My Quicksilver is currently using a PCI card since it gave up its AGP GeForce2 MX for my Cube. (16MB Rage, but that machine is in server duty and only used over screen sharing,…

I've never dealt with an AGP Mac before, but I know for a fact that a PC with an AGP slot will quite happily run with only a PCI video card, so I can't see how a Mac would be any d…

Via a local kijiji seller: a 400MHz G4 AGP Graphics with 1GB RAM and a nice, quiet 20GB hard drive. It was filthy (smoker and dust) so it was disassembled and washed and is drying …

There were a handful of external monitor adapters for the SE but they were nothing like the ones made for the SE/30. One was by Radius for use with their portrait monitor. There wa…

Alright, got a high-quality picture of it running, using my good camera: (Click for larger.) I dismantled the external floppy, and got the mechanism to move, but it's still in …

Do not remove the band -- there's no non-destructive way to do it, and no real non-destructive way to reuse it, unfortunately.

Does your replacement CRT lack a band or something? Click to expand... I don't have a replacement CRT but I want to save the frame and attaching band in case I find one that do…

Nice score. I always like finding the vintage items still in their boxes.

I went to a junk store today, they collect a lot of stuff from people. I found an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 in the box! (Box in great condition) and an ImageWriter II (Just lik…

Does your replacement CRT lack a band or something?

All I can say after watching this thread is that I hope I never have to remove a crt from any of my compact macs. Learned a lot though! Thanks guys.

Going down the list looking at the different models and their conditions I don't think that lot is worth dropping $350 on even if you lived next door to him. You've got 5 MDD's the…

dont know about the band, and as far as the vacuum you can safely release it through the little spout it was formed with maybe someone can chime in on how to actually do it, becau…

I got the yoke off now (it just needed a little twist once the screws were loosened to break the grip of the glue). The only thing I need to get off now is the metal band around th…

Look up: Richard Martin Belleville, MI 48111 on LEMswap, he has tons of working g4 macs in lots cheap, pickup only if you are in that area.

If so, have a look at this: http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-10-POWERMAC-G4-COMPUTERS-MIXED-LOT-LQQK_W0QQitemZ110481109021QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b92ff01d#ht_334…

its glued on but removable, its glued on cause depending on how its twisted it will effect the orientation of the screen, once in the right place, plop

Ok, one other thing. Can I remove the yoke from around the long end of the tube and save it for parts or is it permanently attached? There are places where it looks there are dollo…

I managed to get my 128K Mac upgraded 512ke system on the registry tonight. If you are looking for me there is one more piece of info there. hehe Here's my decoding for the Mac.…

I usually use an insulated pair of pliers to remove my anode caps (the correct term for the "suction cup") from CRTs. I carefully use the pliers to pinch one of the two pincers inw…

I seem to recall reading in the manual for the original Macintosh that the numeric keypad plugged into the keyboard port on the front, and had two RJ-12 jacks - one for the connect…

Well I got it and had to open it up to see the upgrade board and it was in there, but it wasn't plugged in to the expansion slot! I also accidentally snapped the tail end off of th…

Brilliant! What does the numeric keypad plug into? Serial port? Click to expand... The numeric keypads are actually connected in a chain with the keyboard on the early Macs. Yo…

Hah, since when does the US Government (specifically the DOD) need a particularly good reason for anything? Here's a longish excerpt from an article written by a forensic data rec…

Brilliant! What does the numeric keypad plug into? Serial port?