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As in, data pipe... heh, get it? :) ..........ahem. I'm looking for a way to remotely control my 68k Macs from my El Capitan & Mavericks Macs.  I've read that the last version of Timbuktu for Mac works back to 4.x, whichever version worked with OS 8.6 and above. I can't seem to find any...

So I finally drug my old 81/110 out of the storage room yesterday. I forgot just how well-built these cases were. It's a friggin' tank. I know I've done it before, but I cannot for the life of me remember how the front faceplate comes off. The plastics are strong, but I don't want to test them...

This is in my Q840. It has to be a cache card, but I can't tell which one. Has TWO DSP chips on it. Google images has been little help...

I recently (well, last year :) ) acquired a bag full of old SIMMs, DIMMs and the like... I am slowly going thru them and trying to identify them based on number of pins, speed in ns, and size, if I can figure that part out, too. Usually, Kingston RAM is pretty easy to identify, but this...

The place where I work has been using old Macs on the shop floor for time clock software for years. We just upgraded our MIS system and the old Macs have been replaced.  (1) Bondi blue iMac - don't know what revision it is yet, because someone cemented the screw into the bottom. Going to have...

I haven't posted a conquest in a long time, and recently I've gotten several. Seems like people tend to create an all-encompassing thread for their findings, so this is mine! Last fall, at our annual fall company picnic, I happened to mention that I collected vintage Macs. One of the salesmen...

Last year, my PB3400 quit working. Up until that point, it had been used regularly, at least twice a week, so it hadn't been sitting for a long period of time. Still, I thought maybe the PMU needed reset. After numerous attempts, I gave up and started looking for a new PMU board. I finally...

Our press room at work has used this trusty little fella as an employee time clock for years. This means it's been exposed to ink, grease, spray powder and all sorts of things. There's so much spray powder inside the case, you can see it shift around when you move the unit. Definitely gonna take...

Heading to Cincinnati tomorrow morning to pick up a Quadra 660AV I found on craigslist. Guy is the original owner and the machine has been well cared-for. Says he has some other goodies I might be interested in, too. Will post pics when I get home!

My 1.25GHz PowerBook G4 has been running pretty well since I acquired it -- it's going to eventually need a new HD, but suddenly a new issue has popped up. If I go to google.com or any site that connects to google in any way, the page takes FOREVER to load. I made sure AdBlock didn't have any...

As I said Thursday, my Classic died the same day as its creator. When I opened it to see if it was a simple matter of cleaning the motherboard, I found one badly-corroded battery and chassis inside. Surprisingly, the Classic had worked just a day prior, when I was doing some software tinkering...

Rescued a Sawtooth G4/500DP and a Quicksilver 867mhz G4 from my employer when they were bought out by a bigger company. I now work for the other company and am still working on rescuing a G4 Mini and maybe a G5 or two. Unfortunately the Quicksilver has a bad power supply. It won't turn on at...

Sorry, I'm a little excited. This machine has been my Eleanor for many years. I've wanted one ever since I was a wide-eyed teenager staring at one in the display window at Micro Center. Seller says it has a CD drive, but the picture doesn't show one. His feedback rating is nearly 100%, so I...

A guy I know is selling a Macintosh TV (the black one) -- here's the thing, tho. He's only got the computer and the keyboard... no mouse, no cables, and no remote. I can find the remote on eBay for under $10. Not worried about that. But he is asking $50 for just the computer & keyboard...

I can cross another one off my wishlist. Picked up a G4 Cube off of craigslist this past weekend for $100. It's in fantastic condition -- and its the only Cube I've seen in recent years that doesn't have the stress crack between the top screws and the air vent!! Here are the specs: 500MHz G4...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220396704412 I saw this on eBay last night just before bed. Thought, "eh, what the hell" and but a max. bid of $25 on it, and went to bed. Got home from work today to find out I can now convert my Radius 81/110, WGS8150 and 6100 to G3s :)...

Found a guy on eBay selling two IIci's. Turns out he's based just up the road from where I work. He runs an eBay consignment store. Someone dropped these off and he didn't know anything about them other than that they powered up and had RAM & hard drives. I won one of them that came with a...

I have a certain fondness that a lot of Mac collectors don't have -- I love Apple's printers. I wish they hadn't stopped making them. I have an ImageWriter II, a StyleWriter II and a LaserWriter IINTX. I followed an ad on Craigslist and found a near-mint condition Color LaserWriter 12/660 that's...