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Hello MLAers, I did some work tonight on bringing over the Capacitor Replacement page. I'll finish up bringing the missing media over this week, but I took some time to clean up the page a bit in the process. Would anyone mind taking a breeze through the cap values, or maybe add missing...

Hello MLAers, An upgrade of the forum software is scheduled for the weekend of 2026-06-26. The forum will be unavailable periodically during this weekend as maintenance is carried out. //wthww

Hello MLAers, Name change functionality has been enabled in your account details. You can change your name up to once per year. You'll need to supply the new name and a reason, see screenshot below. Approval is automatic. //wthww

You may notice there's a new DokuWiki instance on the wiki.68kmla.org subdomain.... we're working to integrate SSO in a way that doesn't require we edit XenForo or dokuWiki in a meaningful way for longterm maintenance. This is a technology shift from the old MediaWiki for sure, and we'll be...

Hello MLAers, We've setup a new web frontend to the MLA designed for use with your favorite vintage machine. You can find the 68kMLA Classic interface here. Meta-discussion in this Hacks and Development thread. //wthww

Hello MLAers, I've been working on making a version of the MLA available for browsing on our favorite vintage macs. The interface can be found here: http://classic.68kmla.org/index.html Please give this a shot and let me know what you think! I would consider this in alpha as of now. Styling...

Hello MLAers, We've re-enabled friendly URLs for the site. You'll notice URLs for posts and media now look something like this: Old: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/2025-12-26-approval-queue-purge.51330/ New: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/2025-12-26-approval-queue-purge.51330/...

Hello MLAers, We're going to do the yearly purge of the Account Approval queue, which is ever increasing due to spammers. The queue is up to over 10,000 spammer accounts which makes it hard to find the real entries that may have been inadvertently flagged by the automated system. This is an...

I'm sure everyone here has their favorite old mac -- mine is the G3 AIO or "Molar Mac". The first time I saw one of these in my school library I was absolutely blown away and I remember vividly thinking, "thats one strange looking computer!" and always tried to snag one before they were swapped...

Well, I snagged another C500 from @defor … they’re multiplying! I just love the form factor of these…very nearly a pizza box! Anyone else have a deep and abiding love for the weird Macs and clones? 🙃 I’ll post a few pics later today. As is typical of defor this machine is super clean.

Hello MLAers, I'll be bumping the forum software to the latest versions the weekend of 2025-12-06 through 2025-12-7 in Pacific. During this time the site will bounce back and forth between being online and offline. Please join us in the IRC at irc.68kmla.org in channel #68kmla or on follow us...

Hello MLAers, I'll be bumping the forum software and underlying stack to their latest versions the weekend of 2025-05-09 through 2025-05-11 in Pacific. During this time the site will bounce back and forth between being online and offline. Please join us in the IRC at irc.68kmla.org in channel...

Hello all, I'm happy to report that email for the site was restored today, and you should all be getting notifications again! Woot! Thanks, //wthww

Hello All, Just wanted to let you all know that over the upcoming weekend (starting 11/25-11/27) we'll be taking care of some routine care and feeding of the web stack the site runs on. This includes: Upgrading the underlying VMs to the latest distro provided php/nginx/etc. We are currently on...

Hello all, We've recently had some drama revolving around an ex-member creating sock-puppet accounts to evade being banned and disrupting the site. I wanted to take a second to talk about how we handle ban-evasion and in general how we moderate. 1) The ex-member was banned ten years ago for...

I snagged one of these on eBay a couple months ago for a very reasonable sum as I recently got a C500 from a friend. I think it's finally time to test it out :) Will take some pics and let y'all know how it goes. Likely my best random eBay catch in a while. //wthww

Hello All, In the course of being an administrator for a site like the MLA, for as long as it has been around, you sometimes have to deliver bad news. It is with the greatest respect, and sadness, that I would like to inform you all Tony Diaz, a pillar of the Apple ][ and Mac communities has...

Hello All, I figured I'd make a quick how-to for my own reference and to make this a little easier for folks who may want to emulate a powermac on Linux. This will be a step-by-step for each distribution, starting with Arch because I use it daily. This will be a WIP where I add sections for...

Hello All, The main site has been migrated. We're working on the wiki, snitz archive, and mail still. These should be completed over the day today. If you encounter any issues with the site, please report them in the bugtracker thread! Thanks, wthww

Hello All, We have updated the site/theme to the latest versions, performed much needed database maintenance, migrated the gnarliest functions to redis from db/file backed, and completed some general cleaning up. In this maintenance window, the following bugs have been squashed: Friendly...