PowerBook 3400c Solid State Drive — #1
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…
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Out with the old, in with the new — #1
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…
PowerLogix 1.1GHz upgrade only running at 650MHz — #1
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 …
The $5 iPhone conquest — #1
Folks,
Went to an AUSOM members-only swap meet on the weekend, didn't pick up a much mac stuff, a couple of Pismo CD and DVD drive units, a couple of games, stuff, boxes of stuff,…
Sonnet upgrades and 9.2.x — #1
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…
MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #1
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…
Attention all PowerBook 5300cs Owners — #1
What are your opinions on the screen of the PowerBook 5300cs? Is it the worst of the worst of passive matrix or is it one of the better ones? Better or worse than 1400cs?
Quicksilver [2002] & ATI 9700 Mac Ed — #1
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…
Drive not recognized — #1
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 versus Single CPU in Mac Os 9 Real test — #1
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…
Your thoughts on multi-boot systems — #1
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 …
A conquest for somebody — #1
Rare Voodoo 5 6000 video card
http://cgi.ebay.com/3Dfx-Voodoo-5-6000-AGP-128MB-Video-Graphics-Card-RARE_W0QQitemZ300393220766
Not many of these got out before 3dfx gave up and so…
MDD G4... one dumb question — #1
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 arrived from eBay: DVD-RAM — #1
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 …
Wallstreet battery serendipity — #1
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…
Gemini iBook — #1
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 …
Can 8500 do 8 — #1
I can not recall if the 8500 can do 8.
Titanium 1GHz and OS9 — #1
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…
how to check firmware version? — #1
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…
Power Macintosh 8500 - Almost working! — #1
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 …
Macintosh Performa 6116 & Roland mt-32 — #1
I am thinking of buying a macintosh performa 6116. I would like to connect to this machine a roland mt-32 so to play old adventures like sierra with roland sound. Does this mac mod…
iMac DV 2000 — #1
just got me an iMac DV 2000. Graphite, slot loading dvd rom 400mHz my first G3 machine too. This thing's got it's stock 128Mb RAM and the stock 13Gb hard drive with the original in…
Apple ][ Emulated — #1
there are a few things that I want to know....
I am running Virtual Apple ][ and i am looking for apple prodos 3.3 disks.....does anyone know where i can find 3.3 disk images for …
Platinum Apple IIe added to the museum — #1
It has confounded me for a while that I somehow have managed to not acquire an Apple IIe for my retro-computing collection, but that problem has now been solved. I turned up a loc…
Lounge/Forum Suggestion — #1
Of late I have noticed that the Lounge is full of Non-Mac Conquests. Now its great to hear what people has been able to find/salvage but should we not have all that in a separate …