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Went out bargain hunting today doing the whole yard sale / flea market thing today. First thing of interest I saw was a vintage Mac 512k that was horribly yellowed. (It seriously looked like it had lived outside, or at least in direct sunlight, for at least the past decade.) He wanted $50 for...

I'm trying to get OSX installed onto the upgraded PDQ PowerBook that I bought a while back (G4/500 with 512MB RAM) and I'm having problems getting it to work. Ideally, I would like to have Tiger running on it, and I know that requires using XPostFacto, but it's just not working. The PB is...

I mentioned this in Conquests, but I snagged quite the PowerBook yesterday. Bottom specs read 14.1 inch 233mhz with 32mb RAM, 2GB HD... nothing all that special, definitely not worth the original asking price in my opinion. But at least my curiosity led me to the truth of the matter... that it...

It's been a pretty good couple of days for Apple finds for me. On Friday, I rescued a small treasure trove of original Stylewriter printer inks that were headed out to the dumpster. A few of them will fit in my SW2400, but most of them were for the SW1500 (and equivalent models, don't recall...

This year so far hasn't been a winner when it comes to snagging the various bits and pieces that I'm hunting for. Though it seems that maybe my luck has finally changed. :pb: I saw someone selling a Lucent branded Orinoco PC card at a yard sale... and I didn't have the information in front...

Clamshell battery: With my iBook Clamshell SE's battery being well and truly dead, and since it came second hand with the machine when I bought it (meaning no guarantee or warranty existed to be voided), I decided to CAREFULLY open it up and have a look inside. Upon getting it open, I noticed...

A neighbor was selling a Powerbook G4 (unknown specs beyond that) at a yard sale this morning. I was told that he had gotten it from someone and it wouldn't work because something was 'locked' as he called it. He didn't have a price for it, and I had no idea what to offer for it, so I went...

Well, it seems my beloved Clamshell has run into a bit of a problem. The screen doesn't want to light up anymore. It still seems to be working, since I can faintly see the desktop and everything. I opened it up enough to see that none of the connectors on the lower half were loose or...

Well, it seems my beloved Clamshell has run into a bit of a problem. The screen doesn't want to light up anymore. It still seems to be working, since I can faintly see the desktop and everything. I opened it up enough to see that none of the connectors on the lower half were loose or...

Somebody a couple blocks away from me put out a huge pile of computer stuff, with a sign that says everything works, but is old. The towers I looked through all had Windows 2000 stickers on them. All of the machines I checked were devoid of hard drives, but still had CD and floppy drives. I...

I snatched up a set of 3 SCSI drives off eBay at the last minute since the price was really good. I did a search based on the information in their listing, which seemed to indicate that they would be 50pin like I needed. They arrived today, and, to my dismay, it turns out they are actually...

My 466 clamshell's battery seems to have given up the ghost. It's had a recent history of being stubborn as to charging, but now its bottomed out. It always seemed to get stubborn when it charge was between 25-35 percent, but usually a simple pull and reinstall of the battery (while on AC...

I guess this is the right place to put this... forgive me if it isn't, but nothing else seemed to fit. I've been looking around for some SCSI drives for some of my old Macs that need them, and I came across a listing for "SCSI jumpers". The listing says they're "Used for SCSI, SCA, Laptop, and...

They wanted $20 for it, but since they couldn't show me that it really worked, I offered $15. The machine itself had decent wear and tear, but still looked pretty good. Since the Yo-Yo that came with it looked practically mint, and I was all but certain that it was the exact same adapter the...

OK, here's the situation... old Performa 638CD, got it for nothing (including the original CDs). The drive that was in it is dead, so I picked up a slightly larger Quantum drive (0.6 GB) for a couple bucks. The Performa boots just fine from the original CD, and reads floppies too... it just...