yay! reason to live! Although saying that I will be out of town the first few day. BUT! yay! pointless poorly executed tasks ahead!

Well, in case anyone hasn't noticed, there's now a website up for the 2008 winter warmup: http://retrochallenge.net/2008/winter/ Cheers to luddite for getting it all sorted! Cl…

Well, in case anyone hasn't noticed, there's now a website up for the 2008 winter warmup: http://retrochallenge.net/2008/winter/ Cheers to luddite for getting it all sorted!

I'm in! The play around in January will give me something interesting to do.

I've just ordered a Panasonic UJ-841 DVD-RW for the Lombard. $AU55 inc shipping from the UK and with warranty

I've already arbitrarily announced the informal "Winter Warm-up" on the RetroBBS. I guess you guys weren't paying attention ;-) Anyway, we'll go from Jan 1 to Jan 31st... as usu…

Tom said we should have a page up by the holidays.It wouldn't hurt to get ready now and find out who is doing what. Click to expand... yeah - but i think his idea was to get th…

Tom said we should have a page up by the holidays. It wouldn't hurt to get ready now and find out who is doing what.

Okay everyone!It is almost time to prepare. Do we want to use Tom's design? I like it... nahuelmarisi, you still want to do it right? Click to expand... are you talking abou…

Okay everyone! It is almost time to prepare. Do we want to use Tom's design? I like it... nahuelmarisi, you still want to do it right?

The original iBooks (and the later ones, to a lesser degree) were quite difficult to extract the hard drive from and leave the machine looking as it did before it went into surgery…

Update: Just did the RAM/HD swap in the iBook and installed OS 9 no problem. And then discovered all my OS X CDs are pooched. Ordering some new ones. Note to Apple: getting to …

I now forward you this This link Pics will follow in 1/2 hour!!!

The other BW G3 and my original BW G3 are now gone. The G4 450 Dual and G3 450 work great. It feels good to give back to Freecycle. I showed the person who picked up one of them…

well, i am happy to report (and unhappy about doing that) I have replaced the Combo drive with a straight DVD Drive. I got enough machines I can burn CDs with, and all I really ne…

Well done! Low End Mac is currently building up people's success stories about Leopard installations on unsupported machines and are looking for folk to report on their finding…

it's running leopard It runs pretty smoothly. I am surprised how well it runs actually. It's nice having two machines that run leopard I now have a desktop mac and a lapt…

Be aware that the eMacs were around during the time of the capacitor plague, so that might be something you want to check into. If you're handy with a soldering iron, it shouldn't…

Yeah, I know about that. While I was in, i checked for ANY signs of that stuff. I gave it a thorough check out. Checked connections, components/etc... Right now, the only probl…

Be aware that the eMacs were around during the time of the capacitor plague, so that might be something you want to check into. If you're handy with a soldering iron, it shouldn't…

I picked up a 1.25ghz eMac off of these boards a while back. Its a nice machine. I mainly use it as an internet radio and I do any scanning I need to do on it. It has the airpor…

well, i delved into the machine, and upped the HDD to 80GB now. it made a HUGE speed increase. Anyways. It was VERY frustrating working on it, because I had to put it back toget…

G4 dual + free = awesome! Congrats.

When I first installed 10.4, it was slow as hell. I mean, apps took like up to 4 minutes to launch. After doing all the updates, and repairing permissions (that was REALLY screwe…

good deal!