Yes the iMac G3 really was a revolutionary device for Apple back in 98, but so many of them were made and sold I just don't see it ever becoming nearly as rare or desired as a Maci…

Awww, man. That Goodwill maintains a museum. Guess where all the really good vintage stuff goes. :'(

That noise is a dying capacitor tied to the speaker, same noise I heard on a used unit that died (same board I recapped and works fine I have as a spare). Asuming nothing else is w…

I still think they are very common. Although some people try to sell them for big bucks, I personally don't think they are worth it right now. $30 seems about average for a used G3…

Before you leave him negative feedback, I'd try and get onto him first, yes the board was sold "as-is", but you were told that it is a sealed, brand new part, and it is not.

Austin's Goodwill Compter Works is excellent, and there are several other computer recycle / resale operations, as you'd expect in a university town. http://www.austincomputerwork…

Leave him negative feedback. The item is not as described. As-is is something different than the description.

Stop using that word "RARE"! :beige: My recommendation is not to use that RAM upgrade board. It looks like the PSU is the intact original first generation as well. It still has…

I must be the unluckiest guy when it comes to LCs. Man did I get burned on this motherboard. It was not new. It was not sealed. It does not work. > Looks like it…

I like the trackball better, too. Apple was inconsistent in where they silk screened the model number. 210s-270s usually had it on the bottom of the LCD panel, 280s & 2300s…

I've seen a bad PRAM battery do something similar.

I've never heard of 9 on a 601 upgrade card. I've seen the Sonnet enabler do 8.6 personally, but even that was pedestrian.

I tried Preview, but didn't see the resize options. Blind I guess. Click to expand... Sorry. In Preview, Tools menu, Adjust Size...

Your Mac shows 512K because it has the original 64K ROMs most likely. You actually have 1.5MB of RAM installed, it looks like. The mobo RAM chips have probably been replaced upgrad…

Apple never really wanted to release the PowerDuo, but they'd promised all Duo owners a PPC upgrade path. I've got a lot of Duo parts, some of the, presumably, upgrade decks have s…

Someone has obviously popped the top plastics from the earlier series on it, either because the 2300c's plastics were bad, the trackpad broken, or because the whole PowerBook track…

I like the 2300's. I used one back in high school for a bit. Even dragged it with me backpacking in Mexico.

My 8600/300s (two) are a bit odd in that they will refuse to reboot to the order of the three finger salute. You have to manually shut down if it crashes by pressing the green powe…

I go to the Salvation Army store to look for computers. I haven't found anything interesting enough to buy yet, but I still look. Goodwill never has computers in the stores but the…

Sonnet had an enabler to let upgraded machines use 8.5/8.6, but I've never heard of anyone getting OS 9 to work. Admittedly most links about such things seem to have fallen into th…

There is a website around somewhere with a long history of tips and tricks for the Turbo601. I think it had a sister site for the Quadra 601-based upgrades. And the hints on the…

Where do you get that 512Ke discontinued date? It all depends on which schools you're talking about. Jobs made education sales a priority, especially after the first 6 months when…

They're owned by the city/regional councils, who run the garbage tips. They're actually at the garbage tip. Anyway, that Goodwill sounds great...you'd never see anything like that…

I was going to guess that a "tip shop" was like a thrift store, but this sounds a bit different. Are they actually owned by the garbage companies? As far as Goodwill, if you want …

jt: a "tip shop" is a shop at the garbage tip (or dump) where they sell stuff that they think is saleable. Things like electrical items, books, CDs/DVDs/videos/cassettes, furniture…