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Hey I see an Apple 1 Replica board that someone is selling up here in Canada. It is just the motherboard itself without any capacitors or chips etc. Does anyone…
· 4 posts · started 6 Feb 2010 - 18:40 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 10:51
I posted a message to the LEM Swap list looking for a heatsink for frankenmac. A guy near me said he had one. When I went to pick it up he had three mac's and h…
· 13 posts · started 5 Feb 2010 - 21:26 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 18:42
Boy, and to think, when I joined back in December 2007, I felt a little guilty re-awakening then-six-month-old threads. Now we have people re-opening those same…
· 15 posts · started 2 Feb 2010 - 21:33 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 10:00
The PowerPC MLA is not a backchannel surrogate for the 68kMLA. I am not interested in seeing this forum devolve into a he-said/she-said about the 68kMLA. Topics…
· 3 posts · started 2 Feb 2010 - 15:30 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 20:06
Got this from my school on friday. 300mhz, 192mb, 10.4.11, and the regular Rage GFX card. I am going to combine my epic 400mhz B&W G3 (Which is dead, I thin…
· 5 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 10:46 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 20:06
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p101/uzumaki_arashi_album/341-0741-a_zps693ee1f8.jpg http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p101/uzumaki_arashi_album/341-0741-b_…
· 10 posts · started 8 May 2007 - 22:30 · last 4 Feb 2010 - 23:34
So which PowerBooks can operate with their lids closed and are actually intended to do so? I know that the Pismo will operate with it's lid closed. I know that …
· 7 posts · started 17 Aug 2007 - 21:47 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 23:43
So I just dug my Workgroup Server 7350 out of storage, and wanted to turn it into an actual production server again. Turns out the hard drive toasted itself. So…
· 2 posts · started 1 Jan 2010 - 02:45 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 22:25
Hello, I've recently acquired an old apple mac Se/30 and decided to face the challenge of getting it onto the internet so I bought a Dynaport Esi/30 Ethernet ca…
· 13 posts · started 28 May 2007 - 19:11 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 21:41
Our press room at work has used this trusty little fella as an employee time clock for years. This means it's been exposed to ink, grease, spray powder and all …
· 10 posts · started 20 Apr 2007 - 23:34 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 21:11
I'm running 25' of VGA cables and I find that most brands aren't cutting it. I tried 4 different 25' VGA cables just now and all of them give me weird ghosting …
· 8 posts · started 17 May 2007 - 08:12 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 17:45
Does anyone know what parameters are actually stored in the PRAM in the Powerbook 500 Series? Since my PRAM battery is dead (actually, missing, I just took it o…
· 4 posts · started 4 Oct 2007 - 22:45 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 16:34
I've been thinking... And that's always a dangerous thing. Is it possible to run System 7 (7.5 or 7.6) on a beige G3? I think it might be possible. The Disk Too…
· 16 posts · started 14 Apr 2007 - 19:49 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 16:22
So I found an Apple Lisa in GA!!! It arrived today... Needs a good cleaning and some cap repairs and stuff... Widget is dead for sure.. I can hear a piece of me…
· 8 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 12:02 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 16:08
1993 Apple Macintosh Quadra CYCLONE Prototype Computer Current bid: US $9.99 End time: 26-Apr-07 11:00:00 AEST (2 days 10 hours) Posts to: Worldwide Maple Ridge…
· 10 posts · started 23 Apr 2007 - 08:40 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 15:45
I was banned from 68kMLA. Since the sites are unrelated, I assume it's OK for me to post here. I like PPC Macs better anyway.
· 22 posts · started 30 Jan 2010 - 23:17 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 14:29
I've been trying to send a fax from the G4 MDD (OS 10.3.9) with the internal modem but get as far as the system saying "Preparing Fax" and it hangs at that poin…
· 3 posts · started 25 Jun 2009 - 21:51 · last 1 Feb 2010 - 21:41

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Hello all, I am looking into getting a classic Mac to just 'play around' with in terms of games and I/O control. I never had a Mac before and I want something t…
· 26 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 14:43 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 13:16
Well, i had another lucky day at yard sales today! for all of $36 i got: - 2 monitor cables- connect my macbook to the TV-$1 -ipod video 30gb, not outputting so…
· 2 posts · started 7 Feb 2010 - 03:04 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 06:54
January 20, 2010 I've updated the blank disk images archive. Surprisingly, this has been one of the most popular downloads. The new version provides many more s…
· 7 posts · started 28 Jan 2010 - 18:53 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 02:39
Hey, I was trying to sign up there and it stated, "to make sure you're not a bot contact the board admin" but there was no link to do so, what happened?
· 8 posts · started 3 Feb 2010 - 05:56 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 02:12
I derived a pinout for the old Mac IIfx/IIsi/IIci ROM SIMM from some info found at Gamba's place together with a specsheet for the Atmel chips he used on his cu…
· 9 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 20:20 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 23:00
Via a local kijiji seller: a 400MHz G4 AGP Graphics with 1GB RAM and a nice, quiet 20GB hard drive. It was filthy (smoker and dust) so it was disassembled and w…
· 4 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 00:14 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 22:44
So, is it just me or is the RCBBS gone down? Anyone want to fill me in on this? Is it finally getting the upgrade we've been talking about for such a long time?…
· 3 posts · started 3 Feb 2010 - 21:26 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 11:48
Hello all, I am interested in the older 68k Macs and I am looking into getting either an SE/30 or Classic II machine. One of the main things I would like to do …
· 19 posts · started 3 Feb 2010 - 14:42 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 02:26
What and where can i find a OS 9 browser ? The browsers that come with OS 9 thru 9.2 are really flakey running in OS 9 .
· 27 posts · started 25 Jan 2010 - 17:25 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 00:28
Considering how few of this year's two dozen entrants actually completed a project, it was surprisingly difficult to pick a top three – and that's only partiall…
· 5 posts · started 3 Feb 2010 - 23:32 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 16:42
So an eMac at my school has been acting up. I checked the CD Drive cover and it indicated to me that it is a 1.25ghz machine. What the machine does is, Sometime…
· 30 posts · started 27 Sep 2009 - 22:00 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 11:40
Who can tell me how to hook an external Zip drive to my Performer 630CD? I have access to a Zip 250 external drive but don't know how to hook it to my Mac? Are …
· 14 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 07:10 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 06:47
It looks as if the ink is almost gone, yet last week the ink was replaced and was used maybe twice to print a couple text documents and all is well. Just today …
· 1 posts · started 5 Feb 2010 - 05:00 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 05:00
WGS 95 has 48 RAM, Q950 has PPC upgrade 601-100 MHz, full 256 RAM, the other two didn't boot, one had sad bong and other probably PSU problem.
· 16 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 22:28 · last 4 Feb 2010 - 19:56
Hrm. I now have a copy of Virtual PC 2.1 (thanks to atireduser!) But... I really want to run it on my B&W G3, in Mac OS 8.6. Unfortunately, there is a k…
· 8 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 01:40 · last 4 Feb 2010 - 18:58
went to the Outlook recycling joint in Mornington the other day Picked up the following FastNet Localtalk dongle. iomega ZIP250 sans PSU and cables Iomega Zip10…
· 2 posts · started 4 Feb 2010 - 07:44 · last 4 Feb 2010 - 09:10
So I'm starting to go through my collection to decide what to keep, and what to dump, er, pawn off, er, offer to the MLA members... The first two are a IIvx (th…
· 4 posts · started 20 Dec 2009 - 07:25 · last 3 Feb 2010 - 19:54
I'm trying to get an old mothballed Quadra 700 back going like it should be. I've got it running System 7.6.1 and software wise everything seems to be doing qui…
· 19 posts · started 3 Sep 2008 - 03:16 · last 3 Feb 2010 - 15:45
today i went to start up my powermac G4 and it didn't boot, so i zapped the pram and tried again...no dice. so took it out of my computer and put it in my B&amp…
· 4 posts · started 30 Jan 2010 - 17:20 · last 3 Feb 2010 - 05:54
I´m using My 9600 with 9.2.2 right now. In one folder (which files are not in use) I wanted to set some lables. One file is changing its label always back to "n…
· 3 posts · started 31 Jan 2010 - 23:25 · last 3 Feb 2010 - 05:48
Recently I (foolishly?) agreed to take a dual 1.25 Ghz MDD G4 Tower (OS 9-bootable, not FW800) off a coworkers' hands for $50. (I'm not sure why. I think I had …
· 9 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 17:33 · last 3 Feb 2010 - 01:39
I have found on Apple's site Apple Personal Diagnostics 1.1.3 but it requires Apple Personal Diagnostics 1.1 or 1.1.1 Anyone know where I can obtain a copy of t…
· 5 posts · started 24 Jan 2010 - 12:52 · last 3 Feb 2010 - 01:15
I accidentally snapped the end of the yoke off a SE CRT recently but I can't get it disconnected from the power board. The red line with the suction cup at the …
· 19 posts · started 28 Jan 2010 - 21:54 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 05:03
My friend just gave me a G3 they had at his printing company that was going to be thrown out. It's not too dusty in side, although I haven't booted it yet. Ther…
· 15 posts · started 9 Jan 2010 - 01:06 · last 2 Feb 2010 - 04:45
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