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Hi. I have a PowerBook Duo 230 with problem. When I tired to turn it on, I see on screen a floppy disk icon with symbol "?" What I need to do ? I attached file …
· 8 posts · started 18 Jun 2015 - 16:37 · last 19 Jun 2015 - 01:10
So, I am thinking of getting a PowerBook 1400cs/166 off eBay to run Mac OS 7.5/7.6 (I'll probably use 7.6 since it's better on PPC) really fast. But, everymac.c…
· 44 posts · started 7 May 2015 - 21:08 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 21:09
I have a performa plus display 14" monitor connected to both a centris 610 and a performa 6112. On both systems the screen is offset and has about 1 inch of bla…
· 5 posts · started 17 Jun 2015 - 13:56 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 20:02
Let me give minor context. I was looking, out of curiosity, for memory. 32mb simms are $6 a piece, so it'd be $24 to upgrade it from 48mb* to 136mb of RAM. Then…
· 10 posts · started 17 Jun 2015 - 23:39 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 19:54
How can you tell a PowerBook 140 from the PowerBook 170s/etc. by looking at it (excluding the badge.) Did they use different cases? So far I've been telling 140…
· 29 posts · started 15 Jun 2015 - 08:06 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 19:17
I read that the original CC/Performa 250 ran from January '93-May '94 and the CCII/Performa 275 ran from October '93 to November '95 (!) but I haven't seen anyt…
· 9 posts · started 11 Jun 2015 - 15:03 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 18:25
Hello everyone! This is my first post. When I try to run HyperCard 1.1 on my Macintosh Iici with System Software 6.0.7 it freezes up. The System Software Readme…
· 2 posts · started 18 Jun 2015 - 15:39 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 16:34
Was in the process swapping the 1440x900 screen form a PBG4 17" with a 1680x1050 screen from PBG4 17" HR wreck , all went fine … but i noticed some yellow tint …
· 8 posts · started 17 Jun 2015 - 20:35 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 01:03
https://www.ricardo.ch/kaufen/computer-und-netzwerk/apple/sonstige-apple-mac-s/apple-network-server-500/v/an763179986/ It was going to happen sooner or later. T…
· 15 posts · started 10 Jun 2015 - 20:27 · last 17 Jun 2015 - 22:16
Is there an extension or utility to improve the Special->Clean Up command under system 6? Specifically, I'm looking for something which correctly spaces …
· 1 posts · started 17 Jun 2015 - 20:33 · last 17 Jun 2015 - 20:33
I have an apple M2943 15" multisync monitor that needs a new flyback transformer, as it makes loud zaps and pops every 3-4 seconds in between showing a great lo…
· 8 posts · started 12 Jun 2015 - 15:44 · last 17 Jun 2015 - 01:21
So after a few days of installing OS 7.1 on a few Mac SE's and loading them up with my favorite games, including but not limited to: Dark Castle (one of the rea…
· 18 posts · started 13 Jun 2015 - 03:33 · last 16 Jun 2015 - 19:19
Galgot gave me a Powerbook 5300 as a trade. As i said to him, already have one, but the 5300 has always been special to me... Anyway, the Pbook was really fine …
· 14 posts · started 12 Jun 2015 - 11:48 · last 16 Jun 2015 - 08:33
I just got one off eBay and hopefully will soon be getting a 'free' dongle, because for the moment I can only key it up on my 120. I did just take a sec to look…
· 5 posts · started 13 Jun 2015 - 23:26 · last 16 Jun 2015 - 04:05
Since I have seen a few threads on rebuilding lithium "smart batteries", I figured I would post some relevant information if you ever want to rebuild one and ac…
· 1 posts · started 15 Jun 2015 - 23:55 · last 15 Jun 2015 - 23:55
But I couldn't pass these up for $25. I did pass on a MDD 1.42GHz and a 450MHz Sawtooth (lady wanted another $40 for those...meh.) This is my first conquest in …
· 26 posts · started 29 May 2015 - 17:57 · last 15 Jun 2015 - 21:17
Some of the fresh floppy diskettes I have come up with a 'PC' icon on them. Is that a different format from the regular DOS format? I just blew through about 6-…
· 12 posts · started 11 Jun 2015 - 13:41 · last 15 Jun 2015 - 05:32
This prototype design was out in January 2015 but I just saw it for the first time. I want one! Did they (whoever might make them) ever produce them or are ther…
· 19 posts · started 10 Jun 2015 - 00:21 · last 14 Jun 2015 - 20:57
Was looking over the dead LC III 25MHz, and saw an empty capacitor spot (C17). So I thought, "did I forget to put a cap there during recap?" I checked it with t…
· 4 posts · started 11 Jun 2015 - 04:52 · last 14 Jun 2015 - 15:59
Hi, I've got a Asanté EN/SC-10T from an old network stuff lot, but have problem making it work with a MacClassic. That is, I do as the Asanté setup guide says :…
· 4 posts · started 1 Jun 2015 - 08:48 · last 14 Jun 2015 - 13:48
It's not mine; it's one on eBay. What does that mean if anything? My memory is it 'chimes' or beeps once and then the cursor (or apple-pong thing) going back an…
· 9 posts · started 10 Jun 2015 - 18:55 · last 14 Jun 2015 - 01:18
The Mac market in Pittsburgh has been sort of dry lately on Craigslist. There's your occasional overpriced Mac or two, but nothing too big in terms of older stu…
· 4 posts · started 13 Jun 2015 - 07:11 · last 13 Jun 2015 - 20:57
It's Alive! Well, not exactly, but it was successful. Washed the board, dried it with my heated air pencil, and did each capacitor one at a time. GOD WHAT A HEA…
· 5 posts · started 11 Jun 2015 - 22:54 · last 13 Jun 2015 - 16:04
Does anyone know where I can get these? Or are they not even needed? I'm running a SE/30 machine with System 7.5.5. To be perfectly honest I haven't tested yet.…
· 7 posts · started 14 Oct 2014 - 13:02 · last 13 Jun 2015 - 13:28
Just finished a recap on the other Mac IIsi I have. Almost there but not quite. Power supply turned on and clicked for a while. Eventually the PSU got it little…
· 5 posts · started 12 Jun 2015 - 20:32 · last 13 Jun 2015 - 00:17
I have my Basilisk II setup running System 7.5.3 and I want to update it to 7.6.x. But DiskCopy seems to have gone on strike. Every version I've tried gives me …
· 21 posts · started 10 Jun 2015 - 05:42 · last 12 Jun 2015 - 11:52
Well, I feel like a complete idiot. I just bought a Mac Portable and can't even figure out how to turn the thing on. There is no power button from what I can te…
· 10 posts · started 11 Jun 2015 - 18:20 · last 12 Jun 2015 - 06:03
Hello, I recently got my first bunch of 68000 based macs. Most of them have not so big problems. But the Macintosh Classic had it's battery leaked all over the …
· 16 posts · started 15 Apr 2015 - 11:14 · last 11 Jun 2015 - 12:19
Hello from sunny Ireland.......that's right the sun is actually out today - With the need to remove all the drives from my machines I decided to take down most …
· 11 posts · started 9 Jun 2015 - 19:06 · last 10 Jun 2015 - 23:51
I was hoping to be able to use my SE/30 as a stepping stone to get software for my Apple IIc, but I seem to have run into a compatibility problem. I'm using DS/…
· 15 posts · started 9 Jun 2015 - 15:32 · last 10 Jun 2015 - 18:32
So I finally got around to finishing the build on my SE/30. It was a Cragislister that I got about 10 years ago for $30 and had it at work for fun. Slowly the s…
· 13 posts · started 8 Jun 2015 - 23:07 · last 10 Jun 2015 - 01:48
Does anyone knows if a Lisa used to have rubber feet? When I take a close look at the bottom I see some rubber rests. But I cannot find one picture how the orig…
· 3 posts · started 8 Jun 2015 - 20:38 · last 9 Jun 2015 - 06:20
Hello, I have an issue with an Apple IIgs. The text is kind of doubled in Text mode. When I boot a system disk, in graphic mode, everything is fine. I have some…
· 37 posts · started 25 May 2015 - 02:42 · last 8 Jun 2015 - 20:03
I hope this is within the rules of the forum to ask for, but I'm after the original install disks for the Portable. Does anyone have spare copies or able to sen…
· 21 posts · started 11 Apr 2015 - 13:12 · last 8 Jun 2015 - 11:59
Hallo everybody! I don't think these will excite anybody as much as the likes of hap's collection or, indeed, anyone else's; but I am pretty excited with what I…
· 7 posts · started 1 Jun 2015 - 18:13 · last 8 Jun 2015 - 07:50
It spins. Break is releasing. But the head is banging to the end and back. Who knows what is wrong and can it be fixed? See video: https://youtu.be/9AeJhvfTuhw …
· 4 posts · started 7 Jun 2015 - 23:29 · last 8 Jun 2015 - 03:08
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How we doing people Spent yesterday galavanting all over the country ... did 300 miles - and it resulted in the following finds - a mac classic 2 and Toshiba la…
· 119 posts · started 18 May 2015 - 18:18 · last 7 Jun 2015 - 22:31
A powerbook just arrived via USPS, purchased on eBay 4 days ago for 25 bucks with... Free Shipping! It was a little banged up. I think that it survived shipping…
· 5 posts · started 7 Jun 2015 - 05:31 · last 7 Jun 2015 - 21:24
So I got this Aluminium PowerBook G4 (A1106). I replaced the hard drive, and afterwards it turned on but displayed the folder with a question mark/Finder logo. …
· 13 posts · started 5 Jun 2015 - 22:40 · last 7 Jun 2015 - 03:15

Source Mac OS 9 Lives

After the success on Mac Os 9 boot on the unsupported MDD FW800:http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=762.msg4520#msg4520This thead is open to discuss …
· 10 posts · started 13 Jun 2014 - 08:11 · last 18 Jun 2015 - 16:09
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