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Hi I have a couple old macs at home and Im figureing a use for them. I thought of usig them as some kind of unix server, or some light control in room (still ha…
· 13 posts · started 8 Oct 2008 - 20:52 · last 9 Oct 2008 - 17:39
Hi! Im so glad this forum is alive! Its needed to keep 68k macs alive. So to make long story short. I am going to build this MIDI drum pad controller: http://to…
· 3 posts · started 9 Oct 2008 - 11:07 · last 9 Oct 2008 - 16:49
Hi all, I came across this card. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/2281494544_fc86964ded_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2281494568_625d9860c4_o.jpg…
· 28 posts · started 21 Feb 2008 - 08:13 · last 7 Oct 2008 - 23:01
This appears to be a nicely cared for compact with a clear history detailing its official upgrade from a 128K to a Mac Plus. Good clear pictures for those who a…
· 2 posts · started 4 Oct 2008 - 17:58 · last 4 Oct 2008 - 18:29
Hello all, I figured I'd throw my first post on the boards down as a conquest. Here's what I got: 3 beige G3 300MHz MTs with the A/V personality cards 1 beige G…
· 14 posts · started 30 Sep 2008 - 09:01 · last 1 Oct 2008 - 15:58
2GB 50 Pin SCSI HD 2X 18GB 68pin Cheeta drives (10k RPM) And......... A Quadra 840AV - Yellowed a bit - No RAM - NO HD - Missing floppy and CD bezels BUT it has…
· 10 posts · started 24 Sep 2008 - 19:04 · last 1 Oct 2008 - 02:30
Will this technology allow a complete hardware emulation of a Mac Plus on a single chip? http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ Or is PacMan a much simpler machine?
· 6 posts · started 28 Sep 2008 - 23:42 · last 30 Sep 2008 - 16:04
Can I just put any old scsi hard drive in here? the 20Mb one is dead and I am forced to boot from floppies.
· 10 posts · started 27 Sep 2008 - 04:02 · last 30 Sep 2008 - 02:58
So a local has been pruning his rather extensive stash of Mac hardware; amongst the various bits of systems and software I got from him, just picked up a Voodoo…
· 8 posts · started 23 Sep 2008 - 03:18 · last 30 Sep 2008 - 01:15
PB520 PB520c PB150 Apple Ethernet LC Card- In Original box with softwae and dcs Absolute charger/discharger for PB 140-180c Centris/Quadra 610 ppc(pds) adapter …
· 5 posts · started 28 Sep 2008 - 06:24 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 21:11
I've got a conundrum! I acquired a Mac demo tape, from the original 1984 Mac a few months ago (last summer, actually) and it is shrinkwrapped! Un-opened! Here i…
· 8 posts · started 25 Sep 2008 - 18:15 · last 27 Sep 2008 - 08:21
WOO! There was an ad on the local CL advertising this beautiful old computer, with original boxes, some disks, and a printer, all for free! I fired off an email…
· 19 posts · started 27 Aug 2008 - 00:53 · last 22 Sep 2008 - 01:58
Just now noticed this- the copright date on the bottom of the pages is 2001-2007, not to 2008. Thought someone might like to know.
· 14 posts · started 3 Aug 2008 - 02:53 · last 21 Sep 2008 - 17:30
This is a pretty cool idea ... http://www.geocities.com/bobdavis321/Tech.html#LED
· 3 posts · started 20 Sep 2008 - 21:08 · last 21 Sep 2008 - 07:58
Here's one you don't find every day... A boxed copy of Lemmings for Mac!!!
· 7 posts · started 13 Sep 2008 - 20:28 · last 14 Sep 2008 - 19:57
Not 68k but I need a download to the Photoshop 6.0 trial version. My friend is giving me his PhotoShop 6.0.1 disk but AFAIK it's windows only, but has a perfect…
· 4 posts · started 11 Sep 2008 - 06:03 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 04:26
With my Quadra 660av coming soon, I am hating myself for throwing out an old P1 machine that included 16MB of 72-pin SIMMs, how was I supposed to know, though, …
· 6 posts · started 6 Sep 2008 - 01:14 · last 7 Sep 2008 - 03:31
I have a 1987 model SE with one 800k internal drive and a 120 MB internal hard drive. I would like to switch the 800k floppy drive out with a 1.44 floppy drive …
· 6 posts · started 5 Sep 2008 - 16:12 · last 5 Sep 2008 - 20:21
First time I seen a Q840 and I grabbed it. Nice shape but missing a hard drive.
· 7 posts · started 28 Aug 2008 - 04:18 · last 3 Sep 2008 - 02:04
Got this from a friend that didn't know what to do with it. Just sitting around her house. Awesome. 80 meg HD, 8M RAM, and the modem! Compliments my 170 very we…
· 3 posts · started 2 Sep 2008 - 03:56 · last 2 Sep 2008 - 04:35
I guess I can tell the long version of the story... Back in mid-July, I got a Mac Plus at a sale, but with a crippled mouse (no ring or ball). I went to the loc…
· 1 posts · started 1 Sep 2008 - 01:02 · last 1 Sep 2008 - 01:02
I've just gutted a color classic...and have a bunch of stuff I basically rebuilt one into a spanking ' clean ' shell from the NIXER.. ( stand up and take a bow …
· 1 posts · started 1 Sep 2008 - 00:21 · last 1 Sep 2008 - 00:21
OK we had fun with this one last time, so let's everyone post your dream 68k peripherals, internal or external. Let's start with a list of all those "I wish the…
· 84 posts · started 3 Jun 2007 - 22:21 · last 30 Aug 2008 - 08:47
My friend of 3 and a half years died on the 13th. He was a good cat, but he had fatty liver disease which came on really strong. This is a cat who would eat a L…
· 17 posts · started 28 Aug 2008 - 14:29 · last 29 Aug 2008 - 17:31
My QuickTake 150 came in the mail today complete with box, booster pack for the lithium batteries and QuickTake Travel Case as well as the leather camera grip, …
· 12 posts · started 26 Aug 2008 - 03:11 · last 28 Aug 2008 - 14:03
I don't know too, too much about the 700 & just wondering what good points there are! Oh & what's a Proteus card?
· 15 posts · started 19 Aug 2008 - 18:22 · last 27 Aug 2008 - 11:25
:b&w: Over the past few weeks/months I've been picking up a select few computers: -PowerMac g4/733 QuickSilver w/ 1.25gb RAM for free -iMac G3/350 Blueb…
· 9 posts · started 3 Aug 2008 - 20:12 · last 26 Aug 2008 - 20:01
Hello! I have looked allover for the drivers for the Calcomp Drawingslate II for mac os. Also, I am looking for the Logitech Scanman 32 to no avail. Can someone…
· 2 posts · started 9 Aug 2008 - 21:03 · last 26 Aug 2008 - 16:57
It was really tough picking winners, especially since many entrants qualified for multiple categories... not to mention the judges complete lack of consensus. A…
· 8 posts · started 16 Aug 2008 - 02:48 · last 25 Aug 2008 - 08:48
got 4 for $2. I need them for my Mac Plus, so this is awesome for me. esp. cause they cost $9 new.
· 3 posts · started 22 Aug 2008 - 01:35 · last 22 Aug 2008 - 23:55
My family had a Quadra 840av for a while -- it just went to the recycling center about a year ago. I just looked it up and I'm kind of pissed that I didn't know…
· 9 posts · started 1 Jul 2008 - 06:14 · last 18 Aug 2008 - 19:35
OK, picked up a brand new in package Apple IIe card of ebay and a used Performa 550. Current OS is 7.5.3. plugged the card in the PDS slot. inserted the IIe car…
· 7 posts · started 12 Aug 2008 - 23:03 · last 13 Aug 2008 - 06:40
I had put up a wanted ad on freecycle about two months ago stating that i was looking for darkroom equipment. I got a reply back a couple days later stating tha…
· 8 posts · started 8 Aug 2008 - 20:00 · last 12 Aug 2008 - 06:59
Coming to you from my "new" LC575 here :beige: ... and I see in the System Profiler that I have a 68LC040 and I was wondering if all it would take to move to a …
· 9 posts · started 31 Jul 2008 - 15:34 · last 12 Aug 2008 - 04:03
Hey everyone, just a quick note to say that it would be better if you didn't reply to (or even view, if you know what it is) spam topics. Us moderators and admi…
· 8 posts · started 10 Aug 2008 - 02:57 · last 10 Aug 2008 - 19:45
Liberated an Apple Multiple Scan 15av display today. Got it from the thrift store downtown, and it works perfectly. There was a tag on the end of the cable labe…
· 6 posts · started 8 Aug 2008 - 21:56 · last 9 Aug 2008 - 04:53
I just had a Platinum Mac Plus and a Mac SE w/ 20 MB hard drive and Radius accelerator dropped off for free! The HD "sounds" like a Miniscribe but I'll have to …
· 5 posts · started 7 Aug 2008 - 19:16 · last 7 Aug 2008 - 23:36
Just a thought for next year, that popped into my head. How about a section for submitted challenges, for others to take up if they wish? ie: We think this is p…
· 6 posts · started 3 Aug 2008 - 20:03 · last 7 Aug 2008 - 17:50
hi all! i've recently completed a project utilizing a Plus case to house a G4 Cube ( ) and now i'm looking to do something with the innards of the Plus itself. …
· 22 posts · started 8 Jun 2008 - 19:27 · last 7 Aug 2008 - 04:31
I'm just wondering if they exist. It sure would speed up my protools sessions. I'm running 7.6.1, Quadra 700, 68Megs ram. Did one exist? Is the burner software …
· 13 posts · started 5 Aug 2008 - 07:03 · last 6 Aug 2008 - 19:50
RasterOps 8xl Nubus video card. Softcover books mac Made easy Internet Starter Kit. Third edition MacWeek Upgrading and Repairing your Mac. I like the MacWeek. …
· 6 posts · started 3 Aug 2008 - 20:38 · last 4 Aug 2008 - 21:31
I bought this dead Mac Plus shell about 10 years ago hoping to make it into a speaker cabinet for my bass. I'm almost done covering it with tolex and figured I'…
· 5 posts · started 1 Aug 2008 - 04:31 · last 3 Aug 2008 - 17:20
Chapter 1 is written...so far I'm happy with it. I shall work extensively on the book tomorrow on my day off (which I can enjoy for once now that I've done all …
· 13 posts · started 8 Jul 2008 - 09:38 · last 30 Jul 2008 - 05:25
Hi, Earlier I posted here that the sound coming from my Centris 610 was much quieter than usual. But I experimentally ran a program on it just now, and the soun…
· 1 posts · started 27 Jul 2008 - 22:58 · last 27 Jul 2008 - 22:58
You find a Powerbook 165 in your collection you did not know you had! [:I] ]'> The confusion started a couple of years ago when I came to use the Powerbo…
· 8 posts · started 16 Jul 2008 - 23:47 · last 26 Jul 2008 - 00:49
Hi! I just dug my IIcx out of the closet. I had it there after I got it at a yard sale for 1$. I decided to look up more about it, and I found this site. It loo…
· 8 posts · started 25 Jul 2008 - 01:24 · last 25 Jul 2008 - 19:54
yup. my dad brought home some US Robotics External 56k Modems that he said didn't work. Well, he found a Serial (DB-25 Male -> DB-9 Female) connector and…
· 11 posts · started 23 Jul 2008 - 18:29 · last 25 Jul 2008 - 10:06
Alright, the main reason for this post is to have a place to host the files/code for my Retro-rocket '08 demo for the Tandy 102. If a sysop could give me permis…
· 6 posts · started 7 Jul 2008 - 20:46 · last 22 Jul 2008 - 00:34
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