Quick question.... When I buy an alignment tool for the pots on my color classic, do they need to be plastic or some other non conductive material? I have seen …
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Ahh... well looks like a P400 snuck in there. figured i would stack up my LC-III collection while i was at it. These LC-III have my favorite vintage hard drive …
Hi everybody, after more than 20 years my classicII seems dead. But I hope it's something which I can repair, but I need a hint maybe: The symptoms are: During …
Scored this almost new box of powerPC upgrade. The box is distressed and has markers "$10.00" and "Do not open" plus some water stain. But inside is quite nice …
Hi.... My Color Classic has always had a perfect screen. No bleeding of colors, no off colors, just perfect in every way. While I was running it today, I reboot…
I am trying to create a LocalTalk to ethernet bridge (or something) with ethernet to my PM 7100 and localtalk to an SE. The end goal is to use the internet on t…
It seems that in most, if not all Color Classics I've seen, the display does not use the entire width and height of the CRT screen real estate, but leaves about…
$100 got me: SE/30 which still boots, but surely needs a re-cap G3 blue & white, with extra pci USB card and scsi card (bonus!) PowerMac 54300/120. Wish…
Hi folks... Many months ago, I stumbled across a web page that talked about how you can take your Color Classic case apart and soak in it in some solution. This…
Collected this morning for 10 euros, already have a pair, but this was a Firewire unit. Complete with charger, Mac Os 10.2.8, 192 Mb of Ram, unfortunately is th…
I recently picked up a few Macs from a recycling center. This is one of the ones I setup in my office. I needed a new hard drive and a good cleaning but other t…
Suggestions appreciated on how to fix... my first pad fail (yup I'm new at this recapping thing... good times) { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Ne…
I recently acquired a Macintosh Portable M5120. See my posting in Conquest: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/25152-macintosh-portable/ Now I'm startin…
I recently recapped an SE/30; all appears well except for one oddity. On a cold boot, no system is detected and the blinking question mark floppy is displayed. …
Just what the tin says, were there any full 68040 upgrades for Powerbooks besides popping a 550c processor into a 520/540?
Hello, I'm new to the forum and Macintosh. I recently bought a non working SE/30 on eBay that came with a nice surprise in the form of a (hopefully working) net…
I have an analog board that gradually brightens and darkens a CRT. It's cyclical and very regular. Any idea what might be causing it?
I setup a dual-boot machine in my 7100, because the most recent HD in it came with three partitions. 7.6.1 was installed on one and the other two were blank. I …
Folks.... I have wanted to buy the correct alignment tool for my Color Classic. But I can not figure out if it is a spade tip or maybe a six sided tool, nor the…
hello people Just had a bad experience on ebay with a French seller. won a color classic for 66 euro.....he did not ship it...after 4 days he replies with insul…
Hi folks... After I sold all my Macs but for my color classic, it seems hard to service it with out another working older Mac in the house. I had to sell all bu…
Recently purchased a Quadra 650(68040/33) and today I opened and discovered a mystery card in the PDS slot.The card is Formac ProQuadra 50 v1.8.Any idea what th…
What were the options for Referencing/Bibliographic Software in OS 7-9? Any idea what the pick of the litter would be?
*in alphabetic orderAbsynth 2 (Synthesizer) - Native InstrumentsSTATUS: AcquiredQuoteAbsyth itself is best described as a three-oscillator structure where each …
Hello, I just received my first powerbook, a 180c. The laptop itself seem to have survived the trip but not the power brick, no voltage on my multimeter. When I…
I am the proud possessor of half an Asante Maccon SE30i ethernet card. I have the main card, but I do not have the daughterboard. Is it, as I fear, utterly usel…
Hi, I bought a beige Power Mac G3 mini tower. It has a G4 400 Mhz processor installed instead of the original G3. The replacement is from a company called Metab…
---------- KEY: 1. Position 2. Printed Cap Value 3. Tested / Actual Value ---------- C2 100uf 6.3v 103.7 uf - 9.5 esr C3 100uf 6.3v 103.8 uf - 2.0 esr C4 47uf 1…
I tried running my nice new P637 MME (Money Magazine Edition), and it chimes and boots, but without any video. I wasn't aware that the Q/P63x needed a good PRAM…
I wanted to mess around with A/UX and the Quadra 650 was the cheapest '040 I could find. Came with a 320mb hard drive and nothing else, so I eventually pieced t…
So found this computer in the neighbors garbage today only thing missing is hdd. However when I plug it in and press power button I get nothing. This is my firs…
I got a dual 2ghz G5 machine here and two different video paths I could take. Anyways, one card is what I believe is the Nvidia 6800 Ultra (180-10220-0000-A05).…
Hi all, I just picked up a used TiBook 1GHz to relive my old OS9 glory days. The unit is fully functional and I loaded up OS9.2.2 and everything runs smoothly. …
After using the powerbook for awhile the fan kicks in full bore. This fan is as loud as MDD was. Is this normal or is the fan getting ready to fail? Anyway to q…
Not really related with Apple, but anyway, a couple of weeks ago i found a Kobo reader for cheap (10 €) and almost new (including the sceen cover) Was thinking …
So, I was thinking quite a bit about this. I have a 2009 MacBook Pro which I bought a couple of years ago to replace the TiBook and Quad G5 as my daily machines…
Hi... Is anyone running eudora (or other email software) and using it to send and receive email using gmail? I am running 7.5.3 and can upgrade to 7.5.5 if need…
I picked up a Color Classic off eBay last week, had to bypass a via and now it boots! The picture doesn't look very good though, just isn't that sharp and there…
Hello. I have an old computer game "The Lawnmower Man" produced in 1995. This is an edition 4 CD. I can not find information about the game, so I'm writing in t…
I was getting three black bars, so I thought I'd replace the caps on the motherboard, but now I'm getting vertical stripes (I also got this after cleaning, but…
Was this ever made for free along with the OSes? One of my buyers is Japanese and knows very little English, would like to help him out by locating the Japanese…
Hi folks... The analog board for my color classic came back after a recap, and I have re assembled my color classic. It appears to work just great. I am running…
Hi folks... I bought some software that came on two floppies. On one of the disks is a program called "ASDG Split and Join File Splitter". I suspect I load my t…
Hi... I am currently running a 7200 rpm 2.5" SCSI hard drive in my color classic. I have just bought this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-AztecMonster-CF-3-5inc-SCS…
HI... I have my Color Classic taken apart about as much as possible. I am getting my analog board back soon after having it re cap'ed. I see the alignment socke…
I just bought a brand new in box Performa 6116cd, it as $450 but it was so close to my first Mac I had to buy it. I opened it up and it didn't get video (needs …
I have a very nice PowerBook Duo 230, but it needs work. It has some leaky caps that need to be replaced. I have some soldering experience, but is there anythin…
I went to the wiki to look up the procedures to clean up a floppy drive, and I got this: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/www/vhos…
I got this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H3CRJNY) IDE > SD adapter. It recognizes through USB on Windows 7. It doesn't read at all from the 8.5 In…