Looking for some advice... I have a B&W G3. It originally a 400mhz system, but a few weeks ago, I upgraded it to a G3/500 with a cheap ZIF from IC-China…
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BACKGROUND: So I picked myself up a decent-condition, "not working" Classic II on eBay a month ago. The listing showed it powered on with the checkerboard scree…
i understand that there is a bit of a speed gain in a file system's performance when you mount it with asynchronous writes enabled, but there is the risk of los…
Hi All, My son's trusty Powerbook 540c has recently started to shut down at random while in use. After this happens it will not restart unless I unplug the powe…
After allowing at least five of these to slip past me on eBay over the last few years, I finally picked up a Duo 2300c in good condition. It's physically near m…
Perhaps there's someone out there who can enlighten me about this problem. I have a G3 400MHz Lombard with 10.3.9/9.2.2. It refuses to charge or run on the main…
The campus PC repair shop has a "scrap pile" of old machines, mostly PCs, which are destined for the recycler. In the past year, I have purchased a desktop G3 a…
I have the original graphite Airport base and wondered if anyone has upgraded the internal card to anything better than an Orinoco Gold card? Is there anything …
Under 24 bit addressing there is 1M of address space assigned to each Slot. Does that mean that a video card would be limited to 1 MB of VRAM when using 24 bit …
I'm almost in total disbelief right now. Went to the tip shop today. We haven't been going as frequently since its been kinda lame over the past few months. So …
Calling all experts... Has anyone of you ever done this or have any inside info on how to do it? What I would like to do to the above mentioned machines is: 1. …
Today I was given a free Power Book G3 'Lombard' 333 by a coworker - 384Mb RAM/12Gb HDD / CD with 2 hour battery life and Apple 45W non UFO power adapter. PRAM …
I've had such rotten luck with getting a working LC motherboard, that if this doesn't work, nothing will. I call this a super conquest for me, even at $25. :bei…
I got out the ole' Power Mac 9500 last evening and tried to start it up. No luck. Though the hard drive in it is fine and has OS 7.6 on it, it did not work. I g…
Hi, Yesterday I picked up my first 512k. They are hard to get in Europe so I had to pay a whopping 20 euro for it ;-) But, on boot no glory. I opened it up and …
For the Ram gurus here, a question. What happens if you mix FPM and EDO Ram in an 8600/9600? Machine gets flakey, won't boot at all, smoke and flames, or?? Also…
It's a parts machine, (power supply bad, hard drive removed) but was being listed only as a 533mhz, nothing said about the dual processor but the photo of the b…
Has anyone noticed how few 512ke's have been on ebay lately? There's been more 1984 Macintosh 128k's than 512ke's and there's been plenty of 512k's.
Hey, the first mac I ever had was an apple iic it pains me that I do not know what happened to it as it came with that and about 200 floppys or so with tons of …
i recently bought a 1984 Macintosh model M0001 from ebay. I'm not sure though if this is the original M0001 model. i turned it on with the system disk and click…
A few days ago, I got my hands on a Classic II with an allegedly dead hard drive. Replacing the drive was no problem, plenty of spares. Powered the beast. Yaaaa…
Just a note/ flag that these are currently available at $1.99 each on ebay (with best offers available too) if you want to revive a PowerBook by replacing a dea…
Is it possible somehow to use the shell, power supply etc. of a disused machine like, say, a non-booting 9500, as a box for an external RAID? I have several 18G…
I have resurrected a LCIII and bought a new IIe card for it but I can't get it to boot. I get an error that says I have a bad IIe card, I am running OS 7.5 and …
After nearly a year of not being used, I got my 12" Apple RGB that I've had for 18 years out today. It has one problem--the focus seems to be quite off. Text an…
I'm working on someone's web site and used a program called iResize to resize an image to a new file. The file appears when I go to Terminal, but does not appea…
In a box labelled "old PowerBook RAM" that I recently obtained, I have a variety of small Wallstreet RAM chips, a 32MB Duo chip, and some other bits and pieces,…
A few weeks ago I got a 9600/300. It has a strange malady. When you power it up for the first time, it bongs but doesn't boot. When you turn it off and power it…
http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-25TH-ANIVERSERY-MICROWAVED-1984-MAC-512K-M0001_W0QQitemZ150382954132 Only $49,000. Get your guns.
Not ALL that amazing, AFAIK, but I got some pretty neat stuff, I'm a very happy camper! :rambo: Here's all the new IRS Funded Goodies arranged on the MacCoffeeT…
I found from decoding the serial of one of my Pluses that it started life as a 512k (not 512ke) and I was thinking of changing it back. It seems I can get every…
I have found a Portable Backlit without hard disk with a full memory expansion. It has these sympthoms: - without battery it boots well but after booting I get …
Whenever I switch my Macintosh SE FDHD on or off, there is a static pip. Does anyone know why?
Since I needed a bunch I decided to go with a bulk purchase and managed to find 10 packs for $28 shipped. Nearly every beige Powermac and Quadra I have thinks i…
Hi all. Just wanted to share my experiences on SSD's (Solid State Drives) and my SE/30. My SE/30's stock Apple drive was getting *very* noisy indeed, and a repl…
I'm seeking input on the cure to fix one of the other Macs in our classroom. It's a iMac G5.. not entirely sure of the specifications. It's a video editing comp…
and are you going to move to Macpro..? do you see benefits of ditching your machine in favor of a macpro (besides speed)...? How often do you buy Mac's? Jim
. . . appear to be a big secret, at least as far as the 6500/5500 DevNotes are concerned! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previo…
Hi, me again. We have a Quicksilver G4 at my school, and I've recently set it up as a browsing machine. If I'm correct, its a 933 MHz Model with 128 MB RAM, not…
Anybody know what machine/ card this might have come out of? A 50MHz 68882 has got to be a real rarity. Do any Macs accept a pinned 68882 like the one pictured …
Today, my Mystic G4's power supply started making an out-of-the-ordinary noise instead of the typical. With the unusual noise, the case slightly vibrates as wel…
Does someone have a picture or better yet specs of the legendary black IIfx terminator? My IIfx didn't come with one so I'm either going to have to buy one, fin…
Tempest and I made an agreement for him to send me 2 broken Mac II's (one somewhat gutted) in exchange for repair and recap of his IIfx logic board. I basically…
. . . that I made for our co-op up in the Big Bad Apple! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error"…
My newest conquested LC 475 displays some strange problems. It refuses to power up, but with different working power supplies (one from my LC III, which works f…
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Hello all! I was wondering something. Were there store demo disks for every macintosh? if not, are there ones for my models? my models >imac g3 >m…
Finally i have my portable working! Just got it's logicboard back from it's 8,000 mile round trip to techknight (who i must thank for all the work he put in, re…