I worked for an Apple Dealer from 1992-2002. I'm not a collector so I didn't save much from those days but I found this in a jar last night.

Hey all, new here. I turned on my iBook G3 for the first time in years and the display is totally messed up. I remember it going kinda in and out last time I used it. But when it went out it was never this bad, just a little washed out. There is no LCD damage to my knowledge. There is a crack near the phone jack and the dial up modem has never worked since I bought it. I suppose it could be drop damage, I’m just wondering if this is something that could be repairable?

I’ve been trying to open one up as a test– I feel confident I could recell one myself if I could get it open without damaging it, but between hot air, spudgers and exacto knives on the seams, I haven’t been able to crack it open yet. I’ve made progress, but it’s still holding together on the corners and top. It just won’t budge.

I would appreciate any tips/advice or a hookup to anyone who does recell batteries. I have several and would be happy to pay to just get them rebuilt!

Anyone know how to do this?

IIRC laptops had sharp corners because the system knew that LCDs could draw up to the corners.

Maybe an extension exists somewhere?

From what is it and where do i put it

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So excited to share my new game for 68K and PPC Macs, Angry Robots! This is designed to work on systems as early as the Macintosh Plus. To download a shareware version of the game, head over to https://criminalcaterpillar.com/angryrobots/download/

The game is also available for physical purchase and comes in a box with an 800K floppy and full colour manual.

This game is inspired by Chips Challenge, which never came to the Macintosh. Can't wait to hear what people think of the game!

Scooped it up right away they were only asking $49. Grabbed the Keyboard for an extra $5. Booted right up into the OS in store!

I'm looking to get Power Mac G5 to experience classic Mac OS on the most powerful hardware possible.

What are things I should look out for? Are there common faults or issues?

I'm also looking to get an apple cinema display happy to get advice there

I've got a PowerBook G3 Lombard. It does not support booting from USB and does not have FireWire. The original CD-ROM drive has been gutted by the previous owner and the internals replaced with a DVD-R drive. It works beautifully, but it is not bootable. It returns some garbage error in open firmware. I can install OS 9 no problem from within the OS, but replacing the HDD or installing OS X is out of the question.

The original HDD (well, probably replaced in the early 2000s, 12 GB instead of the original 4) works, but I have to start it with a hammer after sitting for more than a week unused, because the head tends to stick. It'll probably continue working like this for the rest of this decade, but I hate it, it's slow, noisy in the unpleasant late 90s HDD fashion and terribly low capacity.

I have tried every possible way to boot it from CD, nothing will work. No button combination, no open firmware command, nothing. I thought of trying netboot but it's also apparently rubbish and terribly limited in typical Apple fashion.

What do I do with this thing??!! The only possible option I can think of is to mess with the shaky USB to PATA adapters or perhaps replace the drive with a CF card. I've already got a dozen good spare PATA laptop drives and I want that healthy old school HDD noise, solid state is boring.

How can I identify which extension or program takes so much ram ? It’s a fresh image I got from the bluescsi documentation. I tried to disable extensions but I still have 64 Mb taken by system.

I picked up a Macintosh 128k recently which won't read floppy disks on its internal drive. I unfortunately don't have a way to test the floppy disks included with the computer, but I find it unlikely that all of the disks would be bad, and so I am assuming it is a problem with the drive.

The drive will accept disks and will attempt to read them, even displaying the Happy Mac logo for a second or two before ejecting the disk as unreadable. Is this an issue that can be fixed by cleaning and re-lubing the drive, and if so, are there any online tutorials for doing this? Thanks.

I recently dug out my iMac G4 and set it up. I don’t know if I’ll keep it (desk takes up a lot of room) but I do need a mouse and power cord.

I have a cord but the rubber has come apart where it plugs into the back. It doesn’t look like an issue but today when it wouldn’t start, I wiggled it a bit and was able to power it on.

As for the mouse… I know I have a 1 button Apple mouse somewhere but a second button would be nice. I have an Apple Pro (I think that’s the one) keyboard and I believe it’ll work.

The mouse would need to be wired or have its own wireless adaptor. My year old Logitech wireless one didn’t work. The internal BT cable is broken.

Hey All, I just upgraded the firmware on my Pismo 500mhz to 4.1.8f5 after finding the download and seeing I was on an older version. Now I’m having massive stability issues with the system, and some googling reveals an iFixIt article detailing that this firmware version was actually recalled by Apple at some point due to stability problems.

I’ve found version 4.1.8 and would like to downgrade the firmware, but when I attempt it says that I already have a newer version and won’t let me proceed. I run OS 9.2.1 FWIW

Has anyone been through this before? I understand that Apple firmware is generally not downgradeable, but if I can’t then unfortunately my retro-gaming laptop is basically a brick.

Any help with downgrading would be much appreciated!

I recently dig out an old 2003 20” iMac G4. It seems a little yellowish. Is there anything I can do to whiten it up besides soaking in hydrogen peroxide? The biggest eyesore is the screen bezel.

I will admit I haven’t really cleaned it up so it’s still dusty but I wanted to get this out there.

I have a Mac 512k in good shape, and a FloppyEmu. I hate the idea of throwing it in the trash, so I'm wondering if there's a development environment available for it, just for tinkering.

Is there a disk image or software package I could download and start writing code in Pascal or C or something else?

Oh, any sources on programming documentation would be cool too. :)

Thanks.

EDIT: It looks like /u/Purdius_Tacitus has the right answer with MDS. Thanks everyone!

I beg for help pls 😭 the board behind it seems loose so that might have something to do with it but how would i go about sealing it/gluing it

Hi peops. I need some advice.

My dad has a few old macs and wanted me to get all the files from them.
A M3959 (Powermac 4400/200), M5920 (Mac Quadra 700), M2391(Some ol powermac) and a M3098 (Powermac 9500).

I've thought about the easiest way to get files from them and my dad really don't want to send them to a company. They "should" all be operational and I'm wondering if the easiest way is to connect them to an external hard drive with a USB to DB-25 adapter.

Do you guys think that could work?

https://www.clasohlson.com/medias/sys_master/hec/h12/67891372720158.pdf

https://www.clasohlson.com/no/Adapter,-USB-til-serieport/p/39-1371

They have some neat Apple products there. Wondering if anyone has?