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…

The most primitive stand alone Apple LCD was the blue & white 15" Studio Display at 1024x768. It is a multi-sync display so it will display 640x480. The earliest LCDs from …

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…

I posed this question on the "bringing back to life" thread but did not get any response most likely because I slipped it in as an afterthought. Although it works perfectly, I wo…

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

I think I've figured it out, and it has nothing to do with Stuffit after all. The system is simply overheating. I turned it on yesterday evening and everything was working just f…

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 - …

OK, if you're using 20 MHz oscillator in your mod, would you mind telling me where that 40 MHz signal for the processor comes from? :-D Click to expand... Well, apparently eac…

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The following is taken from MacWorld's Mac Secrets, 5th Edition by David Pogue & Joseph Schorr: In reality, the Mac’s error codes aren’t nearly that enlightening. Fo…

"johnklos", _You can not make it work without the help of PLL chip in any way_!In all Quadras + IIVx this PLL works as Frequency doubler. That means, you put 12.5MHz in and out co…

"johnklos", _You can not make it work without the help of PLL chip in any way_! (PLL stands for Phase Locked Loop, check Google or Wiki how it works, in caseYou don't know.)In all…

Hi guys, Although we often mention Marc Schrier's page, we all should give a credit regarding this mod to that person from Japan, namely Hiromasa Yamaoka who was first to do suc…

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…