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I finally have a Color Classic through the generosity of a man getting out of old macs on Craigslist. I've had it for a few months, but recently, I noticed this…
I really dislike the floating Battery DA so I've been looking unsuccessfully for a battery meter menu item for system 7 to go on my PowerBook 100. There was one…
I thought I might show my latest mod, a core2duo color classic. Tearing down. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previo…
I got an IBM Model M at a yard sale for 5 dollars. Now I own 2 of the greatest keyboard ever made. Real springs are the best. Even the hailed Apple Extended 1/2…
Hello, I just realized, that I should probably exchange my HackMac´s backup drive, because of the not so desirable Tech Tool report. Thinking of HDD´s it might …
I use a 7 year old LaCie photon20vision, which was pretty high end at the time. I know CRTs degrade over time, but what about LCDs? I might have a colour sensit…
Hi all, Just got a Power Mac G4 Cube in the original box and almost complete. It comes with everything except for the manuals, software, and the VGA cord. Howev…
I just bought an old Powerbook 530c to use to transfer files across to the MacPlus, works great. The powerbook has an ethernet adapter which I've connected to m…
Having some difficulty finding some. MacIRC, usually my standby acts funny, ShadowIRC lags like hell, and Snak is buggy.
Hello, can you help me with this little bugger please? http://www.mediafire.com/?5kpdwgyf34cy81p As it is set now it works with my 7100´s AV card displaying 102…
2x NEW Central Point Software Apple II Universal Disk Controller cards. Supports Chinon 3 1/2 Inch, Laser FD100, Apple Unidisk, Apple Unidisk 3.5, and Macintosh…
And this post is being posted in Classilla 9.2.3! (More on that later; I decided to take it for a spin on the TAM and it works well.) See picture: http://www.fl…
I'm looking to possibly upgrade the SCSI drive in my Power Mac 8500. What type of SCSI drive should I be looking for? I'm a little bewildered by wide SCSI, ultr…
Front of the POWERUSER 40MB external SCSI hard drive. The Rear, with SCSI ID selector, dual 50-pin CENTRONIX connectors, power jumper cable plug, power cable co…
been a while since i've been on. but I'm back!!!! and soon I will be getting a Powerbook 180
I saw this on eBay and apparently it is an external SCSI display adapter...Cool, but is there any performance hit with one of those, like...Is it really slow?
Not having much luck with thrift shops last week, I gave another one a try. This time I visited the Goodwill ComputerWorks, a recent opening in Pittsburgh's Law…
I went back to Computer Works to get some stuff for my iBooks. After seeing that their Hard Drives and Ram were Overpriced and Batteries came with no warranty, …
With my recent conquest of development software, I thought it would be useful for me and others if I try to "bookscan" the programming manuals I got for Symante…
I replaced the RAM and the VRAM! The Centris now has 68mb of RAM and 1mb of VRAM. But it still gives me the Chimes of Death! > So if it's not the RAM and…
Hi, I rescued a Mac IIsi today. I opened it up, and it is missing its hard drive. The battery has also leaked, corroded some areas here and there on the motherb…
I just went out and bought a multimeter to try to diagnose the problem with a failed SE/30 MacCon ethernet card. The multimeter tells me that two of the SMD com…
I've got a 12" RGB, commonly known as an LC Monitor (the kind a shadow mask tube in place of a Trinitron), and am having some focus issues with it which seem to…
I have a IIx that I have been restoring to working order, and it's mostly working well. I've got it currently configured, as follows: 8mb RAM 9gb UW SCSI Seagat…
I went to Computer Works and picked up eight iBooks at $10 each. They need some stuff to make them useable (Battery, Charger, Ram, HD and Keyboard) which will p…
When I was a wee lad, I would sometimes go to Weird Stuff at it's original location off of Lawrence Expressway across one of the early Fry's Electronic's store.…
I picked one up. Looks like a 50MHz 030 accelerator, based on Derrick Garbell's article here: http://www.wap.org/journal/IIciwicked/default.html I have the same…
Man oh man - did I have a good week! Early this week, I purchased a PowerPC 7600/132 off Marktplaats; the Dutch version of Ebay/Craig's List. It is a bit of a g…
I've been struggling to get my external HD to work with my Mac Plus. I thought it was a question of SCSI cable length, but I was wrong. I finally broke down and…
Hi All, Great site. I recently bought a couple of old Mac Plus'. One is in really good condition and has a CMS 20 meg hd, it fires up and everything on it seems…
Most will know about the mammoth conquest jsarchibald carried out and shared with us in July - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16410. Anyway, I've just recently ret…
I'm having trouble getting a couple of compact Macs to recognize a Zip 100 drive on the SCSI bus. Forget about driver problems or formatting questions-- I can't…
I borrowed my brother's measurometer (to use the technical term) and wrote down the pinout for the motherboard PSU plug on the 6100, and I'll probably do one fo…
Hi, Im not quite sure how to solve this. When I download Classic mac aplication on my windows computer and unpack it, or sometimes I dont even need to do that, …
LEM conquest for me. A little pricey, $30, but that included shipping. Brand new, unopened Apple Extended Keyboard II, model M0312 with the Alps mechanical key …
Bought an iMac with broken ram for 80USD and fixed it up for 2 USD iam very happy with this find
In between teaching, two tutoring sessions, and a meeting, I had a break and no other errands to run. I decided I'd check out the newly-opened thrift store in m…
found this morning, a complete Airport base Station for 5 € (6.7 $) this is the Snow variant { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_pre…
I can think of lots of uses for this beyond word processing. Automatically setting up NetBSD comes to mind... http://www.ebay.com/itm/APPLE-IIGS-PORTABLE-WORD-P…
Hi all, I have a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver that I love. It once was an original 867 MHz, but a couple of years ago I swapped its motherboard with a dual 1.0 GHz f…
I recently bought a Mac 512k with the 800K disk drive upgrade from Ebay and I had a few questions for the fine folks here. I thought at first it had some bad jo…
Hello, i got an iBook G4 and got a Apple Studio Display with ADC from a friend, what converters do i need for connecting the screen to the mini VGA port on the …
Got a few games from LEM Swap. Prince of Persia 1, 2, and the IIgs version of The Last Ninja. He wasn't kidding when he said they were complete, both Prince of …
Will it work, I'm dumping one of the 6400's and would like to beef up the 5200, looks as if it should fit but I don't want to fry it.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 -- KansasFest 2012, the Apple II convention scheduled for July 17–22 in Kansas City, Missouri, comes just two months after the twentieth anni…
My endeavours to find parts to repair a LW 12/640 having thus far failed (the multipurpose feed is dead as the dodo), I recently spotted a LW8500 being sold by …
I've got to say I've been going to just about every thrift store in the area about once a week for the past 2-3 months.. in this time I've managed to find a blu…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/120782493222 Avid MC8000 Video Editing System includes: Apple Mac Computer: Power 9600/350 iS18 Hard drives (6) Sync Generator BSG-26N I…
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This posting just made me laugh. Can you image shelling out $100 for this? http://delaware.craigslist.org/sys/4724715664.html