For once, the overused eBay buzzword "RARE!!!ZOMGLOLBBQ!!!1101!!" is totally justified. And the price, though high, has some level of realism, considering. Apple IIc LCD Flat Pa…

The PRAM battery in pismos is rechargeable. It recharges after the main battery is full. It should be possible to operate with a dead PRAM battery. The long time necessary to ho…

Anyone know where one can find manuals. I just picked up a PISMO and would like to have a user manual and/or a repair manual. It has a dead main battery and the pram has been dis…

That's interesting. There were no jumpers on the drive, were there? Sometimes drive manufacturers or resellers will ship drives with jumpers installed, as some computers need to ha…

Someone already collected enough information to set up a recent IDE harddisk drive to make up to 32 MB of disk space available for the Lisa. Flash memory is also supported. The aut…

"wow, this is the future of the Mac" Click to expand... And the Pro still has the same basic case design, wow. Click to expand... If you mean that it's an upright tower wit…

I have two in active use, one as my main server, the other as backup and test server. Both run 10.4.9 Tiger Server on 1.1 GHz PPC750GX CPU's, 1 GB RAM and 4-port SATA cards. Next …

In OS X DP3 it was still possible to delete the Aqua theme file, the OS changed to Platinum if you did it.

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure. Click to expand... 1.2 is way more robust than most people…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure.

I have ref-1 with a non-original commodity DVD drive on the original controller and that let me boot to install Tiger. Click to expand... Yep. Me too. I've even used a DVD-R dr…

Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work. Click to expand... Really? I regularly use SSH …

The normal OS takes more space, and I want it to be as small as possible. Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not…

All I need to do is find a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.2 or Mac OS X Server 10.4. Click to expand... Why? The normal OS can act as a server.

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4? Click to expand... Don't know the Gigabit. But at least on the Sawtooth there's a fan you can disconnect with no trouble unless you ad…

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4?

I'm hoping to get one for the office - it all just comes together in the B&W: near give-away prices, low power consumption for teh quiet, ADB keyboard and optionally a seri…

I just retired my B&W G3 450mhz (overclocked 400mhz) in leau of an eMac, but I have been thinking of putting it back into active use as a server. It runs great still, and s…

A problem are the rev-1 boards (a buggy Harddisk controller) and thefacts that the machine accepts only single sided RAM sticks and can't boot from Firewire,USB or ordinary DVD dr…

I've actually used Vista on a PIII Celeron, 800MHz with 512mb of memory. The easiest way to describe it is that it can happen, but that it's maybe not the most pleasant thing ever.…

can't boot from ordinary DVD drives. Click to expand... Really? I've booted my iMac (tray loader) off a couple of DVD drives...if a lowly iMac 333 that was never intended for u…

Running 3 hard drives in my G3 450mhz Rev. 2 box (dual 120gb ATA drives and the original 9GB SCSI), along with a CD burner and internal Zip drive. I'd have maxed RAM too, if more …

Hey All - I have a 12" PB G4 867 MHz that just stopped working one day. According to my cousin who was borrowing it long-term at the time, on Sunday everything was fine, and then …

... and they're CHEAP! Wegener Media has barebones B&W 300s for $9.99 + shipping. (No affiliation) Locally they go for free / cheap on craigslist all the time.

Yes! A 450MHz b&w G3 with 256MB RAM, 100GB total HD storage, ADB keyboard and mouse, and OS 10.4.9 is still the main Mac in use at my parents' house! I would love to…