Hi folks.... I have not done the 640 X 480 mod to my Color Classic yet.  I would like to take a 575 logic board I just bought and plug it into my Color Classic.  Can I do that wit…

Why on earth is the max ram in this Mac an odd amount? I haven't tried to put a 32mb simm in the slot labeled 16mb max... But I was curious if anyone ever tried, or modified this? …

In a bit of experimentation I have been trying various SSD schemes in my PB 3400c.   Compact Flash cards in the HD spot with a generic Asian CF-to-IDE adapter work just fine as do…

These are technically things I acquired in 2014 but I've only gotten a chance to start playing with them recently. First off, picked up an iMac G4 mostly so I could have a fast OS…

Scored this almost new box of powerPC upgrade. The box is distressed and has markers "$10.00" and "Do not open" plus some water stain. But inside is quite nice with books, papers, …

The machine: B&W G3 (Rev B) The upgrade: PowerLogix G3 1.1GHz The software: Mac OS 9.2.2 CPU Director 1.5f6 (application) CPU Director INIT 2.0b1 (extension) The …

So the instruction manual from Sonnet says their upgrades only work up to 9.1 but I know there are people here who refuse to accept such things so I have to ask. Have any of you go…

So you just got a beige PCI Mac with no OS installed and you have Mac OS 9.1 and Ubuntu 9.10 for PPC Macs available for a clean install. Given how old 9.1 is and that no modern sof…

Can't get this combination working. Will boot os 9. Will boot cd/dvd drive tiger disk. Will boot tiger install disk from firewire. Will boot in safeboot, BUT no core image or e…

I'm trying to get one of my beige G3 towers running and have a Western Digital 205AA drive with the Apple logo on it. I have it installed and am able to load MacOS 9.2 from CD but …

Dual 1.42 versus 1.42 Single (1.25 overclocked to 1.42) in the same machine (G4 MDD). I have done several speed test -primary video compression- swapping two processors cards in m…

I just installed 8.6 on a spare hard drive that I put into my G4 Sawtooth, It now Quad-boots into any of the following: - Ubuntu 6.10 - Mac OS X 10.1.3 - Mac OS 9.2.2 - Mac OS …

So what browser are you using on your Quadra running Mac OS 8.1 or lower? Is iCab 2.9.9 the best available?

Recently I (foolishly?) agreed to take a dual 1.25 Ghz MDD G4 Tower (OS 9-bootable, not FW800) off a coworkers' hands for $50. (I'm not sure why. I think I had this vague idea that…

Just got an original Apple-labeled DVD-RAM drive, thanks eBay! $30 shipped. What astounds me is how insanely heavy this bugger is. Easily triple the weight of the Blu-ray drive …

A Wallstreet battery that was bought new from China about 2 years ago, that worked only for a few months, and that had been boxed awaiting recycling, last night sprang to life on b…

I can't seem to find anything on the correct procedure on taking apart a Performa 6300CD (or 6320CD). Splitting Mac OS 8.6 and Debian between a 1.2GB HDD is quite a squeeze. Could…

Hi, My SE/30 could connect to network, the hard disk damage, I replaced the disk and ran the system installed 7.5.3 and upgraded to 7.5.5, I installed drivers for network card, b…

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260533077653&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:US:1123 this is a clamshell modified w/ a touch screen, that was made for …

Okay I finally got the Color Classic running after a frustrating experience with the LC 575 motherboard. I bought an LC 550 which I received today with some cracked corners on the …

I can not recall if the 8500 can do 8.

I am now the owner of a 1GHz TiBook. What I'm curious about is, it has a 1GHz G4 and can boot into OS9 (pretty nifty), although I hadn't played much around in OS9 (just got it and…

Okay. I've got a Power Macintosh 7500 (see signature) with a 68-pin Ultra 160 SCSI LVD/SE Adaptec controller card. The model number of the card is AHA-2940U2B. It says on a labe…

I have a iBook G3 Clamshell Special Edition ( 466 MHz with Fireware port and DVD drive), running OS X 10.3.9. Is there a way to check which version of firmware I have on it? Accor…

Hi, I posted awhile ago about a non working Power Mac 8500. The problem was that it had no video out. Fortunately, it was just the adapter that didn't work, and I found a new Mac …