What colour? That will tell you the specs. My blueberryBook has 576MB of RAM and runs 9.2.2 verrrrrry well.

Hey Guys I'm geting a I-book G3, the owner told me it's screen goes black and they have to restart the computer to get the screen to work. I plan to use this G3 for school work a…

Monitor repair FAQ - has lots of info

My 7300 also boots NetBSD "native" with no MacOS installed. The only trick was figuring out the OpenFirmware string for its Tempo Trio drive, and it was too long to fit into NVRAM,…

I was curious if anyone had electrically modified the power and CRT circuitry to take signals from another source. Like... if I were to install a TV tuner in the base, could I rig …

(or see if anyone on here has a rom flasher and is willing to make some for you) Click to expand... I have a rom burner, but no blank proms or originals

Well gots me the 350MHZ Zif and will see if it works. I'll call it turkey if it works. Because I worked fixed it around Thanksgiving. I gotta start naming my machines.

I can provide an after screen shot when I get home. I'll definitely have before & after pictures when apply some Retr0Bright to the computer case, keyboard, and mouse. …

About 10 years ago someone was selling an LC prototype case. It had two floppy drive slots. An LC with two floppies. Click to expand... All original LCs have two floppy drive…

I have an eMac 800. Much louder than my fanless iMac "Fireball. The only noise it makes is the Quantum Fireball 6.99GB harddrive

Congratulations on a hack well done, comrade! . . . you have a good plan in place for both fixes and you've earned you battle scars! :rambo: Why, in this day and age, do peo…

Well, it's certainly a good candidate for a mod. Considering how many Mac Pluses there are out there, I would suggest that it won't be missed. Throwing it away is a waste though. L…

I reseated everything one last time, and it turns on now! :scrambled:

Its actually pretty simple. You just install Netbsd on a machine with OF 1.0.5 and it does all of it for you. One thats done, you set your boot device to /path/to/:0 and it works. …

look up the pins (or you could just run a screw driver over the pins) where the button connectors connect to the board and try starting it that way.

it can natively boot linux/bsd without needing to bootstrap from within MacOS (as can any machine with of1.0.5) Click to expand... Is that right? Awesome. How do you get that…

why is it in this day and age there are still lots of people that don't own cameras? it's not hard to get an inexpensive one new that doesn't suck terribly or buy one that doesn't …

Maybe the button is faulty?

I'm running a Power Mac 7500 with a Sonnet Crescendo G3/500, 224MB RAM, 2 SCSI hard drives and Mac OS 9.1. It has been a faithful machine to me for the past 5 years. I will be lo…

My Sawtooth won't turn on! I have replaced every component other than the logic board and power supply with spares. When I press the power button, nothing happens. Is it the logic …

I'll try to take a picture. I don't own a camera, but I can borrow one from work.

I kind of love the PCI PPC era because of the clones. Apple's decisions in this era as far as chassis layout and design is enough to make anyone dislike them on that basis alone an…

Turned out great. Click to expand... Thanks for sharing a photo. :O

I successfully applied the hires 640x480 hack on my Color Classic. I've never even soldered before. Turned out great. My next step is to solder on a resister so I can expan…

So MLA, what should I do with it? Click to expand... Well, it's certainly a good candidate for a mod. Considering how many Mac Pluses there are out there, I would suggest that …