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hard drive size question... — #1

The 9 GB hard drive on my brand-new B&W 400 mhz crashed and was diagnosed by Apple tech support as "dead". It was replaced under warranty by an Apple certified service dept. B…
MacNN Hardware

1 keyboard with 2 computers? — #1

Does anybody know if it is possible to set up 2 machines, a Mac and an NT box, with a USB keyboard and mouse through a hub or something so that I can switch between the two compute…
MacNN Peripherals

Speaker upgrade — #1

i want to buy some surround sound speakers for my imac. Does it support true surround sound? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
MacNN Software

USB video input device — #1

I am very interested in trying to locate a USB video input device for my iMac. I looked at AVID's new program and device, but it has some limitations such as not having two channe…
MacNN Peripherals

MAC microphone vs. PC microphone? — #1

I apologize for the stupidness of my question, but I know nothing really about microphones. Myself and two friends are all out to buy new (external) microphones for our computers. …
MacNN Troubleshooting

Dual ATI Cards — #1

I have a B&W G3/350(running at 400). I have the stock Rage128 card w/DVD decoder. I added a second card(Xclaim 3D Plus) with tv out. The DVD software cannot see the DVD decoder…
MacNN PowerPC

XPress probs printing on LW 660 — #1

I have a puzzling problem that I might run past people. One of my clients has a Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 and prints thru Xpress 3.32. The symptoms are INCREDIBLY heavy inks b…
MacNN Software

New Bronze G3 PB — #1

what is the deal with the new powerbooks, first apple reports there shipping to may 20th, then late may, now they say early june. is there a problem with manufactureing? or anythin…
MacNN PowerPC

VST FireWire Drives — #1

My VST 6Gb drive is not hot swappable, and causes finder quits at startup. Anyone using these drives with success in OS 8.6?
MacNN Software

Changes in Rev 2 G3s? — #1

Hi a, Im currious as to what other changes apple has made with the new G3's (the ones they released this week), i know they updated the processor speeds, and the cdrom, but have t…
MacNN PowerPC

IrDA on iMac Sync w/ PDA — #1

Has anyone been able to sync using the iMac IrDA with PDAs? I have a TI Avigo and only have Windoze software. Therefore, I will need to sync through Virtual PC. Looking for some…
MacNN Software

HELP ! Illegal instructions — #1

purchased a couple of PowerComputing 120's on ebay.Tried to put brand new hard drives in.Keep getting illegal instruction crash and addressing crashes.Does same thing when booted f…
MacNN Hardware

Adding Macs to NT Networks — #1

We're trying to add a Mac 7100 System 7.5 to a Wintel-based network. How do we get the mac to recognize the server?
MacNN Networking

cd-rw cross platform — #1

A friend of mine is a wintel user - he can't help it, he's an IS person for a living and doesn't know any better - and has offered to put some high-res digital photos on cd for me,…
MacNN Software

Internal CD drive - What to buy? — #1

I have a Rev. A beige G3 266 MT. Recently i had to install a second IDE drive, forcing me to remove the IDE CD drive from the machine as it can handle only 2 IDE devices. I've bee…
MacNN Software

Networking an iMac to an SGI server — #1

Well, my company allowed me to shed my Wintel machine for an iMac. Using DAVE, I've been able to network with the other Windows machines; however, I need a connection to our SGI se…
MacNN Software

Nintendo, PowerPC and Altivec — #1

A few weeks ago, there was an announcement that the next Nintendo game machine would use PowerPC chips. There is no news on whether or not they will use Altivec or not. Obvioulsy, …
MacNN PowerPC by Canada_guy

PM 7200 and G3 Upgrades — #1

I just read the article about G3 uprades for various "upgrade-challenged" PowerMacs and Mac clones. There was no mention of the PM 7200. Anyone know why the 7200 is left out of the…
MacNN PowerPC

FiberOptic NIC for Mac? — #1

Our IT manager asked if I'd like to get some of my Macs on the trialrun of our new FiberOptic network, and asked if the Mac had or needed a special Fiber Optic Network Interface Ca…
MacNN Networking

what is pci and is my 6500 pci? — #1

ok I really don't know what pci is or if my 6500 has pci slots i want a video card but they all need a pci slot. does anyone know a good voodoo card that is compatible with my comp…
MacNN Games

G4 upgrades for G3's... — #1

does anyone know how to "undo" a firmware update?? i recently found out that Apple Computer's recent firmware update (for Blue and White G3's) eliminates the ablilty to upgrade to …
MacNN PowerPC
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