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My brother found a platinum Mac plus somewhere for $100 with a keyboard and mouse. *Buy it at once!* I said. It wouldn’t go beyond the ram test when we started it and the screen was shaken and too bright in lines, so I figured the analogue board was fried. Doing an inventory of my compacts...

Just uploaded FrameMaker 3 to Macintosh Garden. Mac Garden FM 3 One for the DTP nerds out there, but it's one of the few times I've uploaded anything that hasn't been on the web before. Not a perfect archive — the disk images don't seem to work in any meaningful way, but I've managed to get...

So having given up on my SE/30's ethernet card for the time being (see thread elsewhere) and hooked up a sci to ethernet adaptor, I find that I'm getting wireless AppleTalk. I didn't think that was possible. I have a Linksys Velop wireless system at home. I'm sitting upstairs with my SE/30...

Hi all. So, many years ago my parents' then new puppy came over and chewed through the ribbon cable that connects my SE/30's ethernet card to the interface daughter card: I assumed this was a plug in one, but turns out the socket is soldered onto the board itself: So, my question is: what...

Hi all. A Mac Mini question. I’ve recently acquired a Mini G4 1.25, which is the first one: PowerMac10,1. I want to use the thing as a bridge server from modern Mac to 68k.    Everymac lists this as having an Ultra ATA/100 storage interface. OWC no longer seems to stock an SSD for this - they...

Ahoy all - the Apple Multiple Scan 17 Display is listed as requiring system 7.1. I seem to recall that it defaults to 640x480 otherwise. But what happens if you hook one up to a video card that only supplies, say, 1024x768? There’s one for sale nearby, but I want to use it with system 6. Any ideas?

Ugh. Snared a working LaserWriter 4/600 with a spare cartridge and the brain genius seller posted it without any padding. At all. Loose in a box. Predictable results. I’ll get a refund through eBay, presumably, but what a goddamned waste. 

Riiiight. As per my conquests thread, it was meant to work and...doesn't. Nothing at all when plugged in. You never get this sort of nonsense from an ImageWriter.  Following the table on page 4.16 of the service manual it seems the power supply is dead. I got through to "5 Connect the...

Hi all I have a week's leave, so I'm going through my collection of compacts working out what works and what doesn't. I have a nice 512 (M0001ED) which, when switched on, makes what I think is the noise Larry Pina describes as "flup flup flup". No sign I can spot of leaky capacitors. For what...

Ugh. Arrived, looks the part. Cable, stylus, power ada...bugger. No power adaptor. Did not notice that on the eBay ad. Anyone who has one able to tell me what voltage etc it was? Who knows what the pinouts on the weird four-pin cable were. Bugger. 

Hi all - does the DiimoCache 50mhz work with System 6 on a machine which would otherwise support the OS? Or does it, as indicated here, require System 7.0? Grateful for swift replies as I'm considering blowing a large bucket of money. 

Right. I’ve had a lot of these for a while, but I’ve only now caught my breath after having twins and moving house (in 2010...ahem) to start looking at them properly. First off is my Mac II upgraded to a IIfx. I don’t think this is very healthy. 

I’ve used the little mounting plate to sit inside the mouth of the tape drive case, which means I can access the SD card and USB port. Because I have it plugged into a Mac Plus which doesn’t supply termination power I’ve got it hooked up to the power supply of the tape drive using moles to...

With a bonus LC475 and a couple of StyleWriter IIs.  Seller said they power on, but couldn't test them. See if I still have a 13w3 cable...

Hi all Any idea what this switch on the back of my SE/30's video card does? 

Hi all, Long time no see! Hopefully this hasn't been covered in detail elsewhere (I did check, but one can never tell). Has anyone got any experience with these...

Not been here for a while... I don't think this has been posted anywhere else. Via Daringfireball.net: http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/

Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macintosh-Video-Adapter-SE-or-SE-30-Model-2703_W0QQitemZ200333659617QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item200333659617&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A5%7C294%3A50 It's a cable...

Completely unnecessary and expensive at $40, but I didn't have one and it's got SuperDrive screen printed on the front. Yay!

Hi all - I just got a copy of After Dark 1 which I bought off ebay, but unfortunately the registration card which should have the serial number on it isn't in the box. Does anyone have one?