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  1. B S Magnet

    Other AliExpress bargains: what’s your latest ‘‘aw heck yah’’ find?

    I tend to look around AliExpress for small, minor components for repairing my Macs. In the past, I’ve bought replacement unibody keyboard kits and hard drive cables from vendors on there whose supply came from the same suppliers as what Apple relied on originally. This day, I was looking for a...
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    • bargains components nos old parts parts replacement parts upcycling upkeep vintage mac hardware
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    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
  2. 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...
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    • vintage mac vintage mac hardware vintage software
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  3. B S Magnet

    iM 4,1-14,4 Diary of a freebie A1224 iMac7,1: a project to improve it to its outer limits

    After a mess of posts in The Freebies Thread in the PowerPC Macs forum — post #77 and posts #99 through #125 — I felt it was probably appropriate to give this freebie iMac its own thread and due in its own thread, rather than to monopolize a clearinghouse post (for the variety of free stuff the...
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    • a1224 early intel revival imac7.1 penryn reuse reversed obsolescence santa rosa upcycling vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
  4. AF_APPLETALK

    Goodwill Finds

    Apple Power Macintosh 7200/75 Tested Works **No Hard Drive OS** https://shopgoodwill.com/item/150871183
  5. B S Magnet

    ★★★ Inviting Apple Collector forum participants to help decode known assembly locations of Apple hardware serials

    For a little while, I’ve been working on a project over on the PowerPC Macs forum, collecting serial prefixes on Apple gear going back to at least 1983 and making a list of where Apple hardware components were assembled. I’ve been doing so mostly to have as many known Apple assembly...
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    • accessories apple history assembled components hardware manufactured manufacturer serial numbers vintage vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Apple Collectors
  6. S

    Home iPod hifi - Airplay 2 self-contained mod!

    Hey everyone! I've been a longtime Macrumors reader, but haven't posted much. Figured I'd share a project I did recently (and hope this is in the right sub!). I saw the iPod Hifi a couple years ago in person and became slightly obsessed, both with the design and the sound quality. I went on a...
  7. S

    iPod hifi - Airplay 2 self-contained mod!

    Hey everyone! I've been a longtime Macrumors reader, but haven't posted much. Figured I'd share a project I did recently (and hope this is in the right sub!). I saw the iPod Hifi a couple years ago in person and became slightly obsessed, both with the design and the sound quality. I went on a...
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    • airplay 2 audio diy projects ipod hifi speaker streaming vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  8. jkg4

    The Benetton Mac

    1992 Macintosh PowerBook 170 “JLPGA” special edition:  ? ?? ??‍♀️
  9. sailingdarter

    Help me troubleshoot a LaserWriter 4/600 PS

    Hello MacRumors community, I am having an issue with a LaserWriter 4/600 that I have managed to keep working all these years until about a month ago. I think that there may be a problem with the gear assembly that drives the paper pickup. But I am not sure how to describe this issue so I made...
  10. Oobnoxious

    Did a monitor just blow up my Powermac G3?

    Hi Everyone, First post long time lurker, Long story short i Just got a hold of 4 old Macs + a monitor: - G3 Beige Desktop - Powermac 7200/200 - Mac Quadra 605 - MAc LC Apple CRT monitor I booted up the G3 by itself and the light came on and it seemed to boot fine. Booted the monitor by...
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