The holy grail of 68k macs arrived at my doorstep today. Cost was 40 bucks for the machine, and 30 for shipping. Booted right into os8. Surfs the internet, cool…
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yeah, I have one of these beasts. I upgraded the RAM heavily, and put in a large 20gb HD. For the longest time it was booting with no video, but something told …
I honestly had no expectations of finding anything worthwhile at the sale. I went with the hope of netting a biography or two but found nothing in the book sect…
I have an LC 520, and it no workie. I set it up, flick the rear power switch to on, and it makes a really quick (seemingly shorter than usual) CRT-energizing no…
Today, my PB 160 developed this strange issue randomly. It boots normally, than goes to a bright yellow screen and sometimes starts flashing. Is this a RAM issu…
Well last week I powered up my iMac to discover it had gone deadskies. It'd boot to the Apple logo (Jag 10.2. 8) , and then freeze, and display static. (like a …
i want the best video card for a quicksilver g4 dual 1 g machine. well less than 150 $ us. i have a 7500 apg currently per alk [8D] which works great i would li…
With matching black keyboard and mouse, to boot! You guys have no idea how excited I was to find this thing; I almost needed new pants. It's in really good shap…
I got a bunch of Mac Stuff right now. First up is a heavily upgraded PowerMac 7500/100 which now has a 200Mhz 604e Processor in it, as well as 160MB Ram, a Mach…
My Q605 is being rather difficult. I have an asante LC ethernet card in it. I do NOT have the asante driver for it (do I?). I plug in an ethernet cable and it b…
Got lucky with this one i think Got two CDs from a friend - recently he got a whole bunch of CDs and there were two Apple CDs there - was nice to get em [] ]'&a…
When did Apple start selling software applications in competition with third parties? We all know MacWrite and MacPaint came with the first 128K & 512K …
Found this bizarre custom red Power Macintosh 5500 in the trash on my block. Pretty decent paint job, and the big stenciled apple is a nice touch. Doesn't seem …
How possible is it to transplant hard disk platters, at least for the purposes of data recovery when a drive mechanism is otherwise physically dead? In particul…
Mediavision Pas 16 - A 16bit sound system for Mac LC Comes with Trax and SoundEdit Pro software and the Patch Panel box. Kensinton Notebook Keypad -adb Apple Hi…
From Patnukem (local), I got a Power Macintosh 7200/120 w/ 8MB RAM (4 onboard, 4 Stick), CD-ROM, Floppy, and Apple 12" Monitor. It's gonna be fun to play around…
Yesterday I was seeing one of my regular customers, setting up a brand new Panasonic HDD/DVD recorder for them. Anyway, after I was done, they showed me this bi…
Stopped in at one of my local stops today and saw a silver box in the corner. Turns out it was somebody's homebuild PC...very nice aluminum tool-free case, and …
Hi, My dad has a platinum PowerBook G4 laptop that has been acting strange lately. When you hit the power button, a gray screen comes up and the little wheel ma…
Does anybody know how to set the processor clock on one of these? I have enough spare parts that I'd like to try upgrading the processor to a faster chip, like …
Check it out. I am considering picking it up, just for collectibility, but the price still seems a bit steep. Compared to the few I have seen in the past though…
Just liberated a nice Apple QuickTake 200 from the media center of one of the schools I work for. It was going to be surveyed out, but since it wasn't tagged fo…
So a few months ago I bought an iMac from the thrift store to play around with, mostly because I have never used one before. I really bought it to teach myself …
I have an iMac-DV 400MHz G3. I need to write 800k floppy disks, and was wondering if anyone could provide input on what kind of USB floppy drive to get, and wha…
I just bought a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. It was sold as working from ebay. I open it up and turn it on and BOOM! Lines allover the LCD. The LCD is fine, but it …
No, not the airline recorder. I Finally got all the parts to build my Pentium 4 Based "BlackBox" project. Thanks to a gift certificate I got in trade to working…
Perhaps it is more akin to paying a ransom for its rescue than to a conquest, but I have just acquired—at least nominally, because I haven't yet received it—a f…
For a... 512k, Plus, SE, SE FDHD, Classic II, SE/30, ][, IIc, two Mac IIsi, a monitor for the C, the E, and one each for the SIs Also, about 200 books, I would …
Hi, I have another external enclosure with a 40 Mb HD (Apple branded) from Quantum QA250 in it. I'm unable to make it mount on my desktop. If connected directly…
I finally got off my lazy arse and uploaded these pix to my Flickr. Here are: Top Bottom Open display Partial disassembly and part of the logic board
Just came in from school: x4 PhoneNET adapters with accompaning 4-wire cables Focus I*TView DV(for displaying VGA input on a TV) x2 SCSI 25-50 pin Centronics x2…
Hello everyone, About a month or so ago I got a Macintosh IIci for free on Craigslist. It happened to include a IIci Cache card, XILINX NuBus video card, and an…
Anyone know a link to the Wish I Was control panel? - a google search with various methods gets non-related stuff
Hey guys, another forum I am on used to have an IRC channel but it got lost and we would like to join the little members we have and talk about what is going on…
Lisa 2/Mac XL Widget drive replacement: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330239668173 Profile drive replacement: http://cgi.ebay.com/w…
Does anyone know where I can find a higher resolution LCD for my poor clamshell? I love it to bytes but I cannot for the life of me use 800X600.
Its not mine. I'm the one who asked what the cards were. Any machine with six slots filled is inherently interesting, whatever its real value might be. http://c…
Hi there, I have a G4, which I just got, running OSX 10.4 and I need to know if I'm running a legal copy. Does Mac issue anything like the Window$ certificate? …
I got a package in the mail today with a Todd Mcfarlane Halo 3 Xbox 360 controller! I totally wasn't expecting it. It came from Pepsi because apparently I enter…
Just in case you guys don't believe me, I took pictures this time and put 'em on my Flickr. This here is a large box full of PowerBooks. There are several 500 S…
On June 2 I got my computer parts I ordered for my PC from btecanada.com: XFX branded Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 (128 MB), Socket 775 3.4 GHz P4, Cheap foxconn moth…
I finally managed to boot my powerbook 100 Before I used to get a black screen, while now I can boot it from a floppy. However the harddrive seems dead. I was w…
Hey there! I'm having a few problems with my iBook G4's screen. 1. Sometimes when brightness is all the way up or almost all the way down, the screen flickers b…
What disks did the retail version of 7.1.1 have? I need to know because I found a set, but it seems to be missing disks...
Apple cds Performa 5200 series 7.5.1 PM 7200,7500,7600,8500, and 9500 series 7.5.3 PM 6100/60,6100/60av,7100/66,7100/66av,8100/80 and 8100/80av 7.1.2 QUadra 630…
I love this: $299 to start, $499 to buy it now. He doesn't know what it is, but it's both RARE & EXPENSIVE! You can buy a whole Portable for less than t…
From the flea market today: * Compaq Presario 5461 case with a dead motherboard and no memory/hard disk * IBM Aptiva motherboard with a P3-667mhz processor Comb…
Anybody know if this is an elusive Platinum //c (NOT IIc Plus)? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260204475337 I have read that the //c…
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So over the weekend I bought a Umax S900 with a sonnet G4 upgrade in it. The guy said it worked. I tried to boot it up and I got no chime on the S900 but I did …