Consider to stick with System 7.1 for the PB 180. I think it feels more snappy and runs very reliable. It is possible to replace several extensions or control panels with more re…

The new Sandisk Extreme III CF card (specified transfer rate 30 Mb/s) should do well, as it supports UDMA. This thing is pretty fast, better than any old harddisk drive. The 2 GB…

The M2943 is one of the most brittle displays I have ever seen. Most other Apple displays hold up fairly well, but every single M2943 I have is crumbling - even the ones with perfe…

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Oops 5 1/4"

they have to be 5 1/4' diskettes Click to expand... Those are awfully big diskettes. } Yeah, I know. A typo.

just didn't know if there was a good Apple monitor from the mid-90's... Click to expand... Oh sure, there are some good monitors. Really, anything *EXCEPT* the MS 15" is good. …

And also this may be unecessary but they have to be 5 1/4' diskettes.

Any DSDD (Double-sided, double-density) disks should work. Click to expand... Exactly. Sectored-ness (hard or soft) is irrelevant in the Apple's case. Just avoid HD ('High De…

My school still uses some G3 iBooks and I see this hapenning to them VERY soon... And I'll have to arm up with a heat gun. I was trying to fix the BGA by putting a small candle cu…

I'll always love the iBooks though and look forward to the day when I finally have the resources to repair one. (I can do the BGA's on the GPU, just not that little sub-processor c…

I'll always love the iBooks though and look forward to the day when I finally have the resources to repair one. (I can do the BGA's on the GPU, just not that little sub-processor c…

I'd be trying another monitor. Seriously, as Gil said, the MS 15" displays were shocking, even back in the day. I bet if you try another monitor, you'll find that there is nothing …

Any DSDD (Double-sided, double-density) disks should work.

Mine's on its last legs, it's fallen apart and the solder joints have fractured numerous times... it packed up again today. However I still love the computer for the times it did w…

I'd be trying another monitor. Seriously, as Gil said, the MS 15" displays were shocking, even back in the day. I bet if you try another monitor, you'll find that there is nothing …

Terrible, *TERRIBLE* monitor. They are plagued with all sorts of problems, mostly cold solder connections. There was an Apple Repair Program that expired almost a decade ago. Serio…

Terrible, *TERRIBLE* monitor. They are plagued with all sorts of problems, mostly cold solder connections. There was an Apple Repair Program that expired almost a decade ago. Serio…

I installed 10.3.9 with xpostfacto things seem to be good, just waiting on my G4 400 CPU. it is alot snappier with 10.3.9 with the G3 @ 400 mhz...

Also as a personal touch for my mommy I modded the glowing apple and made it pink! Looks pretty awesome. Tiger runs on this thing like a champ. Looks brand new now except for 2 …

Congrats on the iBook! Hope yours fairs better than mine did...mine was plagued with problems since the start, and it finally failed a few months ago with the infamous GPU issue.

I used to have a 1.33GHZ iBook, that was a champ and served me awesomley. Great laptops!

check the jumper settings on the drive... It's been a while since i played with scsi stuff, but there might be more than just the scsi id jumpers? Maybe you need to terminate the …

Congrats! I love my G3 iBook. Has served me well for almost 7 years now and recently got a brand new battery. Click to expand... You are one of the lucky few. Right after I s…

Congrats! I love my G3 iBook. Has served me well for almost 7 years now and recently got a brand new battery.