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EndeavourOS (Arch) on 2011 MacBook Pro
WomBOOST - Very Small Performance Boost for your Wombat
PowerBook G3 Lombard 333Mhz - Main Battery Problem
Rodime 20MB Macintosh Plus External Hard Drive Capacitor Replacement
Macintosh Portable & Powerbook 100 power adapter bench
Printing over Wifi from Compact Mac?
Hi From the UK
Looking for some help with a Brainstorm accelerator in an SE
Getting An Old MacBook Air & Installing Linux (Ubuntu? Mint?). Any Advice?
LC 630 and BlueSCSI
Can you get AAUI sockets anywhere?
Upgrading IIsi onboard RAM to 4MB
Apple IIe: Removing the mounting points of the DSub joystick port
Quadra 800 "Wombat" overclocking - options
Compact Mac Browsing Recommendations?
6100/66 DOS Compatible
Snazzy Weather - a snazzier weather app for classic Mac OS
Reverse Engineer the Spectre GCR?
Tips for upgrading my Lisa's MacWorks install from System 4.1 to System 6?
Is it advisable to remove the notch or swap the yokes?
Marchintosh 2024: Overclocking a Centris 650
CRT connection
Mac Portable back cover side panel
Mid-Budget Oscilloscopes: $150 - $325 Range +- Suggestions?
TinkerDifferent.com Retro Proxy
Project Satanicube (or, Xodium's G4 Cube Build)
Any interest in Palm Pilots?
Portable and PowerBook 100 Technical Note: PRAM, Backlight, and ROM Diff
Radius Monochrome (Greyscale) Pivot Capacitor List
PCjr picture going a bit funny
Fixing a Macintosh Portable - What worked for me
LC 520 with flaky CRT
Replacement MacEffects inner bezel for iMac G3
PowerMac G4 Opening Lever Creaking - Can It Be Silenced?
Extension that shows an active internet connection
[Very fluid] Classic Amiga demo Remade for b&w Macintosh (Vanlandingham)
VOLTAGE DIFFERENCES among SE & SE/30 Analog Boards
Where to get a TDA1170 chip?
2009 Mac Pro 5,1 Odd Power Problem
SuperMac Enhance Board Memory Upgrade Information
Struggling to get my 'new' Apple Lisa 2/10 to boot from an external ESProfile
IIci & IIcx External PSU
I Got a New Kaypro PC-30: How Does It Work?
Quadra 950 Chassis
Finally - A NeXT Computer (Cube)
(2) Macintosh SE/30's - Full Restoration
Differences in grayscale options for the SE/30
Macintosh II / IIx Battery Holder Daughterboard Analysis
MCL68+ A Motorola 68000 drop-in emulator
Fixing the floppy drive of a Macintosh SE without dying
Macintosh II & IIx replacement battery holders
Building A/UX Device Drivers
LC II vs. 4MB SIMM Problem
Macintosh LCII failure
What's the best way to fix a stripped-case screw hole?
Introducing BurgerDisk, a daisy-chainable Smartport hard drive
Macintosh IIfx questions
Apple 15 inch Studio Display (M4551) missing a power supply
RaSCSI PiSCSI HOT; heat sinks?
Legacynth: Sound Driver emulation for PPC Macs
Macintosh Portable SLIM cards
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver main case fan replacement
CRT compatibility
Apple IIe + ESP32 SoftCard Setup - Working!
The 17" WUXGA PowerBook G4
Radius 81/100: yet another battery acid victim
Pulled FPU from an Asante… can you do anything with it?
Recap the CPU?
VCF SoCal 2026 - Feb 14-15 Orange, CA
Thread for true Pippin fans
Source for Logic Board LC550 or LC520 ?
Power Mac G4 Power Supply (the notoriously loud AcBel 400W "Windtunnel")
TiBook Display upgrades
Need solution for HDI-45 to DB-15 connectors for video out
Stranger Things, I think I blame it, at least partially, to a nostalgic vintage quest... Leading me to Game nostalgia also, DnD, Myst, Hitchhiker's
My very first NeXTStation
From AppleLink to Vision Pro.
From AppleLink to the iMac.
SuperMac VidCards - Timeline Development - Links
Performa 630 Floppy Read Problems (Solved)
Got My Transparent Inner Bezel From MacEffects Installed
First Gen Apple LCD Display M4551
New to Me - Power Macintosh G3 Beige Desktop – 266MHz – 224MB RAM – 6GB HDD – Mac OS 9, project
Need help with a Laser 128 EX/2 with no clocks
Starting my Compact Mac Vintage Journey with this SE modded to SE/30 project.
Longtime Mac user, Newbie to here and to Vintage.
APS SCSI Power Plug II and NT
Macintosh Plus repair...smiley postage stamp
DIN 41612 Right angle for SE/30 PDS connector?
Repairing a Metcal MX-5200 solder station with 'open error' on one channel
Thread for true Pippin fans only
Hakko Desoldering Gun — Power LED Mod
BlueSCSI Ultra & Ultra Wide
Windows 2000 kernel ex problem
Opinion Question: Tale of two CPUs
Resurrecting an Advantech PCA-6157
[TESTING] TinkerDifferent.com Retro Proxy
Custom 9.7" Display (iPad 1,2,3) for Apple //c with STL files and build guide [Draft: work in progress]
BlueSCSI v2 Pico - Low cost, open hardware, fast SCSI device!
ATTO Silicon Express IV Nubus
Stewart Cheifet, Sept. 24, 1938 ~ Dec. 28, 2025
2026 PowerPC Challenge, is it happening?
Teaser: BurgerDisk, a Smartport SD hard drive, will soon be ready
Hello from Germany
CC picture stability issues
Megathread: SSDs for PowerPC G3-G5 Macs
Starting tech meetups in your own area
Macintosh II SI capacitor question
Anyone know of a PowerBook 165c 3D Printable Mouse Trackball Standoff?
TashTalk: Single-Chip LocalTalk Interface (v2 and RPi hats!)
4,1 MacPro upgrade
VCF Montreal
A way to get System 7.1 to show free space in kilobytes on a hard drive...
System sounds in Sys6
Identifying this color classic analog mod (640x480 without cutting sense line?)
Tuning or blocking MacBook trackpad input?
Brainstorm Accelerator Installation
Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation)
Mac IIsi Repairathon
PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro Restore CD
Mortal Kombat 3 - Amiga Version Coming Soon !
How the Macintosh Plus helped make Star Trek history! #VFX
SE repair...power supply questions
SE/30 Y3 Crystal Replacement Recommendation?
COLOR CLASSIC LCD CONVERSION VIDEO!!
BlueSCSI WiFi Desk Accessory Issue
[2025-12-24] Outage Linode Emergency Maintenance
[2025-12-24] Outage Linode Emergancy Maintence
1400 power supply recommendation?
ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction
Some resources for Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20
Radius Rocket & SCSI Booster Clones
8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
P1 Molex Connector for SE, SE/30 Analog board
P1 Connector for SE, SE/30 Analog board
Macintosh SE/30 M5119 - Year long troubleshooting battle
Reviving A PM B&W Rev. B Motherboard With A Bad Boot ROM
[SOLVED] No Dark Castle on Mac Portables?
New LC475 user - Questions on PowerPC upgrades
BlueSCSI v2 disk read errors
The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus the TI-74)
No Dark Castle on Mac Portables?
Mac IIci "It is now safe to switch off your Macintosh"
Looking for the document "Macintosh Worldwide Development: Guide to System Software"
LC 580 Schematic
Advice on Mac SE/30 RAM
A very special Mac Portable
Viability Of Transplanting A PowerMac B&W REV. B's Fixed IDE Controller Onto A REV. A Board?
Getting Quadra 950 connected on the internet
Powermac G3 plastic part collection
In Search of 550 Logic Board
Apple Desktop Bus Mice and Power Usage
Radius Macintosh SE Full Page display pictures
Last thing you did with your G5?
My first haul
Global Newton Users Meetup #18
Newton MessagePad 120 no power repair
Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)
Good to be back
Help identify Radius videocard
Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)
Card Retainer Baffle - PM 7600 / G3 - photo request
Best printer for os9 (Mac mini G4)
Collector Quality: My Mama’s OG Macintosh 128k – a snapshot of owning a Mac in 1984
Tutorial: How to Develop Original iPhone Apps in 2025
CHRP for PPC Macintosh
TOSHIBA XM-4101B CD-ROM drivers
Crucible for the SMC ROM SIMM
Powerbook 180 & Tunnel Vision
Power Macintosh 7100/80 Cache
Help me ID these RAM/VRAM modules please
I need help with replacing the PRAM battery on my clamshell iBook G3!
Has anyone tried the Green or Amber conversion on a Macintosh Classic?
Oblast: a better Blasto for the Commodore 64
Boxed Xserve RAID SFP
PB 100, contrast not working
Mac Portable Screen Visibility without Backlight: 5126 vs. 5120
Trouble with Quadra 650 VRAM amount
65scribe...
3D printed power button for Dell CRT
Tutorial: Enabling iPhone Development for PowerPC Macs
iBook G3 Clamshell display replacement failure, a cautionary tale
3D printed HDD slots and slide lock for Power Macintosh G3
Mac Tv 1993 in perfect working condition with lots of software
Intellivision Sprint anyone?
Macintosh 128k/512k/Plus 240V Analog Board Recap List
Trying to ressurect a Power Macintosh 9600/350
G4 Cube VRM
🛠️ Some Compact Mac Service Manuals
[video] ProDOS: Why This Changed Everything for Apple II Users
System 7 (and OS 8) natively boots on the Mac mini G4!
Mac Portable Screen Visibility without Backlight: M5126
NiMH PRAM battery conversion
Backlit Portable 5126 — Is your backlight this dim?
iMac G3 Inner Bezel - Black Friday Sale
Test Jig for CC analog/digital boards
Old resistive touchscreen responds, but won't calibrate
Best monitor for vintage Macintosh
Apple Cube G4 Graphics glitch
PowerBook Duo Center Clutch Cover
Help Needed: Macintosh IIci CPU pin screw up
How to Free Up Space on Mac?
CarbonLib on NewWorld Mac OS 7.6?
Upside Down PLCC Adapter/Reader
Low Voltage Mac Classic When Cold
Idle Hands Micro Joystick and Paddle— compact, authentic controls for vintage arcade games
PS/1 recent pickup
Someone Installed MacOS On An iPad
DB15 to DB15 Apple VGA cable pin-out
LibreSSL and OpenSSH on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
Unique find, 3 Minolta CRT colour analysers, very likely from the Apple production line.
Mac OS 7.6 Apple-Internal Gold Master
HTTP proxy and transcoder for vintage browsers
eMate battery tray
PowerMac G5 Quad PSU Pinout
2008 Unibody MacBook Pro Linux gpu issues
Cracked Hinge on Mac Portable
Quadra 950 reset/interrupt switches on Logic Board need replacing
Dark Castle is BACK!
Portable Hinge Woe
Mac Portable Hinge Woe
Well! My hotly-anticipated vintage Apple IIe arrived, and the case is shattered. FML.
Desktop G3 Zip/Jaz bezel
Flashing the Silicon Image Sil3112 to work in Macs (2025 Edition)
SE/30 noise in video - where do I look next?
Misbehaving LC 575
sit - Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
Interest in going in on a large lot?
MicroMac Power Workstation
Modern power supply for se/se30?
[Video] Apple II Storage: The ULTIMATE Timeline Deep-Dive (From Disk II to SuperDrive!)
Today’s pickup - “portable” IIgs setup - help needed
Accelerating an Accelerator - Total Systems Gemini 020 to 030 for Macintosh SE
24” 2009 iMac, bad screen, lvds or both?
Documentation for DB15 to VGA adapters
SE/30 Simasima Repair: 6 faults fixed and a working Mac
Mac Plus case interior paint
Looking for reliable repairs - Recap & pad repair for a Macintosh Performa 460 (LC3+)
Emate 300 without battery pack
New tool to remove capacitor and rust corrosion - the dental scaler!
SD to IDE drive replacement for PDQ PowerBook G3
Weird Greaseweazle Issue - FIXED
Prototype Commodore 8250 Mini Drive Board
Macintosh Server G3
Help With TL866 ii Plus on a MAC
ROM Clips for securing custom ROM SIMMs in an SE/30
Mac OS for CHRP systems
PB1400 PRAM Battery rebuild
SPIISD V2 has been released
Modern MacBinary Tool for MacOS 26
Mini vMac for Apple Silicon
Brittle Plastic Writeup
Macintosh PortraitDisplay Recap and Geometry Adjustments
"New" Vintage Mac Owner (Performa 450)
PowerBook 100 & 170 owners
Retrobrite for eMac
Green Tint on VGA CRT Monitor Connected to Macintosh IIx
Customizing/Reskinning Classic MacOS!
Do Audio CDs work with any USB CDROM Drive in Classic MacOS?
MacSE analog board issue – squished video, flyback overheating
BlueSCSI v2 - DaynaPORT WiFi!
Clarity of LCD: 5120 vs. 5126
Kodak Reels black screen
A Tale of Two Classics
Possible To Hide Partition From Desktop In Classic Mac OS 8.1 / 7.6.1 / 7.5.5?
Snow EMU - Emulator for 680x0-based Macintosh computers
Color Classic analog board trouble
SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (2025 Edition)
IC puller for socketed chips
Dual Boot Linux Mint 21.2 and macOS with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and OpenCore Bootpicker
iMac G3 speaker replacement success
Best Hard Disk Environment for Apple IIe?
"Brand New" USB Translucent Zip Drive Error
REVIEW of Mockingboard 4c for Apple IIc
Colour classic learnings of the day
System source swap meet this weekend(nov 8th) - Hunt Valley, MD
Word 5 - Looking for Specific Example Document
Takky Upgrade
ProDOS Clarification, need help!
Patching 68K software - SimpleText
PowerBook 100 RAM Expansion Pinout - New RAM Card Build Issue
Budget Oscilloscope Recommendation?
Macintosh Portable: "pop" noise every 10s from Speaker & Headphones
Apple IIGS repair - boots to error code
DOS on Mac
Macintosh IIci - no life even after recap
[2GS] Using SCSI drives
BlueSCSI on Macintosh Portable
16 MB RAM SIMM for Mac IIfx
ROMINATOR I on Mac Plus
Studio Display CRT Adapter Help
Mac SE with sad Mac code 00000001 0000FFFF
Two 1986 Brother EP43 Word Processors... Double the Fun?
PSU for SE & SE/30 trips breaker on 240VAC?
CompleteSet - a resource for vintage Mac collectors and enthusiasts
Aquafox browser for OSX Leopard and Tiger updated to v3.0!
Couldn't deal with my PowerBook Duo keyboard anymore...
G5 iMac - Pram battery carrier bodge?
SE/30 -> Default state of NEC VRAM
Kensington Turbo Mouse 5.0 Replacement Trackball — Pool Ball? 57.15mm/2.25in?
Quadra 700 feet project
Global Newton Users Meetup #17
BlueSCSI Toolbox
Ti Book HDD Flex Cable Woes
Floppy drive head ribbon cable broken
Battery bombed Centris 650’- corrupt video out
Flippy-Floppy Video REVIEW
A Terrifying Phenomenon I Discovered While Repairing an Analog Board
BeOS Install
Macintosh connector part numbers
Metcal Buyers Guide
DOS on Power Mac
[VIDEO] Unleashing the Legend: The Apple IIe and the Disk II!
Custom USB-C powered 8"display for the Apple IIc with STL files and build plan
Original iPod RAM swap + disassembly question
SCSI being wonky
Pocket(CHIP) Macintosh
6100 Schematic?
[Help Needed] My work on an Apple Studio Display M7768 (The Transparent ADC CRT)
The Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
Weird Greaseweazle Issue
DVD Burning in OS 9
Macintosh IIsi Oscillator-Replacement Overclock Successes and Fails
Assemble a TransWarp GS CPU cable?
C2 Capacitor Replacement on Mac 512k Analog Board Smoking
Looking for Kanga CD-ROM Drive module
Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found
PowerBook 140-180c battery cover
VCF East 2025-Pics
Running MacOS on NeXT hardware
Dell R520 - The expansion continues...
Stealth Mac Portable Case Mod
After Dark Flying Toasters ported to OS X PPC Macs!
HowTo break apart and glue back plastic welded cases
XtremeMac U.F.O. for iMac G4
Mac SE30 VLSI chip replacement
Q610 VRAM issue
Macintosh LC $20 rescue
Comparison between Babyface and TT Design PSUs for SE/30?
Connect ADC monitor to HDMI source
Apple IIc TDK internal power converter schematics / info
Restoring a Retrospect DAT/DDS backup: Attempting to crack my own password
Apple Developer Price Lists Oct 1991, Feb 1992, April 1992
3D-printable replacement bezel for the AppleCD 600E
LC 550 vs LC 575 Chassis CD-Rom physical location of connection different?
Flashing Prism2 wifi cards for WPA2 compatibility
Apple Studio Display M7649 CCFL to LED conversion
G4 Quicksilver successful rescue
Performa 475, R85 issue
Upgrading Powerbook 190 to 68040 with FPU?
PowerBook 500 series PPC upgrades
Power Supply of PowerMac 7600 need recapped
Looking for a UH7 and UB10 replacement for Mac SE30
Sony VAIO PCGA-UFD5 servicing (rubber pad, recap)
Color CRT that fits in Macintosh SE FDHD?
Mini-project: Booting Linux on an iBook, without repartitioning
ofchooser - First-stage bootloader for NewWorld Macs
Sony CR44 PSU from Mac SE - Left on with no load over night
"Platinum" PLA for Macs and Apple ][s
SHADOW GANGS ZERO - Retro-style ninja action game for Neo Geo, Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, and Dreamcast !
2025 Model Mac IIci
PicoMicroMac v2
BlueSCSI Toolbox - NeXT Edition
Faster Baud and More Serial Ports (CSI Hurdler, SerialDMA, QuadraLink)
MK4332x8 32K module for Apple III: trying to figure it out
Spot the difference - PowerBook G3 292mhz & 350mhz cpus.
Hi from Minnesota
I resurrected an old Hotline client
Looking for help with Asante MacCON+ LC - Network Card
PowerMac 8600/250 BEOS Woes
Introducing USBODE 2.7.1 Preview with Macintosh OSX Support!
Found an interesting 128k..
Quadra 700 video corrupted
Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log
Apple Pascal 1.3 Compiler Error
Se/30 c6 cap lead lifted
Announcing BlueSCSI Toolbox – Web Edition
Source code available online for Megaroids ][?
What's the best Video solution for a Vintage Apple IIe in 2025?
Soft Dorothy Software — Early Shareware Projects
Port of Continuum (classic mac game) to web
NuBus mount for BlueSCSI v2
Apple II text encoding, how?
Fun with TAM's. (upgrading Twentieth anniversary Macs with IDE SSD adapters, Sonnet CPU upgrades, BlueSCSI, and lots of love
MAC SE PSU Sony CR-44M Question
Classic Mac Networking v4.0
LC 475 - Need help with a lifted pad & repair(?)
VCF Swap Meet Sat Oct 18 2025 Wall NJ
Broken video connector on LC
iMac G5 ALS 20" Thermal Repair
CayMac IIsi Mean Well PSU Replacement
Making a 1-bit game engine
First official C64 in 36 years
CSEND - p2p Chat Application
Testers Needed: Modified ROM for LC475/Q605
TiBook G4 1GHz stopped recognising any ssd/hard disk
Is this an Apple II Hard Drive Interface Card?
Are There Any Computer Swap Meets In The Los Angeles Area?
Macintosh Quadra 950 green screen output
iMac G3 Summer 2001 500 MHz video issue
Power supply interchangeability between different 68K Macintosh models?
Mac 128k Analog Board 820-0082-B from 1983
Reviving a sad looking Quadra 840av
Technical support request for Apple Studio Display M 7613
68kmla MIA
Erics Finds
PowerBook G3 CPU swaps..?
Successful compact flash upgrade for PowerBook 3400c
Macintosh SE/30 - Vertical & Horizontal Bars on Display Repair Guide
Macintosh SE/30 Vertical & Horizontal Bars on Display "Simasima" Repair Guide
SE/30 Pics from 2006 (yes, that rhymes)
Getting SAS'y with CMPs (Classic Mac Pros)
Power Macintosh 7200/7300/7500/7600 Power Button
Calling Daniël from The Netherlands!
Issues with Novy Quik30 & Mac Plus
Display issues on SE and SE/30 after recapping
Macintosh SE restoration writeup
Macintosh SE restoration write-up
Power PC performance evolution
Anyone tried installing LC575 speaker in Color Classic?
Running a Neural Network on a Mac 128K
CayMac LC Style Mean Well PSU Replacement
Color LCD Retrofit Kit for SE/30 by ZigZagJoe
Reinstall Mac OS on iBook G3 clamshell with only USB port?
Cursor flicker and disappearing on 7100
Partial Dead Quantum Prodrive LPS
[Centris 650 / Quadra 650]Nubus Slot Bracket/CD ROM Plate and MicroSD Card Extender for SCSI Emulator?
Quadra 650 drive chassis
Hacking an Xfinity cable TV remote to make it more accessible
Apple II Plus replica
Anyone refurb 400K Floppy drives?
Heat gun recs?
Ram 30-pin SIMM socket where to buy?
Testing Needed: Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.4.8 Universal For 7.1 - 9.2.2 (SCSI Drives)
The great LCD in a Color Classic thread. Well, I wish...
Se/30 corrosion around cap c7
Can se/30 flyback be replaced by a 157-026C flyback?
Message Bridge - iMessage and SMS on retro hardware
iMac G4 constantly crashing/kernel panics
Arena memory management
Micromac Performer Clone - Issues with Mac Plus
Massive (filthy) find in South Carolina
Macintosh II, BlueSCSI, and termination
3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation
Nextstation 10Base2 to 10BaseT?
SE/30 Recap Gone Wrong
Mac SE/30 networking
Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)
Modding the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (Firmware Hack)
What I've received as of late...
Use DVD-RAM like external HFS SCSI HDDs on 68k Macs, possible?
Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing
Color Classic VGA Woes
400 K Floppy Drive Repair Components
AppleCD SC Teardown and Troubleshooting: Sony CDU-8001 Drive
Has Anyone Put a Color LCD Into an IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer?
Putting a 486dx in an Intel overdrive slot
Color Classic Troubles
LC520 Overclock
Global Newton Users Meetup #16
performa 550 help
Swapping components SE & SE/30
AFP client for post macOS 15.5 macs
Anyone have a MacCharlie keyboard unit?