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Hi there, I have a LaserWriter IINTX that I'd love to resurrect. It's been in storage for 13 years. I know it didn't work when I first got my hands on it, but I don't remember what the symptoms were. Today it powers on and makes some noise. The green Power led flashes slowly for a while as it's...

Hi there, I'm attempting to save a PowerBook 520c from the dead. It was in good shape, apart from a dead hard drive. I replaced the drive with a brand new SCSI2SD « PowerBook Edition » with a brand new 16GB microSD card set as a 4GB SCSI drive at ID0. I booted the PowerBook from my trusted...

Hi there, An iPod 1G doesn't really qualify as a 68k device, right? Anyway, I don't know where to seek help apart from here… My iPod 1G died several years ago. I bought it second hand around 2002 and used it for a couple of years, and then gave it to a friend who took it on a three years...

Hi there, I need to replace the fan in my LC III with something silent. It has a 3 pin connector to the mobo. Will any 50mm 3-pin modern fan work? Im looking at this one for example: https://www.steg-electronics.ch/fr/article/Fractal-Design-Silent-Series-R3-50mm-19940452.aspx Thanks in advance!

Hi there, It's been such a long time since my last visit around here... It's a pleasure to be back! I haven't spent time with my collection in years, but it's changing. I'll have to hang around here more often soon! I need a fresh system for an iBook FireWire. I just burned a couple of Mac OS...

Hi guys! It's christmas... The long gone multimac.ch archive is back online, at . The guy's a fellow swiss collector, who's managed to collect a huge amount of stuff from 1983-1998. His archive was well known in the early 2000's, and is still referenced to on sites such as Gamba's. For one...

Hi all! I have a PowerBook 145 that's been running 24/7 for the last year or so, serving pommel-s.ch, a website about my collection (down at the moment, obviously). Yesterday I noticed the site was down. I checked the PowerBook, only to found she had crashed, and the lower half of its screen...

If it's genuine and the backstory is true, this one is my coolest conquest in years. Well, I have to confess I haven't conquered that much lately… I bought that flag on a local auction site a couple of days ago, and received it this morning. The seller told me the flag was left over at an...

Did you see this? http://www.cultofmac.com/160279/pick-up-this-extremely-rare-128k-mac-prototype-for-a-cool-100000/ Most certainly not Wozniak's, but impressive pics. Is it the same that surfaced some months ago?

Hi all, Tonight I've just made a dumb thing: killing the perfectly good OS 9 installed on my PM G4 Quicksilver 2002. Long story short: I've replaced its entire OS 9 partition with the one from another machine to save some time, but in the end I forgot about the software Rom thing. And now I'm...

Hi all, Is there any Rhapsody freak around here? I'm having a very specific problem with Rhapsody DR1, and it's getting on my nerves. I installed it on my PowerMac 9600 without an issue. For the record, the 9600 has a G3/275 processor card, 704 MB of Ram, a 1 GB and a 10 GB SCSI disks on the...

Hi all, In the early nineties, when the 80 MB hard disk of the family's LC III became a little bit short for my growing needs, I bought my first piece own piece of hardware: a huge (at least for me at the time) 365 MB external SCSI hard disk. That disk served me extremely well for 16 years, and...

Hi all, I have a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver that I love. It once was an original 867 MHz, but a couple of years ago I swapped its motherboard with a dual 1.0 GHz from a damaged Quicksilver 2002. It has 1.5 GB of Ram, and its original 20 GB hard drive plus a 320 GB. It runs Leopard pretty well, and...

Hi all, I am a kind of a 1400-freak. This is without a doubt my favorite classic PowerBook, and one of my favorite classic Mac ever. I do have two 1400c/166. One is my main classic machine (on which I'm writing this post). It has 64 MB of Ram, a G3/233 upgrade and an ethrnet card, and runs 8.6...

Did you see that post over at TUAW? I find it pretty impressive and really cool that a ][ is still in regular use to drive that industrial machine... 8-)

Does anybody know of a dynamic DNS client updater software for services like dyndns.org, zoneedit.com and such? I've googled quite a bit to no avail, but search terms are so generic they return a lot of irrelevant stuff. My router is working with dyndns, but I'm using zoneedit for my new web...

Hi all, I'd like to share the beginnings of my latest project with you, namely the website http://www.pomme-s.ch, hosted on my PowerBook 100. The 100 has 6 Mb of RAM and a 80 Mb hard disk. It runs a stripped down US System 7.0.1 with the bare essentials, and the server soft is Machttp 2.6.1. To...

Last week I scored some beautiful Black hardware: - NeXTstation TurboColor, with SoundBox ADB, and ADB keyboard and mouse, pristine. - NeXT MegaPixel 17'' display, pristine cosmetic, but nearly dead tube: awful picture. - NeXT laser printer, said to be non working (haven't tested yet) - NeXT...

Hi all, I recently found an Ethernet network card for my SE/30, which is pretty cool. Now, the card only has a BNC connector, which is much less cool. :( To tell the truth, I hadn't heard of BNC or thin coax Ethernet before acquiring this card. For now, I connect all my Ethernet-less Macs...

Hi all, Last week was christmas all over again for me! It cost me some money, but I found a big OS X haul on a local auction site: - Mac OS X Server 1.0 (boxed) - Mac OS X DP3 (original CD) - Mac OS X DP4 (original CD) - Mac OS X Public Beta (original CD) - Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah (boxed) -...