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At Computer Hardware club at my school a few days ago there appeared a mysterious black box, apparently from nowhere. Close inspection revealed it to have a SCSI hard drive in a removable bay and a FDD, as well as a tiny screen on the front and S-video in and out. Upon plugging it in and...

Well, I was looking through the cabinets at Computer Hardware Club at my school, desperately looking for a new project since my last one, a Ubuntu file/web server for the club, had been resolutely refusing to develop any problems. Third cabinet I tried was golden. Two Mac IIsi, plus monitor...

So, finally got a new film SLR camera - It's a Canon AE-1 in very good condition. 50mm lens, 24mm wide-angle (I love this lens, it's awesome) 90-230mm zoom lens, macro lens... and 2x and 3x teleconvertors. All of the lenses have skylight filters on them, to keep dust off mainly. Also came with a...

If any of you all who are setting up BBSen for the RC would be kind enough to provide it with a phone number, at least temporarily, I'd love to be able to connect with my Cat or Olivetti.

Well, today I traded my seldom-used iMac 400mhz for a nice beige desktop g3 - technically the iMac is still mine, it's just residing somewhere else. This one is a bit more friendly than the last one I had - still trying to fix that one, but don't care too much. Anyway, it's a nice old box -...

Well, fixed the slowness problem, but now when I try to install a new 400mhz g3 upgrade card, I get a bong but no display. Ram is confirmed good, as is video. CUDA reset and PRAM reset both tried. Different jumper settings tried. It works when I swap the old proc back in, with the exception of...

Well, Computer Hardware club at my school has acquired a Mac Classic. It's ugly and yellowed as sin, and currently not working (checkerboard, though I did get it to boot from ROM once) I know what to try to stop the checkerboard. However, I don't know what to do to open the thing. Because of...

WOO! There was an ad on the local CL advertising this beautiful old computer, with original boxes, some disks, and a printer, all for free! I fired off an email and after a long and fairly slow conversation, I'm picking it up from the guy's parents' house Friday. Can't wait to try it out -...

On Saturday I was cruising Craigslist for a new SLR (No D, too cheap :p ) and found this beauty: http://baltimore.craigslist.org/pho/761214149.html I immediately got out some of my paycheck and fired off an email, after a short stop to look for info about the C700 (it passed inspection. Not...

I was out at a local horribly priced computer store, selling one of my overstock computers(thus negative conquest ($200 for a computer worth 150! Woot!) and decided to go to the local overstock store, Ollies. Ollies is an awesome store for certain items, and I was looking around in candy when I...

Nowhere else to post this, so here goes: Well, having entered in the second week of the RetroChallenge with only a vague idea of what I was going to do, I've finally actually gotten some work done on my Challenge. I've been furiously coding at my Olivetti M-10, and I've finally gotten the bugs...

Well, several months ago I was digging through my dad's office looking for some wire strippers, and I came across a stylish leather rectangular case. I opened it and found something that looked more or less like an electric typewriter. I put some minor effort into fixing it(it wouldn't turn on)...

Well, I've had my EEE for about a week now and have finally gotten around to installing my extra 2gb of RAM and eeeXubuntu. It. Is. Awesome. Applications are snappy, the screen isn't bad(most of the pages I've been to automatically adjust for the low res[including 68kmla, woo!]) and I don't...

Well, I finally got around to ordering the processor replacement for my crappy Dell computer which died. I got a mobo replacement and it turned out that it fried the proc. So I (two months later) got a $15 2.4ghz proc off Ebay (BIN) and it all works now. Stuck a spare HD in it and installed...

I picked up 2 older PC laptops today from Freecycle. One of them's a 486 DX2, 50mhz, with 24mb RAM, and a 1gb hard drive, but a broken screen. Works fine with an external HD, and that one's going to a friend who wants it to play Betrayal At Krondor. The other one is a Thinkpad 765L. It's got...

I just gave an iMac g3 to a friend and she's put it downstairs in her house. Her house only has wired ethernet upstairs, however they have a wifi network as well. What's the best(ie cheapest) way to connect this iMac to the wifi network? Original AirPort cards are out, looked at eBay and...

I got a free Compaq Portable! It was disassembled and didn't have any disks but it's reassembled and works now.

I was looking around on the giant wall of donated computing accessories at my school's computer hardware club room, and I found not one but two USB Sun Crossbow mice. Tested 'em and they both work. They're absolute beauties to use, feel great, and the clicking is has a nice 'feel' to it. They're...

I got bored today and I fixed up a few of the PCs that are sitting around my house doing nothing in particular. They both have minor problems but nothing that can't be worked around. The first: AMD Duron 750mhz, 576mb RAM, currently no HD, 64mb nVidia graphics card(PCI) Broken AGP slot The...

Hi, I have a Powerbook G3 with the bronze keyboard, a 400mhz processor, and 320mb of RAM. It has OS9 and OS 10.3 on it. Since OSX disagrees with the DVD drive on it(won't let me play DVDs) I want to boot into OS9 to watch a few while I'm away(on vacation right now). However, it doesn't appear...