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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

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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?