Thanks for your feedback one and all. It's reassuring to know that so many of you care about this community, even if you don't all share the same views on it's place/purpose. Firs…

i remember actually taping the hd tot he upper half of my imac G4 with heat resistant double sided tape it was missing the whole rack and i had to improvise

The reason I asked that is because when I would boot from my HD with a full install I could sometimes recognize and charge the battery. When on a floppy running the 3 battery reco…

id love to get my hands on that sonnet upgrade and the QS dislikes me because it sees my geforce 3 ti 200 ( i plugged in to cover up the unsightly hole in the back ) …

I am not sure. Some of the battery software is certainly loaded from the full system (e.g., there is a Control Strip module), and so you are not going to get all the bells and whis…

Nice find! In my School's fleet we have a SawTooth with a 1Ghz Sonnet upgrade. Not sure if that gives you any info, but whatever.

Is it possible to charge and use the battery without a regular install? Like if a boot from a floppy?

Until but a minute-or-two ago I had read none of the preceding discussion but ~tl's original kindling. Temetka's post (notably, but not solely) came close to enunciating the aching…

Knowing (cr)Apple they're probably still bound to an NDA and can't say anything. I know these machines are 22 years old, but still....Apple is Apple, and we all know what they're l…

However, Larry Pina's Macintosh Classic and SE Repair and Upgrade Secrets specifically refers to the "heat sink screw" at the front of the PSU and makes specific mention of heat si…

I thought that we didn't have rules on what a conquest is & I thought it's best this way.... If we are a 68k liberation army then any 68k machine that we liberate... I ju…

why you want an os 9 only machine is beyond me Click to expand... Simply because I don´t like OS X, and will never use it. And because I think that OS 9 is one of the most logi…

tape over the hole without the sliding bit of plastic and repeatedly reinitialize until golden brown. Click to expand... Ehh Really in terms of color?! or is this just a metaph…

It's a customized 6.0.8 bootdisk I made. The 6.0.8 folder on that disk is from 6.0.8 Disk 1. I will try other disks though. Thanks!

picked up a 2001 quicksilver recently with a new psu 512 mb of ram 60 gig hd and a sad sad ati rage 128 16 mb video card for 50 euro 733 mhz i upgrade the ram…

YES! *does a backflip* Thanks so much! Are you sure it'll be compatible with the extra PCI slot and all? Click to expand... Well no...You'd have to swap the PCI risers. The 55…

YES! *does a backflip* Thanks so much! Are you sure it'll be compatible with the extra PCI slot and all? Click to expand... Well no...You'd have to swap the PCI risers. The 55…

a number of the OS 9 bootable MDDs have 167mhz bus speeds and DDR RAM and ATA 100. Having a faster processor on a slow bus is limiting. Click to expand... None of the Prozesso…

why you want an os 9 only machine is beyond me but the last os 9 capabel machien apple offerd was the 2003 reintroduction of the 1,25 dual G4 MDD

I doubt very much that a single thin piece of metal can absorb and dissipate heat in any meaningful way to actually maintain or reduce temperatures. Larry Pina's Macintosh Repair &…

YES! *does a backflip* Thanks so much! Are you sure it'll be compatible with the extra PCI slot and all?

Yes. The 54xx/55xx boards and their 6xxxx counterparts are interchangeable.

tape over the hole without the sliding bit of plastic and repeatedly reinitialize until golden brown. Click to expand... Ehh Really in terms of color?! or is this just a metaph…

I just realized there is another theme! Its kinda nice!

OK, I'll downgrade My IIcis fDD rarely formats my FD's correctly. It just says "Initialization failed" or "Initialaziton Failed because the disk is defective." HopeFully System 6…