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Well, this was unexpected. This weekend I was put into contact with the local estate of a well known community member from San Diego County, California. After communicating with his family, I went by the house to check out the "thousands upon thousands" of vintage Apple items - along with other...

Someone recapped my Power Mac 7100 with a beautiful set of 20+ tantalum caps. I received the board and assembled my Quadra / 7100 FrankenMac, only to discover a no chime / no boot condition. Re-seated ROM, cache, RAM, etc. and no change, so I pulled the heatsink off of the 601 CPU and found what...

What have I done, friends? :D This is a new-to-me Apple Lisa, because it was local and I figure if I don't get this one I may never have another chance. I think this is an Apple Lisa 2/10 because of the internal widget hard drive, but can the learned among us confirm? The previous owner picked...

Picked up an Apple /// this afternoon, which came with: 128K base unit Apple Monitor /// (green) ProFile 5MB No software came with the machine, so I haven't been able to try running it properly yet. I know almost nothing about the Apple ///, but wanted to pick one up and learn. I've watched a...

While we're all eagerly awaiting the sequel to Action Retro's first Molar Mac video, I've started putting a couple of upgrades in the AIO that I received from @macinbot: 768MB RAM ATI Rage 128 PCI video card to drive the Apple Studio Display (VGA + ADB) Sonnet Tempo RAID 66 with two 64GB disk...

During one of Action Retro's recent videos about the TAM, Sean installed a Sonnet Serial ATA PCI adapter and drive. He cracked open his TAM to split the optical drive's MOLEX power connector, so he could run one end to the optical drive and the other end to the back of the TAM, which powers a...

Found something you don't see every day. An Apple IIe that was upgraded to an Apple IIGS. The famous IIGS "stealth" upgrade! With a few expansion cards thrown in for bonus. Someone had already removed the soldered on battery, too (it was floating around inside the box).

After 8+ months of waiting, the Artmix VRM is back in stock. It's still labeled PCBA CUBE VRM II, as the previous version on their website shows: However, this new build is slightly updated with a couple of extra capacitors (?) now present. EDIT: Looks like the 3-pin fan port is also new...

Feeling a little bit like I won the Retro Computing Nerd Lottery or something, but found 3 PowerMac G4s from a local seller on Craigslist. PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) Sonnet G4 1GHz Sonnet Tempo ATA133 PCI card Stealth Serial Port SuperDrive upgrade, Max RAM, FW & USB PCI cards, etc...

What's a TAM doing in the G3/G4/G5 forum, you ask? Well, of course there is a Sonnet Crescendo G3 L2 upgrade for the TAM which, as an "upgrade-challenged Mac" fits neatly into the machine's cache slot. But what about a G4-powered TAM? Sonnet never made one of those... But @herd did. Check it...

It's a ROM 01 machine, and has the following installed: Apple II SCSI card Apple Super Serial Card MDIdeas OctoRAM memory expansion card with 2MB RAM (2 x 1MB SIMMs) Hyperstudio sound card I'm not very familiar with the IIGS, but I did hook up the FloppyEmu and it booted GSOS. What else should...

Anyone going to bid? ;) https://www.ebay.com/itm/185449020907

First up is the PowerBook G3 (PDQ / 300MHz), which had not been powered on since 1999. Fired right up into Mac OS 8.5 and I found someone's files on the desktop. Was a medical business of some sort, and this was a doctor's machine. Files were all dated late 1999. I immediately shut it down...

I have a Color Classic that has a slightly noisy, high-pitched sound coming from the CRT. Strangely, the display is quiet when the original Color Classic logic board is installed, but the display emits the sound when the Color Classic II logic board is installed. I do not know why the display...

I have a Color Classic with an Apple 300E Plus SCSI CD-ROM drive, which is set to device ID #3 and has active termination on the lower SCSI port. I can not get the Color Classic to boot from a CD (System 7.6 or 7.6.1 Installer CDs) and am puzzled. Behavior is the same with both the original...

I recently acquired a Daystar Technology MACHSpeed G4 upgrade for my Pismo. It's a 550 MHz G4 installed on an original Pismo daughter card. It works intermittently, with a peculiar issue. Sometimes, with the machine off, the CPU and its heatsink will become very hot and the machine won't power...

I have a new Panasonic (Matshita) UJ-875 Superdrive for the Cube, but need a mounting bracket to secure it inside the Cube's chassis. I know several people have 3D printed brackets and shared their designs in the now defunct CubeOwner.com forums. Does anyone know where I can find the 3D print...

Hi all, I'm trying to identify an elegant SSD option for the G4 Cube. There are IDE > mSATA adapters for the Cube, like this one currently sold by OWC: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDMXLE120/ But that doesn't fit the Cube's 3.5" hard drive chassis and mounting bracket. These German...