Hi, first post here. Nice to see a community for the ol' 68k Macs. I have this Performa 600, stock except that it has been upgraded to 20MB of memory. It was my first computer, …

I know I should know this but: My SSID is hidden. Can I connect to in OS 9 using the built in Airport card? I know I can in OS X. This is the 500MHz IceBook. Model: M6497

Has anyone seen the clear eMate? This reminds me of that. Very cool!

My 540C actually had its little "PowerBook 540C" badge replaced with "PowerPC" so I'm thinking it used to have an official Apple PPC upgrade. Unfortunately, it's just 68k still

I've had three 500s (my first was when I was about 12 or so) and I believe it's a loose socket on the PowerBook. My current 540C has this problem. It works well enough that you can…

Interested in a PowerBook Duo 2300c with Duo Dock? Check out seattle.craigslist.org under computers.

The only Mac I have that I would be able to do that with is a first-gen 12" PowerBook G4, and I don't feel like ripping hard drives out of either system. (I do have a spare 2.5" h…

As much as I love Linux, my vote goes for 9.1. I'm getting old and just want my computers to work with minimal fuss. I don't really use OS 9 for browsing on an extended basis, ju…

Nope! )

Why would Apple show a 3rd-party product in their own brochure?

I'm just having a hell of a time getting Tiger onto my clamshell iBook at the moment... My external USB DVD drive *WILL* boot the Tiger DVD, but of course a stock Tiger DVD will r…

Was it a third party product or an Apple product?

running linux on my 8500 I needed to boot into a console, edit the window manager config file and hope for the best while using my (bad) apple monitor since X plays somewhat by th…

I know I've run Panther on a 640x480; but I don't know about Tiger. It could just be that Tiger really does need more than that, and Tiger may ignore the old fashioned Mac sense l…

So I sat down and fixed this thing, those mysterious green sips are house branded IC's which meant if they were toast the machines functionality would be lost without becoming a pa…

H3NRY's suggestion was right on the money. After a bit of fiddling, Akane the Portable comes right up. The magic numbers were 9V and 3A. Hard disk was initially recalcitrant, but s…

I would suggest trying a different possibly newer display. Apparently that one can only to 640x480@67Hz

Yes, it's a monitor support (absolutely necessary : ) intended to do both, they date back to the Mac II and are intended for TPDs, which are notoriously heavy and meant to sit …

A shelf to keep the cooling vents open.

Looks like a monitor platform to raise up the monitor a few inches.

Nice chart, I've got basically the same one in a book. The one on the webpage you mention is slightly better explained though. They didn't put in the XXXX after the class code so i…

What's on top of this IIfx?

A while back I attempted to install Tiger on my 266 MHZ Beige G3. Today I received a Sonnet G4/500MHZ CPU I had bought off eBay. I installed it and tested it. I decided to reattem…

phreakout, thanks for the history lesson, but I'm not sure I understand why you posted it. It's also wrong. The Classic and Classic II overlapped by one full year, the Classic II d…

You have a memory error, specifically the RAM failed the Mod 3 test. See here: http://www.mac512.com/macwebpages/sadmac.htm RAM failure is not common in a stock 128K, but it is v…