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Hello. I was able to purchase a pair of the FlashBox LocalTalk boxes, two floppies and two Mac serial port cables. Before seeing these, I had no idea that Sun had something to do with LocalTalk or all things. http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/sun/TOPS/TOPS_Product_Guide_1990.pdf...

Inspired by @Phipli's thread about PPC BeOS software, I got my PowerComputing Powercenter 132 back on the desk and finally tried some more BeOS on it :geek: Using a pre-made BeOS image I was very quickly up and running, and mostly everything seemed to work fine out of the box. The only...

A small success story... I've had my Centris 610 for almost 20 years now. As time went on I wanted to experiment with A/UX which meant I upgraded the CPU from the stock LC040 to a full 040, the part I was able to source for that was a XC68040HRC25M, ie. a 25Mhz part. As the oscillator on the...

Hi. Years ago when I got my Mac LC with an Apple Portrait Display, there was this PDS card inside the machine. I presumed it was required to use the Portrait display (I am not sure if I ever tried it with the LC's built-in graphics, and now I couldn't find a list of what Macs supported it by...

Hi, I bought pile of Mac IIfx parts (from a machine sadly already trashed due to a heavy battery-bomb) from a local auction. The main piece of the auction for me was an Asante MacCon+ IIe Nubus Ethernet card (with an external twisted pair MAU). I just put this into my IIcx and it works great...

Hello all. Years ago, I was given a nice Centris 610 machine, interesting little pizzabox, apparently a bit rarer as it was produced for such a short time. I've been slowly upgrading it, and have since recapped the motherboard, CD-drive and PSU. I've also replaced the LC040 with a full 040 and...

Ok, I bought a copy of MS Flight Simulator for the Macintosh for a grand prize of 3,5 euros, couldn't resist  :)  The manual's cover is a bit worn but everything else looks pretty great. Unfortunately the disk doesn't seem to work (advertised as such). The seller told me that he tried the disk...

Hi. My SE FDHD has a slight geometry problem; the bottom edge of the image is not straight. From about half way horizontally, it's either that the left side curves up or the right side curves down. Looking at the picture attached, it might be that the bottom-right corner is slightly skewed to...

Has anyone come across any good methods on minimizing/hiding/filling pry marks like this on the compact Mac cases? The usual story; some previous owner tried to open the case and with a screwdriver tried to pry the case open (possible without noticing the two screws in the handle-recession). And...

Here are two things I was playing with on my Mac 512Ke today :) First is a 3D-printed "battery replacement" for the early Macs. It uses three LR44 batteries in series (counting up to the 4,5v as the original) and mounts in place of the original battery. Much cheaper than buying one of...

Hi! New here :) Was going to post this here first, but as my activation email didn't get thrue until today, I posted this already in Reddit /r/vintageMac. I came across a local ad for a Mac 512K keyboard and mouse. Reading the ad, I noticed that it actually noted "a non-working Mac 512K can...