Ok. I bought a replacement bulb for the power button of my Lisa. (type 87 T1 3/4) I worked the complete power button out to make it easier to remove the light b…
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I recently collected and assembled all the parts needed for an LC III, which I put together yesterday. This included the hard drive, a Quantum ProDrive ELS with…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
I have a Mac LC III, an AppleCD 600e, and a System 7.5.3 CD When I boot the Mac holding down Command-Option-Shift-Delete, I just get a flashing "?" floppy icon.…
Yesterday i collected a french mobile phone. This, issued in 1993, was related with Apple, and mainly to the Powerbook range. The Bi-bop was a failure, and the …
Spotted this on ebay. Apparently they have a special lubricant for reducing friction in low power floppy drives. Ahhhhh marketing.
I've seen plenty of threads over the years about various web resources and sites disappearing. People put up mirrors, but sometimes those disappear, too. I deci…
To any of you with a SCSI2SD adapter: I recently purchased and received a SCSI2SD, and it works wonderfully. However, I was compelled to use a modified Apple HD…
Can somebody advise where the + side of the C8 capacitor is connected on a CC LB ? The pad is really bad and i will like to run a clean wire.
I have been given this CD, probably included with a monitor. Tons of pictures and screen savers.
Hi guys I was hoping someone could help ID a few motherboards, these are two separate boards I am looking at and I want to make sure they are Apple II and not A…
Just added this to my collection Macintosh LC 520 The 68030 is too slow to play Doom but it does run Master of Orion well enough.
Now that I got my SE\30, Classic II and Mac Plus working, it is time for some preventative measures. Where can one get analog parts for the usual suspects? I'm …
I won't ask where to find it for obvious reasons but from what I have seen so far, versions of 7.0.1 and 6.0.8 are only available in high density 1.44mb disk im…
Was anyone else aware of this? I just discovered it this evening. I searched for a Sheepshaver port and found a few people who'd said they'd failed. I'm using a…
As the title suggests, I am jonesing for some info regarding the use of modernish TFT displays on pre-PPC Macs, as I have a couple of VGA adaptors and limited s…
Yesterday i spotted an LC III for sale, was only 10 euros, but advised only for spares. Already have one of those, but too cheap not to call the owner. The LC w…
Is it a conquest if you uncover something in your own storage space? I have a workshop in my garage that's been home to my Apple/Mac accumulation for over 10 ye…
Hello all, This is an update on recent events. A few days ago the MLA's database was corrupted due to a non-graceful shutdown at the hosting provider. I restore…
I need a little help [:I] ]'> I do not want to hurt the plastic, I just want to open generic enclosure. I pressed the button as seen on picture but it wo…
I've seen many LC Cards with FPUs like Ethernet w/FPU and so - again, for the LC Series Macs. But is there one for the Classic II? I remember a big expansion sl…
The 68000 on one of my Mac 512k's seems to have had three pins connected to something at one point. Curious if folks can guess what device/upgrade might have or…
Im trying to make a somewhat comprehensive list of compact Macs and the many, many variations. I noticed that the Plus normally carries the model M0001A. But I …
I like my 512K a lot… it’s a pretty nice little machine that I got locally. The story is somewhere in the Conquests forum. It had it’s issues, but after getting…
Can I make my Macintosh Plus play "Chariots of Fire" like the original Macintosh did in the 1984 Macintosh Introduction? Was it really the Macintosh itself that…
I started building an order at Mouser so I can recap my SE/30 A/B I have the list that I found here Macintosh SE Analog Board I found all these - 1x 3.9uf, 100v…
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12228/mac-plus-modern-web/ Loving using a Raspberry Pi to and some software trickery to str…
I scored an SE with a dead power supply for $20 bucks. I figured I could pull the floppy out of it and put it in my Mac Plus that needs one. However, when I pow…
So, I upgraded the ram in my recently acquired SE/30 to 32 mb . . . and it is only reporting 28 mb. I take it the likely cause is a bad SIMM, but I don't have a…
I've got a color classic with a 575 board in it and haven't done the video mod (no 640x480 yet). Since I have a comm slot ethernet board, it occurred to me to t…
Hi, I've bought a Quadra 840AV from eBay, which is in a really good shape. Unfortunately the caddy for the CD-ROM is missing. There are several caddys available…
I'm trying to play Loderunner and King of Chicago but neither will work. Are there any settings I can try to get them or any older game working? Thanks!
I had one of my blog readers throw me an email saying he had a few vintage Macs that I could have for free. I offered to pay postage, but he wouldn't hear of it…
I just picked up an SE/30 and it came with a mystery expansion card . . . it is marked with MoDAM SE030 Rev C 1989 Memory Plus, and has a DB 9 port. Anyone have…
Hi all, I have been trying to track down the early bouncing ball demo that used to be used to show of the mac at computer shows etc. I used to have a copy years…
I picked up a Visioneer PaperPort at a local electronics shop - just the scanner, no power supply and no software. I'm currently using a Canon power supply (20v…
Awesome, with the help of all the useful information, I contacted trag and ordered some caps for se/30 and CC. Here are some pictures of my first attempt.. all …
Hi, I recently bought a Quadra950 with got four of those memory chips. Installed, all it gives me is a strange start sound and then nothing happens. If I take t…
I have a Hitachi/IBM Ultrastor 10K 73GB drive in my Color Classic, but it's kind of noisy (whines). I have half a dozen of these things, but they are all like t…
Hi. I am posting here because of the fact that i actually have no idea of other places on the internet to post this. Altough it should be easy for others to ans…
Quote from: DieHard on March 01, 2018, 07:03:08 PMI kinda crackup when I see things like "read 6000" Read 6000? What does that mean?Man, I threw Unisyn out the …
In another thread, I made a comment about an eBay auction I couldn't let go. Below is a picture of the memory that was part of the lot. I don't know what they a…