So My new old computer arrived today and it's a LC475. The seller didn't mention that it had an ethernet port so that was a nice surprise! Got it hooked up to t…
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Just blow'n away some dust and started up my Mac 128K. Booting alright with Finder 1.0! But I noticed a strange behaviour of my keyboard, a M0110 B. The qwerty …
This is a Lazyweb request. Don't research it but answer if you know off the top of your head. The Mac Plus allegedly assigns a higher processor interrupt to the…
. . . I was cutting up the packing boxes (they reproduce around here like rabbits for some reason : ) and made a belated conquest of the coolest looking and sli…
This monitor powers on "when it receives a video signal", however when connected through my KVM it refuses to turn on. Is there any way I can short two pins tog…
My son's 4th gen iPod classic has started giving him a "click of death" which I'm assuming means the hard drive inside has died. Is this something he can fix ea…
So I'm putting together a Quadra 840AV basically out of parts (got a motherboard + RAM en route, need to find a housing for it.) But I'm trying to expand it a l…
What's the difference between the 8524S and the 8524SA? Does anyone know? TIA Randy
Today I picked all this stuff up for $200. Upon going through it I feel like there's way more than $200 worth here. Definitely keeping all of it for life! http:…
So I have a Mac SE thats giving me Simasimac. I'm thinking of washing the board and also doing something about the corrosion near the back. However, its an SE b…
My Mac Plus (platinum) was running fine until yesterday. It was booting off a minimal 6.0.8 floppy. :b&w: Now the internal drive immediately ejects the …
Hi, I treated my SE/30 to a Sonnet Allegro "doubler" accelerator, boosting it to 33Mhz '030 off the socketed board. It installed easily bar having to lengthen t…
To go with my partway restored SE/30, I seem to have picked up some sort of retro mac bug. Background: I just picked up a used (obviously!) 1400cs. It's a fairl…
I had to kill a little time while I was waiting on someone so I started looking around on craigslist and saw a couple of xserves in the free section. Only thing…
Thanks to a heads up from my longtime buddy jr, it's finally mine . . . ALL MINE!!!!!!!! Muahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: …
I found this image while searching the web. I used to have tangerine speakers just like that. I emailed the owner of that pic, but he hasn't seen them in 10 yea…
I've had this machine for about a month now, just havent gotten around to posting. But, a little while back, I was looking around for an LC III, and a seller on…
The Apple HiColor 15" LCD Monitor Patent Pending ) This is a project to turn a Gateway FPD15-40 LCD into an Apple-esque ADB capable VGA monitor. I'm using the b…
Was there ever an equivalent of the OSX Mac Hardware Test suite for Compacts? I could really do with some diagnostics. Maybe a library of scripts to exercise th…
I recently recapped 2x Color Classic logic boards. One of them works well and turns on immediately from the keyboard, with new Pram battery installed. The other…
Does anyone know of/have such a list? I have some old NICs, I want to see which ones work with the OS, so I can upgrade to 100BaseT(from 10BaseT).
well, in that case, I think it's misleading that Apple but in a bluelight for the promo video. Looks alot better, IMO.
I've got a pair of adapters for turning Laptop Optical Drives into standard IDE & MOLEX connector internals for desktop/tower use. Is there such a thing…
Turns out the seller doesn't want the Performa back, so I'm going to try and fix it. I've run into a bit of a snag. I can't figure out what it is. Nothing looks…
Per James1095's suggestion i just replaced just the (Lite Brown Caps) The Brand name of these pieces of crap is (ELNA) Long-Life These Certain caps are the only…
In a thread here I can no longer find, somebody posted a link to a video of a conference presentation on 400/800k drive maintenance. The presenter had up on scr…
http://classicoldsmobile.com/forums/interior-upholstery/50619-boiling-plastic-restore.html this is kind of interesting, He is saying boiling old plastics in wat…
Local computer recycler put these two machines (and others) on ebay. They charge a MINT for shipping so their auctions tend to end up very low. Thankfully I liv…
Found this morning a Weller WEC-20 Soldering Station. Was dirty, but complete, and only 5 €. Tested, and working great. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_n…
I recapped an SE/30 board yesteray but keep getting disk errors for the internal hard drive. I got the board dead, with SimaSimac, so impossibe to test before. …
Decoded the serial # on the back-bucket of one of my SE/30s. It says it is a M5010 (regular SE) that shipped with 2 floppies, but the front fascia and lobo are …
I'm supposed to be downsizing. I'm trying but my digital picture frame died and there was this little 15" G4 iMac.
After I leave work this afternoon, I'm going to take the trek over to North Sydney to hopefully pick up a Mac SE. More details later....
Hey everyone! I know some of you have followed my experiments with getting the Mac 512Ke talking to modern devices. Apparently, I caught the eye of Mac|Life mag…
Hello, new Mac tinkerer here. I have a Mac plus which is nearly fully operational. I have put the machine back to 1mb for now while I try to sort some other pro…
Hello this is my first post in this excellent forum. I have started to repair some old Macintosh thats not working. I have had enormous help with information fr…
I was photo shopping an SE without drive slots and then I had the idea, what if apple still made these things.... Sorry it's late and I'm quite bored.
"Through the Looking Glass" has been on my wish list for a long time now. This is another "Holy Grail" item of vintage Apple collecting. I never though I'd find…
Anyone got a list of the apple II's dimensions, or a schematic, or diagram, blueprint, anything like that? I don't want to ask anyone to go measure one, just wo…
Finally got the proper screwdriver to take apart my Macintosh Plus. When I took the screws out, I noticed all but the two screws in the handle are rusted and co…
Hello, I have this macplus which seems to be working perfectly except when I first start it up. I believe something in the horizontal scan circuit is going wron…
So i've continued work on my Portable (backlit), getting all the plastics cleaned up, etc. It's been booting fine, but now the it is having trouble that started…
Hi all, I am a newbie to the forum, and (almost) newbie to Macintosh systems. I recently acquired a Macintosh SE/30 and a Macintosh Quadra 650, and I'd like to …
I have a LW8500 here that of late has been giving me persistent "ROS motor" errors. There is a documented fix "out there," but which in my case hasn't fixed any…
What about the quality of the subject monitor? I have read that it has great picture and sound quality but i cannot find any photos in the internet to make an o…
Hey, i have had a ma flashed sil3112 card sitting around for some time that my quicksilver refused to like, decided to give it a shot in my xserve G4 (orig tray…
Does anyone have any good experiences using one of the USB > RCA/Svideo video capture cards for converting VHS or recording input? Using Panther, Tiger o…
I was visiting family this weekend and remembered my stepfather's parents had inherited a 5200CD from me when I was in college. I asked about it and they had se…
Hi! I've just gotten hold of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 for Macintosh, and I'm running it on the emulator. I'm using the mouse yoke option, where the plane is…
Ok, i have a lot of those already, but was advertised locally and free to collect. The PM was faulty, nothing else except the unit...but i have some units with …