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I was able to recently obtain a 15" NEC 1530 15" LCD display. It is white and matches my IIci nicely. I have a Radius Precision Color Xp nubus card. The resolut…
What are your opinions on the screen of the PowerBook 165c? Is it the worst of the worst of passive matrix or is it one of the better ones? Better or worse than…
I've had two Dell Optiplex GX1 desktop machines for a while that I have been wanting to upgrade and finally found two of these with 1.4ghz P-III's installed. No…
Original Post: . . . ARGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8-o Bunsen, you sneaky lil' . . . erm? . . . INSTIGATOR! I just spent more than a bit of my tim…
Hi, With the advent of Snow Leopard, G4 towers sure are getting cheap these days ... picked up this beauty for AUD $99! It came in pristine condition (bar many …
Picked up a 9600 G4/800 today, 512 MB Ram, a 4 GB SCSI drive and a 10 GB IDE drive driven off an IDE/USB/Firewire card. Radeon 7000 Video card and the usual flo…
I found such a card in an old machine, but there was no hard drive for me to get the drivers from. It says: copyright 1996 CSI P/N 00-9611-PCIS REV. 4.702 FCCID…
I got a used G3/375 Sonnet upgrade a few days ago and put it in my 7600/132 today and system profiler is reporting a G3 at 417mhz! I didn't know these could be …
Lessay you are daisychaining floppy drives to the floppy port on your IIci. What is the maximum amount of drives you could possible daisychain?
I've had one of these (ACUSON AEGIS QV100) floating around my collection for years. Technically, I guess it's not a "clone" since it has an actual Mac motherboa…
I've noticed recently that whenever my Classic II accesses its HD the screen wobbles. As soon as the HD access stops the screen stabilizes. I have never seen an…
I have been away from the pre-mac Apple world for a long time. My parents bought for me a Franklin Ace (clone) when I was a kid, but they never got me software …
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…
I seem to remember the old Apple monitors having visibly separated scan lines. Can anyone confirm? The thrust of my question is to determine if A2like or Apple2…
I just scored the first Mac I ever used! My best friends Quadra 605, that he received for Christmas 1993. Neither he or I have seen or used the computer in over…
I have a Mac edition Radeon 7000 PCI in my B&W G3. Currently I am using an old VGA equipped LCD since my 420GS 19" Sony monitor went on the fritz. Anywa…
I have an SE/30 with what I believe is a dead speaker in it. There's no internal sound, but I get sound just fine if I plug in speakers. I have a working speake…
One of the things i added to my souped up PowerMac 7300 was a SCSI card and an LVD hard drive, Seagate 80GB@ 10,000RPM . Now this drive takes a bit longer then …
Does anyone know how long a replacement PRAM battery that is a decent brand (SAFT) will last in a Mac Classic II that is in storage? The PRAM battery in a Mac C…
I have an old Macintosh Classic II computer. Lately, instead of booting normally, it has been flashing a disk icon with a question mark on it. I need to boot it…
Hi, I have an SE/30 which suddently stop working, and when powered on I see the classic simasimac pattern (as described here http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/full…
A few months ago, I found a dual processor Power Mac G5 and took it home. Unfortunately, the liquid cooling unit leaked and destroyed the motherboard and proces…
Managed to pick up a PM 9600/300 to go with my 8600/250. Still not found a full blown 9600/350 that I could afford yet, but this will do for now. Seller says it…
I was strolling through Walmart the other day, and happened to notice the 10" LCD picture frames. 800×600 resolution is not bad. Of course, the first thing that…
For anyone interested here's a link to a Lemswap post for a free 128K Mac, upgraded to a 512K. NOT my sale. http://groups.google.com/group/lemswap/browse_thread…
Hey all, I'm new here. I just picked up an SE/30 on eBay for a decent price (always wanted one of these to add to my collection). It works great except when you…
I've got a dead PB100 that's been sitting in my closet for some time. The battery refuses to budge when I try to move it (the door won't move at all). Any tips …
This may be blindingly obvious to some, but it took me several years to figure it out and I thought I might save someone else the time ;-) My wife has an LC 575…
Does anyone have the pinout for the internal keyboard connector on the PB1400? The one that I had declared "dead" works just fine hooked up to external monitor …
Found a 128k that needs work for $150 on ebay. Got $12 Bing cashback and $3 ebay bucks. 8-o It's the early model that just says "Macintosh" on the back, no "128…
While researching the RAM PowerCard, I found this: DayStar add-in boards outrun NuBus FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Frustrated by the NuBus speed limit? DayStar Digita…
I´d like you to help with your great experiance to virtually assemble the fastest OS 9 machine ever. Interresting is to clear some questions regarding the most …
It has arrived !! As described, 300mhz, 288mb, 3gb with a dead battery and cracks around the apple under the screen + the plastic on the handle No airport card,…
This is sort of interesting.... The write-up seemingly gets the nomenclature wrong, as there never was a 604e that ran at 300Mhz; that distinction belongs to th…
Is the ROM card by the speaker? If the ROM is soldered to the board, is it by the batteries? Why does it have two batteries? I am going by 'fuzzy' pictures, so …
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250495379579 There's been a couple pop up recently, but this is the first one that didn't have a st…
I am also finally the proud owner of a Lucent WaveLAN silver card and successfully got one of my 1400s online yesterday. Any tips from other 1400 web users re o…
I recently bought a powermac G4 mdd and i am trying to make it run cooler the specs are 10.5.8 leopard dual 1GHZ 1.75GB ram Dual Super drives HDS 250gb 120gb 10…
Well, I seem to have had a triple-biorhythm low kind of day on Saturday - either that or I was just stupid! Managed to lose my glasses AND fry one of my Pismos,…
This tech note: http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/hw/hw_13.html states that: "The Macintosh Portable contains 256K of processor ROM, which…
i got a dead pismo battery in a junk lot (it could not be revived w/ battery reset on a lombard), so i decided to mod it } . i emptied it out (found the directi…
Folks, I'm coming back to the barracks after a long hiatus, in the hope that someone can point me towards a solution. The problem: I wanted to put a newish CRT …
I just got my hands a nice looking Macintosh IIfx. It has full memory banks (not sure how much) and three NuBus cards in it, but I'm not sure what they do: 1. S…
Analog Board Connector 1 -12 V input 2 GND 3 4 5 ADB Power supply 6 GND 7 Power off command 8 GND 9 Composite signal output 10 GND 11 Video signal output(Blue) …
Ok So my screen has those diagonal lines and I notice that the screen has like a lot of static electricity in it. I had my hand on screen and turned it on and i…
From what I've read it is possible to put two disk drives and a hard drive into the SE, but it requires a special mounting bracket. Has anyone ever seen one of …
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Since I have been doing this for almost 10 years, I want to continue the experiments further and post my results. Hopefully others will share their experiences …
I have never seen one with a hard drive light. Just how many actually had hard drive activity lights installed?