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While we were all home during Covid, I picked up an 8600/300 from a gal via Facebook Marketplace for $50(!). I messed with it a bit, and I moved onto a different computer to tinker with (in this case a TRS-80 model 100 laptop). A few months ago I saw someone selling 32 Meg sticks of RAM for the...

A month or so ago I bought one of those cards from Bolle to put my Daystar 040 card into my SE/30. I finally got around to installing it yesterday, and went in pretty straight forward. Once I found the driver for my accelerator, I was able to test the ethernet portion of the card be sending it...

So I am getting ready to install a Daystar Accelerator in my SE/30, and am wanting to install a 32 bit clean ROM while I am in there. Are any of the new ROMs able to be flashed to mock a IIsi or IIfx ROM so the accelerator will work with it? Thanks, and Merry Christmas! J White

I finally got around to repairing my Mac Plus (had to retouch solder joints on analog board to CRT connector). I bought this machine last summer mostly for the SCSI external hard drive case it came with, but also so I could test a few keyboards that are collecting dust in my basement. The Plus...

So last night I was moving a bunch of programs from my G4 to my new to me 8600 which was tying up the 8600. Since I am using an ADB switch to share the keyboard and mouse with that and my SE/30, it put my SE/30 out of commission as well. Well kinda. I hooked an extra mouse to the SE/30 and fired...

I found a PowerMac 8600 on Facebook Marketplace and picked it up yesterday. When I got it home I opened it up did a brief dusting (more to make sure none of it was sticking to capacitor goo), made sure the battery wasn't exploded, reseated the RAM, etc. When I plugged it in and pressed the...

I reassembled my Powerbook 165 after getting its screen recapped (Thanks again JRL!). I had to swap out the keyboard from another powerbook (160) and went ahead and put the larger 10M RAM card from that machine in there as well. Everything is great; it is booting to 7.5.x off the internal 240...

It seems the only topics on this subforum are repairs. Don't get me wrong, I've posted a query or ten here myself. But I thought I would post something different tonight. I bought a Gravis Gamepad to use with my SE/30, and have spent the past few nights playing a few games with it. It took me...

So I've been reading about capacitors failing in well, everything Mac made way back when. I see lots of threads (here and elsewhere) about Powerbook 1xx screens needing to be recapped, but I don't see much about the logicboards or anything else under the keys. Are they built with different caps...

So I have an SE/30 that has an Asante ethernet card in it and 32 Meg of RAM and a 1 Gig HD (a real SCSI drive that still works). Thisafternoon the last iece of the puzzle I needed to try out a localtalk to ethernet bridge option arrived in the mail. As I am typing this, I am moving 50 Meg of...

I have an SE/30 motherboard. When I use this machine for about 45 minutes, the speaker will start making a clicking noise whenever the mouse is moved or clicked. If I scroll on a window, it will click continuously while I am scrolling. I saw an old post on here about someone else having the same...

I have an SE/30 logic board that is giving me fits (another topic for another day) so I swapped in my spare board and all is working fine. Except this board only has 8 meg installed. My other board had 20, and I am thinking of upping this one to at least 20, if not 32. My dilemma is that this...

So with all this quarantine stuff going on, and me being trapped in my house, I've started tinkering with my old Macs again. They were old and needed tinkering when I bought them 15 to 20 years ago. One of the items I have is a SyQuest drive that has no sticker on the front that is in an APS...

The title sums it up; I've dug out a few of my old Macs during all this Covid stuff, with a 190cs being one of them. The whole machine seems to be working fine (I am sure the batteries aren't...)  with the exception of the trackpad button. About half the time it sticks in the pressed position...

So I bought a "new" hard drive for my Powerbook. It's an IBM 240 meg, and I'm installing system software on it as I type this. While I was taking this machine apart the first time, I broke off one of the plastic posts. This afternoon I was taking the drive bracket off so I could replace the...

Yesterday I received a Powerbook 165 with a "bad" hard drive. I was able to format the drive and install 7.5.3 on it while I hunt down the system enabler for 7.1. So this morning I found the enabler and started installing System 7.1. Apparently my "Install 2' disk was bad and the installation...

I just bought a Powerbook 165 on eBay for $11 (+16 for shipping :b&w: ) The seller stated that it wouldn't boot because of a bad hard drive. I took a gamble and it looks like it may have paid off. I was able to boot the machine using a 200M SyQuest drive and a copy of 7.5.3. It has 8M of...

I have been slowly getting back into my vintage Macs. When I tried to fire up my SE, the Hard drive was dead, as was the floppy drive. So I replaced both, though I don't know if the floppy drive was any good. I managed to get a System onto the "new" hard drive via a SyQuest drive, but the...

A few weeks ago, I found an SE Powercache adapter on eBay. I was gambling hoping that it was for an SE/30, but it wasn't. It says it also works for the Classic also. I was hoping it would work with my 040 card, but it doesn't mention it, and I think the cards it says it works with are newer 030...

I've got a few Plus keyboards sitting here gathering dust, and I saw that there are a few people on the trading post forums looking for them. Is there a way to test these to see if they work if I don't have a Mac Plus or earlier machine? I don't really want to ship one out just to find out it's...