Interesting, the early G5 runs 10.4? What was the lastest, fastest G5 that ran Classic under 10.4.6 me wonders?

I still have my Video Spigot card.  It was a very cool thing to have back in the day, being able to run anything on Macintosh screen. Since no adapter seems to exists, looks like …

Yes, each logic board is keyed to the CPU speed. Pain in the rear, as you can imagine. Like 8 different PSU combinations too.

Elfen said: He just received as a large screen Powerbook G4 from a friend who upgraded to an Intel MacBook Click to expand... Out of curiosity, when you say "Large Screen…

No. As far as I know, nobody ever made a PDS to dual NuBus adapter, and if someone did, you'd need an extended case, like the one you pictured. If you could run a second NuBus car…

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…

Might be cheaper to get a dead one in nice cosmetic condition off eBay than to try and professionally hammer out all the dents.

This is not Elfen posting but his youngest daughter, he's in the hospital for observation as it looks like its a bad allergy issue that is he undergoing. Details tomorrow when I ge…

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…

No problem.  John from VintageMicros (http://www.vintagemicros.com/catalog/index.php) also sells small packs of appropriate feet - I can't find them on his site right now, but I kn…

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

Thank you david__schmidt!

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…

You're looking for a 3M Bumpon part.  The main directory for such things: http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/manufacturing_industry/specialty_tapes/node_GSH0V016W0be/root_GS…

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…

I managed to finally get myself an Apple //e, but it is missing three of the four feet. I did some googling and found some references to a Radio Shack item, but the website comes u…

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…