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The PCI Power Mac era is by far my favorite!

Office X is still decent, and less resource-intensive than later versions.

For the record, I absolutely love my 6500/225 - it's a great computer

Open Office looks very very promising - may be just what the Doctor ordered! I got x11 installed yesterday from my Tiger disk and then got OO to open ok - interface seems very simi…

True. I actually used a PM9500 affectionately named stoplock as a server box for quite a while. Stoplock is now with Dog Cow; iirc it doesnt want to bootup . I've moved on a far …

Well, NetBSD would be great with a huge-huge-huge caveat, at least for me. You need to have a real pci video card, ATi or NVidia. The on-board video is insufficient, as well as the…

ok i did what you said about adding h fans behind the processor just finished hahahah took a long time and now the mdd's door doesnt shut right! i have to kinda slam it to get it s…

Hmmm. I have iStat running on both the DP MDD (1.42) and the Intel iMac. The MDD shows a CPU temp of 73125f (no decimal point); there's either a problem with the installation or …

I think I'll just go back to "sneaker netting" w/HDDs! : I was trying to avoid spending $80, but Sonnettech has always done well by me! http://www.sonnettech.com/product/temp…

VIA cards are a problem because they use UHCI and not OHCI, or something like that. However I think starting with Tiger, UHCI is supported. Click to expand... That makes sense.…

Oops I meant 60 degrees Celsius. You're running at 51.6 degrees Celsius. You're fine.

Well, NetBSD would be great with a huge-huge-huge caveat, at least for me. You need to have a real pci video card, ATi or NVidia. The on-board video is insufficient, as well as the…

VIA cards are a problem because they use UHCI and not OHCI, or something like that. However I think starting with Tiger, UHCI is supported. VIA is the only on who makes crap UHCI …

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM. Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of RA…

Just looked at the box, it's Bytecc. Apple System Profiler recognized the card but I can't tell if you if was running at USB2 speeds. But it didn't crash the mac so that's a plus!

By chance I dropped a NEC based generic USB2 card in a graphite G4 running OS 9. Worked fine without drivers, it loaded a USB2 flash stick but I didn't test the speed, although it …

mine has been running for about 8 hours and it is at 125F according to istats menu is that a ok temp? and i do not use a adc monitor i use a 22 inch dvi display by acer

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM. Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of R…

The power supply won't have issues unless you have an ADC display. The trickle power for the power button on it heats up the power supply but if the unit is off, the fans don't spi…

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci. Click to expand... Because before, you wouldn't have been allowed. ;D Click to expand... In all fairness its been about 10 years…

I recently bought a powermac G4 mdd and i am trying to make it run cooler the specs are 10.5.8 leopard dual 1GHZ 1.75GB ram Dual Super drives HDS 250gb 120gb 10gb NVIDIA …

By chance I dropped a NEC based generic USB2 card in a graphite G4 running OS 9. Worked fine without drivers, it loaded a USB2 flash stick but I didn't test the speed, although it …

I found a 3300pf, 2kv capacitor at a component shop near my house. I soldered it on and it looks great. Only 1/4" black border now. Here's a screen shot, and I'll upload a pictu…

well most of my movies are just burned dvd's so it wont not need the decoder, and i think its on the dvd drive, if im not mistaken, I have herd of put squares of a disk under the …