Another note, I use tiger as my OS of choice on my 350MMHZ Slotloader and 'tis is fine.

Post pictures to imageshack and then embed them here. For a start you may want to remove the extra board.

Your Mac shows 512K because it has the original 64K ROMs most likely. You actually have 1.5MB of RAM installed, it looks like. The mobo RAM chips have probably been replaced upgrad…

Hi, Yesterday I picked up my first 512k. They are hard to get in Europe so I had to pay a whopping 20 euro for it ;-) But, on boot no glory. I opened it up and after scanning t…

Sounds like typical symptoms of capacitor leakage. My Classic II gave me the jailbars a few years back, washed the board and although the sound never returned, the machine was as g…

I have a classic II that had a similar problem, it was cap leakage.

Hehe I was waiting for someone to see the CD-ROM and go "wtf" Indeed it is by my own hand. On a poor resolution iPhone camera it looks like a decent job, however up close you can …

Methinks the classic II is slightly dead. Pulled the thing apart again, the motherboard was fairly free of dust. Examined the RAM and connectors, no tarnishing or discolouration.…

I have to agree with the consensus that the CD-ROM equipped IIsi is a hack. But one well-executed hack, at least from the outside. When I get my IIsi out of storage, I may have t…

That could be a sign that your power outlet isn't grounded properly. I have two outlets in my house that are grounded "differently" than the rest of the house. If I connect a pie…

"Software for processor cards in PCI power macs is not *required* since it replaces the original processor. It will run just fine, except Apple System Profiler may not display the …

That is weird. None of the Mac fan sites that I can find makes any mention of a IIsi coming with an internal CD ROM or of any upgrades from Apple or third parties to allow that. Yo…

Austin's Goodwill Compter Works is excellent, and there are several other computer recycle / resale operations, as you'd expect in a university town. Click to expand... What ar…

I remember hearing back in the day of people getting OS 8.5 - 9 to work on PPC upgraded Quadras by using a program such as Wish I Were to change the Getstalt ID to that of a simila…

Yep, that machine most certainly does have an internal CD-ROM...likewise I'd be really interested to see a pic of the guts of the machine.

Is it just me or does that IIsi have an internal CD-ROM? If so, how exactly did you go about putting that in?

Well scored there LCGuy! Getting the machine over 512MB will make a big difference in OS X - but it should still run adequately. And they make great DVD players, especially with th…

I hacked the Mom account with brute force. It didn't take very long. The password was "mom". Here is Apple System Profiler. I think I have the PDQ because of the L2 Cache. Un…

I had my Q700 in the IIvx case open recently and my hand brushed the metal case and I got shocked. i thought it was a static discharge, but when I touched it again, another shock. …

Howdy all, I bought a 14" 233MHz Wallstreet (or maybe PDQ, can't tell yet) a few days ago. The machine smells of smoke and most likely belonged to a smoker at one point in its lif…

Yeah, for the time they were tiny. By today's standards, not so much.

Ah! It's not a real hyperdrive. I opened it up and no hard drive, controller, etc. Just a 512k with a HyperDrive case, for whatever reason. Oh well, it's still cool. One of these d…

Just a note/ flag that these are currently available at $1.99 each on ebay (with best offers available too) if you want to revive a PowerBook by replacing a dead backup battery. Th…

So, I finally took the 280c out of storage where it's been since renovating the home office. Unfortunately, it seems to have developed some kind of keyboard problem in the interim.…

I think that some of the RAM might be bad, because the 8100 is now unstable. I'm getting random Finder quits, hangs, and even a System bomb on startup (you know, the fun kind, wher…