So I was poking around craigslist yesterday, when I came across "First Gen iPod - $20." Interested, I clicked to find what appeared indeed to be a 1G iPod! E-ma…
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I've just acquired a beat-up firewire clamshell -- the screen is cracked, and the rest of the poor thing looks like it was run over by a truck (for all I know, …
Just picked this up from Dan Knight yesterday. Paid $15 for it. Included the video cable. Cabinet is pretty yellowed, not nearly the same shade as my Iigs. It's…
Ok then - Mac Plus, it boots, or rather it can boot all the way to the desktop and it can sit there for a while - usually less than ten mins - then it re-boots.…
Torrent: http://www.box.net/shared/x0zx2ay1yn If it shows no seeds, my computer is turned off.
My Macintosh LC III from GreenDoc came today in the mail. Besides some uniform yellowing, it's in perfect condition; both tabs snap together nicely (no tab issu…
Where is the server? It has been gone for a long time. There are no vintage mac hotline servers left!
Total posts: 524[0.50% of all posts / 2.50 posts per day] Click to expand... Wow. I didn't know I'd made that many posts. :?:
Hey everyone! Just got my eMac 700. It was a teachers and had a trillion stickers. I haven't powered it up, but dang this thing is heavy!!! I might put OS 9 on …
Dear 68kMLA Community, My times on this forum have been wonderful. I have enjoyed learning about the vintage Macintoshes from all of you, and I would not be in …
Hello, I am at my wits end trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Perhaps a more experienced eye than myself can see what I am doing wrong. I have a PowerMa…
Hi all, I'm back from a leave of absence from these forums; I stopped posting for a while following a few problems between me and certain other members here. I'…
I've noticed occasional screen interference when the hard drive is accessed on a Classic II. The cables are connected securely and I'm assuming the problem is w…
I wanted to update a file and get this error in Safari & Firefox: "Files of the MIME type "application/zip" are not allowed to be uploaded." I can uploa…
Greetings, Wondering if anyone has experienced this, something similar, or any thoughts on the cause or a solution. At my wife's office, on an iMac G4, using To…
I am stumped. I bought a new 1.2gb Apple-branded SCSI seagate "hawk" for my 550. First bit of weirdness, the screw holes for the sled do not match up. I cannot …
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Anybody got a link for a free download? My head hurts from all the freakin' marketing-ploy garbage polluting Google hits these days. jt xx(
Hi, In a recent post I commented on having to strip down my Powerbook 2400c to replace a scratched/dim LCD panel with one I purchased on eBay for .99c many moon…
Well, I have an overupgraded Powermac 7200, with G3 Card, 208mb RAM, ATi Rage VR, and Gigiabit Ethernet. The ATi Card Driver was terrible. It would cause the sy…
Okay, I've read the famous PDF about classic mac procedures, and I'm pretty sure I need to fix the solder connections on the J1 connector. I'm a little unclear …
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Oh PowerBook 550c, where art thou? Nobody even discusses you on this forum... Anyone remember the coveted PowerBook 550c? It is "the" most rare PowerBook of any…
This AppleVision 1710AV display was intercepted at the local recycler for $10, and it's a real survivor. It has minimal discoloration, a near perfect screen, an…
I got an 840av... swapped bits from an old one and got it working... But now it's not working, well it mostly is... I seem to have upset the scsi gods. It was u…
So I have a normal external 50-pin SCSI "ProDirect" hard drive case. Nothing strange, just a normal power supply board inside and three cables; the normal SCSI …
After getting some replies for old iMacs (Which I have no use for. Feel free to take them, post to FreeCycle NYC) I finally got an interesting reply. A Woman as…
Alright, so I have a nice PowerBook Duo 2300c here with OS 8.1 and 12 MB of RAM, and for my first Duo, I really like it. It does have one issue though; the trac…
I remember buying MO disks in 1994 (3rd grade) for my Performa, only to be disappointing when I learned that I needed a special drive. Does anyone know what MO/…
So we've had the "Favourite keyboard" and "Favourite mouse" threads...so I thought I'd start one myself. What's your favourite monitor for use on 68k Macintosh …
Well, this was totally unexpected. I'm in the process of changing the layout of my room. I decided to arrange my desk so that I place my Pismo on the rolling sh…
Hey everyone! I Bought a Macintosh Classic 2 off of Ebay for 10 $ (Plus 22 Shipping ) . It comes with a keyboard and a Mouse. The Description says that it start…
... if the Macintosh 512K computer came with an AM/FM/SW radio built in. A coax jack on the back -- near the powerswitch -- for you to plug the included, rubber…
One Sunny morning in Hopewell NJ, Me an my dad went out to breakfast. As we were driving, we took the wrong road... As we drove along that [wrong] road we notic…
This is my seek. I can find it, however obscured (FTP passwords, broken links...), incomplete packages (After Dark 3 @ macintoshgarden) and the patched OS 9.2.2…
Freenode no longer accepts connections from mibbit.com, so you may want to change the link at the top of the page to something different, such as instructions o…
Finally got around to putting in the stripy insert I bought from iColours to customize my iBook G3 600. Alas, I was only able to get one of the screws out to op…
The idea was that I could write a program to run on my box that takes a mac disk image, and serves it to a real mac via the parallel port through the mac's flop…
As part of on-going efforts to generally improve the forums, we have decided to make some changes to what is allowed to be discussed in the Conquests, Software/…
This seems to work, the major drawback being that changes to the forum may break it. Code: http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?fid[]=1&fid[]=3&f…
I've been experiencing problems running SCI engine games on modern PPC systems. Both Space Quest 1 Enhanced and Larry 1 Enhanced enters into infinite loops duri…
Well, my Duo 280c is not being nice with me today. Its keyboard types junk at random, and for example, if I type e, it will do ea. Any solutions to this annoyin…
Wife called to say that she turned on the MacPlus for my daughter to use and she smelled smoke and burning. Analog board probably cooked. Rats. Time to find ano…
Hello 68kmla, :?: I'm looking for a little help to get my entry up and running. I'm planning on taking part in the Retro Challenge coming up in about a week. Wh…
Having had some recent successes in re-celling Duo and 5xx-series batteries, I just opened a PB1xx series battery, expecting to find something like 5 x 1.2v NiC…
As per title, grabbed myself a sweet, brand new in box, never opened ZIP drive for my 3400c but it don't seem to work. When I insert a disk it grunts 3 times an…
I have three early Sony SuperDrive floppy drives, all of which need repairing. I have lubricated all of these drives and tried everything I can to get them func…
Some success was reported in using a CompactFlash card in combination with a Stratos CF PowerMonster and a PowerBook 180. For an old 32 MB CF card the patched A…
I bought a new old stock genuine Apple toner on ebay for my LaserWriter Select 360. Every printed page, though, has equally spaced ink blotches down the center …
Hey Everybody. This doesn't apply to a lot of people here, either because they don't visit the IRC channel, or because they have been behaving just fine. For th…