The PRAM battery is a NiCd, so no need to worry about lithium. However, cadmium is none too good for humans (and nickel isn't benign, either). Casual exposure is unlikely to be a p…

I managed to find a PowerBook Video adapter on ebay for a very affordable $3 ($9 with shipping). The item came in its original 1992 Apple packaging and worked out of the box with m…

Both seem to have sucky optical drives - neither iMac likes booting from these. So it's time to drag my old FW DVD burner, and see how it fares. I suspect I'll be able to get a r…

Hey greg - thought you might be kicking around here too! Both seem to have sucky optical drives - neither iMac likes booting from these. So it's time to drag my old FW DVD bur…

Nice work - iMacs of that vintage are really well built and surprisingly usable machines. My wife used a 400MHz one for ages - the only reason she upgraded to an eMac was for the …

Hi, I've never had/or been given a slot-loading iMac before, so i was rather pleased to receive two today - and my favourite colour, the dark blue models! One has a perfect CRT b…

it is an absolute monster. Click to expand... Which is the lone reason I did not bid on it. My wife would have killed me. I get away with more compact purchases though. He h…

That's a great find - must be very rare in that condition. Considering this, $78.88 is peanuts. I have a very similar external SCSI drive, a 5.25" full height drive inside a Formac…

Lithium leaks are BAD if you get them on you. Most alkaline will just mess up your skin if you dont wash, a mild acid will get rid of it (vinegar, lemon).

Today I decided to get out the Mac Classic II I got for my 15th birthday and restore it. Aside from the original CRT I was able to round up all of my original components, which wer…

good news! I let it sit over night and it powered up and booted!!

Saw this on eBay only too late to bid. One of the few hard drives which will work on a Mac 128K. Amazing condition.

Try removing and replacing the ROM chips. Make sure the notches all face the edge of the board, not the center. If you get any kind of response at all from this then bars or black …

Try removing and replacing the ROM chips. Make sure the notches all face the edge of the board, not the center. If you get any kind of response at all from this then bars or black …

Hello. Well i got my mac off of eBay. It ran for about 45 minutes and when i went to use it later on it gave me the vertical bars. It looked like the capacitors on the logic boar…

A powered USB hub should do it then Wayne

Some laptop ports are underpowered, by my guess to save power when you use them on battery. I had this issue when i got an iPod Touch and I only had my iBook 500Mhz with me and it …

You folks guessed right, my drives are not powered by external power. I'm really surprised that the PB 17" USB 2.0 ports don't have enough juice, isn't that weird? I'm very optimi…

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…

It basically means that your powerbook can't provide the necessary power to spool up the HDDs. You might either need to get a USB -> IDE/SATA Converter that you can apply e…

Whenever I plug in the hard drives, they both started to make a clicking sound. Uh oh, there may be something really wrong and I thought my data was long gone. Click to expand..…

I'm at my wit's end and thought I'd give it a shot on this forum. I have two hard drives, one an external WD Passport 120GB that was formatted for Mac and the other is an internal…

Right. Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS …

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…

Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…