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Is there a way to make a separate partition of Ubuntu 7.04 without harming my Mac OS 9.2 install and dual boot between them? I've been gathering music resources…
Woo Hoo!! Scored a COMPLETE IIGS system today, IIGS, monitor, Imagewriter II, external hard drive, external floppy drive, and dozens of shareware discs. I could…
Nothing too exciting unless you're me and get excited over everything... USB floppy drive. White, matching the newest Macs. Works great. Looks like it was never…
I got this Apple //c clone today. I need to make/buy an external PSU though. So yeah Pics Tomorrow
Some background.. For the past few weeks I've been tinkering with a Mac Plus I found in a back alley somewhere near my work. I've managed to get System 6.0.8 in…
Well, I've just had a very satisfying morning. I opened up my 512K Mac (see earlier thread) and took out the 400K disk drive. It was reading ok, but not ejectin…
I was looking at Wegener Medias site...iBook And I looked at the iBooks.. My Birthday is in 2 weeks so I though, hey, birthday present.. My questions... All app…
Nailed it with a last second snipe on ebay last night. This is my second Quadra 601 upgrade. The first was an Apple 50 mhz now the Daystar 100.
I still have the CRT, Analog and Power Supply assembly from my Macintosh Classic. It still works and all, so I can put it to use in something else. There's a Ma…
So my city is having their annual cleanup where everyone puts all the junk they've managed to accumulate out for free pickup, so I decide to go cruising for abo…
SEVEN (count them - 7) slot loading SCSI DVD-ROMs in a neat looking (and heavy) SCSI storage tower with a nice lockable smoked glass front door. I haven't pulle…
So here at CERN, people occasionally pitch old computer hardware and I get to rummage through it. Today I picked up a Sun SparcStation2, complete with external …
Last Sunday, I came back with a monster haul. I've split the list up into sections, to make it easier to navigate Hardware • Macintosh IIsi • Macintosh Color Di…
Here ya go ! Just click the names 1] "B & R SoftWare" -- 400K FloppyDisks 2] "B & R SoftWare" -- 800K FloppyDisks 3] "Valhalla Games" 4] "Old So…
Hi All, In my ongoing mission to get my Newton 2100 talking to my PowerBook G4 (running 10.4 no Classic), I purchased a second-hand Belkin USB Serial Adapter (F…
So my project for the retrochallenge is to get Apache working on A/UX on my Q700, serving webpages to the world over my dialup internet connection. Would that c…
Oooh yeah, had my eyes on one of these for ages but they always went for silly money... So one day I decided to stick silly money on it and got one
I managed to get a StyleWriter II with the tray and cables from Freecycle and the guy even delivered to me. So that was awesome. But... This one got away.
Ok, how about some stories about your routine or one-time Mac scavenging experiences - even if they didn't land you any "conquests". The reason I bring this up …
I have a second hand Newton 2000/2100 Deluxe Leather Case for my Newton 2000. But the Newton doesn't slip into anything and the elastic inside is far too small.…
Hi If you don't remember me, I'm from eBay. How's the 9500 going? You may be interested in the following gear. ... I prefer old Apple stuff to go to a good home…
Well, I finally liberated that old Classic that I'd babbled about a few times before from the opressive closet at my old school. It's beat up, its screen is wob…
After a few attempts I have managed to pick up an eMate of eBay. It comes complete with power supply, teachers guide and graphing calculator handbook (the photo…
Picked up my SE today. It's a 1meg, two 800k floppy model. It also came with an external hard drive and a cool padded carrying bag. AND....APPLE STICKERS!! I al…
Is OS X 10.4 a 32-bit OS or a 64-bit OS? Ive been getting conflicting results on that, and I was wondering if anyone on here knew.
A ton of work's going into this. This game will make people rethink the Macintosh SE/30 as a viable game platform. It & PlayStation have similar specs w…
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/05/31/1546213.shtml In the Age of Computer Bloat someone has decided to do a performance comparison between a 1986 Mac Plus and …
Has anyone used non-Apple replacement batteries such as this: http://tinyurl.com/2lfces :?: And are they any good? Do Apple even make batteries for these old ma…
Anyone have this little gem of software? I just inherited an HP DesignJet ColorPro GA, and it needs this software under os 8 or 9 to work. I can't seem to find …
As I said in the topic about the PowerBook Duos, I was also given two Zip drives with the bunch of Duo bits, one SCSI and one USB. The front bit of the SCSI one…
In two weeks, about 15 100series Powerbooks anda few Duos in that figure will become available to me. The cost is $10.00CAD (about $9.00USD) each. The are fair …
Monochrome monitors used to be very usefull in the early 90's for desktop publishing and other areas where having 2 crisp pages on the screen was more important…
I just noticed the tags on the discussion pages, as they create a nice menu for me to jump between forums. Very nice! But the forum index pages themselves don't…
Hi, seems we're all recalling our conquests from during the dark days of the server crash now My most recent eBay pickup was a PB Duo 280c, with Mini Dock and s…
Picked up a working 7300/200 and a bag of cables. The 7300 came with nothing else. No keyboard etc. The bag had the usual scsi, power cords etcThe odd item was …
Pulled up to a yard sale this morning, and sitting right out front on the lawn, in the hot SUN was the Se SuperDrive. I paid out what the lady wanted, $3.00! Ju…
Original hard-copy service manuals. Macintosh Computers Vol I, II, and III (all models to July 94 [] ]'> ) Peripheral Interface Guide (December 92) Laser…
I picked up an IDE/ATAPI Zip Drive and Blue bezel for the B&W "smurftower" that I am typing this on. One, i now have a working zip drive again, and 2, i…
Two itty bitty Sun boxes for $5 a piece. I was excited for a while there as I thought at least one of them would be a SPARCstation, but it looks like they're bo…
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I'm not an expert on Linux device programming. But I really want to fix Basilik II networking for Fedora 20 with 3.15.x kernel. So far I think I have fixed shee…
I came across this and thought it was interesting: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA35383?viewlocale=en_US "Apple does not recommend that any PCMCIA module be used…
Hello everyone. I really love this site and often lurk on here kinda living vicariously through all of you my love for retromac computing. I still have my Lomba…
I have hit a snag in trying to get one of my iBook 500s loaded with 10.4. I am trying to do target disk mode from a G4 iBook to the recipient G3 500 iBook. I ca…
Just scored 7 slot-loading SCSI DVD drives in a vertical SCSI storage tower, with a nice smoked perspex locking front door. I haven't pulled them yet to check o…
Because this site requires a genuine email address before an account can be activated, spammers that post here must have a valid email account. So let's give th…