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The copy on all the Mac Driver Museum mirrors is corrupted. Hoping someone here might have it. Also, is the only the only difference between the 17 and the 20 t…
· 38 posts · started 28 Nov 2014 - 18:28 · last 17 Mar 2015 - 08:37
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…
· 16 posts · started 12 Feb 2015 - 01:44 · last 17 Mar 2015 - 07:11
So a week or so ago, I serviced the LCS of my Quad G5, draining, cleaning, etc. All that is something of a story in itself, but I wanted to report here that the…
· 4 posts · started 17 Mar 2015 - 00:58 · last 17 Mar 2015 - 05:00
1) This isn't about Einstein... 2) Does anyone have any thoughts on possible compatibility of any ARM-based smartphone and NewtonOS? - That's it. I don't really…
· 25 posts · started 10 Mar 2015 - 03:20 · last 16 Mar 2015 - 21:50
Well its about time I start on this one. I have a dual floppy TEMPEST SE. The fact that its dual floppy seems rather odd to me. While I may be able to add a har…
· 25 posts · started 19 Feb 2015 - 02:24 · last 16 Mar 2015 - 18:57
Hello all, I recently picked up a Mac IIx with an EtherPort II card, and I can't seem to get ethernet up and running on it. I've tried various things, including…
· 6 posts · started 6 Mar 2015 - 23:14 · last 16 Mar 2015 - 15:38
All.... Just an FYI... Ebay item: 291389918191... for those of you who want to populate those remaining IC spots on your RAM cards for the portables... This is …
· 12 posts · started 12 Mar 2015 - 19:34 · last 16 Mar 2015 - 02:26
Does anyone have a good backup of the Blackhawk ADB drivers? The only download I can find for them are from the MacintoshGarden site and the second disk comes u…
· 5 posts · started 10 Mar 2015 - 19:07 · last 15 Mar 2015 - 18:56
From what I've read, the first Apple II floppy drive (the Disk II) wasn't invented until about six months after the release of the Apple II - so the computer's …
· 4 posts · started 15 Mar 2015 - 15:07 · last 15 Mar 2015 - 16:55
Hi All, I digged the whole forum, but doesn't find a relevant topic, or just don't wanted to steel other's, so i opened a new one... I started a big (compared t…
· 26 posts · started 21 Feb 2015 - 01:01 · last 15 Mar 2015 - 00:18
So I need to replace these 6.3v 1500uf caps and these 6.3v 1000uf caps Can I use these as replacements?? Any help would be appreciated... sorry about my sideway…
· 6 posts · started 13 Mar 2015 - 16:52 · last 14 Mar 2015 - 16:40
I’ve been trying to reassemble at least one working Pismo from a collection of parts able to make one great unit and one functional unit—in theory. The machines…
· 4 posts · started 14 Mar 2015 - 00:34 · last 14 Mar 2015 - 02:35
As you may have seen in my post in the Compact Macs subforum, a friend helped me recap two Macs over the past few months. The Classic II was a dismal failure, b…
· 10 posts · started 8 Jan 2015 - 05:46 · last 13 Mar 2015 - 19:32
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…
· 2 posts · started 13 Mar 2015 - 00:13 · last 13 Mar 2015 - 04:26
Hi all, I just added to my growing mac collection with a couple of 512s. One of them has a 400K drive which is totally dead and I think beyond my ability to rep…
· 8 posts · started 11 Mar 2015 - 16:39 · last 12 Mar 2015 - 23:34
I just noticed this tidbit from thinkclassic os9 on unsupported Mac's... Mac Mini's Logic Board is based around Apple's Intrepid northbridge, which is supported…
· 10 posts · started 3 Mar 2015 - 22:29 · last 12 Mar 2015 - 16:32
I have been home for a couple of days after a surgery, so have had time to tinker with most of my fleet. Most of them are working great, the last one on my list…
· 2 posts · started 12 Mar 2015 - 11:16 · last 12 Mar 2015 - 11:36
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 …
· 4 posts · started 11 Mar 2015 - 00:47 · last 11 Mar 2015 - 23:16
So I accidentally clicked on a printer in Chooser and now it keeps appearing on my desktop and when I put it in Trash, I get a message saying the printer will r…
· 3 posts · started 10 Mar 2015 - 23:22 · last 11 Mar 2015 - 18:19
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…
· 5 posts · started 7 Mar 2015 - 16:17 · last 10 Mar 2015 - 22:36
I have been testing today two 20 SC i got for cheap, unfortunately none of them are working properly. Both show the smiling mac on startup, but one of them goes…
· 16 posts · started 6 Mar 2015 - 13:57 · last 10 Mar 2015 - 16:32
Hi. Now that I have started to use my 3400 on a more regular basis, I have been noticing many software problems; probably due to whatever the previous owner had…
· 9 posts · started 9 Mar 2015 - 14:37 · last 10 Mar 2015 - 04:57
Hello, this is my first post so please forgive me if some of my questions have already been answered. I did try and look them up to see if they have already bee…
· 23 posts · started 6 Feb 2015 - 03:56 · last 9 Mar 2015 - 15:14
Hi again I have a mac plus that trips my house power soon after it's booted. From another thread I found that the likely culprits are the two small capacitors m…
· 6 posts · started 9 Mar 2015 - 00:57 · last 9 Mar 2015 - 09:09
Anyone have the seemingly short-lived version of the Newton with an "N" logo in place of the Apple logo? I have only handled one, I think it was a blue circle w…
· 13 posts · started 19 Feb 2015 - 09:48 · last 9 Mar 2015 - 05:13
So, I'm not only at the beginning stages of getting my SE/30 to a restored state, but I'm also learning more and more about. One thing that I justed checked was…
· 9 posts · started 7 Mar 2015 - 17:08 · last 8 Mar 2015 - 19:28
So I am finally back to working on my 475, the one I posted about back in December. Still the same death chime issue. I decided to hunt down the data sheet for …
· 17 posts · started 13 Feb 2015 - 03:46 · last 8 Mar 2015 - 16:01
I'm thinking of doing the VGA mod to my Color Classic A/B. I read that the mod changes the horizontal scan voltage from 60V to 84V. I have a couple of questions…
· 3 posts · started 7 Mar 2015 - 19:43 · last 8 Mar 2015 - 00:12
Thought you all might get a kick out of a project of mine. I used Deluxe Music to create several songs back in high school, and for years now, I've been wonderi…
· 9 posts · started 28 Feb 2015 - 06:25 · last 8 Mar 2015 - 00:01
Last week, I got another 12" RGB from a buddy who had one in his garage. I plugged it in and it worked fine, but the CRT has these epically huge scratches all o…
· 2 posts · started 7 Mar 2015 - 18:44 · last 7 Mar 2015 - 23:52
Hey there, I am in the market for some larger capacity SCSI hard drives, but before I make the plunge, I would like some input as despite all of the reading I'v…
· 7 posts · started 7 Mar 2015 - 14:09 · last 7 Mar 2015 - 17:40
Really nice device. Getting a SIM adapter to try out the telephony. Radiates quality, and the camera isn't as bad as I thought it would be. The screen in partic…
· 6 posts · started 6 Mar 2015 - 18:54 · last 7 Mar 2015 - 12:19
Does anybody know what these are? (image in attachment)
· 7 posts · started 6 Mar 2015 - 09:44 · last 7 Mar 2015 - 07:46
I'm thinking about starting on a new Mac hardware hacking project, and searching for ideas. Any suggestions? I'm hoping for something that other people would ac…
· 59 posts · started 17 Feb 2015 - 04:01 · last 7 Mar 2015 - 07:42
I can't believe there'd be ingest on this list, and my research (years ago) never led me to conclude it's necessarily possible... By this I meant handwriting re…
· 4 posts · started 2 Mar 2015 - 05:11 · last 6 Mar 2015 - 20:36
There is an estate auction with this poster at it this weekend and I was wondering if it was original. I have seen several of these Wheels for the Mind posters …
· 8 posts · started 5 Mar 2015 - 15:27 · last 6 Mar 2015 - 15:22
I'm sure this isn't totally new, but I'll describe the chain of events specific to this PB. I bought it on eBay untested. There wasn't that much corrosion on th…
· 9 posts · started 27 Feb 2015 - 22:33 · last 6 Mar 2015 - 05:27
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