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Greetings! I am a long time reader, new member and first post. I think its fantastic that there is people who are into these awesome machines and there is a sit…
I have a handful of 400k drives in various states of disrepair. Some show signs of life, but don't read floppies, some appear as dead as a door nail. I've searc…
Hi all, I've a stock, un-upgraded 128K which is coming up with 040001 Sad Mac error immediately at startup (and slight graphic corruption). From the following l…
Hi, As this is my first post on the forum, I will first introduce myself : My name is François, I am 33 and I am from France. I am a Mac fan since I'm a kid and…
Hi: Recently i bought a SE/30 that came with this expansion card: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightb…
I've cut out the board and made a note of where the wires came from. There were 4x 26650 lithium cells. As I can't tab or solder them myself and I don't think t…
I'm trying to actually get to the point where I build this thing. Here are some pictures of the modules I've worked on, used for testing, etc. along the way. Th…
This is going to be differnt for each machine, but what is the highest system version you have ever gotten to run on a Mac 512K or 512Ke? Since the 512K require…
So I happen to have a Radius 24X, 24XP, and 24XK. According to LEM, the 24XP appears to be the budget card. It doesn't do the higher 1152 resolution, though it …
Putting my SE/30 back together and want to make sure my screen is adjusted properly. How were they adjusted from the factory? Completely edge to edge or should …
After 10 years, it seems like these are starting to fail at an alarming rate! So far, I’ve seen 3 bad dual pump cooling units with each one failing due to a clo…
Hi there! The title says it all - I've recently acquired a Macintosh Portable "demo unit" (much alike the one who was being sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago) …
From personal notes: Kennect Technology For a couple of years, Kennect offered some interesting disk products which allowed the use of PC format disks with non-…
Last year I got an Apple PC Compatibility card without the cable, so I can't do much with it. This evening when I was walking around (an about to leave, again) …
After about 15 minutes of prep/soldering, I bumped up my Pismo to 500Mhz from 400Mhz. so the setup is: PowerBook G3 500Mhz/1MB L2 100Mhz FSB 768MB RAM (256MB lo…
Has anyone used this compact flash SCSI card? It's an Adtron S25CF card. Picked it up recently as a "total shot in the dark" purchase to replace a SCSI hard dri…
http://www.metamage.com/code/MacRelix/ MacRelix is a Unix-like environment that runs on Mac OS, formerly called Lamp (Lamp Ain't Mac POSIX). MacRelix supports t…
If you were to buy a Mac SE/30, is it better to get one with everything original inside than the souped up one? (such as IIsi ROM, hard drive, old capacitors, e…
Has the true root cause of this ever been determined? It doesn't appear to be caps, nor the backlight. Is it a manufacturing defect of some kind? Is there any w…
Any words of wisdom on how to resize a window when the bottom right hand corner is off the screen? I have run into this problem a number of times on my SE/30 an…
I have 3 prodrives now that exhibit the spin up, and spin down without any head actuation. I noticed on all 3 drives when paying close attention, What appears t…
If you drop a Quadra 700/900 ROM file onto HexEdit and find this selection (approximately): 0xBE344 : 0xC342B This is a special sound that might be currently ta…
I have a powerbook 100 that when started up chimes, but then it fails to boot. If I put a floppy on its external floppy drive it will eject it (no matter what's…
I found a guy that has just a PB 500 series LCD panel, but no context to go with it. As such, he doesn't know exactly what member of the PB 500 series it came f…
I recently got a complete IIc+ system, and it came with "Apple AppleMouse IIc" that works great with it, but I'd rather not use it since it has all the original…
I got a couple of items today to0. My Apple Interactive TV set top box came hat I had purchased from eBay along with a Mits Altair 8800a. Guess which one I open…
When trying to use Mini vMac to play the old Wizardry ("Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord") game from disk images, it insists on reading the "master" disk (wh…
I'm really hoping this isn't a recap issue (although it probably is) I had my Macintosh portable working about 4 weeks ago. I checked it once again today, and f…
The dearth of information on these cards on LowendMac is apalling. Spectrum/24 Series III Spectrum/24 Series IV Spectrum/24 Series V Spectrum/24 PDQ Spectrum/24…
So for my first compact Mac, I picked up a 512KE. And it worked great! Until I put in my first floppies. I ordered disks for Mac OS 1.1 and Finder 1.0 I believe…
I got an old PowerBook 170 AC adapter for repair. Model: M5140 (APS-20U). It is completely dead and I can see some very light plastic deformation from heat in t…
Two questions regarding a recently recapped SE/30: 1. The internal speaker does not emit sound even after cleaning the logic board and recapping all capacitors.…
I just refurbished my Color Classic tonight. Overall it's looking wonderful--the new display I put in is free of the geometry faults that were present in the di…
Ever since I got the pile of compacts without keyboards or mice, I've been on the lookout for keyboards. Most of the keyboards I see available are going for abo…
Welp, Another project on the table. Just picked up an Imagewriter II from Scott, And as expected, there are definitely a few things with these beasts that need …
Hello The Analog board is OK, I used another SE Board to test it and it works fine, I also installed the board in another SE/30 and it still shows the same issu…
My Hyperdrive 20 Mac 512k arrived a week ago, and I've taken the followig 9 photos: GCC HyperDrive 20 Controller Piggyback on Logic Board GCC HyperDrive 20 Cont…
Hi there, So I received an Imagewriter II in the mail, it had been banged up somewhat and the bottom portion, the metal bottom which holds the board and the pow…
I have seemed to come accross this issue a few times in the past but never botherd to look much into it, that is until now. I am curious as to how I can fix thi…
Hi all, I have an M4551 that I need help with. This monitor displays a series of vertical lines and 'garbage' when connected to VGA. I have disassembled this un…
Hi all, as this is my first posting i like to introduce myself a bit. I'm Carlo from Germany and I'm an longtime Apple user. I started with an Apple //c in 1990…
Protocol7 and I traded quite a few PMs on this one. Summary: ** There is macbootable Sil3112 firmware. FirmTek SeriTek/1s2 is the card. aka Sonnet Tempo SATA (T…
I have a nice looking Macintosh Classic, the only problem is that the image is slightly tilted to the right. It needs a little adjustment to make everything rig…
Anyone on here have a failed Cube PS? I have just repaired mine. The "hairdryer fix" which I reported on some time ago suggested that I had capacitor trouble, a…
One of the bugs I fixed in Classilla 9.3.2 was an issue with cookies far in the future overflowing the 32-bit time value in the classic Mac OS. Interestingly, t…
Hey folks, I just received a Classic II with the common "thick vertical bar" problem. So far, so good, same procedure as every year. Wash the logic board thorou…
Hey, I was working on a project involving putting a iMac G3 Rev.A board in a xbox 360 case and someone happend to tell me that the iMac G3 Rev A / B / C acutual…
My Power Mac 6100/60 AV refuses to run 7.6.1. I installed a brand new system from a retail 7.6.1 CD and everything went fine during the installation, but as soo…
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The following thread was started to gauge interest in updates to various parts of OS 9.There has been a lot of great input from many.http://macos9lives.com/smfo…