No OS X? How can you stand it?! At LEAST upgrade to Panther!

A while back, I determined that the installation issues with my PM 5500/250 I had were due to dried CPU grease. I'm stuck on how to take out the heatsink and fan assembly though. A…

From personal experience, a Sonnet Tempo SATA card will boot just great to OS 9 or any version of OS X.

Trash don't do OS X Click to expand... You got dat right! :approve: I'll look into all the different SATA <-> whatever adapters and install one. It took over tw…

What's the best version of Word for Mac to run in Mac OS 10.4.11? I was going to poke around and see if I could find a used copy of Office 2003, but I want to make sure that's the …

Trash don't do OS X

If you're running at least Tiger, my experience is that almost any cheap-o USB 2.0 card for PCs will work just fine in a Mac. Virtually any FireWire 400 card will work fine.

What's the best version of Word for Mac to run in Mac OS 10.4.11? I was going to poke around and see if I could find a used copy of Office 2003, but I want to make sure that's the …

Thanks, Never, that is exactly the advice I was looking for. I do have Word 98 and it runs in classic mode on this Pismo, but I'm having odd trouble with key delay and repeating le…

Hi, I use a 20" G4 iMac and 12" G4 PowerBook both running Tiger's last update that you mention, 10.4.11, and running Office 2004 for Mac's Word, as well as Excel and PowerPoint. I …

It would only be piracy if you used the CD or DVDs to install the same software license on TWO machines at the same time. Click to expand... What if he installs Tiger on a Powe…

I dont know from a os-mac-ect perspective, but 2000, and 2003 are good office packages, 2007 is good too, if you get used to that (whatever they call it) interface and set all the …

What's the best version of Word for Mac to run in Mac OS 10.4.11? I was going to poke around and see if I could find a used copy of Office 2003, but I want to make sure that's the …

There's no USB2.0 support under OS 9. I'm not sure of the situation with SATA cards, but a little searching would probably turn up something. Try xlr8yourmac and the apple suppor…

. . . for a 466 DA runnin' 9.x and a Quicksilver 02 runnin 9.2.2? Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA

IIRC, didn't i send you a link for that? Click to expand... Yep indeedy :approve:

The eMac 9.2.2 disc is a good one. The version I have has Mac OS ROM 10.1.1, which is one of the highest versions. I don't think any bootable, 9.2.2 install discs have the higher 1…

In my experience, passive matrix screens can have leaked caps, causing screen issues such as a faint display/occasional "yellow-out" issues. I had it happen to a PowerBook 140 and …

I had the tunnel vision/darkening corners fault on a Duo 280 greyscale. i think that's a fault in the LCD itself rather than the backlight, but I am open to better information.

The only issue I have run into is on an old Powerbook 170. It suffered from black corners of the LCD when on for a long period of time. All my other powerbooks work fine. Mind y…

Having several modern CCFL backlit LCDs that have gone dim, I'm wondering how well the 68k portables' LCDs hold up to age. What are some of the common problems, and what should on…

I enjoyed the description on that last Powerbook: Please assume that our are free of mold Click to expand... I always worry about getting a moldy computer... :lol:

Page 2 of this PDF on Mouser lists the 3.9uF cap I mention, with one rated at 250V. I simply cannot pull it up on the Mouser site by part number. But since it is in a catalog lis…

Ah, thanks for that, I was looking a Mouser, and the closest I could find there was a 4 uF.

i am considering buying a new battery and a 500mhz cpu for the pismo. 3 questions: 1) will i notice a considerable difference in speed between the 400mhz cpu and a 500mhz cpu (both…