I am not usually one to preach about static, but it is winter time for most of us, and that stuff does fly around the air and seconded on you could hook back up the board before p…

Yes, plan on RAM replacement being a 2+-hour affair. Some additions to the notes: - Use a grounded wrist strap, or try to keep one hand on something grounded, like the power suppl…

Personally, if it were me doing it, I'd just remove the Colour Classic analog board and use one from an LC575 - chances are you're probably stripping an LC575 for its logic board a…

And I vote once more from my own personal experience with this stupid case design that the 8500 gets a Road Apple award for user friendliness! Make sure you make your ram selectio…

You'll love that Asante 10/100 card. I got extremely lucky about 5 years ago on ebay and bought like 10 of them for about a dollar a piece plus 25 shipping. I've got one in nearl…

The fastest OS 9 booting machines were the dual 1.25GHz 2002 FW400 MDD, or the "reissue" 2003 FW400 single 1.25GHz MDD Click to expand... What are the exact differences between t…

As Osgeld said, you have to remove the motherboard. From memory, the procedure to remove the motherboard goes something like this: - Shut down, unplug and open the machine - Remo…

I doubt it - to my understanding, no matter what you do with the sense pins or whatever, in stock form the analog board is only capable of running at 512x384. Click to expand...…

Picked up an Asantefast 10/100 ethernet and a Radius 24 bit accelerated video card. Not sure what model the video card but I know it's not a Thunder GX. It could be a Thunder GT, t…

you have to take the mobo out, its behind the power supply if i remember correctly so unplug and remove everything from the board, on the back side there will be some plastic latt…

rrr my hard drive wont boot if i remove the hdd and put it in my classic II (b/w) it boots fine.... dose the scsi chip give probs?? or the connectors??? :scrambled:

I've searched for instructions ( text and pictures ) to show me how and what to do. I took the metal case off and it seems to me that the 8500's RAM slots are hidden somewhere a…

And I thought I was the king of the tip finds! Well scored there

I found a hint about changing the CC to VGA resolution with an unmodified analogue board. The result seems not to be fully satisfying, as of a black border around the used display…

I doubt it - to my understanding, no matter what you do with the sense pins or whatever, in stock form the analog board is only capable of running at 512x384. Personally, if it we…

You found it in a SKIP? :O Great score, especially for free...while I prefer the 4G myself, for a long time a lot of people said that the 3G was the best iPod they ever made. As…

… The hardware mod is to drive the Color Classic's analog board and CRT at 640x480 … Click to expand... Recently I read about a hardware 640 x 480 hack without the need to cha…

Hi, my first freebie of the year - and a good one! Went with my father-in-law to a tip in Essendon, dumped our crap - checked out a skip with keyboards plastic waste etc in it - …

Yes. http://www.archive.org

Funny thing... I found this thread while googling Color Classics and as I started reading in my head I kept saying "Just make it a CC II!"... Then about halfway through, it was su…

thanks for the info i was going to 640x480 dose any one have a backup of http://www.stuartbell.dsl.pipex.com/PowerCC thanks

The G4 tower has just been turned on after being cleaned up and allowed to dry out (necessary as the cleaning included a hosing of the power supply, which surely emitted enough ni…

Be aware that with a 575 board, you will have to perform either a software mod or a hardware mod. The software mod is to fool the 575 board into operating at the Color Classic's 5…

long live Robby the Robot! Click to expand... Indeed! He had a fairly fancy data storage setup did he not?

long live Robby the Robot! arrr my hard drive wont boot :scrambled: if i remove the hdd and put it in my classic II (b/w) it boots fine.... the 575 is not here yet.. so i'm…