Recent content by pzler

I liberated a mac classic yesterday from a charity store. It's going to serve in my dorm room to write school reports, print out stuff with a stylewriter and a few other things that a compact mac does so much better then my slow bloated wintel-box. It's in good condition so finally a mac that...

thanks for the advice. i will see if i can track down the service manuals. many of the compacts are broken in some way. i got the se/30 with a broken hard drive. i replaced it with one known to be good but i can't get it to recognise the hard drive. after the replacement the floppy drive...

thank you. that will be my second pb100 :p

hello again i decided that i needed to reintroduce myself. i've been a member for a long time (back before the big crash when the old forum was lost) but life had other plans for me for a while and i got side tracked from my most holy and glorious mission of taking in unloved compact macs. i...

i have the screwdrivers and an obsession with compact macs, all the others are a no. i've never really learned anything about electronics, and now that i want to learn i don't know where to start. being able to exchange a hard drive without messing something up would even be an improvement for...

I like computers. They can be great tools and there are no computers i like more then compact macs. (i could try and tell you why but there are so many things i like about them that it would simply take to long) I have a few of them but most are broken in some way. My problem is that i'm a mac...

my main and newest mac, a bondi blue 233mhz imac has worked well for me for a long time now. but i decided that i really need to upgrade it if i want to keep it going for a few more years of loyal service. I allready upgraded the ram to some extend, but maybe i will upgrade it further. i have...

I love IF enough to avoid a burn out (i hope). i can't be 100% sure about the plus but i have a se/30 that has never had any problem with any IF I've tried. I haven't tried to write anything myself however. making a howto for people that want to use IF on a compact does seem like a nice idea...

I'm not sure if i will join this year since things went awry for me last time and i can't think of anything that i would like to do at the moment. well i can think of some things but i'm not sure if it really belongs in the retro challenge. One is that for a month i will only use my "olivetti...

that's a coincidens. i just found a HP ScanJet IIp SCSI scanner and i'm looking for a driver. could you tel me where you found it?

i don't know anything about silverlining but if it's just zip support that your after you should go to http://www.jagshouse.com/zipMacPlus.html there you can download the drivers. all you have to do is put them in your system folder. after that you can use and format zip disks

i just send in mine

well i put the imac at my parents house and i use it when i'm staying there, that way i don't have to drag my laptop with me. so it's not my main machine. the things i use it for are a bit of browsing, email, instant messaging, irc and word processing.

hey, my newest mac is a G3 233mhz imac running os X i'm thinking about switching to os 9 to improve the speed. can anyone tell me how much this will increase the speed of my old imac and what things i can't do with os 9 that i can do with os X so that ill know if it is worth the effort.

i am going to replace my se/30's burnt-in screen with a screen from a se. but i'm a bit worried about breaking stuff or doing it wrong does anyone know some good instructions for this?