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Hi! I have just found the pinout for the internal floppy drive connecter-the problem is, I don't know if it's the right one! Could someone please point me towar…
Well, it finally came yesterday! My new-to-me 2003 iMac G4. I swear, the damn thing looks brand new. It is the 17" model, which looks nice next my eMac. The key…
Not really vintage... surplus maybe. They're letting a Mac Pro go at work; the options are I can have it for free or I can sell it for them. I'm not interested …
Non-backlit, 1MB memory, sys 6.0.7 (on floppy) HD did not work Booted once when I first got it (after removing the HD), and I could not get it to start up after…
A first shot only, and as yet without WoL, but check it out and leave me a message under the "Message Pad" Tab: It is not über-stable, but that seems to be the …
Things I did not know existed: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aapps-Micro-TV-MT-100N-MTV001B-Vintage-Nubus-TV-Tuner-Card-Apple-Macintosh-/251163257118 A Nubus Tv tuner…
I hope its okay that I start a new thread for this... it's the same machine as my prior post (Color Classic) but new symptoms. History: A while back I was havin…
Hi, I have a couple of analog boards with an L2 width adjustment coil whose inner cores are missing and/or crumbling. Is it possible to replace the coil outrigh…
Is this normal? My SE/30 is recapped and everything looks good.. Even the PSU is recapped. I get noisy scanlines that runs downwards when there's heavy motor ac…
Like the title says, for Christmas, my wife gave me $500 to spend on eBay. She knows how much I love vintage Apple gear and there's no way she could possibly bu…
Is there any merit in this idea what so ever? I'v not tried this, but i am curious if it would work, as long as the epoxy was thick enough, I feel it would crea…
I found this a little interesting. I was playing around on the eMac and decided to do a speed test between the iBook G4 (1.42GHz G4, 1.5GB of RAM, 4200rpm HDD, …
Hate to render it useless, but its full 040 is going into the new 605. Can I just swap the LC in and still have a working but slower 950?
Well this is interesting. NB: I do not know if this applies to all Keyspan serial adapters or just some of them. Caveat emptor. /ETA/ The author of the linked a…
Bought 2 iBook G3s off Craigslist today! Paid $25 for both and 1 charger. They both have their own problems, one has a DVD drive issue, other had the video card…
This thing boots sick fast, I would say fully booted to the desktop in about 4 seconds. love it because i have everything i want and need, don't have to worry a…
My daughter's 15" 1.67mhz G4 has a newish battery that reports itself as having done 65,000 cycles. Yup. For obvious reasons, the charging is not going so well.…
Hi, I have an "unsupported" installation of Mac OS X 10.4 on my early 2008 Mac Pro, and I'd like to run TenFourFox on it. It works when I run it on a Mac which …
System 7 was around for quite some time now. Were there any video game emulators that ran on it? Mainly looking for the original Game Boy. I don't know how hard…
What would you suggest as the fastest CPU/Graphics upgrade for this little machine ?
Saw this big haul on CL today: http://charlotte.craigslist.org/sys/3445496258.html NICE example of a 512K. I know storage is at a premium at my place but I'm co…
I'm curious why there was never any Nubus card with USB ports. The imac came out in 1998, which means that it was less than three years since the top of the lin…
Hi, I have a technical question about C++ coding. I don't know if it's the best place to ask this kind of thing here but I know that some of you are expert in c…
I seem to remember from long ago that equill (of blessed memory) spoke of a way to downsize 7.6.1 so that it works faster on slower 030 machines, much as 7.5.3 …
Alright, to start this story off, a little introduction. I've been working at Goodwill in a training program for about two months now. The reason this seemingly…
A friend's company was trashing some older mac's (an advertising agency) and offered some for me to rescue, of cos, i could not turn them down, free and all.. H…
I recently won (in my pursuit of putting an LC shaped board inside a face-lifted Mac Classic II) both a Performa 460 and a Quadra 605. They both made it to me i…
Here's something interesting I've stumbled upon. I remember back when Apple introduced HFS+ with System 8.1. I could format Zip Disks with the new file system, …
Yes, I bought 2 AirPorts. I like telling people that because it sounds like I bought 2 airports when I in fact bought 2 AirPort Base Stations! About a week ago,…
Seems like everytime I fire up one of these systems something fails. Guaranteed.... The latest is a working system put in storage for a couple months that now w…
So I go to a goodwill in aloha or all the time and they never seem to have any mac stuff, just pc towers usually. Well I look through a glass door in rcieving a…
I've been collecting Macs for a while, usually one or two here and there, but today was the first haul worth mentioning; well, first one to fill up my small tru…
I just won a Macintosh Color Classic on eBay for the starting bid of $120. It is in nice condition, and works great. However, the $120 is a lot of money, and I …
Kind of long story, i'm trying to make it short… a friend of mine (JuhaniL) told about a guy who used to have an company close by where our company used to be l…
What would I need to look for to get wireless running on the G4 733MHz Digital Audio? There appears to be a connector on the motherboard, and an aerial wire con…
I picked up an iBook a while ago that has recently shutting down randomly. Today I used coconut battery to check the charge on it. This is what came up { "light…
Macintosh LC 520 2 - 100uf 6 - 47uf 1 - 10uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea) http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16T-…
For whatever reason, I am using a XServe G5 as a desktop system. It's cool, loud, keeps my heating bill down --- whatever. My question is there has *got* to be …
Hi, I was wondering if any themes exist for Classilla, aside from the standard and modern themes which are included by default. There must have been themes for …
Hello everyone. Just signed up recently so this is my first post. I just got a working Mac SE FD HD in. I am unsure of its specific specs ( hard drive size and …
Hi guys, Some of you may remember a few months back, when I took on a huge load of surplus computing gear from Los Alamos National Labs (and some stuff from NAS…
This question is about a game so I guess it would be ok to put it in the lounge (move it if i'm wrong). I recently purchased a game called Summoner on eBay. I w…
I have a dead LC-1 board and a LC-III. Also, I have an oscilloscope, I think its an TEK one in the garage, I would like to start this thread to help people that…
So, I was browsing though craigslist looking for another Mac to add the collection, and all of a sudden, I see a Power Mac G4 for $50. I called, and I spoke to …
My boss ran around today and handed out christmas cards with some money in them to everyone, SO :-D I'm now looking to upgrade into a decent quality temp contro…
Macintosh IIsi 2 - 220uf 11 - 47uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea) http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16T-F/?qs=sGAE…
Macintosh LC 575 2 - 100uf 10 - 47uf (Stock OEM Replacement Caps) (47uf 10 Cents ea) http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cornell-Dubilier/AVE476M16D16T-F/?qs=sG…
Forgive me if this is lore already - what are my options for a replacement hard drive for a Performa 550/575? I seem to be limited by the funny plug adapter and…
Hey everybody; i'm working on an ultimate Duo 280c project and i'm wondering if a Serial to Wifi adapter would work to get the duo on a Wifi network. Obviously …