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I have an Apple III that doesn't seem to want to read any disks in the drive. I even tried to boot it up by loading ADTPro over serial, that seems to fail loadi…
Hi, I just received a boxed ThunderScan (the little device that turns an ImageWriter printer into a scanner) off ebay, but am having software issues. The 400k d…
I called my electronics surplus shop and was saddened to see that most of the systems I wanted were bought by someone else, however it gets better. These system…
Hi guys Here is an update to my software collection thus far. I have tried to make system images of most all disks, most of them were good and I was able to do …
Sometimes I do silly things, like buy items out of curiosity. Might be a could days before I get a change to play with this so I am wondering if anyone has any …
This morning, I went to church. I left with an Apple IIc Plus. One of the guys in the instrumental ensemble had one, and he said he would bring it in sometime. …
So with all of the work I have done with my Portable this year I have been back and forth from the local batteries Plus to get cells at least twice, but more ti…
Is the MASS Microsystems DriveLok a rebranded Syquest drive? just curious. I found drivers on my Q700 that I was getting ready to reformat. and I had to go look…
I recently acquired a very good condition (cosmetically) 1400c/166 from eBay, and have been playing with it a bit. The first thing I noticed was when I plugged …
Okay, with the glory of 1080p redigitized video I want to crack this nut once and for all. We know what just about everything is in the Jurassic Park control ro…
Hi guys, see video here: http://youtu.be/-edC0nMLB28 - any ideas what might be happening? The keyboard works fine when I boot from my ZIP drive so I'm certain t…
Looking for info - found this in my reorganizing the stash. Marked TV Tuner ASSY 0002-0516 ADB's / RCA's and a cable / coax Think it could be this: https://68km…
Hello, I recently bought an SE with 1 floppy slot and a HD fitted, when I powered it up all I get is a flashing ? icon. I've done some research on Mac sites who…
Got another call from my friend that deals in scrapmetal. big huge pile of all manners of PC stuff to go through for anything. grabbed my two car radiators and …
I'd been watching a post on Kijiji (sort of like Craigslist, but more polite since it's in Canada ) for a couple old Macs. The listing offered a Mac 'Classic', …
How possible is it to use a 2.5" SCSI drive from a PowerBook with the Portable? I have an adapter cable all wired up, the only thing I haven't figured out yet i…
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This posting just made me laugh. Can you image shelling out $100 for this? http://delaware.craigslist.org/sys/4724715664.html
Hi, I got a hd issue with my Mac SE/30. Previously, I had totally recapped it and I replaced UE8 chip to solve a weird screen issue. Suddenly I got the blinking…
Hello, let me introduce myself. I'm a retro computer collector from Finland. My collection consists mostly of 8 and 16 bit Commodores but I have also other make…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vista-V1200-6MB-Storage-Device-for-Apple-II-/201172658417 Hehehe. Looks like this company took 6 HD floppies and RAIDed them somehow for…
I've searched threads but still unclear if it is possible..I bought a MC68030RC33B processor chip. I have a SE/30 logic board with a socketed processor and I am…
Let me start this off with a rant: The only electronics recycling facility within close distance is overpriced, unorganized, dirty, smelly, and has downright ru…
A while ago(maybe a year ago) I was talking to a local book-store owner who was a former IT guy. We spoke about Zip drives(I bet a lot of people here remember t…
So I found an Apple Lisa in GA!!! It arrived today... Needs a good cleaning and some cap repairs and stuff... Widget is dead for sure.. I can hear a piece of me…
Craigslist- $30 I picked up: - 1 NEC CDROM - 2 x external scsi enclosures - 2 x Mac SE 800k with 20meg internal - 1 x Classic 2 - 1 Cx - 1 Ci - 1 IIgs - 3 Exten…
Hello Guys, I have a working Macintosh Plus, Classic ii, IMac G3, IMac G4 and Mac G4 towers. I also have 1.44mb and few 800k floppy disks.. The macintosh plus a…
So I pulled out the Duo 230 today to test it's operation, and it chimes, screen comes on, then the speaker starts squealing and it shuts down with the smell of …
I wonder who built these for Apple? Funny, I expected they would have a local talk interface, but apple went for the Centronics Dongle.
Okay I am now 3 for 3 on hard drive not working in my 700. Starting to lose my mind. First drive is a Hitatchi U320 146GB SCA-2 80pin drive with adapter system …
Hello all, I have a spare ADB lead which I cut off of an AppleDesign keyboard and an ADB port that I unsoldered from a scrap IIci 'board. I would like to attach…
Just as the title says. What's a reasonable price for a HyperDrive 20? Just wondering. I know some of you have gotten really lucky with some $50 machines. Thank…
Had a great liberation today- two conquests in one day! I've been watching these two postings on Craigslist for a while, and they hung around... so I finally ha…
Well, someone I purchased another item from sent me an Apple II GS Woz edition for the price of shipping. I don't know much about it yet and haven't hooked it u…
Figure I may as well start one of these threads! For today: Mac parallel adapter for 128/512 & Plus Macs! Called a Mac Port Adapter. Plug and play, no s…
Long story short, I'm getting the following via a trade on AppleFritter for my original Rev 0 Apple II board: Mint NeXTCube system, fully working IIfx (128 MB R…
Was thinking people could post links or pictures of conquests they didn't personally get, but wish they had. Lament of a lost opportunity and congrats to whomev…
I have a Mac Plus -- I have 3 working/booting floppies, one disk tools disk, one pre-6 disc & macpascal disk with system 5.. I have additionally a 30Mb …
There's a really irritating problem with floppies used on my 1400cs. Whenever I use a floppy on the 1400cs, that floppy refuses to work with my USB floppy drive…
I never head or saw this one. When you press "option" then the Apple Menu, you get "About the Finder..." instead of About this Macintosh... That itself is nothi…
As reported over on Conquests, I just have acquired my oldest Macintosh yet, a nice-looking Plus. Having (ahem) a plethora of peripherals in the perimeter of th…
I acquired an 8500/120 with 160MB RAM on my last conquest. Its not a bad machine but what is up with the plastic on this thing? Normally the BFRs seem to be UV …
I recently purchased a serial trackball which reportedly works on a compact Mac. Took it out of the box and the trackball has a 9-pin female connector, not male…
Just need clarification on this. Searching brought up some fuzzy results. I have an Imagewriter I that I am trying to test drive. It came with a IIc, so the cab…
I'm looking to sell my mac plus, color classic, and SE. title pretty much says it all, what is the safest way to ship these units and have them arrive intact? I…
I recently bought a Power Mac G3 Blue and White. It was no os on the hdd so I wounder if I could copy the files for os 9 to a usb key in windows,if i can this, …
All: I started a discussion on de-yellowing compact Mac plastics in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8794 which was about my adventures in reviving and …
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Whats up Ableton lovers;) quick topic for today..i have the Edirol PCR-30 midi keyboard which i happen to like..;0today im using it with ableton live.. and just…