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I got my dad's old IIcx and have been trying to bring it back to life. I re-capped and there was a fair amount of goo near the capacitors, but no battery bomb. I have de-soldered and cleaned and re-soldered anything near the caps, but it's not working. After getting my multi meter out, I am...

So I have a little collecting beige boxes problem. My dad's first (and my first) computer is a IIcx. He had a processor riser card added to give it a cache slot where he then installed a Mobius Speedster. I still have the IIcx. While reconnecting with this hobby, I decided to recap my old IIci...

About 9 months ago, my wife and I adopted our son. This has been the biggest life change I have experience so far, and I found myself doing an interesting type of nesting. I found myself worried about my son getting online and ruining his brain, so my line of thinking was I'd be better off...

I am starting to plan for Christmas, and I want to upgrade my IIci some more. I have more RAM than I need. I have an 040 accelerator on the way, a couple of zuluscsi adapters - 1 internal, 1 external slim for networking and CD images. I am thinking a video card is next, but I know the nubus...

I will start by stating - I know this is a stupid request and using any sort of Quadra would be easier, cheaper, or whatever. My late father had a IIcx that was modified with a CPU riser to have a Mobius Speedster with an LC'040 chip on it. Unfortunately, I have lost that accelerator to time...

I have a dead IIcx and a working IIci. I found a Centris 650 online, but the case is destroyed. The pictures show the power light on - is that enough to determine if it has been battery bombed or not?

My father passed away in May of 2020. My mother has finally started to clean out some of his old things including the PowerMac G4 he used for his business. I now work a career in IT, but this computer was the first one I was ever paid to repair, and being my fathers, it also held an incredible...

I was looking for a replacement Mobius Speedster that was in my Dad's old IICX and found that MicroMac's website is still up. Does anyone know if they are still around or will my order form just go into a black hole of identity theft?

A friend of mine gifted his late father's Macintosh SE FD/HD. I tried power it on and got error codes of 0000000E and 000002FF and was able to determine two issues. One was a bad RAM stick, and the other was a missing jumper on the motherboard. I have now gotten the friendly beep and...

I want my dual core dos macihne to be an AIO unit, so I was wondering if this would be possible. As far as I can tell, the connectors are the same and boards are the same size. Any thoughts?

I found this guy in my home town with a bunch of DOS cards, and I picked one up cheap. I have no idea where to get the software for it though!!! Point me in the right direction please?

I am running OS X on my PB G3 Lombard and it needs a G4. I know there are upgrades for it out there, but I can't find one for the life of me that wouldn't require a government bailout to buy. Anyone got one that they are willing to sell or know where to find one?

is there any way add os 9 permissions after os x is already installed? or can i add a partition after the drive is formatted?

I have two mac minis, both are G4. When i plug one in, the fan just turns on. The other one does nothing when plugged in or when the power button is pressed. Any ideas what could be wrong?

I have a powerlogix powerforce g3 and my computer wont boot with it installed. It still boots with the orignal processor. The powerlogix was previously installed into a beige g3 and another B&W, but running bus speeds of 67mhz. Mine is running at the full 100 which is why I want to use...

I just got a blue and white g3 to replace my beige. I want to put my sonnet accelerator into the b&w, but whenever I clock the bus down, it will not boot. I would just keep the beige as my main machine, but the video is wayyyy to slow and the b&w doubles almost all of the video...

Hey, my sisters room mate came to me with her laptop telling me that it plays an elevator version of jump by van halen randomly. I couldn't find anything on google about it and don't know what to tell her. anyways i told her to get a list of all the processes while the song is playing. i...

Can I just put any old scsi hard drive in here? the 20Mb one is dead and I am forced to boot from floppies.

I have a beige G3 (check signature) that I want to be able to play DVD's on. VLC kinds sucks for that because you can't do anything else while using it and even still it has a slow frame rate when running independently. I tried doing the hack where you delete the "Install Check" file inside...

Hey, I have been wanting to do a hack to backlight my lobmard keyboard. I was thinking I should use some light string, but I dont know how I should power it. I was thinking maybe of the usb or the inverter board of the lcd to make it work with the backlight on hte screen as well. I have no...