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This weekend I managed to save this awesome PowerBook G3 Wallstreet from Recycling.  Black powerbooks with that rainbow logo looks so awesome. Although the laptop seems in very good external condition it did not have a power supply.  Sadly I do not have one that would work with it.  I was kind...

Last weekend I picked this eMac up from an after hours e-recycling bin.  I would have gone to be crushed by next morning.  It works well no issues, weights a ton though. Here are the specs: Apple eMac G4/1.25 (USB 2.0) Model A1002 1.25 GHz Power PC G4 512MB Ram ATI Radeon 9200 40GB Hard...

Retro Battle Stations is having its annual BBS Week again.  As always I participated with my trusty Macintosh Plus and connected to their BBS.  Had fun reading everyones posts on their retro computers.  Decided to cross post it here.

Ok so this is not the most exciting conquest for most people but I have been trying to get one of these locally for a while now.   800K Apple 3.5 Drive model number: A9M0106   I got it from a gentlemen who was moving and decided to part with some of his retro computing equipment.  Years ago he...

I love my Floppy Emu from BigMessOWires.com.  Specially he hard drive emulation mode.  However it always bothered me that it did not have a case.  I hopped that someone would at some point post cool retro design for a 3D Printer but so far no luck.  So I decided to make my own.  I wanted to be...

OK so I said no more Macs but then there was this PowerBook 150 on sale for 15$ so how can I resist. I actually have some memories of this PowerBook as it was kind of affordable.  I remember looking at it at a large computer store in the mid 90s considering whether or not to buy it.  I ended up...

I recently picked up a few Macs from a recycling center.  This is one of the ones I setup in my office.  I needed a new hard drive and a good cleaning but other than that it works well.  I have 3 others just like it that I will end up selling to a good home.  Plays Diablo very well :) Had to...

So I had a great haul from Recycling this week.  This is the type of recycling that destroys stuff, so consider these really saved :) Power Macintosh 7300/120 Power Macintosh 7300/132 Power Macintosh 7600 Power Macintosh 9600/200 And my favorite: iMac G3     All seem to work except the...

Just added this to my collection Macintosh LC 520     The 68030 is too slow to play Doom but it does run Master of Orion well enough.    

I recently got a Macintosh LC 520.  It has System 7.1 installed but it contains a whole bunch of old garbage & extensions so I wanted to do a fresh install.  However when I insert my 7.1 install disk I get an error that 7.1 is not supported on this Mac (tried several versions).  Is there a...

I had a few bad Macintosh Conquests lately.  From a local recycler I got a Powerbook 140 & a Macintosh IIcx which don't work.  The Powerbook is beyond help, the Macintosh IIcx chimes but probably needs a recap. So I was very happy to find a perfectly working Macintosh Plus for $80.  Where I...

I have a Personal LaserWriter NT with an old Toner Cartridge.  It seems to print however it made the paper all dirty and the print was faint.  So I figured the toner is old.  I bought a new toner Cartridge, it was still sealed made by Apple.  However its even worse toner is coming off lose from...

So today I picked up a Macintosh IIcx.  It is fairly beat up, its missing a hard drive but it seems to make the chime at least when powered on.     However it has the weirdest video card.  On the card its labeled as a Grayscale Video Card.   I have very little experience with desktop Macs...

I just got my floppy emu and I got my HD20 emulation working, but I am wondering if it will work on an un-expanded Macintosh 128K?  I read somewhere that the Macn128K does not have enough memory to run HD20 Init.  Has anyone tried it?

Someone is selling a Macintosh Classic II in my area and they are asking for offers?  I know nothing about the machine (I think it works though) What are they worth?  What should I offer him as a fair price? Thanks

So I have two Macintosh SEs, one I keep in its original condition (20MB hard drive loud fan etc)  The other one is my play Mac which I upgraded with more RAM, Hard Drive etc.  My most recent addition is an ultra quiet fan.  Now I went for a 40mm fan because this particular SE does not have...

I am trying to play the game Defender of the Crown on my Macintosh SE.  I got a copy from Macintosh Garden: <snip> The game starts fine and you can do some things however it always crashes if you try to buy soldiers.  Does anyone know what the issue is or have a working copy, Thanks

Ok so someone is selling a Mac IIsi in my area.  It has a monitor but it does not work.  So my next order of business is to figure out how to hook it up to a non Mac monitor.  So my question is how do I do that.  Is an adapter enough or are the synch rates different enough that it won't work...

I got an original Image Writer printer (not II) with my Mac 128K.  I managed to get it working fine on it. However when I hook it up to my Mac SE, I can't print, nothing happens, the computer seems to think it printed but the printer does not respond.  Am I missing something that would make the...

I don't know if anyone has posted this link already but here is a real good YouTube channel on old Macs that I am addicted to right now.  This guy does a real good job talking about various Macs, including their history, specs etc.    For some reason his channel has very low views, but the...