All you are doing is taking off the very thin layer of yellowed exposed surface, which after a few years will yellow again anyway. The bad part is you can expose blotchyness and mo…

I just got that 10 buck ebay card listed above today, altho technically i dont have a mac to test it on so I dont know the condition I have owned 2 geforce 2's, both pc's ... Firs…

It really is worth it. Click to expand... I concur.

I really wanted to upgrade my Sawtooth Click to expand... The original stock video card for a Sawtooth is a Rage 128 Pro. Same as your new card?

If you turn the computer on with the back removed in a darkened room, can you see a blue electrical discharge ("corona discharge") around the top of the EHT transformer? If so, th…

Follow-up in a year or two, and then maybe I'll consider if there's still no reports of brittleness or cracking. Click to expand... What's with the continued fears here? To me…

No, I haven't seen any evidence of that. The screen's bright and clear; there was no wobble at all, as far as I could tell. If a deaf man were to start up the Plus, he would perc…

thats not really fair, an extra year or 2 on already decomposing ~20 year old plastic Its just removing a thin film of chemicals that have already leeched out of the plastic onto …

For the skeptics and hold-outs... CAN RETROBRIGHT REALLY MAKE PLASTICS BRITTLE? If the plastic had become dangerously brittle due to RetroBright deyellowing, you would expect that…

Depends on the nature of the "fizzling" sound. Could be a grounding problem. If the sound reoccurs, try opening it up and loosening and retightening the grounding plate screws and…

That's sort of the case with my Performa 578. Except, the fizzling sound stops when you have an active window open on the desktop - if you don't, then the fizzling sound returns.

While you're trying out stuff, you could also give the hacked AmigOS 4.0 install CD that works on the G4 Mac Mini a go. See how well it works. I got it off your server so you shoul…

PowerPCs do boot from USB. I have used an external DVD Drive and they all have booted perfectlty.

Hi all, I know at some point I've seen some youtube video of a problem like this, so I thought I'd run this by you guys. Last night I decided to turn on my Macintosh Plus. Howev…

it is confusing over here in Japan because there are various grades of Oxydol Click to expand... I think I may finally have a grasp as to why the Japanese require a license to …

According to my research, the G4 Mini requires 10.4. At this point I'm not sure if I'll bother with that or just get linux back on there. Seems that whichever method I choose I'll …

IMO, neither of the rolling eyes emoticons really depict "rolling one's eyes" very well. :-/ But yeah, the first one was much better.

: It looks like the *rolls eyes* emoticon was changed. i liked the old one better! Click to expand... Yeah. The new one looks like he is having a seizure or something.

: It looks like the *rolls eyes* emoticon was changed. i liked the old one better!

Mine was sent via the local library's email system; the library from which I placed the request.

Given that Mr. Clapp says the book does not exist, I wonder what the library in New Hampshire actually has. Perhaps a card catalog entry with no actual book to go with it? Clic…

Given that Mr. Clapp says the book does not exist, I wonder what the library in New Hampshire actually has. Perhaps a card catalog entry with no actual book to go with it? Clic…

That would also help to explain why trag has not gotten back to us with scans of the book from his local library. Click to expand... That was not from my local library. I am i…

Here be the WorldCat entry for "Hacker's Bible": http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234246376&referer=brief_results I just put in a request for it and the Complete book. We'll s…

Mr. Clapp, to say "thank you" for your recent post would probably the the understatement of the year. I am quite certain that most of us here at 68kMLA, especially those of us in …