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I just found out that someone has created a server that allows ancient AIM clients to connect and chat: http://iwarg.ddns.net/phoenix/ It should be noted that the reason why AIM was abandoned was that the authentication method is not secure, so keep that in mind. That being said... it's just...

Hi guys. I have gotten my hands on a performa 6400 logic board as well as a TRACO POWER TSR 1-2433 voltage regulator. I remember there was some post on how to upgrade a 6200/6300 power supply to support alchemy boards, but I can't find it. Does anyone know of a guide for people who aren't...

Hi everybody, I am trying to set up my LC III for networking and I can't seem to figure it out. It has an ethernet card in one of those weird pre-PCI slots (are they called NUBUS or something else?) I think the brand is Farallon or something, I had downloaded the driver and installed it on...

Hey all, So I was saddened last night to find that, after probably 2 years of not being used, the hard drive on my Macintosh is a goner. I got the dreaded "?" disk icon when attempting to boot. As you might have gathered from the last post I made here, I have recently configured my scsi2sd to...

Hey guys, I could not find any official help page about this so I posted here because I am getting desperate. I have a scsi2sd (v5 I believe, the short red one that uses microsd) that I have configured before, a long time ago, maybe 2017 or early 18. I used to use it in my LC III, but then I...

Hi everyone. I have recently taken a renewed interest in the Apple IIGS system I acquired a few years ago. It came with an ImageWriter II printer. I just installed a new color ribbon for it and did the self test, and it works fine. I have printed from this printer before, both on this IIGS as...

I have more or less scoured macintosh garden and I wanted to know if anyone is aware if this kind of software even exists. An encyclopedia software (preferably with images) for much older mac, like system 6 and before, so that will run on older macs like the SE, and from floppy disks. Does...

This is a pretty good find. An elderly woman had a couple old computers that she wanted to get rid of, and that included this Power Macintosh 6500 that she apparently had for a really long time but never used. Her friend had given it to her about ten years ago and it has been sitting in her...

Hi all, I am having issues with my  best CRT monitor. Basically it started with random refreshes/zaps, it would happen sporadically while I am using it. But then I started having an issue where there would just be no picture. The light would turn green but the screen would remain black. I know...

I have recently installed and initialized an external mass storage drive for my Apple IIGS and installed System 6.0.1 on it. I had been able to access floppies just fine from within GSOS booted from the hard drive. But I had noticed that the 5.25 wasn't working, and then I noticed that the...

I have set up my SCSI2SD with SCSI ID 6 (needed for the IIGS to recognize it, apparently) and a 30MB drive. Here are my results. When I load Copy II Plus, it recognizes the drive. I can format it from there. There isn't an option to initialize it. I am not entirely sure what that actually means...

Ok guys this is what I have tried. I loaded system 6.0.1 and then went to the floppy II emu and selected Music Studio 2.0. I ejected the system floppy and then popped in a blank one and initialized/erased it. I dragged the Music2.0 disk to the blank disk and copied it all over. But the thing...

Hello all, I have an iMac G3 Indigo that appears to have some yellowing, either to the translucent casing or to the plastic that is underneath. I am wondering, first of all, how difficult these are to take apart. I have seen some youtube videos of people taking them apart, but most of them do...

I made a post about this earlier... I had thought this had to do with copying files from pc formatted disk, but it turns out it has nothing to do with that. Basically I want to be able to send pictures over email. I have outlook express on Macintosh System 7.6. When I attach the picture and...

Hi everyone, the reason I am posting this is because I have seen multiple people express interest in using email/web with older macs, i.e. system 7. I have been working on a project called LegacyWeb that is intended to turn a raspberry pi into a wireless bridge combined with a kind of...

Hi all, I have a Sony Mavica camera that uses floppy disks. When I take out the floppy and stick it in my performa, the image files have a PC label. I know that the way mac and dos handle files is different, something about resource forks/data forks or whatever. I know that I can open it on my...

I realize that there was another thread a couple before this one that I had started, and could probably have continued. I hope that it isn't a problem starting a new thread.   Anyways, as some of you have read about in the last thread, I had bought a Performa 6500 board on eBay to stick in my...

I got a 6500 board on eBay. It arrived this weekend, wrapped in bubble wrap, not in anti static bag. Ugh. At first when I tried putting it into my performa 6300cd, it wouldn't respond to the power button at all. I found out this was because some of the pins were bent. I fixed this using a tiny...

There is someone in my city who is offering a working Power Macintosh 5260 on craigslist for 25 dollars with keyboard, mouse and original software. I know this is one of the road apples, as they call them, but I wanted to mention that I have a 6500 motherboard that I had bought for my 6300CD...

I recently did a fresh install of Mac OS 7.6 on my PPC performa. I also upgraded to 7.6.1. I am wondering how I get the control strip. It isn't there by default, I can't find it in the control panels and didn't see an option for it in the installation. I know I have had the control strip in...