Yeah... I guess I didn't quite think about it like that. I was just surprised to see a Mac motherboard in such a device. The agreement between Apple and Acuson - according to the a…

I had never heard of Apple entering into agreements with companies to basically sell rebranded Apple hardware. Click to expand... Avid? Protools? Freestyle? Axiotronic Mod…

this company bought a Q650 for a few thousand, installed some specialty software on it then turned around and charged $600,000 for it. Click to expand... Piffle. Aegis i…

I have long advised against formatting 1.4MB disks as 800K. I read they were unreliable in just about every book on Macs and wanted to see for myself. Way back in 1995, I covered …

Yeah, the contents of the HD should be pretty interesting. I don't know why I've never taken the time to tear into the machine. It has a few cards in it... I'll have to take a clos…

Congrats! New 800k floppies are hard to come by these days. Click to expand... Yeah, and trying to format HD floppies as lower density floppies is almost always unreliable at b…

Congrats! New 800k floppies are hard to come by these days.

Have you tried a different keyboard? Have you tried plugging the mouse and keyboard into separate ADB ports, instead of plugging the mouse into the keyboard? Have you tried alter…

Companies have been taking computer motherboards and adapting them to specific uses for a long time. I saw a Tandy Color Computer in a blue case with an Agway label on it once. App…

The really interesting bits are going to be the video hardware - and whatever software is still extant on the internal HD. mine uses a IIvi mobo / The board very clearly has…

Clarification would be nice... Could someone please tell me if there are ANY documented accelerators which work in L2 cache slots which are supposed to be "enabled" after the machi…

Clarification would be nice... and I've even had someone from Sonnet tech support refuse to replace an accelerator under warranty because he said this is the way it worked even tho…

If you really want to get fancy with your 1 GHz G4, get 10.5 on that system. It's been done by others, but it's not trivial. Click to expand... Yeah, too much work and I want t…

aye, in my pc the power supply has a slow moving 130mm fan, it moves about the same amount of air as 2 60mm fans in the previous power supply, but you cant even here it over the ha…

Tempest and I have worked a deal for me to repair his IIfx logic board. I will chronicle the repair here when I receive it in the mail. "Dennis Nedry" / Ben

Being large you could probably undervolt it to run quiet. Click to expand... Unless it is super high CFM then generally the smaller ones are the loudest. You do not need that m…

Clarification would be nice... and I've even had someone from Sonnet tech support refuse to replace an accelerator under warranty because he said this is the way it worked even tho…

Sonnet Crescendo 1ghz G4 for beige PCI Powermacs. I've been seeing a few of these being sold by Mac dealers on ebay for $225-$250 so grabbed this one because it was only $100. You …

Clarification would be nice... and I've even had someone from Sonnet tech support refuse to replace an accelerator under warranty because he said this is the way it worked even tho…

Clarification would be nice... Could someone please tell me if there are ANY documented accelerators which work in L2 cache slots which are supposed to be "enabled" after the mach…

Sweet That bad boy deserves a worthy host - may I suggest your 9500? Click to expand... I was thinking that, too. I was originally going to put it in the 9600 when it gets …

Yup, the extruded melamine acts as a mild abrasive. It will clean hard to clean spots, but you do need to use care.

Gotta be careful with the magic erasers as they will abrade the plastic and smooth it if it has a textured surface. Magic Erasers will also remove the printed name from the case i…

I've used Magic Erasers with pretty good success.

GOO GONE, its a citrus type of adhesive remover quite safe for plastics, however there is a product by a similar name called goop off, and that stuff will eat plastic like mad, so …