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So today I get call from my youth pastor saying "Somebody has donated a black macbook(lucky!). My iBook just sort of growels at me so I may give it to you to ti…
I have an QS G4 ( 933 MHz) with two internal hard drives. Drive two is dedicated to Leo. Drive one ( original ) is dedicated to Audio/Video storage with a copy …
Bit of a story behind this one. I found it about a year ago with a wallstreet for the dirt cheap price of $40 for both. I knew someone who was looking for a che…
I pulled out my power supply to clean it up a bit underneath, and I decided I would try to add an 80 conductor cable to my G3. However, I found that the connect…
I recently purchased two parts Pismos 400s that I have combined into one. I am not sure what I am going to do with it now that it is done (eBay, maybe), but I h…
I use my pismo extensively. It started shutting off randomly, and I narrowed it down to the logic board by swapping parts with another Pismo. I ordered a new lo…
Is there any way to fix a dim display on my 1710? I'd love to use it with one of my DTV->VGA boxes. Full brightness isn't very bright...
$76 on eBay! Yehaw! This puppy will sit on my Mac Shrine next to my LC (which I'm getting a new mobo for free from some chap in Oakland tomorrow.) I also bought…
I am about to replace my old leaky caps on my IIci but before I go ahead and order them from Trag I wanted to see if anyone knew whether or not mylar capacitors…
I was at SalVal today, and found a small leather bag which contained a fully functional AST 280M notebook. Specs: Cyrix (Ha! Remember them?) 200GXM CPU 32 MB RA…
Wow! I just heard back from a seller that he's got a 200 mhz board for a PB 3400 for only $20. Can anyone confirm that it's possible to transplant a 200mhz. boa…
I am thinking that if I can talk my mother into it, I am going to try to get her iMac up to 1280x1024. Anyone think this is possible?. GF4 can surely push it, d…
Hello, everyone! Just a friendly note to send to all of you whom own a Macintosh with PCI expansion bus. Just this past week, I've found that all the bus slots …
My recently-acquired IIfx (with Mac II top cover) came to me in an excessively grimy condition. Oddly enough, because it cleaned up so well, the layer of dirt m…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300363277979&ssPageName=ADME:L:COSI:US:1123 I set it up and everything except for the battery…
Are there any faster Apple G4 processors that will work on my Sawtooth besides a dual or single 500mhz module? I've been trolling eBay and see several pulled pr…
i got another PB G3 (this time off ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360214039605&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_2938wt_928)…
Just in case you don't know this tip about old hardware: If you have an old Mac that just do not boot (even without shime), look carefully at the motherboard, y…
I'll preface this by saying I have two compact projects going on: 1) A clean, good-physical-condition, working Mac plus to run HappyPlusClock on (nearly 24/7) 2…
I do not have a video camera although i do have a Samsung VCR330 http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/EM/200603/20060329170551109/EN/main.html and I want t…
For $40 CAD I got a Pentium 3 850MHz, 256MB ram, and 20GB HD, with a 17" viewsonic flat CRT monitor. I am going to install Linux on this beast, or Rhapsody. Pic…
I have a powermac 7500/100 and when i was trying to use toast deluxe 4 to run some 'toast files' the computer was stuck many times. I was using the power button…
Well the two old powerbooks (190cs and 500 with PowerPC) arrived yesterday. I must say, wow! the Powerbook 500 was really built well. Compared to the 190cs whic…
Below is the last few weeks of scores from evilbay. In addition to these, when I went to pick up some of the items from a local seller, I also bought the follow…
hi all- as you may know, i want to prolong the life of my Macs to the fullest extent. examples of this are, if i walk waway from it, i dim the screen to min, ch…
An iBook (12" 1.33GHz) purchased off of eBay arrived last week for one of my children, thus freeing up my old 12" 1.5GHz PowerBook that had been hers for homewo…
I still need to mitre the edge so it'll fit nicely, but so far I think it's turned out great. Took me about 2 hours to dremel the whole thing. { "lightbox_close…
I have a dead 500mhz Sawtooth. It has been sitting for awhile down in the basement. It quit one day , after a few attempts to revive it, it went to the basement…
Recently quite a few people on the forums have been discussing hardware hacks that they have done to their systems (for example, Mars478's GrayBook). As such, a…
. . . This was something I was looking for back in the days of the IIfPEx Hack . . . . . . which was lost in the storage room disaster. Anyways, if anyone has a…
The fan on my quicksilver 2002 power supply is making a lot of noise ie all most dead. can it be replaced or is another ps in order? thanx
I was looking at bare bones LCD panels, and I can find them for around $20 or so for an 800x600 panel. However, finding pinout information was impossible even f…
I have an internal Assante ethernet that works with one of my SE/30 units. I have moved it to the other one, and this causes a boot error. I have washed the boa…
Hey Guys~ I was in need of a game....but I wanted to know if there were some *nix games that I could play in th CLI. I was also wondering if it was possible for…
Hi, I just got something nice in mail yesterday - 13 books of the Inside Macintosh series I was missing, which I caught from a single eBay auction. Now I can re…
Both LEM (http://lowendmac.com/quadra/lc-630-ram-expansion.html) and AppleFritter (http://www.applefritter.com/node/24415) refer to the solder pads on some vers…
OK, so I have to drive an hour and half to pick it up. So that'll cost me $40 in gas, assuming my time isn't worth anything (which it isn't on Sunday.) So a guy…
I found this 16 million color Apple branded NuBus video card and I really want to use it in my Mac II however it has this issue. On every monitor I connect it t…
Hey Guys I'm geting a I-book G3, the owner told me it's screen goes black and they have to restart the computer to get the screen to work. I plan to use this G3…
How well does a Pismo function under X? I have two Pismo parts machines and am pondering spending some money ($100 or so) on a battery and memory to make a sing…
I've read this is a fuse. Can't remember where I saw that. Can anyone tell me where this fuse is, and how to change it ?
I just registered here. I have a Performa 600CD that had gone strong for 17 years, but died a year ago with the same issue described here while I was loading up…
I have a dead LC with a dead power supply. An electrician tried to fix it, but the integrated circuit is damaged. I'm looking for a used power supply on the int…
Any of us here into the case modding scene? I have a Macintosh SE FDHD here that shouldn't be too hard to get working again, looks like the HD is blown but that…
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Hrm, 68kmla seems to be down right now, so I'm posting it here mostly just to have it posted SOMEWHERE so I don't lose it. (68kmla went down while I was typing …
Argggg….Due to the fans starting really soon after boot, wanted to change the thermal paste, so disassembled it. Was very difficult to remove the board. It was …