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Hello! I finally have time to get back to my Macs after my surgery, and I noticed that my clamshell's display panel is problematically dim even at full brightness. Can the panel be swapped out, and if so what's the best replacement option?

I was cleaning my bedroom today, and when I was taking stuff downstairs I saw my iBook. I've had it for a few years, and it works but needs some cleaning, a new battery, and a replacement power adapter (it came with a generic third party adapter that doesn't fit well enough). Apparently there...

Hey y'all! Hope everyone's been doing alright! Life has been insane for me the last couple of years (especially this one...), so my Macs have kinda taken a back burner until tonight. My oldest daughter officially inherited my beloved Performa, and when she went to play some games a couple of...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/253951401228? This is going to be arriving at my house around November 7th! The seller said that its working condition is unknown, but I have high hopes. There's one problem, though. The purchase doesn't include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Does anyone have any...

Hi all! Again, it's been a billion years or so since I've posted. Life is absolutely insane at the moment so I have virtually no time for anything I'm interested in. There's some games on my Performa that I had as a toddler, and for the life of me I cannot find them anywhere. They're pretty...

I've been accepted into college, so I decided to splurge and treat myself to something that's been on my wishlist for quite a while. This iBook is now headed my way! Only problem is, it doesn't come with a charger and the listing said the battery's toast. I'd like to hunt down an original...

I have my Basilisk II setup running System 7.5.3 and I want to update it to 7.6.x. But DiskCopy seems to have gone on strike. Every version I've tried gives me this rubbish: I'm using a Performa ROM, and there's a couple thousand choices for different models. Advice please?

Hi. I'm trying to make a System 3 boot disk for Mini vMac. I have it in a .sit file, but the StuffIt Lite on my current boot disk doesn't like it. My question is, what version of StuffIt *will* accept the file and work with System 7.5.5 on an emulator? Or is there another way to get this done...

Hi all. :) As some of you know I recently acquired a working PowerBook 145. It has a black and white screen and runs System 7.1. It came with Microsoft Word and SimpleText and/or TeachText (too lazy to check right now). But that's it. So I need some more stuff! I would ideally like some games...

I think it's indigo, but not completely sure. Can someone verify this for me please? My cat loves my vintage Macs too. :p Back when we used our bondi iMac on a daily basis he would constantly sit on top of it while it was powered on and warm.

Thanks to a good friend of mine this PowerBook is headed my way! :D Since the listing says it's untested I'm fully expecting that it won't start up... but before I can find out I need to get my paws on an AC adapter for it. There's a definite thrill in not knowing if a vintage computer works...

Today I finally pulled my Performa 635CD out of my closet and set it up. Part of me was honestly expecting to see a Sad Mac or something else equally fatal. After all, it was in the closet for 1-3 years. Time sometimes isn't kind to technology. However, it started right up and works great! :)...

This video was posted a month ago. It's a guy talking about his SE, and (like him) I haven't ever seen the error code it's displaying. The code is 00000003, 0000FFFF I think the code's related to memory, but beyond that not really sure. I found that video after my wife woke me up just now with...

Today I was feeling nostalgic, and I wanted to find some of the Kaleidoscope schemes I loved as a kid. Unfortunately the original official website is no longer online, but I was able to find it using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. As far as I know you can't get a preview of the schemes...

Back in October I told the story of a little boy's first Sad Mac. If anyone wants to read it the link to the post is here. Well, the story continues! In January the family acquired a Classic II, which the boy named Chip. From the outside everything looked good, but guess what greeted them the...

Hi all. :) The Wikipedia article about "Power-on self-test" talks a little bit about the Macintosh POST. It says this about Macs after 1998: "In the event of an error, but not a fatal hardware error, they display the same screen as seen when holding ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+O+F at startup but with...

Hi all! The other day I finally sat down to spend some time with my blueberry iMac. It seems to be running wonderfully now, but I'd like to know what I should look for when it has a hardware failure. I suppose I'm looking for something like an updated version of Dead Mac Scrolls - something to...

I don't know if I'm using the wrong search words or just don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm curious about what happens when the Apple I, II, III and Lisa have a hardware problem that would cause a Sad Mac in later computers. I'm a very visual person so pics would be great, but they seem to...

Hi everyone! When I was a toddler I was addicted to a certain game, and I can't find it anywhere. It ran on either System 7.5.1 or Mac OS 8.6, and it was really stupid (looking back on it as an adult, anyways). The vivid memory I have of it is a buffalo in the center of the screen, and there...

Hi everyone! :) When I was younger the main computer in my family was a tray loading Bondi iMac running 8.6. It was used for hours each day for at least ten years (that's a conservative guess, it was very probably longer). A couple years ago it started having a minor issue. The power button...