Bought a Flower Power iMac G3 that turned out to have a G4 upgrade inside. It started out as a Snow G3 400 but over time has had many parts added/swapped out in…
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I picked up a Macintosh Classic knowing it was non functioning for a very nice price. It has horizontal lines across the screen on start up with no bong. When t…
There are a handful of us who like the G5, and want to keep the machines running. The rest of you can ignore this post! The following link could be of use to so…
I have a weird issue with my Powerbooks 160 and 165: I can't set the time and date anymore. As soon as I leave the date/time Control panel, the date/time immedi…
I was trying out different SCSI configurations for an external HD when I noticed my LC III started giving the chimes of death immediately after startup. I can't…
I'm trying to fix a 128k Analog Board and would like to know if I can test the diodes and resistors and capacitors without removing them from the board? i have …
Lately, amid hard disk trouble (spiceyokodo no comments), my Performa 475 has started to make a very strange noise. Normally, wether the hard disk is working or…
I just stripped down a powerbook duo 270c which has a busted screen. I have noticed that the few electrolytic SMD caps this board has, are starting to leak, lea…
Because of all this talk about disabling the onboard video, and just running the Greyscale out of the IIsi video card, into the CRT. This should mean that we co…
After a long journey, I've finally located the fabled Dr. Dobb's articles written by John Bass detailing his SCSI solution for the original Macintosh 128K &…
Hello all, This is a start to my acquisitions thread. I've snagged a few 'new' old Macs in the last few weeks, which I'll perhaps detail in subsequent posts. Ho…
Hi all I have bought a Mac Portable last week end. Since it was VERY dirty, I started disassembling it to wash the plastics. I used the Macintosh Portable servi…
The holy grail of SE/30 computing. What compact Mac user among us hasn't lusted after this elusive upgrade combo? I myself certainly have for years. Well, today…
I've got a pb100 with a screen that comes on, the backlight comes on, and it looks like all the pixels come on and stay black. Brightness and contrast knobs do …
Today I acquired this very special Lisa...uh ...Macintosh..uh... machine! It is Lisa modelnumber A6S0300P, so a Lisa XL. But the inside is totally rebuild. It h…
I received a Newton H1000 in a big Mac haul from last week. It boots, the screen is crisp/bright, and it is in fairly good cosmetic shape (I like the rubber tex…
Hello everybody! This is my first post, but I have been lurking for a few months now. It's good to finally join! I have been wanting to get back into the world …
I was wanting to get some Hitachi 658128ALFP-10 chips for a project, but I know next to nothing about the naming (I'm guessing that the 128 is the amount of mem…
remember that 145 of mine that had the wierd video port coming off the side? I could not test it because some wires were snapped, and the machine was busted. I …
I saw JT's mention of the need for this thread here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=163030#p163030 so I decided to start rolling that ball. I posted a…
Hi, I've just acquired a mac plus (nothing strange there) with an extremely strange external hardrive. It's a paradise scsi 20 mb external hardrive. It has two …
Hey guys. I have both these fine machines. The 180 got roughed up real bad in the move, and the case is coming apart at the seams. One of the feet broke, there …
I haven't posted a conquest in a long time, and recently I've gotten several. Seems like people tend to create an all-encompassing thread for their findings, so…
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Processors.html An excellent page on compatibility of G4 CPU modules between different models. From theos911's post …
Hey guys, My FDHD is going nuts. Scored it yesterday morning and.. on the first power up the screen was waving and I could hear some cracks coming from the insi…
I have been able to hack the built-in video driver of my PowerMac 8500 to support 1920x1080 and 1680x1050 LCD panels perfectly (been using 1920x1080 for over a …
I figured I would share this, Uniserver found the bad connection, and I looked at the couple CC boards I have here and one of them had the exact same issue. Ill…
I've tried to collect some prime examples of Mac Video Adapters and Adapter Cables along with the Documentation for them over the past 20 years or so. A questio…
Recently purchased a Mac IIsi with a Daystar Digital Turbo601(with the Mac IIsi adapter).I want to ask you guys if I can use the card to others Mac's such Quadr…
http://www.jagshouse.com/plusinternal.html I've been looking around and have not found much, Here is what i would like to accomplish: Install a Pie fan, Aiming …
Well I decided to fire up my Plus today to test a hard drive that I had. This plus was working about a week ago and from what I remember I thought the CRT was u…
Hello- I'm new to the forum and to 68k macs. I recently purchased a Mac Classic 4mb ram, 40mb HD and added a SCSI CD Rom Drive. Is it possible to burn a CD to b…
I recently dug out the ol' IIvx out of the crawlspace. I opened it up and quickly realized why it went in there in the first place. It has no hard drive, and th…
Anyone know why my Asante Maccon SE30 ethernet card is causing this striping to appear on the boot screen? (there's also the occasional weak interference to th…
At the request of many from this site here's the transparent prototypes hanging out...
I just picked up a macintosh LC III and it works ok, although the capacitors are failing. What i noticed, is everwhere i read the macintosh LCIII has a 25mhz 03…
I decided to spin this off from my other thread. There seems to be some interest in this, so i decided to move on with the project. Here is my progress so far: …
I was thinking about replacing the lithium PRAM battery in my 5300c, because it's dead. I also bought a replacement NiMH PRAM battery for my impending 3400c. I …
you can go around the board and replace all the 16v 47uf caps, and the 16v 10uf ones too, but if you don't remember to get the 3 big round 16v 470uf caps and th…
This is my first post so i like to say hello to all . Also i got a quadra 950 motherboard (just the motherboard nothing else). The proble is i like to get it ru…
I picked up a G3 All-in-one last year which is working quite well as a bridge machine. It already had a bunch of upgrades (RAM, HD, bootable DVD-ROM/CD-RW Drive…
I can't vouch for ALL the links from back in the day, but hopefully, some of them are still good. : For starters: here's the link to my Peripherals: LINKS Proje…
Many years ago I acquired a 540c and 520c in a single eBay auction. Both operate perfectly (the 520c screen was kind of janky), but the 540c's case was slightly…
The MR824 diode that is a recommended replacement for the GI854s used at CR1 and CR5 on compact Mac analog boards appears to be discontinued, does anyone here k…
Hi guys I'm finally starting my own "conquests" topic. I'll regularly update it, by posting one Mac after the other. And also try to keep the following posts sh…
I own a "former Macintosh XL". Just a case and monitor. I would like to restore it. Now it looks like mission impossible ...... but I just started. This week I …
I have had a nagging desire to get one of these machines for at least a year, and I finally decided to make it happen. The auction got out of hand in the final …
Hi all, I have an Apple III that has been sitting in my storage for a while. Now that I have space to put it on, I installed it and started playing with it. It …
In my Macintosh XL I found three cables. Two are for a disk, but not for a floppy drive. 26 holes in two rows of 13. Who knows what they are? And what is the wh…
As most of you would already know, the TAM has a special spot in my collection. It is the one computer that I would have to keep above all others. So I thought …