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Another Freecycle find. That is two in about a week. It had Windows XP on it with 192mb of ram. I put Windows 98se on it instead and kept the 128mb simm leaving…
· 3 posts · started 14 Dec 2008 - 14:50 · last 14 Dec 2008 - 18:49
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I have two mac minis, both are G4. When i plug one in, the fan just turns on. The other one does nothing when plugged in or when the power button is pressed. An…
· 14 posts · started 10 Dec 2008 - 03:14 · last 13 Dec 2008 - 16:19
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I finally found some free time to rebuild my old IIci... The plan is to install A/UX 2.0 - something I've been putting off since around January of 2005. Unfortu…
· 6 posts · started 4 Dec 2008 - 03:14 · last 13 Dec 2008 - 11:43
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I have the chance to grab three Tibook's that have busted screens from a friend who works for the local high school district. Is it worth getting them despite t…
· 11 posts · started 1 Dec 2008 - 18:01 · last 12 Dec 2008 - 18:16
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Powered up my free mac SE and it works wonderful...except for the floppy drive. Now whoever owned this before had replaced one floppy drive with a 500mb HD and …
· 10 posts · started 5 Dec 2008 - 03:16 · last 12 Dec 2008 - 02:40
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I went to fix somebody's computer today (it's going to end up being an OS reinstall), and managed to get a Dell Latitude CPi laptop, along with a wireless netwo…
· 7 posts · started 9 Dec 2008 - 01:42 · last 11 Dec 2008 - 01:53
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Okay, not mine, but I got to play with 'em [] ]'> The other day, a couple of HP boxes arrived at the office. Boxes seemed awfully big and heavy for 24" L…
· 8 posts · started 5 Dec 2008 - 04:08 · last 6 Dec 2008 - 08:09
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So here;s my upgrade plans for the 9500: Processor - Sonnet Crescendo PCI 1GHz G4 upgrade Memory - 1.5 GB RAM, Interleaved Disk - 5-100 GB SATA Drive * OR Compa…
· 49 posts · started 8 Oct 2008 - 23:25 · last 5 Dec 2008 - 10:39
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Hey all, Got this a bit over a week ago, but I finally got around to posting about it. I picked up an eMac that needs the capacitor repair for $10 at my univers…
· 4 posts · started 4 Dec 2008 - 16:10 · last 5 Dec 2008 - 02:42
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So i bought this quadra 950 a few years back and it was working fine untill recently. now sometimes it gong and power on fine, but no video. other times it will…
· 9 posts · started 3 Dec 2008 - 20:23 · last 4 Dec 2008 - 17:05
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Hey, I've got a Tibook with no screen. When I try to output via DVI to my screen, it works, however it still thinks there are 2 screens(the external and interna…
· 6 posts · started 22 Nov 2008 - 22:23 · last 3 Dec 2008 - 21:44
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These forums are so great for help so here's a dilly of a pickle: I have a Pismo that I just got and initialized the HD and zeroed all data. I have a retail cop…
· 19 posts · started 30 Nov 2008 - 06:39 · last 3 Dec 2008 - 15:33
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DayStar Digital PowerCache Card 33 MHz 68030 for Macintosh IIci This probably came riding along with one of the IIci's from the recycler over the past few month…
· 7 posts · started 1 Dec 2008 - 15:30 · last 2 Dec 2008 - 19:57
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What began as a simple upgrade to a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition cost my 8500 its life. I installed the System7Today ATi Drivers. I opened up the 8500 and installed …
· 19 posts · started 29 Nov 2008 - 07:25 · last 2 Dec 2008 - 16:08
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I acquired a Powerbook 1400cs today through an ad on Kijiji. Included manuals, system CD and the floppy drive unit, two power supplies and various disks. It's a…
· 5 posts · started 30 Nov 2008 - 05:25 · last 2 Dec 2008 - 10:07
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Alrighty. So I'm presently working on contract to Intel, and have been able to 'play' (evaluate, test, troubleshoot,) systems based on the new "Intel® Core™ i7"…
· 11 posts · started 27 Nov 2008 - 03:02 · last 2 Dec 2008 - 08:21
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Hey some of you may remember me putting a Western Digital HD in my quadra 650 a while back.. well now i think it may be busted but it is a strange issue. I boot…
· 2 posts · started 2 Dec 2008 - 00:06 · last 2 Dec 2008 - 02:28
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I have been trying to get a G4/450 working. So far it has 1) Not recognized a hard disk or 2) When it sees that hard disk it locks hard when trying to partition…
· 4 posts · started 24 Nov 2008 - 03:21 · last 1 Dec 2008 - 22:15
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Guys, I hope that one of you is happy right now! Living in Switzerland, I usually don't check ebay.com for conquests-to-be, as the shipping costs are really pro…
· 1 posts · started 1 Dec 2008 - 21:47 · last 1 Dec 2008 - 21:47
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I got a free 733mhz Quicksilver with 1.5GB RAM and a Radeon 7500 from my buddy. Currently it is dual booting Leopard and Ubuntu. Seems like a nice little machin…
· 5 posts · started 1 Dec 2008 - 03:55 · last 1 Dec 2008 - 21:31
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From ebay, without RAM or Hard Disk. Was 18$, seems to be in nice shape. Has no cache card, will that make it slow? Thanks! I plan on adding a lapis video card,…
· 3 posts · started 30 Nov 2008 - 17:50 · last 1 Dec 2008 - 20:35
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Is it the same as quadra 800 RAM? Then I can take some out of my Q800 and use it in the IIci. If not, what type of ram is it?
· 8 posts · started 30 Nov 2008 - 17:53 · last 1 Dec 2008 - 08:14
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It is a 10BaseT card, with BNC and RJ plugs. It is not a perfect rectangle, more like a parallelogram with only one side slanted. The best part? It was new and …
· 3 posts · started 30 Nov 2008 - 17:51 · last 30 Nov 2008 - 19:27
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Which computer would be the better to use as a av machine. The 840av has a lot of built in features but the 950 can be upgraded by adding a Daystar Quad040 and …
· 14 posts · started 31 Aug 2008 - 17:11 · last 30 Nov 2008 - 04:58
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I noticed that in some Macs, there is a long slot behind the last NUBUS slot. It is visible in a IIx (but not a II) a IIvx, and the IIci. Now I know that in a I…
· 4 posts · started 24 Nov 2008 - 21:02 · last 30 Nov 2008 - 04:28
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