I had all the ports of my PowerBook 150 (SCSI Ethernet, Localtalk to PB 180 and Power). I also had all the ports on my Acer Aspire One filled (Power, VGA, Ethernet, USB DVD-ROM, i…

That's interesting. There were no jumpers on the drive, were there? Sometimes drive manufacturers or resellers will ship drives with jumpers installed, as some computers need to ha…

Just another one of those curiosity threads, but who has actually managed to use all the ports on their 'Book? I just managed it a little earlier, and things got a little scrambled…

thanks all for the great and quick input. I'm far from a techy, so I'm proceeding very slowly... here's summary what I've found: - as above, with both boards in slots recommended …

Search for the "Lisa/Macintosh XL Do-it-yourself Guide" from Sun Remarketing. It is largely a reprint of Larry Pina's guide to basic Lisa repair. Off the top of my head, I'd recom…

Someone already collected enough information to set up a recent IDE harddisk drive to make up to 32 MB of disk space available for the Lisa. Flash memory is also supported. The aut…

Memory is not the culprit if you only get two low beeps. I had a bad board (which I had to replace with a spare I bought on eBay) and it was a low beep (an E-flat) followed by two …

There are some people online that probably have experienced that exact problem with a Lisa 2 and could tell you exactly how to fix it. I would wait a while and see if you can find…

From what I've seen, older computers are most often plagued by capacitor problems - I'd check the caps first. If they're bad, search the forum for 'capacitor' and you'll get a good…

I have a Lisa 2 (XL I think). It booted-up and ran fine 5 years ago, but now, when I push the start button, I get two low beeps (memory?) and a screen that looks like a beehive and…

"wow, this is the future of the Mac" Click to expand... And the Pro still has the same basic case design, wow. Click to expand... If you mean that it's an upright tower wit…

I have two in active use, one as my main server, the other as backup and test server. Both run 10.4.9 Tiger Server on 1.1 GHz PPC750GX CPU's, 1 GB RAM and 4-port SATA cards. Next …

In OS X DP3 it was still possible to delete the Aqua theme file, the OS changed to Platinum if you did it.

Yes, please clarify that. Thanks!

AFAIK, the Pismo has only one CCFL, at the bottom. In fact, I can't think of a 'book of that age that uses more than one. Coius -- do you have a list of which "older" books you're…

meh, for that price, you can't go wrong. Also, doing a replacement on backlights is a BIG thing. Very hard to do, so if you aren't in for spending a few hours doing it, go ahead. …

I'm going to take the plunge and get a backlight for my Pismo. Does this look like a trustworthy seller? http://cgi.ebay.com/New-LCD-CCFL-Backlight-APPLE-Powerbook-G3-14-1-WXGA_W0…

I bought a raedon 9700 off of ebay. it's alot faster than the stock video card. but its basically a radeon 9800 but with less memory. for 89.00 it wasnt a bad deal.... I'm happy…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure. Click to expand... 1.2 is way more robust than most people…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure.

Has anyone done a same-machine speed comparison with 9.x.x?

Only a PC. I'm ordering one of those adapters that lets you plug a 2.5" laptop HD to a normal desktop IDE connection. Only $4, and I can just pop it into my G3. I'm not sure how I…

Okay so I opened it up last night and took the hard drive out. Today, I slipped in the original Apple 40 gb drive, since I had upgraded to an 80 GB drive. Low and behold, that driv…

I have ref-1 with a non-original commodity DVD drive on the original controller and that let me boot to install Tiger. Click to expand... Yep. Me too. I've even used a DVD-R dr…

Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work. Click to expand... Really? I regularly use SSH …