The conflict appears to be with my SCSI card software. By disabling the 2906 extension, the FireDrive works as predicted. Any suggestions?

Turns out that backing up to my CD-R is now prohibited from the Firewire Drive. Anyone have any guesses as to why this might be (aside from me needing the 2906 extension?)

Hi a, Im currious as to what other changes apple has made with the new G3's (the ones they released this week), i know they updated the processor speeds, and the cdrom, but have t…

Has anyone been able to sync using the iMac IrDA with PDAs? I have a TI Avigo and only have Windoze software. Therefore, I will need to sync through Virtual PC. Looking for some…

A friend of mine is a wintel user - he can't help it, he's an IS person for a living and doesn't know any better - and has offered to put some high-res digital photos on cd for me,…

I have a Rev. A beige G3 266 MT. Recently i had to install a second IDE drive, forcing me to remove the IDE CD drive from the machine as it can handle only 2 IDE devices. I've bee…

We just got a Plextor SCSI CD-RW in our beige G3. It weent in pretty easy, and came with very good instructions, but I haven't used it enough to give you I good idea of how well i…

I am thinking about getting an ATI 128 Orion in a 7200/90 to speed up 2D (Word, DeltaGraph etc) and hopefully speed up "light" 3D like TombRaider, will it work or is the CPU to slo…

I also have a 7200/75 and I've had the same question myself about how effective a Rage 128 Orion would be in these old 601 macs. My understanding of the matter is that the main lim…

Well, my company allowed me to shed my Wintel machine for an iMac. Using DAVE, I've been able to network with the other Windows machines; however, I need a connection to our SGI se…

A few weeks ago, there was an announcement that the next Nintendo game machine would use PowerPC chips. There is no news on whether or not they will use Altivec or not. Obvioulsy, …

The new Nintendo, code name Dolphine, will use a PPC 400 processor from IBM. From what I have been hearing, the Dolphine is going to be a relativly cheap machine. I suspect that fo…

Altivec was really not made for games,I am not an expert on the subject, but for high end jobs like Photoshop. A good graphics chip would probably be better then Altivec. Besides, …

I just read the article about G3 uprades for various "upgrade-challenged" PowerMacs and Mac clones. There was no mention of the PM 7200. Anyone know why the 7200 is left out of the…

According to an interview with one of the upgrade company CEO's, the cache slot on the 7200 "doesn't have enough wires." In the Developer's Notes on the 7200, it refers to the cac…