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My iBook can "see" the bluetooth of my M4 Mac Mini running Sonoma but it fails to pair during the step when it wants me to type the confirmation PIN on the other device. I read somewhere that PPCs can exchange files via bluetooth with Applie Silicon Macs still, anyone know how?

Of course it's by no means authentic looking, but I'm pretty pleased with this $25 'case' that I bought via eBay that's designed to hold a iPhone 6/7/8. It's made of silicon, they also make a larger model for those iPhones in the plus size. It hints at just how easy it (hypothetically) could be...

OSX has always been so great in my use regarding class-compliant USB audio interfaces & class-compliant USB-MIDI interfaces, but I figured I'd better check w someone w PPC OSX experience before assuming my assumptions because MIDI interfaces on OS9 seem to be beyond my current frame of...

Just aquired (via another 68kMLA member!) a beautiful iBook G4 running 10.4 and I would like to install 10.5 Leopard on it. Actually, previous owner had partitioned the disk with a half where 10.4 is installed and the other partition was already reserved for 10.5 but he was told that the iBook...

Hello folks, I used to only collect Compact Macs / 68ks and was a Windows user in the G4 era so I really have next to 0 experience with this era of Macs. I aquired it because I could for free, it's blemish-free, not altogether a bad looking Mac, figured I'd stick it in a closet for many years...

Good afternoon again, I know that it's not the ideal / recommended method but it always used to work for me successfully - can't figure out what I'm now doing wrong! On a 3.5" 1.44mb disk, the hole in the upper-left, is usually open, right? I remember just taping over it so as to appear to the...

This was the first vintage Mac I bought, in 2009, worked very reliably for a while. About a year ago couldn't boot from the hard disk, just showed the ? screen, but booted into the OS just fine from ROM (Apple+X+O). So I figured the internal HD was dead, OK. Now, however, I see nothing on the...

Hi Folks, A few weeks ago, before my Color Classic was Mystical, I started a post at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10285 trying to get it on the internet. Now that the system specifications and error messages have changed, I'm starting a new thread to try and troubleshoot why I can't make a...

Now that I've got a long Torx-15 screw driver, I'm having a lot more fun in the repair shop with my old Macs. I finally got to see why my Classic II was presenting only a Simasi-Mac screen - it looks as if the machine sat with its bottom and back in some sort of liquid; the corner and logic...

I'm bringing my Classic in to work tommorow (I work at a camp, but in a digital music classroom) and I'm wondering how I can best showcase the slickness of System 6 and my Mac Classic to the kids and staff. Right now I like to show people how fast it boots, QBert, Shufflepuck and a very...

Dearest comrades in the quest to liberate 68k Macintosh computers, Today there was an electronics recycling drive in my town (Lexington, MA) and I brought a CRT and some old cell phones to properly dispose of. My town is predominantly wealthy, and highly prioritizes academia and technology...

Somehow I'm pretty sure I managed to score a working LC575 motherboard with an ethernet card onboard, and it is supposed to arrive in the mail later this week! It has been a dream of mine to get the CC on the internet for email, wikipedia, etc. but now that I've gotten the machine to work...

A few weeks ago I got a nice external Apple 2GB SCSI hard disk from a friend. I tried using it with my Classic (running system 6.0. 8) and no matter what device ID # I used (tried 0-7) the drive being on and connected prevented the Classic from booting because it made a sick mac screen and a...

I just got my first PowerPC ever, a cute little PB53000cs. All my life I've been a Windows user, and the past few months I've been collecting 68k compacts so I'm pretty excited to see what 100mhz RISC can do. I'm thinking of trying to get a wireless card! Perhaps I could upgrade OS from 7.6 to...

Okay! My Color Classic is finally running for a long period of time, and was able to turn on after I shut it down and installed a PDS ethernet card. My question now: How can I get this thing on the internet, or at least can I check my pop3 mail? I have it plugged into a 10/100 ethernet router...

Hi Folks, About two weeks ago I made this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10005 asking for help with my Color Classic, which finally, for two days, worked perfectly. Over the past few days while the website has been down the Color Classic has not been able to startup once, no matter how long I...

I just got a free SE and SE/30, both of which ask for an OS at startup, but the bootdisk I made of 6.0.8 from the windows program at http://www.macgeek.org/downloads/index.html doesn't seem to work - just remembered the SE can't read the 1.44 disk. When I put the disk inside my working SE/30...

So I picked up 3 compacts from the side of the street in Arlington, MA yesterday. Rather I could say my girlfriend grudgingly picked them up for me. I found: }:) A Mac Plus converted into a Mac 'o Lantern - would look very nice if the paint hadn't chipped, not sure what to do with it now...

Yesterday I went to a beautiful horse farm in Massachusetts and picked up a dead Color Classic in 9/10 cosmetic condition (more on that in the Compact Macs form). It also came with a ZOOM V.32bis modem (2 phone jacks and a parallel looking jack that has a cable that ends in Appletalk) and Color...

Hi folks, I just picked up a dead Color Classic which is cosmetically in nearly 10/10 condition - no yellowing, still has the qucktime sticker, everything! Unfortunatley, it does not turn on. The man I bought it from (who runs a horse farm!) said that it was working perfectly last year, but...