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My Belgian/French 540 is alive! [1] It has 7.5.3 on it, and I can't figure out how to change the bit depth. I want to set it to 1 bit so I can play Dark Castle.…
I dug my Mom's iMac G3 out of storage (In the basement). Anyways, upon booting up, i encountered the video only using 5" across of the screen than the screen is…
Right now it has a old 5400 rpm harddrive, what will be faster: new 7200 rpm HD or a SCSI card with scsi HD ? Bert
Following on from last weekend's Freecycle haul it's been a bumper time for liberations in this corner of Mac-dom. Not only did a 9500 turn up yesterday but a 7…
Hi, I have been registered on this forum for some time but I havent participated much, until now when I realised how important the 68k Liberation army is. I per…
I need to know which is lighter on this system: Pentium 233Mhz MMX 128MB PC-66Mhz 40GB HDD DVD/CD-RW (pulled from another machine) These are the two anti-virus …
Is the old myth true that they can only be used one way or the other? I want to turn mine on its side so it's a "tower" yet I read in Mac Secrets that once they…
After months of absolutely nothing appearing on my local Freecycle group, someone advertised a Quadra 840av. I duly stuck my hand up and said 'yes please' and I…
Great instructional pictorial. Anybody we know? http://picasaweb.google.com/radius226/CompactMacintoshDisassembly
Well this is my 4th unusable PSU (3 for my IIsi and now the one from my 7200) I discovered the problem is that I literally blew off about 5/8ths of my PWM contr…
So from what I have read, it is possible to get OS X to run on a 233mhz tray load iMac. What would I have to do to get to be able to run it? Or would it be bett…
Okay, so I have a set of 2400s that I've acquired over the past few months. The first one I picked up was a pre-production Japanese model (I'll put pix up on Fl…
I have been using my PowerBook 150 A little more and I think I'm killing the battery charge. I have to plug it in for a second to get it to start (The pram batt…
Does anyone know if the angle adapters (pds-pds/ pds-nubus) for the IIsi have L2 cache onboard? Or to put the question differently, is it possible to get L2 cac…
I just received ( I love when stuff gets delivered and I don't have to go get it ) [}] ]'> the machines mentioned in the subject. The G3 mini tower; 266,…
I have a Mac Classic that, on startup, immediately goes to an After Dark screen saver (the fish one) that is password protected. Is there a way to get around th…
Continued from the thread in Conquests: Well, looks like I have enough stuff here to make one really really really nice ][+ and one parts unit. Unit #2 doesn't …
I'm wondering, right now I have an iBook G4 with tiger, 768mb RAM, a 5400rpm 80gb hd and its the 1.07ghz model. I'm wondering, what are some ways other than mor…
Have any of you ever returned to an older Mac having got used to a newer one and found the older one to be a lot worse than you remembered? Since I got my G3 I'…
I've noticed for some time now an interesting little thing that my 540c does. It's running System 7.6.1, and every time you click on the battery monitor in the …
Anyone know where I can get Revision B CRTs for Classics cheap? Just the CRT, don't need an analogue board or a whole Mac. (If you don't know the difference bet…
We all know the aging early Compacts are prone to leaky capacitors which are all guaranteed to fail and need replacing as they near the quarter century mark. In…
I was surfing around on eBay the other day and ended up buying an iMac G3 for $20.00. The computer has not arrived yet, but the ad said that it is password prot…