Hi, I have a problem with a PowerBook G4 17" 1.67Ghz A1107. Was working fine apart some graphic problems sometime when opening the screen after sleep, would sho…
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Anyone know much about this? All I can find is that it apparently connected to an external 5.25" drive and could be used to transfer data off of 360K PC disks w…
Well, I just picked up a G3 L2 on ebay, I stuck it in my TAM, downloaded the 2.0.5 driver from the newer technologies website which still has the drivers listed…
My much loved 180 has succumb to tunnel vision and is now used with an external display. Still wanting to take a 1xx around with me, I was given a very nice 180…
I am struggling with my recently purchased PowerBook 540c. It had 7.5.3 on it with all the files and programs of a former user. I have done a fresh install of M…
Quick question pertaining to AGP Powermac towers... Was the ability to use a keyboard power key removed from Mac towers when they started shipping with Pro Keyb…
I recently won an eBay auction for a Powerbook 520, where the seller did not include the AC adapter. I did a little searching online, and found a company that c…
I am not a Mac person and this is probably super easy but I must have installed something and now my TAM boots to a gray screen that I can't get out of without …
I just got a PowerMac G4 Sawtooth (more on that here) that had an install of 10.4 Tiger along with Mac OS 9.0.4. I wanted to update the Mac OS 9 install to 9.2.…
This may have been posted in the past, But I had just stumbled across this: http://www.dasarodesigns.com/schematics-and-resources/?drawer=files*Apple the 800K f…
Hello everyone, I wanted to share with you a couple of things I got today ! The guy brought in 6 massive cardboard boxes, 300 miles from where I live (Bordeaux …
So, my latest conquest has still not successfully run under it's own steam yet and I am beat as to why. It will chime, and will power up the monitor (I have tri…
So, I just decided to consolidate my various stuff and things into a single thread on another forum yesterday so figured I may as well do the same here. Some of…
Earlier this year I raided a co-worker's Apple collection and bought his PowerBook 100 off of him. Unfortunately, his did not have a battery, or even a cover. I…
Hey, You guys may know whats wrong. 2 of my macs (Macintosh plus and Macinotsh Classic II) have an issue saving changes to the sound and mouse settings. the ma…
I have a lot of PC133 RAM laying around from various PCs I've parted out. I thought I would use it to bring my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth up to 1GB from 640MB. So, I…
I thought this was an interesting discovery, so I figured some of you folks might like to know. For ages I've used SCSI-IDE and SCSI-IDE-SATA adapters on variou…
A local guy I know ends up with old machines that people drop off. I went to pick up an old Compaq 486 tower and he had some iMac G5's. So I said what the hell …
Hi, m68k users! I've been using bbraun's djMEMC fix in the NetBSD kernel to support 260 megs in a Quadra 610. However, sometime between last summer and now I've…
Just found this on ebay and ordered one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Macintosh-Color-Classic-MYSTIC-LC-575-Logic-Board-COVER-Custom-Made-Apple-/331698918549?hash=…
I boughta pair of Atto SEIV on ebay about half a month ago. My first goal was to get one of those "monsters" to work with my mac IIci which boots mac OS 8.1 (mo…
I have a problem with a 400k external Apple drive. I can put a disk in and gently push it down to seat properly (drive obviously needs a clean), the drive will …
A friend gave this to me, he found it in a stash of scrap boards Do you know what this card is/does? Thanks!
I bought a PowerBook 540c on eBay, because I wanted a 68k laptop. When it arrived, I discovered it had been upgraded to PowerPC. I have two questions: 1. Would …
I recently acquired (for a good price) a Mac Plus, that looks like it hasn't been touched for a while. When I went to power it up, I noticed that the CRT was di…
I recently took my Mac Classic II out of storage, it had been at the top of my garage for the past 10+ years. It gets pretty hot up there and as a result my bat…
I have a Macintosh 512K (M0001W) which has been sitting in storage for the last 15 years. When I last used it, I remember it working fine however when I powered…
Hello, Apologies if this post is in the wrong place; I looked around several of the boards but didn't see any hard drive discussion in Peripherals. Links to oth…
These interfaces were created between 1990-1999 and are only usable by those who have a mac with a serial port. they came built in on older beige colored g3 or …
I won this one at my local surplus auction. I discovered this gem amongst a bunch of 1,1 Mac Pros and G5s. I think whatever company that surplussed it accidenta…
I was working on my LC III (again) and tinkering with the two external hard drives I acquired some time ago. It turned out that one of them had a functional har…
All, I have the somewhat famous/somewhat obscure issue with the blank page(s) printing from the cassette. One page will print, the page will be blank, and no fu…
Much like LazarusNine, I had my own disaster. Two issues: 1. Had my iron set for 650F and was using some solder tweezers (Hakko FX-8804-02) thinking it would be…
I'm hoping for some SE/30 expertise. I installed a 32-bit, third-party ROM into my SE/30. The system powered on and I heard the chime, but it was very staticky.…
I've just had my last intact 65w G4-era AC adapter lose one of its cable-winding wings to a slight bit of jostling in my bag, joining several others I've had wi…
I found a 250MB Avatar Shark drive, along with 4 disks. It has the PC Parallel Port cable. It also says on the box that SCSI interface cables for Macintosh comp…
So I got a hold of a few 280 motherboards from someone local, 1 powered on 2 didn't even after huge cleaning and recap, Have a 270 that has flaky video but will…
Hi everyone. Been reading this forum for years. So I have a old, lovable G4 12" Powerbook that I think has a dead HD. Ok, no issue right? A 2008 iMac I found in…
Hey guys, So I am relatively new to the board, mostly because my long standing Apple/Mac interest has exploded into a recent rash of acquiring vintage macs (muc…
Hey there, guys! I recently acquired a very clean looking Powerbook 180 (and an Apple branded leather carrying case made for it that I have never seen before). …
Hi folks I managed to resurrect another trash-saved Mac which was sitting around here. Before, at the first try (probably after ~10 years without being in use),…
Is anyone else having trouble getting to the page? I just get redirected to the generic support page. I also found this article http://support.apple.com/kb/TA48…
Hi there. Was wondering if anyone has heard of Macintosh speakers going bad. I have a G3 desktop Macintosh with the oblong speaker in that beige casing. Anyways…
I have an extra 3400c case that I had in the back of my mind wondered what to do with. A friend just pointed this out: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboa…
OK. Got a nice looking Pismo out of the ‘Bay. All is good and it functions just fine except - 1. It will NOT start up from any CD or DVD with an OS on it (it wi…
Anyone know what this is?? I have never seen a drive formatted like this before... Is this to use the "040 Fast Cache" option?? Over the years I never enabled o…
As a result of the feedback I got from the topic at https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/26059-lc-iii-external-hard-drive/I was able to obtain an external…
A few days ago I was doing a random search on Craigslist for computers that cost $30 or less. One of the results was an Acer Chromebook that had a damaged Chrom…
Hi, I recently bought a Quadra 950 and have been having some problems with it. It doesn't seem like there are a lot of these, and thusly not much information on…
I did my first re-cap yesterday on my SE/30. I'm glad to say it went well. I wasn't getting any sound before, now I get clear and loud sound through the headpho…