A bit of insight on the floppy drives... There were five different non-Powerbook external 3.5" drives produced by Apple during the 1980s and 1990s that plugged into the floppy dri…

Is there any usable information on doing it with Linux? Is OS 9 not an option, either?

I also didn't suggest an early Intel iMac or Mac Pro. Click to expand... You didn't make that distinction, so lets go for a Quadra 610 with built in 486SX.

Have you tried saving on a different volume?

Fabulous. I've got a G4 running Leopard - are there any third-party applications for OS X that can handle this? I can also run OS 9 if necessary. Click to expand... No Leopard …

Fabulous. I've got a G4 running Leopard - are there any third-party applications for OS X that can handle this? I can also run OS 9 if necessary.

Screw the keyboard - Timbuktu it. } Click to expand... Actually, thats a good idea. When I get it up and running with OS 8, i'll put a VNC server on it.

Thanks, guys. Question then comes down to. What I am thinking of that requires hard sectored disks.

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

Isn't that model number "M2943" for the defective 15" apple multiscan displays? Stay away... FAR away from them as well as the 1710's I have a 1705 and it has never given me a prob…

MacTCP manages to talk TCP/IP over LocalTalk by packaging each IP packet as a DDP packet and sending it to a "MacIP Gateway". Unless you have some component on your network doing t…

I've got a Classic II running 7.5.5 and MacTCP 2.1. I've also got an AsanteTalk adapter that appears to work. When it's plugged into a switch, the RX light flashes, as does the act…

Is everyone 100% sure that these machines cannot go up to 1 Gig of memory? Click to expand... Unfortunately since the beige G3s only have 3 slots, yes.

desolder the socket from a dead compatible Mac Click to expand... Apple technote: Apple Pro Speakers: Compared to Power Mac G4 Cube Speakers Code: =================…

Love the wood paneling Is that an old ImageWriter? Nice touch

Yep up to 768mb

yes, I remember disk light. every time I installed norton, there it was. Pretty handy utility, and you could place it in either top corner. My only gripe with 7.1 is that it's not…

Is everyone 100% sure that these machines cannot go up to 1 Gig of memory?

Nice! I remember when those first came out. :beige:

Posting from my Cube now. It was loaded with 10.4.something, and Software Update is doing its magic in the background. Seems like this came along just in time, as my iMac has jus…

P.S.: I remember there was a little piece of software called "Disk Light". It does exactly what the name says, i.e. it visualises the harddisk access with the impression of a flic…

Now that you have a >4GB internal HD, make sure you never attempt to mount the 1400 to another Mac in SCSI Disk Mode. There's a non-fixable firmware bug that can lead to da…

Really?! Awesome! I had a dream that my Mac Classic 2 started working, but then when I went to turn it on in real life, I kicked my self. Click to expand... Yeah, I always wake…

Wanna hear about a strange dream I had last night? This is great: I dreamt that I was at the reference section of a library at some university. Anyway, I had found a shelf with a w…

Consider to stick with System 7.1 for the PB 180. I think it feels more snappy and runs very reliable. It is possible to replace several extensions or control panels with more re…