I installed Open Transport on my mac. I was having issues with the card not being recognized by the installer software, but after some messing around, it was then detected. I not…

You can share a CD over AppleTalk, from any machine with File Sharing turned on and with full privileges set for the user in question, and yes, as has been reported, you can instal…

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

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…

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 …

Does OpenTransport work on System 7.1? Click to expand... Yes.

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 …

Well, it looks like my card is installed. The driver disk has MacTCP on it, and I installed that. But, in the Network control panel, there is only EtherTALK, not ethernet. Do I …

I thought you couldn't share a CD drive over Appletalk. If not, I suppose you could image it to the other machine's hard drive.

I had a lot of difficulty trying to install NetBSD on my 7300 with OF 1.0.5. I'd get it to boot the kernel and then the machine would reboot. It would do it so fast I couldn't see …

I love red PCB's. Click to expand... I love 'em too! I've got a beautiful red Half-Length Radius NuBus VidCard in my MinimalistDuo230/PB100TestbedDock™.

EvilTim's other projects. Click to expand... IIRC he also converted a monochrome CRT to greyscale by feeding the intensity level into where the brightness knob used to be. Cli…

Yeah, those are nice to find when you can. I've found one or two here and there as well.

I don't plan to get rid of it anytime soon

They're hard to get rid of anyways.... I've never named any of my computers and I've still got 26 of them laying around here.

Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu,also how hard is it to open the…

Just a little tidbit I thought I'd add; be careful naming your machines. Its kind of like naming a pet, in that once you name it you love the thing to pieces and its much harder to…

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like other Macs or Mac clones couldn't accomplish this feat; As ClassicHasClass mentioned, you can indeed bootstrap OF from a floppy, But I pr…

Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu, also how hard is it to open t…

The innards of that MacPro are gorgeous! I love red PCB's.

If you want newer versions of software (like Safari 4) then you'll need to run 10.4 on it. I don't know about the 466MHz models (they may actually be just fine) Click to expand…

I just scored 7 brand new Farallon PhoneNet adapters for 50 cents each. If I can manage to scrounge up a couple more vintage Macs, I'm gonna host a LAN party with some friends and…

About 10 years ago someone was selling an LC prototype case. It had two floppy drive slots. An LC with two floppies. Click to expand... All original LCs have two floppy drive…

To be fair, my Performa 6100/66 works fairly well for web browsing. I can even use gmail from it, using netscape 4. And it's only 66MHz.