/r/VintageApple

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A place to discuss and share anything related to vintage Apple computers and products.

A place to discuss and share anything related to vintage Apple computers and products.

Please feel free to add photos of your personal collection, interesting articles about vintage Apple products, discussion on classic Apple computers, Newtons, Macintosh, Lisa, etc.

Please only post Pre-Intel products.

Note for older Macs on System 6-7 setting your date to 2020+? There is a bug in the Control Panel that this SetDate app can help you with.

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I found a little desktop clock does anyone know where to look up or find information about this. Sorry about this photo it's more of a square cube I don't know why it looks like this but any info would be great.

2 Comments
2024/10/11
02:04 UTC

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How To Get Software for My iMac G3?

I'm wondering if anyone can help me in finding how I can get some software onto my iMac or can let me know how they've managed it themselves.

I'm hoping I can get it connected to the internet (which I have yet to figure out if it will work without an airport) and then download some files online. Or possibly burn a cd or format a USB - which would be the easier of the three options?

I'm really hoping to get protools, photoshop and a 3D design program (have to find one) downloaded.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks :)

10 Comments
2024/10/11
00:31 UTC

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What is a good soldering gun to use for repairing old Macs?

I have a fairly large collection of old Apple products that I would like to recap. What is a very good soldering gun that I can buy that could serve to recap several Macs? I don't mind spending a little extra for something that will make the job that much easier.

13 Comments
2024/10/10
21:50 UTC

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Using a small projector inside a broken monitor to emulate a CRT through rear projection

6 Comments
2024/10/10
18:34 UTC

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15" iMac G4 700mhz with iSub

2 Comments
2024/10/10
17:15 UTC

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Sage Green Imac g3

does anyone have a sage green imac g3 that they’re looking to sell? i’m having a hard time finding one in good condition with keyboard and mouse.

1 Comment
2024/10/09
15:58 UTC

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An Original 1984 Macintosh 128k

40 years old and still works flawlessly.

4 Comments
2024/10/09
17:59 UTC

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BlueSCSI with Macintosh plus 1MB

Hi,

I have Macintosh plus 1MB and recently I have received BlueSCSI with DB25 connector.

The question is, what combination keys must be pressed on the keyboard to start booting from BlueSCSI?

Thanks for help.

6 Comments
2024/10/10
12:20 UTC

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iBook G4 no boot

12" 800MHz model. Connect power, press power button, no sound or noise. Since I do not have another device using that power supply I need to find a way to test it. According to what I read, the inner ring in the pin is +V, the tip does nothing, and the large "barrel" around the pin is GND. This may be a bit tricky to test...

Assuming power supply is good, what else to check?

I feel like tearing it apart in in the menu...

2 Comments
2024/10/10
12:48 UTC

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iMac G4 IDE Jumpers

Hi All

I bought an iMac G4 that had no internal HDD, machine would boot up fine off a OS install disk. I installed a replacement IDE drive and now it won't see let alone boot off a install disc.'

The optical drives jumper was set as cable select so I have set the IDE drive as the same. Have I screwed up somewhere or is it likely the HDD is faulty and bringing down the IDE bus.

8 Comments
2024/10/10
06:47 UTC

4

iMac G3 doesn't turn on

Hello, I bought this iMac G3 and it won't turn on, when I try to power it on it does a "click" sound but nothing

1 Comment
2024/10/09
16:54 UTC

4

Classic II, analog board short.

Got a +12v short (41 ohms to ground) took off QP2, it's bad, but it's still reading 41 ohms. Any ideas? It blows fuses. Haven't recapped it yet. Can that cause this issue?

2 Comments
2024/10/09
15:00 UTC

5

Apple Two Page Monochrome display power supply

Does anyone have a wiring diagram or just some pictures about Apple Two Page Monochrome display’s power supply?

1 Comment
2024/10/09
06:09 UTC

6

iBook G3 Clamshell board on the wall inside college

1 Comment
2024/10/09
05:15 UTC

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Acquired an eMac today

Been looking for a PowerPC era Mac for a while, today I got this 2003 eMac that was being auctioned by a nearby school district. It’s in kinda rough shape but everything seems to work fine. I’m not entirely sure what i’m gonna do with it yet, I’m probably just gonna use it to test out any old Mac software I have

12 Comments
2024/10/09
02:58 UTC

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Can’t figure out the name of this game?

So, when I was in elementary school, and we’d get to go to the computer lab, I’d always play this one specific game. Circa early 2000’s (2003-2006) possibly? Anyways, Google isn’t helping me, so I’m hoping someone on here knows what I’m talking about.

Okay, so it was some kind of game where there were bricks on a lever and you had to try not to put too many bricks on. I believe it took place underground. There used to be 3 main characters but the only one I can remember is a kangaroo and he would wear a hard hat. Any animal you picked they’d always wear hard hats. Eventually some kind of update or another version came out and you could pick different animals. One of them being a snail..with..you guessed it a hard hat.

That is genuinely the only things I can remember from this game.

Any guesses?

1 Comment
2024/10/09
03:19 UTC

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Apple AMS G4

I have an apple ams g4 quicksilver and don't know much about it but seeing as I have a quicksilver already does anybody know how much it's worth as I can't find anything on them online which makes me think either they are rare or are worthless any advice helps

7 Comments
2024/10/09
00:26 UTC

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UPDATE: The Mac classic II I posted about

The Mac came. Looks passable on the outside and clean inside. No leaky battery, caps started to leak but no damage. The fuse on the analog board was blown. I did the recap but I bought fast blow fuses and it blew immediately 😜 In got the right fuses coming tomorrow. I'm confident it will boot when I put the right fuse in, or at least try to.

3 Comments
2024/10/08
23:24 UTC

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Replacement battery options for G3 iBook Clamshell?

Hi, my G3 iBook Clamshell does not have a working battery, it is shot. On eBay, there are no replacements for sale- what other options do I have for replacing the battery?

5 Comments
2024/10/08
22:12 UTC

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iMac G3 Black Screen After 10 Mins of Use

I recently acquired a beautiful Blueberry tray loader which fires up and runs fine for about 10 minutes. After that the screen goes black. There isn't any flicker or anything I would associate with a bad flyback, it just goes black while the computer continues to run. The first time it did this it came back on a moment later, then went black again a few minutes later and did not come back.

Restarts don't help. The only way to get picture back is to power off and wait a while.

Any ideas on what it can be and how it can be fixed?

1 Comment
2024/10/08
22:00 UTC

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Show your Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs!

Recently I came across some posts of different CRT iMacs, everyone admiring the sage ones. But, where are the really rare specimens, namely the ~2001 iMacs in Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power? Show yours if you dare!

3 Comments
2024/10/08
21:14 UTC

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1999 G3 iMac for $150, should I buy?

Hi yall. So I came across a 1999 iMac G3 in Facebook Marketplace. The seller claims that it’s fully functional but that the operating system needs to be reinstalled. It’s listed for 75.000 CRC (~$150 USD). I have an installation CD for MacOS 9 so I could test it on-site before handing over the cash. Should I go for it?

12 Comments
2024/10/08
20:20 UTC

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