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Hi! I've finally got round to having another go at my StyleWriter II. But there's a problem... Whenever I try to print, it says something like "The cartridge is…
After three months of work (averaging about four hours per day), I'm pleased to present Classic Mac Networking, version 3.0. It's been many hours of testing, wr…
Well, I seen an SE/30 baesd ethernet card on the ebay for moderate price. Not cheap, but definately not what they normally go for. somewhere in the middle. It w…
I think Monaco is one of the best, if not the best, programmer's (and general-purpose monospace) font ever. Many agree with me. But some don't. If you are one o…
Yesterday a Bondi was advertised for free... well sort of, because it was described as an Apple CRT display...and not working unit I already have one of those (…
Today I got a powerbook 170 and a 145b. According to the previous owner the 170 was the only one working. But apparently both are working, there's just a faulty…
Up until now, I don't know that I've ever actually SEEN a Mirrored Drive Door system in person - save maybe a glance in an Apple Store when I was vacationing el…
On the topic of Canadian Pride I'm calling it a Marsland machine. By accident I discovered this in my city while talking to the guy at the electronics shop. Wor…
Mainboard 1 - 47uf 33v - Radial 4 - 47uf 16v - SMT http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/EEE-1CA470WR/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtZ1n0r9vR22cS6GEbW2ftocdkiN2ijlcU%3d…
my buddy just dropped 1700 on this lisa, we are trying to determine if this is a Lisa II or Macintosh XL, or Macintosh Professional the PSU is bad. He wants to …
Hi Everyone, I picked up an Avid Meridien BOB today at my local university surplus. It was cheap enough and came with some useful cables so I thought I'd buy no…
Hi All- Just got a Macintosh IIsi with issues. It chimes, and then starts reading the hard drive and I can hear it make an error noise once it has finished load…
Hey, Got a couple of pizza box's here (a LC and Performa 450) that are giving me intermittent ram problems, the LC has oxidised contacts on the ram simm, and th…
AD has been discussed before but I'm curious if anyone has thought of extracting the resources and then reverse-engineering the behaviors of the originals.
My Dad picked up an SE when they were new. He used it for years, but when work went PC-only, the SE sort of slipped out of usage and at some point ended up in t…
A few days ago, Trash80 posted a photo of a T-handled Compact screwdriver which looked to be the same as the one Apple issued to the AASPs back in the 1980s. I …
Hi! I've been trying to decipher how the Mac interfaces with the Suprdrive floppy drive through the ISM part of the SWIM chip. I've almost got it, but I don't u…
So I received a LC475 from mcdermd early this year. When i got it, and opened it up, it gleamed and sparkled like stroll through bronners on the 4th of july (ht…
Today I received the Mac Plus from mcdermd (Thanks again!). Plugged everything in, got a "bing", short "whirr" from the floppy drive, screen came on, but never …
I'm trying to get my HP SureStore 5000 (SS5K) running with my Quadra 605. It's in an external SCSI box with 4 other devices. 1. Has anyone ever gotten the SureS…
Basics for first time cap job: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3932529 4.5" Mini-Diagonal Cutters Model: 6400061 | Catalog #: 64-061 $7.49…
Just thought I ought to share one of the personal favourites of my collection with you folks.... my SE Superdrive, which I've been playing with today. The old O…
Saw this auction listing . . . 1992 Classic Mac, Mac LC, Mac IIci/IIsi, Quadra, Powerbook (& more) Technical Reference, 2nd ed. Technical Introduction t…
Was looking for a 1400 for a long time. Found a local ad for a 1400 c /166, no PSU and nothing more than the Powerbook. A phone call later and the 1400 was mine…
So I made a swap today, and got a few as-is 600 series Thinkpads. The 600E is missing pretty much everything but the main chassis and the 600 isn't much better,…
Hello, I recently acquired an Apple dot matrix printer. I would like to know if these are rare or not. It is the last parallel printer Apple produced and it was…
. . . if they're the really the same, where did the other 63MB vacate its seat on the memory bus? :?: I'm wondering if the 1MB limit for Bank A might be the phy…
I want to try my hand at some conversions of a few contemporary (mostly freeware) 2D indie games for 68000/68020/entry level 68030 Macs. Some I've been thinking…
My Quadra 605 boots System 7.5.5 and 8.1. Went to make a 400k disk and found out while I can *READ* them I can not *CREATE* them (ie format them). I know I can …
Use this reg file for Office 2003 SP3: Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Security\FileOpenBlock]…
I spotted this auction on eBay and that made me remember my too soon ended love affair with one of my never thought I'd find it conquests, which I don't recall …
This came out of an SE/30 with no hard drive. I'm assuming the drivers are somewhere out there on the net? Also, wasn't there someone making the greyscale adapt…
Ok so I go online and lookup the sad Mac error code and it says 04 is a memory failure, 8 8 being the locations or what, and no breakdown of the DC. I put in Ma…
I've had an SE/30 for years and years that has never worked since the day I got it... I kinda stuffed it away hoping to one day get a second one in a functional…
I fired up the 512K for the first time in years and was confronted with this... from memory it actually rebooted and bonged into this screen spontaneously one d…
Hi everyone, Long time lurker but very short time poster! I have looked through the forums but haven't seen a question same as mine yet (if there is I am sorry …
Been thinking about hacking in a IIcx/IIci/Q700 speaker in place of the small round speaker in the IIfx. Anyone do it before? Sound quality is a little better w…
What is this file? That's a good question when it comes to these Apple II files which often have pretty cryptic names, such as "Mmgrdosinst." Earlier this month…
Finally trying to take some pictures and post what peeps have asked for. Here is the start. Now something is rattling in the crystal ecliptek box so I guess I w…
Finally got my first 'big' score, was watching ebay and a lot of 6 classic macs come up, put in a offer of £60 and was amazed it was excepted! Picked it up toda…
Hi, As I mentioned in my "latest..." thread, I got a G5 with a mangled foot. So I got a new case for it, but what if it doesn't work? I guess I'd like to know i…
First branch of the Dark Side of Macintosh hacking . . . { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error"…
Is anybody able to tell me what size torx bit the Compact case screws require? It's been a long long long time since I've worked on one and I cant even remember…
I'm in the process of moving and moving right now--came home from the south with a few things in June, then went back to get the rest this past weekend. I'll be…
A friend was watering her outdoor plants and forgot she'd brought out her Macbook Air and gave it a good watering. When she gave it to me as dead, the light on …
So I got a Centris 610 motherboard coming in the mail with a full 040 and a spare oscillator (for the proper speed) and I was thinking instead of mounting in a …
Not all dead. MOSTLY dead. Looking for a clue here ... I picked up a Quadra 950 last week and it game me half the chimes of death on the first boot. I removed f…
So I'm getting my Quadra 605 back running. Everything is ok EXCEPT for Ethernet. I have an LC III PDS Asante Ethernet card installed. Ran the latest Asante inst…
Hi all, I see there is an Apple II Archive available - does anyone know if an archive was made of the Mac round table? Cheers,