I've just noticed that the startup bong on my 6100/60 has got quieter! If this is caused by caps can someone please tell me which one's ?
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So my (office) Quad G5 had been a bit noisy of late, and as in my investigations, it failed its ASD 2.6.3 thermal tests, I decided that it was time to service t…
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…
Why do they always seem to have a 512k board in them?!?! Can't complain, I got it for $80. Gave it a good clean and it looks great. Floppy drive gummed up, boot…
Scored this for a good price even if the Hyperdrive doesn't work or is missing. It powers on, but I haven't had a chance to crack the case yet. It's heavier tha…
I've started using my iBook G3 800 MHz 12.1" to run Mac OS 9.2.2 on and was frustrated that it didn't support 1920x1080 on an external VGA monitor. I've install…
My 1.25GHz PowerBook G4 has been running pretty well since I acquired it -- it's going to eventually need a new HD, but suddenly a new issue has popped up. If I…
What do you think buddy? Would it make the thing too complex? Or maybe would you have to make up 2 separate floppy emu adaptors? I know at-least with the IIgs t…
Package received & I've been testing the SE/30 Direct Slot Color Pivot Cable from the Big@$$NuBus&PDScardLot™ with GREAT SUCCESS! [] ]'> …
I was at the doctor's office today for an upper endoscopy, so I got the day off cuz of the anesthesia. Here's what I worked on, I'm gonna attempt to print it wh…
My SE/30 is showing a very strange garbled image on the screen. The caps have been replaced, and the computer works as expected otherwise. The screen and other …
So I finally got a Duo MiniDock and Floppy Drive for the Duo. I tired installing Sys7.5 from a set of genuine diskettes but after a few seconds (head moves twic…
my buddy zackl is hookin me up. I guess he found a whole box of II and IIfx boards and a Bag o ram/rom's in a Barn sale!!! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbo…
ok so thanks to Doug (olePigeon) for sending me some ROM Simms. and thanks to my HAKKO 808 for making my life easy. Thanks to bbraun for his idea, that I should…
Posting this only because i have never seen one yet, until now.
I'm a newby here and have a question. I have a 128K Mac and a Mac Plus. I use both with a Fanny Mac cooling fan. I have heard that the floppy drives when a comp…
Hi All, I spent some time yesterday connecting my Mac 512k to my Windows pc via serial cable. I created the appropriate cable and all works fine. I'm using MacT…
hey do you guys think this hacked adaptor will work with DayStar 040 PDS Upgrade in a SE/30? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_pre…
[mod mode] Introduction: by jt/Trash/Trash80to . . . whatever! dougg3 has made the most incredible introductory post to date, period! It's quite the saga of cre…
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…
Does anyone know of a scripting platform for Classic Macs prior to AppleScript? Was there ever a 3rd party scripting tool for System 6 or earlier?
Hi, On my first Mac, a Rev. C iMac G3, I accidentally defaced the serial number sticker before I could record the information contained therein. Anyway, I was w…
I'm trying to make a boot disk with CopyRoms on it so I can get the ROM from my Macintosh Plus. Immediately after making the disk with Disk Copy it boots in the…
A little something that may be of use to the 68kMLA community. Since I heard that LeopardAssist was still being actively used over on the MacRumors forums, I de…
How can I unlock the disk images I make with Disk Copy so that they can be modified when mounted in the finder? If I try to delete any files while the disk imag…
This came in a computer that arrived today. Unlike the other cards like it that I can find, there is no FCC info screened on. This also has "BLACKJACK AP1099-04…
I absent-mindedly removed a stick of RAM and popped in a replacement while the computer was turned off BUT still plugged in to the wall outlet. Now it doesn't t…
Its funny there was like 16 people in the class. The guy running the show, he has never seen this many people show up like this. Guys and Gals too! My group of …
Hello all, I went to use my apple IIe recently and did the usual of turning on the monitor first, waiting a minute then the computer. everything worked fine for…
Someone had a Mac Plus on eBay that ended last night, but it turns out that it came in an original mac box, inclusive of all packaging materials and inserts. I …
Hello, i replaced my gforce2 32mb vram with the gforce 4600 but when i turn the mac on, after 3-4 seconds it powers off. What should i do?
Never seen one of those, or heard about it...anyone of you is using one ? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous",…
I found a heatsink for my 1.33Ghz MDD DP CPU (a little corrosion on it) and was wondering what temp these are supposed to run at. After running X-bench and lett…
What the heck is System 7.1P4? In todays conquest I got a bunch of floppies. Two are Utilities with System "Ver. 7.1P4", 690-0989 A. One looks stock, the other …
Ok, this might or might not be a dumb question. But ive noticed on the powerbooks that they never have the rounded corners like the compact or other CRT based m…
Anyone have the Mac software for a Cisco Aironet 340 PCMCIA wireless card? I want to use it with my newly acquired Powerbook 1400cs. This page tells me to go to…
Hi All, I finally found a Lisa (2/10) recently, in non-working condition. I made some progress: I got it to power on, identified that one of the 2 memory boards…
Just won this Powerbook 1400cs. You can see in the 4th picture that the power supply is in pretty bad shape and is probably not safe to use. Will an Apple Yo Yo…
Hey guys, today is the 30th birthday of our beloved 128k Macintosh. I'd welcome you all to give a hearty "happy birthday!" In this thread and post any videos of…
I'm turning 10,000 days old on Monday. (Only a math tutor would figure that out...) To celebrate, I'm going to Cleveland. Why? I'm going to pick up a Mac II fro…
I'm very pleased to announce that I scored a very nice looking Apple /// with a Monitor ///. Everything seems to be OK, but I just can't seem to transfer images…
If you haven't played The Journeyman Project Pagasis Prime "back in the day", now is your chance! They are releasing it on DVD-ROM! Thanks to SkummVM the game w…
Hey Gang-- Having some issues with my PDQ. The system refuses to boot. The farthest I've been able to get is the "Welcome to Mac OS" screen with my Mac OS 8.5 r…
Hello everyone, I have a Macintosh Plus that I got a couple of years ago. When I first got it I had a problem where I would turn it on, it would come on, get as…
I guess the powers to be, Were not all that excited about this model. From what i know this revision had: - Ram SIMM Slots - A better ROM, some more features - …
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've scoured the web, no luck. I'm figuring there must be a way to get Pandora to work. Anyone crack this problem? HTML5 seems to be promising, but haven't foun…
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've been looking into the memory subsystem of the IIsi and I noticed a glaring difference between the address lines between Bank A on the MoBo and the SIMM Slo…