PPC 9600 SCSI Optical Drive/Software IssueHi All Powermac 9600 with Sonnet G3 processor, Sonnet ATA card and ATA/IDE hard drives, everything else pretty much as-built standard. Running OS9.1. All had been normal for quite a while. But now the ...view more
Problems with LC IIIHi, Can anyone help me with problem with my classic Macintosh LC III please ? It worked fine when i bought it about a year ago but the started giving the dreaded booting problem due to a failed battery. At som...view more
20th anniversary mac service partsI'm curious if anyone has ideas on how I might find a CD-ROM to replace the CD-ROM in a 20th Anniversary Mac. I have a TAM a friend used, and I'm trying to ready it for sale. If you put in a CD, y...view more
Upgrading my Mac SE FDHD from 3.2 to 6.0.XHey, I have an Apple SE FDHD running system 3.2, I also have the system disks for 6.0.8. Is it possible to install 6.0.8 straight from 3.2 or would I have to install 4.0.X, 5.0.X and then 6.0.X? Also, does any...view more
Thread Father-in-law's Mac II just died. All data is on hard drive. He purchased an Apple desktop today. Is there anyway to have the hard drive removed and information transferred to new Apple?
Father-in-law's Mac II just died. All data is on hard drive. He purchased an Apple desktop today. Is there anyway to have the hard drive removed and information transferred to new Apple?
Anybody want a IISI?This was my very first computer. I had to smile, seeing it on eBay. No, this is not my listing… my Mac IISI is long gone. Really long. It was succeeded by the rock-solid (for me anyway) Power Mac 7600 and then ...view more
7.5.3 images on Apple siteAm I the only guy in the world who tries to open the 7.5.3 images in my Macs and they simply refuse to open? They are .smi images and they simply refuse to mount on any computer. I downloaded them with my SE/30, with ...view more
PowerBook 140: non-working floppyFolks, I just received a great PB 140 with 8 Meg's of Ram and a pretty huge hard drive. It functions perfectly except for the floppy drive, which does not work at all. If the 140 worked in SCSI mode, I would ...view more
Macintosh LC 475 Zip ProblemsAfter finally getting my macintosh LC to boot from a floppy disk (It doesn't have a hard drive, I connected an external scsi zip drive, And I planned on having it use the zip disk to boot, and floppies to get more dat...view more
How do I read really old files?I have recovered some files from my old Mac LC hard drive (cir. ~ 1994) that I would like to open, but don’t know what programs created them, nor do I have access to a machine that old. My best guess is that the...view more
Thread I have a PowerBook 145B but something is wrong with the systemfolder so it wont boot. I've downloaded System 7.0.1 from Apple and put it on Floppys with my Macintosh Classic. The PowerBook boots from the floppy, after a minute its just white. What to do?
I have a PowerBook 145B but something is wrong with the systemfolder so it wont boot. I've downloaded System 7.0.1 from Apple and put it on Floppys with my Macintosh Classic. The PowerBook boots from the floppy, after a minute its just white. What to do?
How do I get System 6 onto 800k floppies?I acquired MANY years ago a pair of original Macs; a Plus and an SE. They're relatively complete, and worked at one point. I also have external 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. The Plus has a keyboard (funky telephone-st...view more
Mac IIsi won't shutdownI installed clean Mac OS 7.6 on this Mac. It boots up to desktop just fine, but when I try to shutdown or restart it just gets stuck. I can still move the mouse, but can't click anything. I have to har...view more
Make Mac Classic display full white screenHello everyone once again. I have acquired yet another broken Mac Classic recently. When powered up, it shows random lines on screen and random sounds in the speaker. It seems to be a bad ROM. As I am not gonna bot...view more
How do I get an SE/30 working again?I lent my SE/30 to a friend a few years ago. When I got it back, it wouldn't work. I've forgotten what the error message was and wouldn't know where to start, in terms of getting it working again. Would I be able to t...view more