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I finally made it happen, I now own an Apple Lisa! This has been my "holy grail" for many years now. I ended up getting a 2/10 which is the one I always wanted. I love the lack of batteries and the Widget hard drive! And it is probably the most common of the Lisa variants. Here it is in its...

I have been thinking about getting one for several years now and I finally decided it was time, I bought myself an original Mac II! Should have done it years ago, I LOVE this thing! Here's a pic of the Mac II right after I had gotten it fully working but before I cleaned it. You may notice...

I have been patiently waiting for many years for an affordable reproduction accelerator for the Mac SE, and the time has finally come! I wasn’t even aware these were out until I saw Ron’s video on it, and I immediately went and bought one! Here it is installed onto my SE’s logic board (please...

*First, I hope this is okay to ask for here, if not then I have no issue with this thread being removed! I have been pulling my hair out trying to find a good image for this. The main one out there floating around is packaged in .zip format and appears to be damaged, as NONE of the classic Mac...

Some of you may have seen in my finds thread that I am finally the proud owner of a bone stock 1984 Macintosh 128! Very good condition! First issue to tackle was bad RAM, which is a common issue on the 128k due to the high failure rate of the Micron brand RAM chips used. Here was the...

Some of you remember the like-new and tunnel-free PowerBook 180 I got a while back. Well, I’m going down the rabbit hole of trying to get a SECOND tunnel-free 180! Or at least mostly tunnel-free anyway… I really want a “beater” machine I can carry around and not have to worry about. The mint...

Some of you probably saw this PowerBook 180 I posted about in my conquests thread. Finally decided to crack it open to inspect the internal plastics yesterday. Of course, the usual problem standoffs were broken! It seems actual use has little do do with this. I think what happens is the...

Does anyone know where the full version of Newtpaint can be had? The demo is readily available, but it’s pretty useless since it expires after a while. Thanks!

What’s the best/easiest method for viewing image files (bmp, gif, etc) on Newton OS 2.0 (not 2.1) devices? I can’t really find a straightforward way to do it and I think I could save myself some time by asking here. I found a media viewer (forget the name) but it seems to require several other...

I just got a 1984 Macintosh 512K yesterday, and will be documenting the adventures with it here. Here are the first pics I took before anything was done: As you can see from the serial, this Mac started life out as a 128K. Pretty cool. It’s the best of both worlds in my opinion. The awesome...

I’ve had a rough PowerBook 170 for several years now, with an almost perfect LCD (no tunneling, and only one dead pixel). The 170 (along with the 145B) are my favorite first-gen 100-series PowerBooks. It’s time it gets the restoration it deserves. Here’s some pics of it in the current state...

Not sure how many already know this, but Wikipedia is wrong. It states that 7.1 is the minimum it can run: Yes, it incorrectly reports as a 140 (well, that’s essentially what a 145B is, with some small changes), but It doesn’t seem to cause any trouble. And yes, the picture is dark and...

What the title says. Can it be done? 

I found this nice earlier model SE on eBay for a great price. I was really hoping it would have the squirrel cage fan/blower, but it’s about a year newer that I thought it was, so it does not. I plan to swap the analog board out at some point for an older one that does. I’ve heard they move a...

Anyone had/have one of these?   I found this at Goodwill quite a while ago and had to have it because it’s actually a clicky keyboard! Not sure what switches they are, but it’s most certainly clicky. Bit smaller than a genuine Apple Extended Keyboard (which was another lucky Goodwill find...

This is a Mac Plus I found at an antique store in 2015 for $60. Wasn’t the steal of the century, but I had a platinum Plus, so I really wanted this beige one. Turns out, it was a very early product unit! I just recently discovered the serial decoder on myoldmac.net, and it is indeed an...

Even though I have a “finds” thread, this is really special to me, and I feel it deserves it’s own post (I’ll add a link to it in my finds thread). I’ve finally acquired my all-time favorite 8-bit computer! An Apple IIe! These certainly aren’t rare by any means, but I have wanted one of these...

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but will a high-res screen from an A1138 work on an A1095? This would be a nice upgrade for my A1095 if it would work.  Thanks!

The left fan in my trusty 1.5GHz 15" PowerBook G4 started making an awful sound, and I figured I'd probably end up having to replace the fan, but upon removing it, I found the sticker from inside the machine that had fallen lose was touching the fan! (Outlined in green in the pic). This was...

Never seen one of these done in all-tantalums before, but it seems to work great! The contrast drifting has almost completely vanished. Once I recap the inverter, it should be perfect. I also noticed that the overall image quality is better.