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I apologise if this is in the wrong subforum but I couldn't find a better one to post it in. Is ADB hotswappable for keyboards and mice? It's just I have someth…
I have made available to everyone a replacement gear for 400k/800k (internal or external) floppy drives. this is to replace the tiny (smallest) gear of the ejec…
I have a Beige Macintosh Plus, likely converted from a 128k/512k, and it has been working fine for the past several months. Just today, however, I was using Mac…
Sorry... I have to be a tool like everyone else. (Follow-up... sorry everyone else). As I was careening through the streets this morning in a rented convertible…
I just acquired a mint condition Classic II. It was described that it shows only checkerboard pattern. When I got it, it powered on and it showed checkerboard w…
This seems to be my week for fishing crap out of the basement... I uncovered a stack of PB 1xx's I had sitting in the basement, got the whole stack off ebay 15-…
Not the car unfortunately, just one of those Lacie external drives designed by Porsche: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous…
Hi all, I found a CL ad for "4 Apple towers and 3 Apple monitors." Three of the computers were G5s, and one a Sawtooth. There was a 22" acrylic Cinema display, …
I posted this at the end of another thread ... which maybe wasn't quite the right place, so apologies but I'd be interested to know any info on this. A recapped…
Hi. A few months ago I repaired Mac Classic. Today I have a SE model. Now I have a problem with PRAM. I installed a new Lithium battery, but mac still can't sav…
Found both of these at my local recycler on my way home. Both are brand new, still shrink wrapped. A Pivot Interface Card, and more interestingly, a PowerView. …
Hi everyone I'm new here! I'm 17 years old, from Switzerland and have been saving old macs from recycling since 2009... I've got a "Mutant Mac", a 4400/200, wit…
I got a Color Classic today that wouldn't power on. I fixed the mother board; then I got a reddish hue issue that went away with adjusting the internal controls…
Are the expansion interfaces on the Macintosh Classic and Macintosh Classic II physically the same, and by this I mean same number of pins, same spacing, same s…
Hi i like to know if possible to connect an internal macintosh 3.5 superdrive to the apple IIgs. Also if this is possible if somebody have a guide or pinouts to…
I've got a Mac Plus I'm trying to get working with a SCSI2SD card. Card seems to work, I just can't get the Mac to boot from it. The original external APS 120MB…
Hi guys! I posted in a vintage subreddit a few months ago about a Mac I got my hands on for cheap at a flea market, and was told to refer to y'all for more info…
I detached/pulled off the suction cup on the flyback transformer from the CRT tube on my Macintosh Plus to do some work on the motherboard. As I did that the pi…
I have been given 3 Fujitsu Hard Drives (50 pin ones) and i have had no chance with either. Only one of them has what looks like a resistor pack (in a socket) W…
hey guys merry xmas + happy holidays so i ahve a chance to get a dead powerbook 170 and im curious if anyone knows what the common symptom would be for one that…
Dear forum members, I'm going to recap a Macintosh SE Power Supply (made by Sony). The original capacitors are made by Rubycon, but I can't find any info on the…
Related question: is it possible to jury rig an external 3.5" floppy's internal cable into a Disk II controller board (is that what it's called?)? I haven't che…
It was a Craigslist find at $20. Came with everything but the box. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "light…
i had some spare led strip lying around was going to chuck it out but i thought it wouldnbe cool if the floppy hole was to be lit up by some led. result is belo…
Purchased a PowerBook 160 off of eBay of unknown condition as a project piece, and also because I wanted a grayscale PB. The unit did not come with a power bric…
My G4 Sawtooth came with an ATI Radeon 7500 in it. After updating to 9.2.1 from 9.1, the machine freezes at the desktop unless I disable all ATI extensions. I n…
Bought an powermac g4 sawtooth , my first vintage mac ever,for about 10 dollars . It's an old 400 megahertz model . I have already upgraded it with 1 gb of sdra…
Because I had to remove the internal 400k drive, I am using a 128k Mac with an external drive with the original system disk that came with the machine. When I g…
So I've been trying to figure this one out for a few days… I have a Power Mac G4 (Mirror Drive Doors), which doesn't have an NMI button ("Programmer's Button" o…
128k Mac with mods (512K + SCSI?)--can't remove motherboard due to add-on circuit board interference
I have a 128K Macintosh that I have had since new. Some time in the late 1980s I had it modified--added RAM (expanded to 512K ?) and added SCSI--I think. I have…
Hello all, Love my 68K macs. My fav is my upgraded LC 575. I have been trying to find a 68K mac with a PDS slot AND NUBUS slots. Does this exsist??? Seams to be…
Can anyone verify that this is an OK thing to do? Just got a 512k working for the first time and would like to network it.
Hi I'm more of an SE/30 & Portable kind of guy but I also own a Mac Plus. The poor thing is sitting on a shelf because I can't thing of anything to do w…
In the early-mid 90s, my friend had a game probably on his LC III that mostly consisted of minigames, one of which was just watching a TV screen with an infinit…
I've been wanting one of these for ages. It's not the 8000 model, but it's complete with the box, manuals, and disk, and I got it for (what I think) is a fair p…
So, I walked into my local thrift store last Saturday, and I spotted it from 50 feet away - a 17" Apple Studio Display... one of the clear plastic LCD models wi…
Hi, I have a problem : i tru to connect a "DOS" Macintosh to the Net, and i have problem to do that. It's a Power Macintosh 6100 under Mac OS 8.6, with Ethernet…
Found a decent deal on a tibook 550 G4 I could not pass up. Needed a RAM upgrade and a HD (luckily they left the HD cable installed and all I needed was 4 screw…
So the owner of the local computer store has been servicing Apple products since the late 70s and his showroom is an impressive collection of vintage Apple prod…
Hi, I've always had a love for Palm Pilots (I used a Palm V for years for work, and I still miss it); I'd like to pick up the last Palm Pilot that came with a s…
I just acquired 30 PowerBook Duo series machines, but only have 1 Duo Power supply. I know a lot of the power supplies should interchange, but I wanted to confi…
This is probably of interest to about two people here, including me, but anyway. You know those cheap roll-up USB keyboards and drumpads you see around the plac…
I have an Apple Personal Modem (A9M0334), and have tried to connect it to my Macintosh Plus as well as my Apple //e. The //e doesn't have any modem software, bu…
I found some lots of chips on ebay used on 4MB 64 pin SIMMs, M5M44100BJ. I'm going to do a circuit board layout and will have a few SIMMs made at a local PCB sh…
I got a mint working A1138 Powerbook G4 with the higher resolution screen. The unit works fine with OSX 10.4.11 that's installed on it, but I want to wipe it. A…
So I went for a walk in the woods yesterday and I came across a dump site. There was a giant Intergraph monitor that caught my eye and caused me to investigate …
So I recently re-capped my SE/30 analog board, but the focus control isn't working. Cutoff does work just fine. I have searched the forums and TomLee and trag m…
I recently came into possession of a 512k Mac. I was really excited because it has the RAM upgrade and a SCSI controller card soldered straight to the CPU! But …
I purchased 8x 2MB RAM chips for my Mac IIx from WeLoveMacs and no matter what combination I try, I can't get any of the chips to register. Essentially, any com…