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PowerBook G4 Hard Drive Noises + and no boot chime! — #9

Well, the title says it all, really... I have a sneaky suspicion that there's something wrong with my PowerBook. It boots without chiming (I have reset the PRAM to no avail), and t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by thinkdifferent Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 18:34

What the heck happened??? — #34

I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, but nothing came up.…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by thinkdifferent Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 18:33

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #22

It's an Apple II SCSI card, of which I just the found the manual here. But according to that manual, I have to use software provided with the SCSI peripheral to format and partitio…
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 18:23

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #21

...the full GS/OS install is intented to be made on an external hard disk, right? Click to expand... Right. Assuming my SCSI card works (which I haven't tried), will it …
68kMLA Peripherals by david__schmidt Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 16:13

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #20

Thanks! Next question (I haven't tried yet, just wondering): the full GS/OS install is intented to be made on an external hard disk, right? Assuming my SCSI card works (which I ha…
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 11:57

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #19

stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Click to expand... Right. Can I safely remove it? Click to expand... Probably. If someone put a fan in there, it was probably be…
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Tue, 17 Mar 2009 - 16:28

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #18

I do have only a 2 Mb Ram card. I also have what I think is a SCSI card, not installed as of yet. So it should be ok, I hope. Thanks!
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 20:42

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #17

According to pictures of the IIgs innards I found on the net, stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Click to expand... Right. You can safely remove it if you don't have any unn…
68kMLA Peripherals by david__schmidt Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 20:15

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #16

Ok, it's time for some feed-back! I finally went further with cleaning those drives, since I recently got a nice Apple ][ Europlus and I needed the IIgs to be working in order to …
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 19:14

Got some spare PowerMac's? — #8

I stand corrected. I forgot when they started that the Xserve was stuck with G4 chips, so they made their system out of Power Mac G5s and then later upgraded to Xserves when they t…
68kMLA PowerPC by istar1018 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 14:43

Got some spare PowerMac's? — #7

Wow, I had not seen the AppleCrate before. That is really something. There was a time when this AppleSeed was really useful - you might remember when Virginia Tech made a supercomp…
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 06:32

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #29

Really? I know that some came with SCSI CD-ROM drives, but I would've thought that they all would have shipped with IDE hard drives, because of how expensive SCSI drives were.
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 01:35

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #28

are the beiges able to boot off of an ATA drive at all? I have a 266 Desktop and it will not boot off of any devices not on the 50-pin SCSI bus, and even then it will only recogni…
68kMLA PowerPC by Dan 7.1 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 - 06:38

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #27

are the beiges able to boot off of an ATA drive at all? I have a 266 Desktop and it will not boot off of any devices not on the 50-pin SCSI bus, and even then it will only recogni…
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Sun, 15 Mar 2009 - 04:26

Got some spare PowerMac's? — #6

Wow, I had not seen the AppleCrate before. That is really something. There was a time when this AppleSeed was really useful - you might remember when Virginia Tech made a supercomp…
68kMLA PowerPC by quinterro Sat, 14 Mar 2009 - 00:46

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #5

Status report: Made some changes to the G3's config file in regards to the modem port. In the GS, I used the monitor to do a 2 (Control-K) Return. Also tried PR#2. Both seem to ge…
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Fri, 13 Mar 2009 - 17:30

Got some spare PowerMac's? — #5

I would only bother doing it because I would like to see if it would benefit my 733MHz quicksilver if I put a 450MHz AGP Graphics G4 with it, I doubt though because it has only 100…
68kMLA PowerPC by Christopher Fri, 13 Mar 2009 - 00:24

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #4

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini Click to expand... I read that this morning, but had doubts about it, because the guy used a Mac mini without serial ports, whereas I …
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Fri, 13 Mar 2009 - 00:10

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #2

It's marvellous what this new fangled google thing will do... http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/2758-using-getty-serial-port-consoles.html
68kMLA Peripherals by porter Thu, 12 Mar 2009 - 23:14

Got some spare PowerMac's? — #4

Wow, I had not seen the AppleCrate before. That is really something. There was a time when this AppleSeed was really useful - you might remember when Virginia Tech made a supercom…
68kMLA PowerPC by istar1018 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 - 21:21
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