Well jeez, then you'd be just running Ubuntu on crustier hardware. Whoop de doo.

PPC hardware.

I reckon I would have got my Colour Classic in 2000 too. Picked it up for free from my local library when they upgraded to a Windows PC for the 'word processing' room, haha. Mine …

Hotdog Zanzibar said: Yeah, I hear RISC technology is the wave of the future... Click to expand... lt's not just the chip, it has a PCl bus.

Is the objective of this challenge to use the PPC hardware, or use retro software? My Dual 1 GHz MDD G4 running Lubuntu 14.04 PPC is a competent machine. Current mainline builds o…

ianj said: I was actually saying that I'm interested in the general idea for Mac OS 9 (but not for OS X). While I would probably not do a formalized "challenge," I am casuall…

Cheers mate! Yeh the CC with the QT sticker was owned by my godmother since it was brand new... got handed down in the early 2000's with a bunch of things. Still have the warran…

Cool thread, I'll be keeping an eye on this one every now and then. I like the idea of keeping a running 'conquest' thread. Add to it as you inherit/purchase or otherwise discover…

I was actually saying that I'm interested in the general idea for Mac OS 9 (but not for OS X). While I would probably not do a formalized "challenge," I am casually experimenting w…

Latest addition to my towers of power collection... a sad and lonely, long forgotten Sawtooth 400. Quick PMU reset and it runs like clockwork. I havent decided what to do wit…

I reckon that ATX hack is worthy of it's own thread and a sticky if ever anything was!

I agree with ianj (and Cory). And when I tried to use a Kanga indefinitely it was just flatly impossible given the need to interface with modern networks (of which I am not the ad…

Totally possible, but slow. When I interned at the local newspaper office where I wrote articles on a Mac mini powered by a G4 processor (it was the original MacMini from 2005.) Wh…

I was challenged to up the ante and use my LCIII for a couple of days. With Mulberry, BBEdit and MS Office I was able to work quite happily - although I did later run into some dif…

yeah I seen it. You can put an se/30 board in there no problem

If you want more power in a Lisa you would like my MISA or LACINTOSH. https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/25212-is-it-a-lisa-is-it-a-macintosh/ I wonder if I could attach …

Well the first thing I would do is perform modifications to get that clock speed up to at least 16Mhz. as it sits stock, its slowwwwww.....

For reasons already mentioned by Cory5412, I have difficulty considering machines running older versions of Mac OS X to be "retro" anything, and I don't find the idea of using it t…

tanuki65 said: It arrived, but has a hinge problem: the two halves of the left hinge do not meet, and the left display cable has worked up into the bezel, and is pushing the …

techknight said: I think I will leave the Lisa collecting to the purists because if I had one I would hotrod the hell out of it. Click to expand... There is nothing wrong…

hey at least you got it working. The lisa is one of those machines that I don't have any attachment to, and its up in the air whether I would own one or not. I think I will leave…

Congrats.

The disk was revived bij turning it manually for a long time so the grease around the bearings softened. But to see if it really worked I needed a working Lisa. I acquired one wit…

Still nothing on how you got the drive running again???

Nice but noisy.