Yesterday I received a Powerbook 165 with a "bad" hard drive. I was able to format the drive and install 7.5.3 on it while I hunt down the system enabler for 7.…
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Hey, I made a terminated 50pin -> SCA adapter a few days ago, and have ordered the parts to make another, it appears to work fine on both my LC's my P 45…
Hi, I'm fixing up a nice SE for my brother, loaded to the hilt with games. It's running a 500MB SCSI HD with System 7.1 installed, but I've found most B&amp…
I don't know who Steve Jones is, but I think he kept his Mac Plus's keyboard in the barn for a while.
Well, the original 80GB hard drive in my old 12" PowerBook was going south (irreparable errors reported in disk utility, etc.), so I decided to install an OWC p…
Hi! I'm failing to understand exactly how this works. Apparently the same logic board was used for the P475 as for the Q605, but the Q605 had a jumper set. What…
For all you lovers of vintage mac and mac emulation (I'm picking most of you reading this fall into one or other of these categories), John Leake of retromaccas…
my buddy sent this to me. can anyone tell by the looks of it what machines will this work in? I think he said it came from a Mac II
Some small items, not big deal but was looking for SCSI Terminators anyway... the rest was some sort of a bonus (4 € the lot including the HD)
I just bought a Powerbook 165 on eBay for $11 (+16 for shipping :b&w: ) The seller stated that it wouldn't boot because of a bad hard drive. I took a ga…
Does the 15" lighted keyboard fit in a 12" aluminum powerbook and keep the lighted feature?
My Orinoco Gold (flashed silver) card doesn't work in 10.4 but it does work in OS 9. Are there any cheap cards that will work in 10.4? I don't want to buy the w…
I press the power button and it lights up and fades out, not a peep, no chimes or error code. HELP!!!???!!! :'(
I have been slowly getting back into my vintage Macs. When I tried to fire up my SE, the Hard drive was dead, as was the floppy drive. So I replaced both, thoug…
Does anyone know if an internal SCSI upgrade kit was made for the Plus? If so, anyone have any specific names that will make it easier to search? Also, is it a …
A while ago, I acquired a box of cables and accessories (I mainly wanted an M0100 beige mouse in it) but there was some other oddities in there. Along with a co…
There's nothing like the sound of an MFM drive in the morning Scored a couple of eBay auctions for some Lisa parts: - Sun Remarketing 20MB MFM drive and control…
I found this confusing: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_powerbook190cs_66.html The summarized description at the beginning says "Dual …
My fancy new Mac Plus arrived in the mail recently, along with an HD 20SC with a clean installation of System 6. The only other software I have on it Zterm, and…
Interesting question for you all... I have a 1400c with a 400mhz G3 upgrade. However, the L2 cache is bad and cannot be enabled without constant freezing (usual…
Recently, a Macintosh Classic managed to follow me home and I've become infatuated with the idea of using it. It seems to have a lot of problems, though.... Whe…
Any item why? I installed MacsBug 6.5.3 to test it out. The debugger installs on boot, but pressing the Programmer's Switch does nothing.
Powerbook 540 & 540c (both are apparently in a permanently vegetative state, I'm guessing they just need a PRAM reset, or something else similar. Nothin…
This whole project started about a year ago. I bought this Plus on ebay. Realized it was an upgraded original 128k. So my quest has been to down grade it. I nee…
The early G5's were PCI-X and had PCI-x video cards. Would those video cards work in the G4 towers that had PCI-X slots?
I bought an LC 575 and just got it today. Sadly, it didn't make it in transit. It was smashed pretty bad. The case was in pieces ad the CRT was loose with a bro…
I got the cap on the end of the 512kE's CRT back on and it fired up like a champ, so I threw the 128k board in for testing. I didn't get a blinking floppy, no, …
Is there any other player out there to try against AVP? I have os 8 on the 660av.
A few weeks ago I obtained a Macintosh IIcx. While it boots (as indicated by the HDD activity light), there is no sound or video. Removing the motherboard revea…
I've had this for a few years, and its been sitting in a box in my basement, untouched since I brought it home. I had forgotten about it. The company I was work…
Ok got the PowerBook 100 from Tyler and it boots to question mark even with a spare drive I have, of course that drive is probably bad now also. So first the li…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Macintosh-Mac-Performa-6400-180-M3548-Desktop-Power-PC-VINTAGE-PARTS-/370717528659?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash…
This is purely out of curiosity. I have had quite a few pre-G3 PCI Macs over the years and they all seem to boot up System 7.5.5 despite Apple saying that some …
One of my Pismo DVD drives lost its faceplate today; I would like to retrofit a replacement drive into the housing. What are some current inexpensive drives tha…
Hi, I've been taking apart my PB100 tonight, reseating the RAM and CPU daughtercard to thankfully result in one working machine (HD is dead though, argh it was …
Anything better than RAMDisk+ 3.2.4a for making a RAM disk on System 6?
Ok neither case I have does it a lot but its something that when it happens catches you off guard. I am guessing its a flyback issue with a capacitor replacemen…
Or what to do when you really, really want a Compact... When I got into vintage Macs I quickly realised that I really wanted a Compact Mac. For me the Plus is t…
Hey guys! My last few videos have been about the Mac 512K speaking to Siri and getting a desired action from a modern Mac. While neat, I found this to be limiti…
Can anyone tell me what the capacity of the RAM modules below are? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "light…
The prices I'm seeing on retail sites just don't seem like they can be correct. $80 for a 32 MB RAM card? I figure that has to be an inflated number, but though…
ok interesting note. As per this old thread: viewtopic.php?t=1535 ( auto ranging power supplies ) At-least from my collection. I'm pretty sure everything i have…
So, on the lookout for spare parts for my 1400cs (with dodgy screen caps) I picked up a 1400c for £20 on Ebay, without knowing much about it. Turns out this uni…
Hi all, I've a Newton 2100 in good working order, but the screen door has had black texta marks leech deeply into the plastic, which is not removable. I'd love …
The PB 520 I have doesn't like to eject disks. It makes the sound like it's going to spit them out, but nothing happens, and then it just remounts the disk. Is …
Damn that plastic is brittle. I used a reasonable amount of pressure on the little panel under the PB 520's screen to get at the screws and nearly all the littl…
Can some one explain how to use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) on Classilla email client? If it can't be done, it would be a very important feature to add in future …
Hey all, I've got the opportunity to purchase a Radius Lemans GT or a Radius Thunder IV/GT (1152) I really can't find much information on the Lemans other than …
Hi folks, I have recently acquired a Farallon Ethernet PC Card but have no driver for it. I thought perhaps it would work simply with Apple's Network Software I…