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I've been using my SE/30 almost daily for well over 2 years. No problems, except that the volume was always very low. I've upgraded the hard drive with an SCSI2SD card reader. It's been working like a dream for years. The other day I booted it up to get the following error: It would crash...

I want to upload a jpg to my Newton. Not necessarily as the background image, but sort of like the camera roll on an iPhone. Is there a package that allows you to upload and view .jpgs on the Newton? I have a .jpg I want on my Performa 575, but when I select import on the Newton, that .jpg...

I scored an SE with a dead power supply for $20 bucks. I figured I could pull the floppy out of it and put it in my Mac Plus that needs one. However, when I power up the Plus, the floppy drive just gets stuck in an eject loop. It's a Sony MP-F51W-23 800K drive, so it should work in the Plus...

I had one of my blog readers throw me an email saying he had a few vintage Macs that I could have for free. I offered to pay postage, but he wouldn't hear of it! Amazing the generosity of people.  I was thrilled to see that not only is it an SE, but an SE FDHD. I've been dying for another Fat...

I have an Apple III that doesn't seem to want to read any disks in the drive. I even tried to boot it up by loading ADTPro over serial, that seems to fail loading into RAM. At first I thought the floppy drive was defective, but now I'm starting to think it's a logicboard thing. If I could just...

As far as I can tell, my new Apple /// does not have the clock upgrade kit installed. There is no AA battery pack under the hood. The kits are on eBay now for only $10 bucks. Should I go for it? Is it a nice to have, or is there a fundamental reason why someone would need to swap out the clock...

I'm very pleased to announce that I scored a very nice looking Apple /// with a Monitor ///. Everything seems to be OK, but I just can't seem to transfer images to it via ADT Pro, or read disks made from my IIe. DSC_0001.jpg I tried to bootstrap it. Although it says "HI" in the corner and my...

My Dad picked up an SE when they were new. He used it for years, but when work went PC-only, the SE sort of slipped out of usage and at some point ended up in the garage. My parents moved to the West coast in 2000. (I live on the East coast.) So I thought that I'd never see that SE again. My...

I love collecting vintage OSes. It's like a collection within a collection. It's taken me a while to score OS 9 in the box. I have a few copies of OS 9 that came with 10.0 and 10.1, as well as with some of my iBooks, but I've never had OS 9 in the retail box. I finally filled the gap between OS...

"Through the Looking Glass" has been on my wish list for a long time now. This is another "Holy Grail" item of vintage Apple collecting. I never though I'd find one. I've only seen 2 or 3 come and go on eBay over the last few years. They are very rare. Not to mention the price is always a good...

I scored this guy for only $60 bucks on eBay. I've seen them go for as high as $200-ish. It does have some signs of age, but in surprisingly good condition for a 32-year old printer. It even still has a roll of paper in it as well as the paper roll holders. That has to be a bonus...

I picked up a pretty sweet 12" PowerBook G4 1.5GHz in the box a year ago. The user told me that the trackpad never worked. I figured it was probably a matter of just swapping out the trackpads with a replacement. I got the PowerBook and opened it up. It looks like the previous owner tried his...

...I'd love to play it on my Cube so I can take a picture of it for my site. Thanks

I want to dump the 400GB IDE drive that's in my Cube. The CPU has been upgraded to a PowerLogix 1GHz G4 and the video card has been upgraded to an Nvidia 2MX. Since I'm using the original VRM, I'd like like conserve some power and keep the heat down by dumping the toasty Seagate drive in favor...

My SE started doing the screen-flicker thing. Looks like the image is a little squashed too. Too much space on the bottom. I'm at work on my lunch so I figured I'd post the video I had on my phone. Looks like it's time to dig out ye olde Dead Mac Scrolls and have a look. SE Flicker Video I...

A guy from Florida who found my Apple site sent me an email to tell me he was cleaning out his closet and found a bunch of Macs that he wanted to get rid of. He couldn't bare the thought of just trashing them. He'd rather they go to a good home. So he offered them to me for the cost of shipping...

Like the title says, for Christmas, my wife gave me $500 to spend on eBay. She knows how much I love vintage Apple gear and there's no way she could possibly buy anything that's posted on my wish list that hangs on the back of the computer room door. So she gave me $500 to blow on eBay. She...

I'm sure by now everyone has seen this floating around the internet: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 This single line of code on a C64 produces a labyrinth on the screen using a random / or \. I wanted to run it on my //c but I just get random Ms and Ns. As it turns out, the...

I scored a working HD20 for $45. Not bad considering they're pretty scarce in working order and they usually go for $100+ on eBay. My 128K and 512k are on the blink, so I had to try it on my Plus. It works like a charm. It's loaded with games, apps, and files too. I copied everything over to...

The hdd in my Classic died a few weeks ago. I've been so busy with other projects that I just haven't had the time to open it up and swap the drive. Last night I had to make some System 7 disks from some images on my external hdd. Since I was already doing something on my Color Classic, I...