Hi, everyone. The Macintosh SE I ordered from eBay a few days ago just arrived, and though its working condition was unknown by the seller, I turned it on and i…
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I just noticed something rather interesting. On my Classic II (System 7.1), the calculator takes up 20k of RAM. On the G4 that I'm on (System 9.2.2), the calcul…
http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/SystemX/index.php A supercomputer made of 1100 G5 Xserves. [:O] ]'>
Does anybody have any idea WTF this is? I found it a while ago in the System Folder and just bothered to ask. http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3303/picture9jt…
I need some advice. I am setting up a mac plus webserver and the peripherals are all really ugly and cable-y and stuff. I have an LCII that is dead. I am pretty…
I'm thinking about getting a PowerBook. The last one I had was the PowerBook 100 in the mid 1990's. I'm looking at The Powerbook 150. I will use it with Word, E…
I have a QuickTake 150 camera that refuses to "mount". I'm using the QuickTake 1.0 software but it won't mount the camera so I can't get the images from the cam…
I was going through this box of system floppies today (the second part of the box I got earlier this week with the 800K 7.1 floppies inside) and found... ... ..…
Going to put OS 9.22 and OS X 4.11 on a G4 Dual 867 cpu machine with a 80GB hd. Is there any patition size for either OS.
I'm having some problems with a Quadra 660av I left unused for a few months. When I turn it on, it crashes after about 15 minutes of use. Sometimes it simply fr…
I've already posted two threads about my large haul, and this is the last. To recap: A guy I had bought some old hardware off before emailed me saying that he w…
Power Mac 6100/66 Labeled "DOS Compatible", but the card seems to be removed. Value Village - $10
I was having trouble sleeping last night, so I lay there and watched the sleep LEDs blink on my two PowerBooks. I noticed that the Duo 2300c blinks exactly 2x a…
I can probably guess the answer to this, but.... did/do any of ethernet cards that were released for the Apple II series support Ethertalk (i.e. Appletalk over …
I can't print from my Stylewriter for some strange reason. The cables are tight and everything is connected, but my Powerbook eventually gets the "no connection…
I got a Powermac 7200/75 with 128mb of RAM and a 1gb HD. The best part: A Power Macintosh 6100/66 PC Compatable I cant wait to have a 95/Mac OS 7 Machine! Best …
Thanks wthww, I just got a SCSI DVD-RAM/DVD-ROM and a SCSI Zip drive Now I gotta get my SCSI Cases back from my friend
In case you have a trackball of type 'Microspeed MacTRAC Deluxe' you might miss the appropriate control panel software. The device is operational without specif…
So, this most recent weekend was the Baltimore Area Hamfest, and, as usual there were some awesome "recently vintaged" computing finds, as long as you were look…
OK, So after I got this cute little IIci, it got me thinking of my poor Quadra 700. It was in pieces, all over the place, and I felt bad. Now, I had been web br…
I have just succeeded in getting my Mac Plus on the internet through broadband using my Sonic ethernet to SCSI adaptor. I am posting this message from the Plus …
$40 US for a MANUAL and disk, the contents of which are readily available for download many places. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2…
Hey there ! I have word 5.1 and 98 on my 6500, when I double click a .doc document, it opens in word 5.1 and it's really getting to annoy me. what do I do so th…
Hi i picked up a SE/30 on ebay it runs great now.. has 8 megs ram and a 340 meg drive i think, anyways i was having boot problems weird sounds coming out of the…
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4849/picture3hk0.png That be from browsing a Power Macintosh 6/7/8100 System install CD version 7.1.2. Don't those little X's l…
This happened last time when I last had OS 9 on this machine. Now, with what is probably my third semi-permanent installation of OS 9 on my computer, a Power Ma…
Well, I finally got around to ordering the processor replacement for my crappy Dell computer which died. I got a mobo replacement and it turned out that it frie…
I have been offered broken 22" apple cinema, the old white tripod type with the ADC connector. I found the service manual but haven't had time to troubleshoot. …
So I have an iBook SE 466 Mhz that I bought 8 years ago. Is there anything I can do with it nowadays? I had it running OS 9.2.2, but Firefox doesnt run on that.…
Note: I did a search for "SE" and "SE/30" and got no hits. I think something is wrong with the search function (no way could it be an operator error : ) I never…
Can you connect more than one compact to a single external drive?
I've heard rumours that the SE can utilize 3-bit colour (not on the internal display, of course), does anyone know if this is true or not and if so, what equipm…
Anyone have one of these or use it? I don't ever recall it. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2179 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=1…
Okay, I've been trying to find a proper way to set up a MacIP server (TCP/IP over LocalTalk,) and I'm at a loss. I have multiple versions of AppleShare, includi…
I'm tired of using my iBook to develop 68k/Newton code on, I'd like something that doesn't tip over backwards, and can use a nicer monitor, and of course I like…
First, thanks wthww! I got three 256 MB SDRAM modules from him along with a Sonnet G4/400 processor. Now I have a Blue & White G4/400 with 768MB Ram! []…
I recently posted about a decent haul. I went back today, and got more. Easily 1000 disks worth of software, PC, Mac, Apple II. Some still boxed (At Ease 2.0, a…
My dad brought home to me: 4x Boxed Copies of MS Word 6.0 for Windows 1x Boxed Windows 3.1 on floppies and 1x Boxed MS Excel for Windows Then he brought home 6 …
I've just installed SuperClock on my Powerbook 160 and, surprisingly I don't know how to adjust the time! Can someone help?
I got myself a big haul of System Software... -System 6.0.4 complete set -System 7.0.1 complete set -System 7.5 floppy complete set -Extra System 7.5 disks (pri…
I know this is probably a long-shot, but does anyone know what games were bundled with the 6200 in the UK? (AFAIK, the bundles differed for each country). I kno…
Can my G4 running Tiger share it's internet connection with older Macs running Systems 6-9?
Today I picked up two decent size boxes of software. Some loose disks (including incomplete sets,) some full boxed (Kings Quest 5!) Mostly DOS/Windows, but some…
Originaly I posted a bid on the auction as I wanted an extra PowerBook bag, I did not pay attention to the fact that it came with a nice PowerBook 180c in good …
Wow, Office Depot has really cut the prices on some of their notebooks, and in particular, the models with the now-defunct HD DVD format drives. And so, here's …
The Pismo project now has a (relatively) new and spiffy keyboard with all the keys still on it, and a half-gig RAM stick to replace a 128, so now it has 768 MB …
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A few weeks ago, I sent off several boards to be recapped. They all came back yesterday and I got to open the box today. Inside were the logic boards of my SE/3…