you recommend and would the bios…
I got an LC 475 and an LCIII along with a Stylewriter II and two color monitors. Can't get any video from the 475 but the other one works great
I got an iBook G4 1.07ghz, 768mb RAM, mac os x tiger, I'm wondering, if I max out the RAM to 1.25gb, will it make a huge difference it won't really be noticeabl…
So some of my latest conquests haven't really been terribly exciting, but I just scored another actual vintage Mac, so I thought I'd post. 2400c: Just won this …
Something caught my eye near some bins today and on closer inspection I discovered that the bit of "platinum" coloured plastic that I had spotted from a distanc…
Well I got some cool IBM stuff A PS/1 Expert and a PS/2 Model 30 286 plus boxed Harvard Graphics! and...I got a 16x Dual Layer DVD burner for $10 with a black f…
Wel, I went to my favorite place for old electronics once again, Astro Too, and found a Mac SE just sittin on the floor! So I managed to get it for free! There …
Creative SB live Platinum c/w SB live sound card Live Drive PC-DVD Drive 5X Software Powerbook G3 Software Instal cd OS 8.1 " " " ' and Restore cd
I have one of the famously wonderful Apple Extended Keyboard IIs, but with three or four faulty key switches. These were Alps switches, which I gather can be de…
Hi, I have an Apple MultiScan 15 monitor, which i've had for about 3 years now. About 2 years ago, the image on the screen would turn "fuzzy" for about 10 secon…
Just noticed that the IRC chat for 68kmla.org has finally been changed to Mibbit. There are many key features that make Mibbit much more attractive then the old…
I got a Phonenet adapter from a friend a while back and he said hen only had one. It looks to me like the box just has the pins on the serial cable hooked up to…
Hi, I have a Mac IIvi and want to use a VGA/SVGA monitor with it. I have Rasterops Mac2VGA adapter. It has switches on it. Both 640 x 480 (VGA) and 832 x 624 (T…
I've got a couple USB card readers that sort of work on OS 8.6 & 9 - but there are issues. 1 of them is a no name brand and it's huge limiting factor is…
my iBook G4 has a crooked screen for a while, but now I want to fix it. Not really sure how it happened, but when i close the lid, the screen and main assembly …
$10 for 3 memory sticks. 1x 1GB Memorex Travelstick (I think that's it...) Slow USB, despite being 2.0 rated, it's more of 1.1 1x 1GB Sony MicroVault Stick. Use…
I got myself a D40 the other week, pretty freaking nice. Love the control it gives over my images (that's what I liked about my old Nikon FE).
Installation of a firewire pci card in a pci mac (G3 AIO) appears to have disabled its capacity to connect to a powerbook in scsi disk mode. Both machines are r…
I've had this machine for over a decade, but haven't thought about getting it online until now. It's got a 68040/66 upgrade, FPU, 10mbps ethernet and 40MB RAM. …
A beige desktop, 233mhz with 192mb ram installed. This machine was used as a school server for several years before being stored away for all this time. The mac…
I got a friend that says his PowerBook 1400c is not booting up. I am wondering if a half-dead PRAM is better than no PRAM, or is no pram battery better than a h…
Hi everyone, Thanks for looking at my post, just so you know, I DID use the search button before posting. I just picked up a bunch of old Macs SE, SE FDHD, SE/3…
F5D7011 I found it over on Amazon while looking it up for a friend $14.79 Shipped It's airport compatible!!! Too bad I already bought that driver for the lucent…
Picked up an SE/30 that was on my local Freecycle list. Case is clean with no yellowing and the screen doesn't show signs of burn-in. The hard drive(40Mb) is no…
I went to electronics class on Thursday to find a stack of old units sitting on the shelf, the idea was we were going to dismantle them and learn about them int…
Hi folks. I would like to open up my Mac Classic, but first I need the correct tools to do this job. I'm in the UK and I am looking for the torx tools required …
Seems to be a rather good find to me, found at the MIT Flea Market (last year, however, have only had time to devote to it now.) Mac SE/30 - with carrying case,…
Once I open my Mac Classic (see my other thread), I would like to replace a couple of parts. The first being the fan. My goal here is to reduce the noise as muc…
So i've got this 500MHz Pismo which I decided to start using around campus just to show up all these mac noobs who think they know something because they bought…
My friend brought me two ADB mice. One is an Apple ADB, and the other is a kensington 2-button Ball mouse. It's supposed to work under OS X, so it will be nice …
When I got my 20" AL iMac, the 1st grey disk says "For Mac Computers" While I was able to get my iBook G4 to boot it, it did say that it cannot install on this …
After helping out at the local flea market mall, I looked through the stacks of computers and found the following for $15 total: ATX case with dead motherboard,…
I've been using traditional mice for nearly 15 of my 23 years on earth. A few days ago I said why not try something new. $14 later and I have a nice Logitech Ma…
hi, my stylewriter 1 is wierd. its an old one i bought together with my mac classic II, it had an old inkcartridge in. just bought a new one, a pirate. it print…
Years ago I had a software to replace the poor original file search capabilities of the Finder (I think "FindPro" was the name). It was invoked just by hitting …