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I think he's being nice to me in the hope of a Christmas tip (that tip being "Don't jump up and down on my parcels for the other 11 months of the year and you might actually get a tip")

For absolutely no cash whatsoever, someone I helped with their iMac mailed me a shrinkwrapped boxed copy of Apple PC-Exchange As if that wasn't enough, the postman didn't jump up and down on it OK it might be worthless but given that I didn't even have to pay the postage I'm a happy chap :D

Yep - held the reset button in for 30 seconds with power applied, power not applied, battery in, battery out etc. but nadda, zip, nowt, nothing...just the ever glowing green light :'(

Managed to get a replacement power board for my 2400 (thanks to a nameless soul on here who pointed me in the right direction ;) ) All fitted, power applied and...still GLOD :'( This kind of makes me think that it must be something else (well, durr), but anybody got ideas what?

Really nice machine although I do hate you for getting yours for free and me having to pay over £500 for mine ;) Worth upgrading the memory though if it is 512Mb. Mine shipped with 512Mb and was 'OK' - upped it to 1Gb recently and it now flies with 10.4

I went through the same thing with my 333MHz Lombard. Hooked up a DVD drive, tried to get it to play DVD as a movie and...no dice. Did have some success using VLC under OS X but a frame rate of about 5fps was hardly great and it had a nasty habit of crashing. To get it to play DVD movies you...

Mmmm, Laserdisc ;)

Ok managed to fire the little beasts up last night. The 160 boots but the screen is screwed - it starts off OK and then either goes white (to the point of not being able to see anything) or decides to go totally yellow. Could just be a cabling issue, could be something nastier but a complete...

Once I get a couple of spare hours, me and Mr Screwdriver will see what's what, work out where the damage is and what can be done. I don't really want to create a Franken-Mac if I can avoid it but as I can't remember what state my current 150 and 160 are in, it could be that I end up merging the...

Got an email about a month ago from some random stranger wanting help with their PB160. Tried helping, sorted out a boot disk etc. but looked like the HD had just given up. The woman then said thanks and said that she'd just trash it - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Anyway, long story short, I...

The price was right so I couldn't resist :D I also like the Mac connection (although the first, and only, computer at my school was a Beeb - No Macs in sight :'( )(then again, this before the Mac was released so maybe that would explain why...) so I'll say that that justifies me posting...

I now consider myself soundly whipped and my wallet a little bit lighter

OK so it's not exactly a Mac (well it's in no way a Mac in any sense and has no connection with Macs, Apples, Cupertino or Lord Jobs) but picked up a cardboard box last night through Freecycle. So, for zero cash, I scored... BBC Micro Model B Manuals 5.25" disk drive (with all cables to hook...

Yes (and that's not just because you asked for a 'yes') - they'll need formatting but'll work fine

I managed to find an internal SCSI CD-RW drive and my Quadra 840 was more than happy to take it. Then as Dana says, Toast is your friend...

WTF?!?!?!?!? Now that is seriously cool

I've always found that Seagate drives seem to work well but for any non-Apple logo'd drive you're going to have to prepare it with either a third party app or a patched version of the Apple's HD Setup. As to where to get one from...depends on where you are

Damn you. DAMN YOU! All my Freecycle group ever give away is kids toys and gardening crap. I HATE EVERYTHING :(

Tha call went out for some pics so... http://www.theneil.plus.com/beginners/gfx/Univac1.JPG http://www.theneil.plus.com/beginners/gfx/Univac2.JPG http://www.theneil.plus.com/beginners/gfx/Univac3.JPG

OK I know it's not Apple and it's not exactly fully functional but a nice envelope came through the letterbox with a little white box containing... An unused part for a Univac machine! Sadly it's not from the Univac 1 (i.e. 1950's) but is more likely to come from the mid-70's but it's still...