I've blown one PAV assembly in a G3/600 from excessive heat. The machine still worked, but it took a while to build up the required charge for a successful illumination of the tube…

The Rev A-D (233mhz-333mhz) had the internal fans. The ones with 350mhz or higher don't have fans. Having a 333mhz and 500mhz indigo the only problem I found was burning discs. I …

it wasnt much of a problem back then, but nowadays the hot-cold-hot-cold of convection cooling, or poorly fan cooled components have a tendency, and a strong one at that to break t…

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it…

left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic / Someone here might even want it Click to expand... viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13785

Yea, it is unfortunate that they released the Color Classic at the same time as the LC III, but they based it upon the much slower LC II! What is even worse, the Color Classic II t…

Got the Mac OS ROM file, been really busy at work (where the Sawtooth project is underway), so I dropped it into a 1st gen slot-loading iMac DV at home (also a special-case machine…

Your left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic. It's not a huge leap in power: 16MHz '030 --> 25MHz, and 10MB RAM limit --> 36MB, but …

I still have the 2.5.1 ROM if anyone needs it - just send me a PM.

Desperately in search of Mac OS ROM 2.5.1 to get 8.6 running on a PowerMac G4 SawTooth. I have scoured the abandonware archives and used my status as Apple Certified tech to check…

If you get an LC575 board, make sure you also get the back panel off an LC575 Click to expand... In fact, Apple once sold both in an official LC 575 logic board upgrade for the…

RAM went to hell? In my Classic, when one of the RAM modules went to hell I saw the same behavior. Each boot was a crap shoot.

Well, I plugged it in today for giggles, and whaddya know, I got a chime and the mouse screen. I get varying results though, like sometimes i get chimes of death, and once or twice…

I need to load Gauge Pro on my new Wallstreet to see if ASP was on crack when I checked the thing out. : It's gonna be Beater2 when I'm done loading utilities and drivers on th…

I saw some rev a units going for 5 a piece at a thrift store not too long ago.

I recently obtained a Wallstreet II PDQ 300MHz running OS 9.2.2 with 192MB RAM & an 8GB hard drive with 4.6GB free. I have a G3 Pismo 400MHz running Tiger quite good. I was…

Looking back at this article after finding an original Bondi Blue iMac (not sure of the revision) at a school it made me wonder. That ebay auction did end up selling for $350 but …

I have them, and a few more I picked up along the way. No, I haven't uploaded them yet.

Now this is an odd find: On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training Courses. This b…

Bargain! Click to expand... Of course, that is for *without* the coprocessor.

now at half that price Click to expand... Bargain! [)] ]'>

Yeah, like that's gonna happen. They are like $250-$300 each in bulk according to Freescales' site. Click to expand... Well, they did eventually make a 40Mhz 68LC040, which is …

Hi agg23, No I haven't been able to connect my Plus to internet so far... I have to keep trying anyway but I haven't many free time.

If I remember correctly, it was only true for 68k models (2GB limitation in ROM or something). Click to expand... Nope, Drive Setup in 7.6 and later installed the 'ruby' patch …

Hey Johnklos, Thank you for your response! I meant 5 volt rather than 5.5 volts - it was a typo - fat finger syndrome here hehe I was wondering because I have a CC modded wit…