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Hello guys! While still trying to get my two Pluses working, last week I've bought a nice Macintosh SE (the FDHD model) for about 60 euros including shipping (the shipping actually cost more than the computer itself!). This poor guy was advertised as working, but there are a few problems that...

That's an interesting behavior - one wouldn't normally think that a bad hard drive could lead to this kind of trouble!  Glad you have figured it out, though - an IDE hard drive can still be found easily these days and will bring back the machine in shipshape :)

I've found one DC board on eBay that does ship to Europe, but it might be a little expensive depending on your location. You can find it here. It might be cheaper to check out if any fellow member of this forum has a spare one, though!

3 beeps means RAM failure.  The iBooks have 128MB of soldered RAM (64MB in the earlier models), plus a single slot for memory expansion.  I would try to remove the RAM in the memory slot and see if the system boots; if so, the problem might simply be a defective RAM bank, and you should later...

Yep, I would say so. The typical error message that's shown is something like "DEFAULT CATCH! code: fffffff6 %RR0: ff80b260 %SRR1: 0000b030": the code indicates the type of error encountered, while the following part of the message is the hexadecimal representation of the content of a few...

I don't have a picture of that screen, but I've seen one in some occasions - it's actually the standard Open Firmware interface that was built in with every PowerPC Macintosh after 1998.  You can see some footage of Open Firmware in action here!  

Congratulations, that's a great conquest! :)

Welcome aboard! Since you're new, please remember to take a look at the forum rules when you have time :) That looks like a neat collection, from what I see! I guess you're mostly interested in prototypes, aren't you? I think you'll be pleased to meet Haplain then! I definitely want to take...

I've got a CBS hard drive myself, still going strong after 25+ years!

If I recall correctly, the PowerBook 140 needs a 7.5V x 2A (a little bit more on the current side won't hurt anyway) power adapter.  Although it won't be particularly pretty, a common Sony PSOne power brick would perfectly do and they're probably fairly cheap these days.  If you want to keep the...

I'd say that's a fair deal, especially with the monitor and everything else! Later ROM revisions are usually associated with bug fixes and some minor hardware revisions, it'd be nice to have an extensive list of what has been fixed but I wonder if that information has ever been made public by...

I second that. You should try using, if possible, another version of the Macintosh System Tools specifically tailored for that machine - anything from System 7.0.1 to System 7.6.1 should be ok.  If you have any other working machine to make a floppy, you can find 800k and 1.4MB images here. The...

Well done! That's what I call a good trade!

Wow, to say that's yellowish would be a huge understatement! :D But congrats on the free one, it's in very nice condition with all the manuals and stuff, plus you can't beat "free" :) If I recall correctly there should be a couple of transistor that specifically manage the sweep circuit, one...

Congratulations! I can't say I'm a fan of this design, but it's nice that it has the G3 upgrade. 500 mhz should be more than enough to power OS 9 to its fullest!

Wow, that's awesome! For 3$ it's almost a steal :) Congrats!

Did you put it back together and closed the case door before turning it on? I seem to remember (but I may be wrong here) that G5s will not boot at all unless the door is properly closed. If this doesn't do the trick, try heating up the area around the RAM slots with an hairdryer, if they suffer...

As long as we're talking about official updates that were made available for free by Apple, I don't see any reason why it should be forbidden to host them wherever we want and redistribute them free of charge as long and as much as we want. Now, when talking about full operating systems on the...

For those of you who are looking for OS 9.1, 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 updates, you can find them here (and they are available in multiple languages)! 

I don't think there exists a general method that applies to every multiple-floppy Macintosh game that has ever been made, unfortunately. I'm not aware of a general rule that defines where to put each game's files, because I guess that every developer chose how to name them and where to put them...