I'll look into the Wings card, but that's something I wish I knew before I dropped $40 on the system, otherwise I probably wouldn't have even thought about it. That said the SCSI t…

Bunsen... Have you taken your pills? *Ducks*

You got two of those for 27$?! Faints

Coke is an excellent product for "flushing" any crud out of the system - leave it overnight. JB Click to expand... Diet. This was the strategy I used to revive my Mom's iPh…

:I Sorry, comrade, I've got to try to curb my tendency to vent about Apple's Quadra/PPC era decisions.

Coke is an excellent product for "flushing" any crud out of the system - leave it overnight. JB

Hiya folks, I know this ain't the software part of the forums but I figure this might be the best place to ask.. I've already posted a thread in the software section but I don't …

Hey! No I didn't! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be lo…

Toni_: does that mean you now have all of the IM library? "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" Click to expand... That's the only title in that haul…

Wings card / may actually make a decent VHS importing box. Click to expand... Isn't the Wings card restricted to QVGA (320x240)? On the other hand, save that as MPEG-1 and it …

Last time I looked, (which was, uh, yesterday?) good ole IC-China on ebay had a couple of G4/500 ZIFs going cheep. Act fast And nicely scored there btw

Auto suppliers are probably a good place to look for O-rings, too. Anything rated to survive life inside a car's engine bay should have no problems with the heat of a G5.

Advertised as: 800MHz G4 tower with 512MB RAM and 40GB hard drive (self install) 17" Apple LCD Turned out to be: Dual CPU 1GHz, 512MB, 80GB self-install Seagate Barracuda 17" …

Earlier tonight I picked up a cheap iBook clamshell for $20. Unfortunately it is barebones at 32mb/3GB/CD @ 300mhz. It has the following problems: - It boots after being unplugg…

Nope, with the superdrive removed, the mac fired back up. that made no sense to me.

I spent a good hour just flushing the whole system so I'm preetty sure anything that was in there is not there anymore. Anyways, I was poking around and I found a part number for …

I have to say, that G3 is a really nice example of a high end Mac setup from the mid to late 1990's, especially with those external SCSI drives.

After reading this entire thread, I would like to second Porter's excellent question that would put an end to all the speculation: What component smoked? I know the starter of th…

I'm fairly certain that "whoop-whoop-whoop" and "flup-flup-flup" or "whup-whup-whup" are all best efforts at describing the same thing: Power supply in self-protect mode. A current…

(Ps. noticed the "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" there? Maybe I should someday try to build the mythical Nubus USB card, as that book has all technical infor…

auto coolant (mixed properly) should not effect aluminum, since a lot of cars use aluminum radiators in them just make sure you get all that gunk out, some of it looks crystalline…

That looks bloody awful! I'd check out your Yellow pages for an o-ring distributor (usually found in an industrial part of town); you could also consider using gasket silicone but…

So Leik can these work in PPC as well?

Wow, now that's some good reading. Where these hard to get?

Woah! That's a lot of nice books. Good job, enjoy them and be sure to scan all of the pages on to the internet