Another factor is that Apple probably didn't want to re-engineer an older board when they were focusing on replacing the Plus with the more cost-effective Classic. The Classic was …

The goal is to fix up and donate to people with disabilities who are in need of a computer. The iMac is ready, a G3 Tower is almost ready, and we are busy working on the G4...just…

Nice! If you have some time on your hands and want to have some fun, try to put Windows 7 on the Pentium 1 (see here). I just put Windows 7 RC on my Pentium 2 today.

I know the one i have which is also an adaptec, but the consumer model and slightly newer is automatically picked up xp

A friend of my moms was looking to upgrade her mac. She went from a 933mhz w/ 256mb of ram and a big ol clunky crt to my dual 1ghz g4, 1.5gigs of ram and the 17" adc monitor. I mad…

Oh. So it just transfers Appletalk packets from one physical medium to another? Click to expand... Yes.

Oh. So it just transfers Appletalk packets from one physical medium to another?

There's also Apple's own LocalTalk Bridge software Click to expand... Yes, but it doesn't provide the MacIP gateway.

There's also Apple's own LocalTalk Bridge software: System requirements System 7.1 or later. Memory requirements: * LocalTalk Bridge / approximately 70K * Open Transport …

I got a free eMac a few months back with a dead HD. Put new one in, wouldn't boot. ended up giving up after my 2nd attempt of taking it apart.

Nice score. I'd like to get my hands on a 17" powerbook one day.

Wow I believe this is one of those posts that should be backed up and archived.

The thing would take an aeon to start up Click to expand... An excellent point -- something I too often forget about 68k machines is the RAM check at startup. Click to expan…

I was very lucky, but it goes to show how proprietary RAM modules - must have some "play" in them to be mass produced for slightly different computers. So that's another unique th…

Wow - very impressive! Well done.

I've been busy the past few weeks with some new items: C600/240 96MB RAM 3.5GB HD USB Card Boots to 9.1 but a bit noisy G4/400 192MB RAM 20 GB HD CDRW No OS; Does not boo…

Great news - I was able to hack my 3400 128MB module to work on the Kanga! It surprised me that the 3400 128MB module didn't work - considering that the 32MB Apple module worked…

Yeah, I did an optical drive upgrade on mine; then two weeks later had the hard drive die; then a month later, when I got a MacBook Pro, decided to put the recently-installed optic…

I used to work on eMacs all the time. The only frustrating step was the pigtail wire that runs from the power button to the logic board. They made the wire so short and there is …

AH! It SUCKS to do an eMac Upgrade. There is no shield over that scary huge CRT. Erhh. It took me hours To complete a DVD Drive upgrade on mine and it doesn't work correctly . iB…

iBooks are a nightmare too. I'm glad they've made it easier in the MacBooks. Click to expand... Yeah, All iBooks were terrible to work on, clamshell included.

I've noticed that there seems to be ALOT of ebay sellers with powerbook g4's that were used as only desktops.

Congrats in the Al-PB, an excellent machine! May you and the PowerBook enjoy "peace and long life" I enjoy the 1701A bit in the username

iBooks are a nightmare too. I'm glad they've made it easier in the MacBooks.

I just had my first occasion to replace a hard drive in an eMac. My goodness, what a gigantic PIA! It was easy to do, but it took about an hour from start to finish and included s…