Hi there. I just acquired a Twentieth Anniversary Mac. Previous owner says the N key is non-functional, so I'm planning to pop the key off and see what I can do…
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It's not really a great conquest as such, but I finally pulled the trigger on the special SIMM for the card on eBay. It will put all 8bits of gray onto the Port…
I recenty acquired a PowerBook 1400C with a Dayna Communicard. I've managed to source the drivers from the Macintosh Driver Museum, and the software installs fi…
Here are some photos of my Mac Portables. Both have all the original components and are 100% complete. The units have upgraded RAM, modems (one prototype), all …
Got a Macintosh Plus roughly a week or two ago, with a keyboard, Apple 20SC hard drive with an OS on it, no mouse though. Anyways, upon first boot, I plugged in…
So far I have one dead 5126 board, i want to take the ram from it, and use it to add one more meg of ram on this card. currently this card is just a 1 meg expan…
As far as I can tell, my new Apple /// does not have the clock upgrade kit installed. There is no AA battery pack under the hood. The kits are on eBay now for o…
techknight hooked me up. would you belive a rat naw'd a hole in the box, and chewed the cord all to hell? well its true … anyways i patched it up, and sure enou…
Yesterday i turned on the performa and i came with this: The screen was black. I thought that it was the monitor but i realized that the machine does not boot. …
Some of us are eagerly waiting for Manabu Sakai's CF AztecMonster, a CF to 3.5" SCSI adapter. Well, after waiting several months for his shipment taking place a…
I have Mac OS Tiger 10.4.11 installed on my lombard, and I noticed its not seeing any SCSI hardware or its drives attached. Boot into OS9, it does just fine. An…
I have been working on my SE/30s and needed to move and install some files to them but this work took an interesting PCI Powermac detour. viewtopic.php?f=7&…
All of this recent talk of Maxell massacres and other battery explosion induced motherboard desolation prodded me into action over the last 2 days. I have 2 SE/…
Can a PowerBook G3 floppy drive be used to make 800k disks for use in a Macintosh Plus?
In this thread, Macdrone told me that using a floppy drive on a Powerbook 1400 would cause a power IC to blow. Has anyone else had or heard of this problem? It'…
I have been wanting one of those for years, but prices were out of reach. Got one this afternoon, known not working, advised as having a faulty analog board...b…
I've got a 40MB Conner right now, and the motor simply won't spin up. I have the drive apart right now and it just won't go--it will try, then pause. This is a …
I just bought a PDQ PowerBook G3; 300MHz, 64MB of RAM, 8GB drive, etc. Problem is, when I plug the computer in, the fans rev up, the LED stays solid, but both g…
Upcoming conquest alert--Mac LC II coming my way on Tuesday. The seller knows absolutely nothing about the setup and I don't believe he's tested it (I do have e…
Well, I decided to find take my LC 475 out from my closet. While carrying out the old apple monitor, I thought: "I wish I could just hook it up to my LCD screen…
Ok, so i have some good news… the the Logic Board still boots and runs with out the 4megs of ram soldered onboard. so that is pretty cool. Screen Shot 2013-12-2…
The Mac LC maxes out at 512k VRAM Is this a hardware limitation or noted as there weren't larger single VRAM simms available for the original LC? EG - there's a…
My second Mac is coming today... A Powerbook 160! Its coming with the User Manual, battery, charger, and some other cable I'm not sure about. I don't remember w…
I've not fired up Battle Chess on my SE/30 in ages. I tried it this evening for my daughter who wanted to play. Unfortunately, it gives me "Setup se Out of Memo…
Preamble: This build thread was first posted on Badcaps.net on the 16th of October, 2013 and subsequently posted to MacTalk and MacRumors' Apple Collectors foru…
Omg ok FYI plus and up hate system 1 and / or 400k disks. My plus bombs with it, my color classic just reading and ejecting the same 400k disk shut the screen o…
I just received a "Mac Edition" Radeon 9200LE card and I was wanting to swap it out with the Rage card currently installed. I am fruitlessly looking for drivers…
It's been a long time coming but I finally have my mini Apple store, tribute museum built. I hope you enjoy. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions. Y…
I recently purchased a serial trackball which reportedly works on a compact Mac. Took it out of the box and the trackball has a 9-pin female connector, not male…
Hello, I apologize in advance if this has been covered somewhere, but I searched the forum and couldn't find any info. Is there any way to add a CD-Rom drive to…
Hello all, What do you think of the AppleDesign Keyboard? I first used one with a Performa 5200 and it is was such a disappointment; it was a large step down fr…
So the difference between a 20-40 dollar " dial temperature controlled " and a "Digitally Controlled" soldering iron is like this. Most lawn mowers have a gover…
It's been a long time and many late nights coming: That's a Mac Classic booted from a System 7.0 high-density 1.44 MB emulated floppy. WOOOOO! The same board no…
I am 90% sure that this is a dangerous sign of my budding senility, so reader beware. But I'm wondering how I could go about fitting an LCD panel into an 12" Ap…
Hi all together, I just reanimated my old PowerMac 7200/75 and thought about upgrading it to the fullest. I already bought a used Sonnet Crescendo (G3/400) with…
So I'm making a 2.5 to 3.5" drive bracket for mounting those drives inside a Mac. It can be easily mounted on one of those Mac sleds or inside a metal HDD cage …
HI All, I have just relieved a generous donation of a Powerbook 540c to my collection, but the hitch is that I don't have a power adaptor..... Anyone have an id…
Well I went through piles of 30 pin memory and got 2 matched sets of four to total 32 Meg's of ram! Had the stuff for a while now just went through it to get it…
Hi, my recently purchased Mac SE 1/40 has a broken HDD which I want to replace by a 500MB Quantum Fireball from a PowerMac 7200. When I boot with floppy (w/o HD…
ok good news i removed the onboard ram from the IIsi. and it still boots… just no onboard video. surprise, surprise not to worry IIsi radius video card still wo…
Just need clarification on this. Searching brought up some fuzzy results. I have an Imagewriter I that I am trying to test drive. It came with a IIc, so the cab…
Maybe it's me but I have never seen an SE/30 with signatures.. this one even has Steve's in it.. I am not sure how to run the date code thing so perhaps someone…
I've recently turned my iMac G4 (15-inch USB 2.0) into a sweet little stereo system, streaming internet radio stations down and playing it back through Apple's …
Yeah, I broke something again... Feel like an idiot; Everything I put my hands on breaks lately, so here goes: One of my pluses suffered from your average no-vi…
if you don't mind all blue screen, no matter what you choose, its all blue. you can get 640x870 with the onboard graphics with this combination on your Mac to v…
Well, not the whole UI. The pointer still responds to the trackpad, but clicking, dragging, etc do nothing. Only the pointer moves. I suspect a bad solder joint…
testing will continue tonight! [attachment=0]Screen shot 2014-01-10 at 2.31.03 PM.jpg[/attachment]
Not sure how folks around here handle non-Mac stuff being conquested and whatnot, but today I "traded" (More like was constantly buggered into trading...) my Th…
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