This QC10 on ebay appears to be an upgraded, retorfit floppy disk model. Anybody know if Quark sold them this way? with all the holes in the box it sure seems like a home-brew job…

If anyone can recall one of my recent liberations, 2x 700mhz eMac G4's, you will also remember that one of them runs beautifully. The other one does not. The display has a flicker …

I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's. . THey are c…

So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot sequence and never ca…

I have been considering Leopard on my 800mhz TiBook and my wife's dual 500 G4. The dual 500 has a PCI 32mb radeon 7000 in it and 1.25 gigs of ram. The TiBook has 768mb of ram, thou…

Hi everyone. I have a Powerbook 2400 with a few problems. I wonder if any of you knowledgeable people can help me out? My machine works pretty well. It has a NUPower G3 upgrade, …

Is it possible for me to use the IrDA port on my Pismo to send out custom signals, like remote control codes?

Hi All, I've been delving around in open firmware on my Pismo to see if I can control the internal fan, or at least set a better temp. for it to come on at. In the device tree I'…

Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put the exact same DVD in…

I ordered the bulb and it came today. I don't really have any good instructions how to do this but I think I'll have a stab at it. Does anyone have any last-minute recommendation…

I have a Pismo battery that went one day from holding a charge for an hour to not taking a charge, the light would not even blink on it. I took it apart and manually (eek!) charge…

Hey guys. Lately, my iMac has been painstakingly slowwwwwwww (at start up, with basic functions, and online. I guess it's lack of RAM, but I'm not so sure. What do you guys think i…

Folks on these forums are so helpful thought I'd get more help... I found a Pismo 500 (awesome, always wanted one) and I didn't have the Yo-yo adapter so I used my 1400c's power a…

I have the Disk Controller II inserted into my socket 6 (using ROM 1 for my Apple IIgs). When I turn the computer on, the disk drive doesn't perform any sort of activity at all, ho…

Hey, I have a Pismo battery that is shot, but since I have a couple spare clamshell batteries around i thought "their connections are the same, so lets try and do a swap. The fir…

(1) Beige G3, ATI Rage 128 PCI video card, 17" Apple blue and white CRT monitor: works great. (2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 PCI video cards, an…

Can the G3 AIO take non low-profile DIMMS?

They are subjectively (I didn't measure, just put the books next to each other) the same width, and without the function keys, approximately the same height. Anyone have a clue on…

Shortly after buying my Blue/White G3 the motherboard was replaced with a Revision 2 motherboard. After disappointing results with my Beige G3, I thought I would try to get the or…

I am trying to set up a couple G3 500 MHz computers for my grandkids. They are on a DSL connection. They are running OS 9.2 I can connect to the internet using Internet Explorer…

i have a wallstreet wel several wallstreets and unfortunaly no means of getting data from their hard drives other then a zip disk module ( but no zip disks ...go figure) …

Hi Guys: I have a Pismo and a Powerbook 1400c that I'd like to get replacement (bigger) hard drives for. What should I look for? I don't want to just get a generic IDE hard drive …

Although I use FW most of the time, high(er)-speed USB is getting to be a real need. USB 2.0 cards abound around here. Are there any that are particularly good (or, conversely, so …

Okay, so as you may know, I've upgraded this bugger a bit. Here's its specs now: G3/500, 512 megs RAM, 30 gig HDD, OS X 10.4.11 It's a very happy machine, except for one thing; i…

now this ere emac i got my hands on has a problem ( doesnt it always ?) it works fine other for the fact that it spits out any cd i put in there orginal or cd-r dvd or a…