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It's been a while since I made any new 'conquests' – and in fact I have downsized my collection somewhat by getting rid of the iMac G3 and the Powerbook 1400c – but I picked up a mint-condition Acorn PocketBook II this week for the princely sum of £10 on Ebay. This is a re-badged Psion Series...

My Classic has been sitting under my desk for a few months, but the other day I set it up to do some writing on it. When starting up, I noticed that there is a period of several seconds after the 'bong' in which the screen only displays diagonal lines – then there is a quiet click, then the...

I recently acquired a poorly original Macintosh Classic. It had a somewhat gunked motherboard, and since my soldering skills are rudimentary I sent it off to Uniserver for him to work his magic. I also sent him the motherboard and power supply from my trusty LC475. I thought it was a good...

I have recently acquired a model M0116 keyboard (the compact mechanical version from the late '80s). It's in great condition overall, and I've just spent a couple of hours cleaning all the plastics.  However, one of the keys is unreliable and I find myself missing that letter from time to time...

Only a minor conquest, but I'm pleased with it as I am a fan of mechanical keyboards and have fond memories of typing on the Extended II when I was at school. I found this one on Ebay for £8. It's sold 'as is' and untested, but for the price I thought it was worth a shot. Awaiting delivery at...

Thanks to some discussion on this forum, I now have a metric tonne of storage capacity in my LC475! I contacted Uniserver, who is selling SCA server drives at very reasonable prices, and he sent two over, already partitioned and installed with Mac OS 7.5.5. He also included an SCA-SCSI adapter...

I currently have a setup where my LC475 accesses files on my PC via an FTP server, which is great, but I would like to implement some form of synchronisation. I've just started using the Transmit FTP app (instead of Fetch) which has a synchronise option, but it doesn't allow two way sync; you...

As insurance against the day when my LC475's hard disk inevitably fails, I'm investigating the idea of booting from an external SCSI Zip drive. Zip drives seem to be fairly obtainable through Ebay and at face value it would seem to be as simple as installing the driver, formatting a disk...

Using a Farallon ethernet card, I've managed to hook my LC475 up to my home network with relative ease and am able to access my FTP server and browse the web. File transfer rates are pretty decent too! At the moment I'm using the Mosaic browser, because iCab continually crashed and Netscape 3...

Hi folks, I have recently acquired a Farallon Ethernet PC Card but have no driver for it. I thought perhaps it would work simply with Apple's Network Software Installer, but OS 8 insists there are no drivers for the card when I insert it into my PowerBook 1400. A Google search indicates...

So, on the lookout for spare parts for my 1400cs (with dodgy screen caps) I picked up a 1400c for £20 on Ebay, without knowing much about it. Turns out this unit has a 2GB hard drive, Sonnet G3 processor upgrade, maxed out RAM, and a ZIP drive! I've struck gold :)

Hi folks, I've found an ethernet card online for my LC475 but can see no indication of whether or not it includes drivers, or even the manufacturer. I have tried emailing the retailer but have got no response yet. This is the card...

I've recently inherited a 1400cs with a peculiar backlight problem and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on it. When starting up, contrast usually goes really low and has to be cranked back up again manually. I gather this is not unusual on PowerBooks. Nine times out of ten the...

Hi all, this is my first post on 68kmla! I used to be a Mac user from the early 90s right through to 2011, but when my white MacBook gave up the ghost I ended up migrating to Windows. However, as a writer I missed the focus and simplicity of the old System 7 machines so decided to see what I...