Browsing ebay late at night before bed can make for some odd acquisitions. Today I got in the original model G5 1.6Ghz in pretty decent condition. Sold for $30 shipped (one of tho…

Back in the old day, Macintosh LC had very limited space and was limited to either 2 dlsk drives (original LC) or 1 disk drive and 1 hard drive, no internal CD or other drive optio…

Leopard flies on the G5, but obviously it's useless if you want to run Classic.

Yeah I agree. I have decided quite easily to make this now my main desktop machine and as you can see, cleared the desk for it. I am quite impressed just how easy it is to make thi…

Well, it kinda depends on if you want to run Classic, or just OSX as a "modern" computer.

So its not worth installing 10.5.x on a G5?

Well, since the newest G5s (including the Quads) were released well before Leopard was released, contemporary versions of Tiger ought to work, and indeed, EveryMac says that they s…

Yes - I did find that out last night as well. My G5 came with 10.5.8 installed.

Yes you can but the only supported version of 10.4 on a G5 (at least quad core) is 10.4.11. Anything else crashes and creates panics. Don't waste your Saturday like I did trying to…

You can run Classic Mode in OS X on a G5, correct?

Thanks, G. Solved it by creating a bootable flash drive and that worked well. Your solution would probably have worked too. (I need to also test my firewire cable, it may be defect…

with dual LCDs for $100. I may have been able to find a better deal, maybe I got screwed Click to expand... A pretty good deal, the dual screens are worth the $ 100 anyway

Hello everyone. I really love this site and often lurk on here kinda living vicariously through all of you my love for retromac computing. I still have my Lombard, MDD, and a fe…

Can you simply reverse things, IE, put the G3 into target disk mode, boot the G4 off the install disk, and select the G3's hard disk as the install target? Last time I checked that…

I have hit a snag in trying to get one of my iBook 500s loaded with 10.4. I am trying to do target disk mode from a G4 iBook to the recipient G3 500 iBook. I can put the host 1.33 …

snuci said: Looks like this one? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested …

La Niña, La Pinta y La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción . . . . . . OK, I guess you can call the triplets a fleet, they never really had names before now. But that last has…

haha jt is sitting on 3 of em.   he has all the good stuff,   and a whole fleet of Quadra 700's i bet too!

I'm a big fan of the MacCon Ethernet card.  they work so good.   love em. I have one in my se/30…  

Looks like this one? Got that in an SE/30 a little while ago.

Whoops, it would appear it was in the thread title. I searched on the Internet for the card and perused through the manual and couldn't figure out anything special about other than…

LOL! They're reserved as trade goods for things I really, really, really want. < . . . wonders if he ever mentioned that he's got a fourth NIC sans passthru for his IIsi…

< . . . which would be why I'm sitting on three of them...> Well hello there, new best friend...

Cory5412 said: Is there anything special about it that makes it $200 desirable compared to other Ethernet cards? Click to expand... You betcha! It's for the SE/30 and has…

Cory5412 said: Forced absence? I don't know if I'd call it that, because that's a really big exaggeration. There was a one-week period where you were able to log into the for…