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  1. wrimomateo

    Can I share a Pre-G4 Technician System Recovery Disk?

    Hello all, long-time reader, first time poster. I was cleaning out some old Mac stuff when I came across something I'd completely forgotten about for decades. It's a copy of a disk, so it has no monetary value, but it's an old Apple tech CD called the System Recovery Disk (version 5.0). It'll...
  2. sailingdarter

    Vintage Computing display kickstarted that may be worth backing

    I just saw this on my youtube feed and was instantly hooked. This could solve so may problems with resolution and sync scaling with vintage Macs. I was hoping to get it more exposure here before the kickstarter closes I apologize if this is against the rules but due to the low amount of...
  3. A

    Macintosh SE Hard Drive Issue

    Hi all, I recently purchased a Macintosh SE with the flashing floppy disc with the question mark. Knowing it had a bad hard drive, I went and grabbed a parts computer with a known good hard drive. Booted right up, worked great, was playing games and everything. I turned the machine off and came...
  4. S

    FrogRSS - RSS aggregator for vintage Macs

    Hello everyone. Based on ideas of FrogFind! and 68k.news I've built an full fledged RSS aggregator/client usable on and vintage Macs and very old browsers. I've successfully used it with Netscape 4.7 on System 7.5 . I wanted to access my favorite RSS feeds from all my computers - vintage and...
  5. Brentfordsmith

    1987 Macintosh II

    Hi everyone! I have come across a Macintosh II while going through some old stuff. It is only the computer, no monitor keyboard or mouse. The problem is, I can’t seem to find anyone selling them. The local computer store was also unable to help find much information on it. I know value on these...
  6. mikelark456

    Imac G3 won't turn on

    Hey guys, I recently ended up with a 600mhz snow imac g3. I won it for very cheap, and so, as expected, it was in pretty rough shape. the entire inner bezel was in pieces and the outer bezel was barely held in place. however when i plugged it in it bonged and booting into 10.2 just fine. however...
  7. macnerd93

    Trying to find a cooling fan for my G4 Cube

    Hi all, So I got my G4 Cube onto my desk the other day (after spending around a year on a shelf on display) she’s now setup with Mac OS. 9.2.2 and OS X Jaguar as a working computer and it actually works great with my FireWire 400 capture box And Final Cut Pro Version 3. Something my 15 inch MBP...