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Making Radius Video Card Main Video OutPut. — #1

Hi there. My IIci has a Radius DirectColorGX. The internal video does not work with my VGA monitor and adaptor. But I plugged in my VGA-Mac Adaptor to the Radius Card, and voila i…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 23:05

Got 2 living-dead G3 iBooks — #14

careful. It might be the inverter itself. I have had cases where you push on the inverter and it will work. Usually a cold joint, but I would go find an inverter. it should be c…
68kMLA Hardware by protocol7 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 21:27

Rev A iMac G3 — #7

Just one thing to remember about trayloading iMacs: If you use it regularly, expect the monitor to lose its flyback transformer within a year or two. I gave away my Rev. B (same th…
68kMLA Hardware by Gorgonops Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 18:55

ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #8

Ya know, what that looks like is an original "Macintosh" sticker from the back of an early 128K. Maybe this was upgraded to 512, in which case you got a new "Macintosh 512K" sticke…
68kMLA Hardware by Mac128 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 17:49

ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #7

Weren't HyperDrive labels red text? I'd bet that is a dealer's sticker. I can't make out what the label on the auctioned Mac says. It's likely that if there was once a HyperDrive i…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 17:32

Overclocked MolarMac problem — #5

It is most likely the analog board/ flyback transformer/ some other mysterious item in the dark depths of the machine that is faulty, as fiddling with the jumpers as per the variou…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 16:04

ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #6

Yeah, that's what all the hype over the hyperdrive is about! It's an internal hdd for the 512k. I believe JDW has one. Check the flickr 68kmla group you'll find it. Or just …
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 13:57

ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #5

Ah gotcha. I figured that was what you might be pointing to. But I guess that sticker is useless without the HyperDrive though... Click to expand... Well it could be there. T…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 13:23

Got 2 living-dead G3 iBooks — #13

careful. It might be the inverter itself. I have had cases where you push on the inverter and it will work. Usually a cold joint, but I would go find an inverter. it should be c…
68kMLA Hardware by coius Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 13:09

ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #1

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macintosh-512K-computer-mouse-drive-and-case_W0QQitemZ190334943506QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c50d8c112&_trksid=p4999.c0.m14#h…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 12:30

Rev A iMac G3 — #6

I used to see tons of these on curbs. Back when I wasnt into collecting computers. This one was manafactured in 9/8/98. I check the system profiler and it says 2 MB of SGRAM. I l…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 12:17

Rev A iMac G3 — #5

It's not currently rare. Unfortunately, a lot more have to be crushed before it will be rare :-/
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 08:00

Rev A iMac G3 — #4

I like the puck mouse too. Still use a few on occasion actually too. As for whether or not the Rev. A iMac is rare, I doubt it. Pretty sure those things sold REALLY well back in…
68kMLA Hardware by Hrududu Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 05:33

Now I cannot install 10.2.8 — #3

but the only thing is that this G3 AIO used to install 10.2 natively... not anymore... and I cannot figure it out... I was running Xpostfacto with 10.3.9 then I wiped the HDD and …
68kMLA PowerPC by MacManiac1701A Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 05:30

Now I cannot install 10.2.8 — #2

Don't know why you never saw that message before, but it's true - the beige G3s need to have OS X installed in the first 8GB of the drive. Re-partition the drive into two partitio…
68kMLA PowerPC by tmtomh Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 05:28

Rev A iMac G3 — #3

I used to have one of those (I gave it to someone I know... spread the joy of Macs!) Call me crazy, but I *liked* the puck mouse... Best Mouse Ever!
68kMLA Hardware by macgeek417 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 - 05:19
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