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I've got a mostly functional CC that has been sitting around in storage for years. The display needs a good degaussing (right now I have it sitting plugged in o…
Yesterday at the flea market I found a Quicksilver G4/867 with memory and a hard drive. I don't know the amount of memory or the size of the hard drive, only th…
I figure this is a peripherals topic. I'm looking into setting up a RAID Level 5 array for backing up my data in the future and looking for a little help. So fa…
Hi All, Recently, I've had a few hard drive failures. I have done some reading online and people all over have been saying that hard drive failures are at an al…
I guess this should stand on its own, there are a few related threads. Whatever, I'll explain/link later, I've got a couple of questions first. The questions ar…
After seeing this guys vid's, looks like cap technology has came along way. I would assume all i would need is a big enough cap and a voltage regulator for 4.5v…
What is the model number for the old Apple SCSI case shown in this video: When was the drive introduced? What was the original capacity? When was it discontinue…
Hello, A year or so ago I purchased a grab bag of parts on Ebay that included a MicroMac Carrera040 http://micromac.com/products/carrera040.html. The card is th…
My friend Tom gave me a Duo 230, a Duo 250, a Duo Dock, and an Apple Portrait Display! We spent some time playing around with the Duos, but ran into a strange p…
I finally finished recapping a IIcx which hadn't been used in years (PSU blew up as well on first start-up :O ) and it seems successful. The problem I now have …
Hi! I've been trying to find a way to fix my Mac, espescially after TWO large parcels failed to arrive , when I remembered this old PC guy that Dad knew. Sure e…
. . . I just found the Apple logo stamped on the bottom of the 5.25" drive tray in the strangest, coolest sheet metal chassis for a wide, middling tal/mid level…
no I'm not going to have two... but I keep heming and hawing about snagging that SE/30 from my boss some how. (I used it today, made me think...) so I have a pl…
Got my IIci yesterday, and as i suspected the suppression caps in the psu have failed One of them i can find very easily (0.22uf 250VAC) but the two smaller one…
Never thought I would see them for sale up in The Netherlands, but I did! Came with the original power supply and stereo RCA-RCA cables for hooking them up to a…
I have 4 one meg simms installed in both this FDHD and SE Dual 800k drive. I tried 3 different sets of ram, the jumper is set to (2-4) I even tried the 1 meg po…
Hello everybody, I've been a longtime lurker of these forums as I dream about collecting vintage macs but I've finally made an account now that I actually have …
Hey guys, I've got a new video. I connect a Playstation 4 and a Mac 512K. I like this one because of the history that Sony and Apple together with the early com…
I got a partial list of the caps on my analog board, just missing one axial that's upside down so I can't read it and I can only read the two big main ones in t…
Two weeks ago, I bought an LCII which appeared to have a power supply issue. I opened up the Mac today and found my worst nightmare to be true. There was massiv…
. . . just a front bezel, but that's about all I could afford . . . . . . I've seen this in a couple of search hits: http://www.macgeek.org/museum/applelisa1/ h…
This is my first post here and my vintage Mac collection is growing. Today I received a Macintosh M5120 non-backlit Portable and GCC Technologies WriteMove port…
I want some capacitors for my Classic, the one's near the power supply, and would like to buy equal to, or better than OEM quality - without going broke for Tan…
Evening all! I have been looking online at 1.6Ghz G4 Powerbooks and toying with the idea of buying one, but I would appreciate people's opinions on them. For ex…
Sometimes when I switch on my Classic the hard drive starts to spin up then suddenly slows down like the power's been cut, it makes a noise and then starts to s…
Hi everybody. I was just wondering if it is worth upgrading the single 1.0 GHz processor in my FW800 G4 to a dual 867 MHz from a regular MDD. I am aware of the …
I turned on my Macintosh Classic after not using it for a few months and I noticed that the screen had some interference lines going through it and now and then…
Hello, I just bought the Sonnet Encore 1ghz ZIF processor upgrade for my Beige G3. When I got it I realized I was missing the power cable adapter which will run…
Since I've got this 54Mbps AeroCard Extreme 802.11g Cardbus doohickey that thinks it's an AirPort Extreme Card (Macsense, 2.4GHz) . . . and the AirPort slot app…
I recently acquired an LC III that's in very good condition. Unfortunately, I don't own a vintage Apple CRT so I don't know if I'm experiencing a problem or if …
Now that I've got a Wicked Fast IIfx, I'm curious - what is/are the fastest NuBus video cards for a 68k Mac? I did a little poking around on Google, but most of…
This one is a beauty that is almost flawless. An original Macintosh from late April 1984 with 512k memory upgrade. Some of you may have seen this type of upgrad…
Anyone doing this with an iMac? I'd like to hear about it. Spressa, Que, whatever. Thanks.
I know Digi-Key "lists" the Bourns filters used by the SE/30 logic board, but they don't stock them: http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/929643-rc-network-25-ohm-2…
After years of using consumer VHS VCRs with my old video capture gear I finally purchased a nice JVC BR-S800U Professional SVHS machine. It has the needed Sync …
Hello all, In September last year I bought a faulty Macintosh Classic II (40Mb HD, 4Mb RAM) with the intent of restoring it. To restore it to its former glory I…
So I finally got to play some and put the motherboards I've had recapped forever in my machines. Both screen come on bright, both screens don't waiver, head pho…
I need a new PRAM battery for my 867MHz Ti Powerbook (model A1025). I just wanted the battery, which is a fairly easy swap on the PRAM unit with a bit of solder…
Hi! As part of a project, I'm trying to find a way to work around the "clock not set" message when booting my Mac with no battery. My current solution is to wri…
I've been kicking this idea around in my head: build an adapter to connect a compact Mac (128K, 512K, Plus, SE) to an external VGA monitor. Has anyone seen some…
So.. What is a scuzzygraph *exactly* I came across this which gives more detail that I have seen elsewhere.. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys…
I just opened up a Classic II that came to me very recently, only to discover that the dreaded (Maxcell) exploding battery syndrome had occurred. This is my fir…
Macintosh Classic II 8 - 10uf 3 - 47uf 2 - 1uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea) http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16…
I can't get my Quadra 650 to recognise its CD drive or the 80pin drive i added. I managed to get a 7.5 network access disk made on my old windows 98se computer,…
So I picked up one yesterday from a nice guy in Portland that his parents couldn't bear to throw it away. It's a fire survivor, soot all over it and I was think…
Pretty much the title is the question. What, if any, are the differences between the 7100 and 8100 logic boards? Assuming identical speeds.
I'm trying to connect a PowerMac 8500 to a modern VGA monitor, using one of those DB-15 to HD-15 adapters from eBay that's got DIP switches to configure the syn…
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