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I opened up the Classic and cleaned the board with both alcohol and then water with a q-tip. I got sound working out of the headphone jack, but nothing out of an internal speaker yet. I watched some videos on youtube on how to replace capacitors. I'm feeling a little confident on trying to...

I managed to find a few converters to use either a modern monitor or a tv on eBay once I got off the school internet. I'm going to look for some homebrew options so I don't have to sink any money into the IIgs just yet.

I just got a IIgs the other day. Just the computer, a power cable, and what I believe to be a cable for connecting the computer to the monitor. After looking around, I realized that the pins on the cable (and on the computer itself) wouldn't support any of the monitors I have access to. xx(...

I got my hands on a working Macintosh Classic :p It starts up and runs just fine, the only problem being that there's no sound. Everywhere I looked says that the Macintosh Classic has built in sound, but nothing seems to work. I opened it up and took out the board and found that nearly all...

Got the eMac up and running :p It had OS 9.2 on it, but I upgraded it with an additional 512MB or RAM and with OS X Jaguar. The purple iMac's been having a "I'm going to shut off randomly with no warning" problem. No clue where to begin on that one... Turns out my recycler friend managed to...

Today I got the chance to check out the warehouse this guys been storing his old computers he got from schools all over the state. I did some looking around and found quite a good amount of stuff. Here's what (I remembered that) I found: Apple stuff: 3 Apple /// montiors 3 Apple ][ monitors...

And I should be getting a purple one tomorrow ;D It's just the computer. No power cable, keyboard, mouse, or any other goodies unless you count the kindergarten game disk that was left in the cd tray :-/ I borrowed a power cable from one of my other Macs and started it up to see how it...

I loaded the System Profiler and it said: It's my luck that a school bought something that says it's one thing, but turns out to be another I also formatted the drive and did a clean install of OS 8.0 and updated to 8.1 since that's the highest I can go right now. It starts up a bit faster than...

Turns out one of the guys in my technical college class used to go to schools and take out old computers to send parts to recyclers. I brought in my LC 575 for some cleaning and formatting, maybe a memory expansion if I was lucky and we got to talking. Turns out he's got quite a few Macs in...

I'm going to be digging around to find a Mac-compatible modem. I know a couple people that are sitting on a surplus of computer parts who might have a modem that would work. Noted. I think I'll ask anyone here before I even consider connecting anything to said port.

Okay. It's the larger serial port that it's going to. The one with the SCSI icon above/below it (I forget which). So it would be best to see if I can find another modem? I had a feeling it would go down to that. School will be open on Monday and I'll see if there's any other old retired modems...

I just tried plugging in the modem with the phone cables to the mac and it did the same thing as before. It doesn't matter if the modem is on or off, if I plug it into the SCSI port, it locks up. I can move the cursor around, but I can't click on anything. If I turn on the computer with the...

I finally got both my LC 575 and 580 up and running properly thanks to all of the help from you guys :) The LC 575 is currently up at my technical college for some major dusting. While I was up there, I found an old dial-up modem. Since I'm cursed with dial-up at home, I thought maybe I...

Thank you ;D Downloading it now and looking for a way to burn the image from Windows XP

I found a way to make Mac disks from Windows XP The way suggested by Paralel worked for me if I initialized a floppy with Mac and used RaWrite to write a .dsk image of the System 7.0 Disk Tools floppy I found on the internet. Even though the disk is useless so far to me, it means I've got a...

I'd actually prefer to install by floppy so I can put all of these floppies to good use ;) But a CD works fine as well since both computers have CD drives I've yet to have the chance to install ethernet ports. As soon as I scratch up some more money it's the first thing going into them. All...

I have yet to try reading the .sit files on the mac. Most of the time when I try to open files, the mac opens them with Stickies. The only other Apple products I have access to are a couple of iPods. It's nearly impossible to find any Mac computers in my area. I would buy the installation CD...

I managed to save a working LC 575 and an LC 580 from my grandma's school. They work fine, but I want to install a clean copy of System 7.5.3 that I found on the Apple website. I thought this process would be a simple one, but I've run into countless roadblocks being the inexperienced mac user I...