I ask this on behalf of my uncle, who needs this drive fixed by the evening... He's got a CD-ROM stuck in his slot-loading CD drive (without a paper clip eject button). The drive …

For $4 I got my first emate. Doesn't work at the moment, but assuming that it can be induced to do so at some point, what choices are there for browsers? I understand that there's …

Hi everyone, I'm posting from my iMac G3! I'm currently running Mac OS 9.2 on it, but since I'm running it, I can only download software compatible for it. I want to be able to p…

I have a beige G3 (check signature) that I want to be able to play DVD's on. VLC kinds sucks for that because you can't do anything else while using it and even still it has a slo…

I'm thinking of getting an older iMac, so I can retire my aging 9500.. I like using my laserwriter 16/600...and stylewriter 2400... but you can't use 'em offhand with the imac...…

Hi, I'm new here. I've been looking everywhere on how to be able to do this. I want to be able to run OS 8 on my PPC G4 QuickSilver 2002. I stumbled upon this article, just now, wr…

I finally have my Lombard up and running (mostly). However it will overheat if left alone since the cooling fan never comes on. Currently I'm using one of those PC slot fans to d…

I'm looking into buying an iMac G3 (Slot loaded CD/DvD) w/ 500MHz, 256MB (up to 1GB on this model i believe) and Mac OS X 10.4 (tiger i believe) installed. At my work we use Mac Mi…

I have been using my Newton at least once a week (usually during the boring weekly tech report meetings of endless powerpoinr slides of tedium). I love my Newton 2000 but this Mon…

Greetings everyone. I just reinstalled Mac OS 8.6 on my 1400 and I have an ORiNOCO WaveLan wireless card for it. Before I installed 8.6, the card worked perfectly (System 7.6). But…

My dad came back from his office today with a whole bunch of Mac stuff that his office no longer uses. There were a few mice, an OS CD for a Power Macintosh G3, other various util…

how do i get my clamshell to run os 10.4? i have 576 meg of memory and airport working but 10.4 would be great. [] ]'>

Some of you may recall the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver I picked up for the fantastic price of free not that long ago. It was destroyed by a student who fiddled with the voltage regula…

Is 25 bucks for a 350/10gb/DVD reader/ZIP/64mb ram graphite a good deal? I have plenty of ram to upgrade it with, along with a HD.

My Sawtooth (500mhz, 1.75gb, 10.5.4) never has free RAM. Let me explain. It is running Leopard, apache, mysql, and TorrentFlux (Python). When I first boot the machine, 1.5GB of …

I ve bought a Pismo (500 mhz) on eBay, and it was sold broken. At home I unplugged the pram battery, and then it booted fine. The Pismo is in great condition. But the screen is s…

Hey, I have been wanting to do a hack to backlight my lobmard keyboard. I was thinking I should use some light string, but I dont know how I should power it. I was thinking maybe …

will this harddrive work with my g3 ibook dual usb Fujitsu MHV2040AH

I'm possibly interested in upgrading the CPU in my Sawtooth (500mhz now). I don't want to buy one of the 3rd party upgrade cards -- I'd prefer to buy a stock CPU that was pulled w…

My newly acquired iBook G3 600 seems good in every way, except: I can't network with ethernet. I tried to connect it with the iMac G5, they didn't see each other. My Lombard conne…

Hey fellow Newtonians! I need your help in fixing my eMate! The short of the story... I had it sitting in a chair under my dining room table. I had tomato's sitting on the table, a…

I have a question, my dual 450 G4 is having logic board issues, I am wondering if I can swap that CPU to my single 450 G4 powermac.

One of the many things I got in a trade today was a sweet AGP G4, but I can't seem to get it online, I set the network stuff to automatic and tried rebooting and unplugging and rep…

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I have been reading about how you can use a Quicksilver CPU in a Digital Audio powermac, but it has to have a 12 Volt connection, anyone here know how to do that or know of a guide…