Okayy... I guess this will be the final update lol Basically everything is working fine, except I've found the source of the burning. One of the black boxes on the underside of th…

Alright, so small update: All I've really changed is I've put the battery in as well as the power cable (I only had the PB plugged into the wall without the battery up until now).…

Hey everyone, FIrst time poster here. :scrambled: I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction as to what I should do with my PowerBook 180. Back …

course a buck at radio shack and you could have just replaced the jack properly Click to expand... Shhhhh ;D --------- Why get a recorder that goes straight to flash memo…

I saw one on Ebay last year go for $275. My maxxbidd was $95, and I thought even that was pushing it! I would love to own one, though!!!

Check out some parts machines that have the active matrix display before heading to sites like Wegener Media. It may be cheaper just to get a new one, in some cases. :-/

Good then that gives hope to the eMac in my schools computer lab that is failing.

Welcome to the eMac Club! I own a 700 mhz one and they rock. slightly loud and heavy but nice nonetheless. I am not sure if this model is one of those that has the leaky caps but w…

Welcome to the eMac Club! I own a 700 mhz one and they rock. slightly loud and heavy but nice nonetheless. I am not sure if this model is one of those that has the leaky caps but w…

Nope! http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/0912.html Pretty neat!

Today I drove about 75 kilometers to pick up a eMac listed on Kijiji for $160CAD. Its pretty sweet. Although it only had OS X 10.2 installed with 128MB ram, I put in a 256MB stick …

Anybody here seen one of these in person, or actually own(ed) one? Just curious.

Personally I think the whole idea of a 3D world as a productivity environment is silly anyway. It's the sort of thing that looks totally awesome in fiction but in reality, well... …

Building stuff like you describe is uh ... non-trivial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

When a CRT is fired up after being off for a long time, there is often a sizzling or crackling sound sort of like it is taking a deep breath. It is caused by the inside of the tube…

Totally been done already. Click to expand... :lol: Totally not what I have in mind. if anything MS Bob is pretty much what we have at the moment. I needed the laugh though. …

PowerPCs will boot from USB: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384 http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061017084322177 You can also use anothe…

what did you use to burn the DVD? and did you make sure that it was set to burn a bootable DVD? Click to expand... I downloaded the Yellow Dog 6.2 DVD ISO, which is supposed to…

what did you use to burn the DVD? and did you make sure that it was set to burn a bootable DVD?

I installed NetBSD on my MP Gig-E G4, but now want to load Linux. So I burned YDL to a DVD and tried to boot it by holding "c" during startup. It completely ignores this and just…

If its the insulation around the high voltage components breaking down, the problem will be related to humidity rather than temperature.

He's referring to the OS 9 Netboot image that Apple has on their website as a download: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243 Click to expand... Question... How …

Taking a screenshot of the entire display is exactly the same in OS 9 as it is in OS X - Command-Shift-3. Command-Shift-4 allows you to take a screenshot of a specific part of the …

Taking a screenshot of the entire display is exactly the same in OS 9 as it is in OS X - Command-Shift-3. Command-Shift-4 allows you to take a screenshot of a specific part of the …

Hmm.. Interesting. When I boot the PowerBook and goto the Apple for it's system stats, I find this system has a boot ROM of 9.0.1, yet I can't boot from a 9.0.1 CD. Why's that? Ho…