thanks all for the great and quick input. I'm far from a techy, so I'm proceeding very slowly... here's summary what I've found: - as above, with both boards in slots recommended …

Search for the "Lisa/Macintosh XL Do-it-yourself Guide" from Sun Remarketing. It is largely a reprint of Larry Pina's guide to basic Lisa repair. Off the top of my head, I'd recom…

Someone already collected enough information to set up a recent IDE harddisk drive to make up to 32 MB of disk space available for the Lisa. Flash memory is also supported. The aut…

Memory is not the culprit if you only get two low beeps. I had a bad board (which I had to replace with a spare I bought on eBay) and it was a low beep (an E-flat) followed by two …

There are some people online that probably have experienced that exact problem with a Lisa 2 and could tell you exactly how to fix it. I would wait a while and see if you can find…

From what I've seen, older computers are most often plagued by capacitor problems - I'd check the caps first. If they're bad, search the forum for 'capacitor' and you'll get a good…

"wow, this is the future of the Mac" Click to expand... And the Pro still has the same basic case design, wow. Click to expand... If you mean that it's an upright tower wit…

I have two in active use, one as my main server, the other as backup and test server. Both run 10.4.9 Tiger Server on 1.1 GHz PPC750GX CPU's, 1 GB RAM and 4-port SATA cards. Next …

In OS X DP3 it was still possible to delete the Aqua theme file, the OS changed to Platinum if you did it.

Yes, please clarify that. Thanks!

AFAIK, the Pismo has only one CCFL, at the bottom. In fact, I can't think of a 'book of that age that uses more than one. Coius -- do you have a list of which "older" books you're…

meh, for that price, you can't go wrong. Also, doing a replacement on backlights is a BIG thing. Very hard to do, so if you aren't in for spending a few hours doing it, go ahead. …

I bought a raedon 9700 off of ebay. it's alot faster than the stock video card. but its basically a radeon 9800 but with less memory. for 89.00 it wasnt a bad deal.... I'm happy…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure. Click to expand... 1.2 is way more robust than most people…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure.

Has anyone done a same-machine speed comparison with 9.x.x?

Only a PC. I'm ordering one of those adapters that lets you plug a 2.5" laptop HD to a normal desktop IDE connection. Only $4, and I can just pop it into my G3. I'm not sure how I…

Okay so I opened it up last night and took the hard drive out. Today, I slipped in the original Apple 40 gb drive, since I had upgraded to an 80 GB drive. Low and behold, that driv…

I have ref-1 with a non-original commodity DVD drive on the original controller and that let me boot to install Tiger. Click to expand... Yep. Me too. I've even used a DVD-R dr…

Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work. Click to expand... Really? I regularly use SSH …

Okay so I opened it up last night and took the hard drive out. Today, I slipped in the original Apple 40 gb drive, since I had upgraded to an 80 GB drive. Low and behold, that driv…

The normal OS takes more space, and I want it to be as small as possible. Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not…

All I need to do is find a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.2 or Mac OS X Server 10.4. Click to expand... Why? The normal OS can act as a server.

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4? Click to expand... Don't know the Gigabit. But at least on the Sawtooth there's a fan you can disconnect with no trouble unless you ad…

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4?