for those that do not know, to boot a IIe (and I had to remember how to do this), when you flip on the power, you get Apple //e at the top of the screen, it is scanning for a disk.…

after a month of waiting, I finally got the damn thing sometime while I was away the past 3 days. It works just fine, has a 5.25 disk controller card in slot 6, and a Super Serial …

MagSafe is indeed wonderful. I wish more portable devices had something similar. That said, the pre-MagSafe connectors still seem underdesigned for no particularly sane reason (ot…

Good score! I would love to have an iMac g3 or an iBook g3 to play with. All these posts about iBook g3s are killing me. THE CLAMSHELLS ARE SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad you got it working.

Until it catches fire...one thing that i'm going to be incredibly paranoid about when i get my MacBook (no, i'm not dissing MacBooks...i'm going to OWN one in a month or so!)

Yes, it's surprising how many 'books (and windows laptops) have been afflicted with this same problem. I can't believe that, with such a long history of failures, laptop manufactur…

i just got a bondi blue G3 imac. It has 192mb of RAM and a 4gb HD. Running OsX 10.2. The side door is missing, but the case is in nice condition. Came with Apple USB keyboard a…

Yes, it's surprising how many 'books (and windows laptops) have been afflicted with this same problem. I can't believe that, with such a long history of failures, laptop manufactur…

Nicely done! The power connector fault is one I've seen countless times though it often means there's more free/cheap "broken" machines for those who know how to fix them! I'm sti…

So a friend of a friend hears that I'm wacky for macs, and gives me a dead clamshell ibook that he had gotten from still someone else long ago, thinking he'd get around to fixing i…

It probably fell on something hard like a slate floor, carpet would have cushioned the fall. Anyway I completely ripped it apart and washed everything, looks new except for those …

They must have dropped that from one HELL of a height, mine has fallen off several things and the handles are still very much in tact. Last time it fell it hit my Dell Dimension L…

great! I have one and love it. A vrey fast mac. I onley have 10.2 disks. Sigh. Enjoy.

Got a B&W G3 (my first non beige Mac) for free locally. Needs 2 new handles (fell off a table), but the rest is in very good condition. G3-300/512K 128MB RAM (I upped it to…

You'll probably want to stick with ADB on that machine as the USB card requires drivers (it doesn't have drivers in the ROM like later machines) to work and thus won't work until t…

hello from the beige. I popped 10.2.8 on it tonight. Runs like a champ with 384mb, quite a nice rock stable machine, until my dad figures out how to KP the thing. He already locked…

alright, I got it all set up, hooked up, and I am typing on it now in iCab 3.03 under OS 9.2.2. One issue I am having is I can not get the Deskjet 812c to work. It's hooked to the…

Beige's are great machines. I have one that has been working great for me for years. Good quality machine. Almost as good as my 8500, almost.

all I know is my head is spinning with all of these video card names. I know about them all, but when you list them all in one post, and connect them, that's a major brain fart …

People say "Rage IIc", but they really mean Rage II+DVD (the two are virtually the same thing, and the underlying 2D/3D acceleration of the II+DVD is the same as the IIc). I've ne…

The BIV would be a Rage IIc...the Rage II was basically a redesigned Mach64. On top of that, those were the only three chips that Apple used on the Beige G3s: The Rage IIc, Rage II…

I installed the ATI utilities, and it recognises the PCi card as a Rage Pro. The built in stuff is a Mach64, and ASP identifies that as having 4mb of VRAM. No idea how much the car…

I also noticed the ATI video card has a SGRAM slot, which is odd, because I do not know of any older ATI Rage cards with expandable memory. I will ID it in ASP as soon as I am done…

nope, at least I don't think I do. Maybe in this one big box of computer parts. I did have 3-4 52x drives I got cheap, and a 32x sony drive... -digital