Someone's clearing out tons of dual processor 1.33 GHz Xserve G4s on eBay for REALLY cheap: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=xserve+G4…

http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html , paragraph entitled "Long-Term Storage." That advice goes back a good way, at least to the time of the Wallstreets.

That's really cool and I hope you find some good tricks for it. It's great to have older hardware doing tricks in places where they can shown off in style!

It's looking more and more like I'm going to have to replace the mylar sheet. The break is actually in the cable section off the bottom of the sheet, under that black tape that co…

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So, I've gone ahead and installed Leopard to the second drive... it actually seems to run pretty nicely, especially after turning off the glass dock and some of the finder visual e…

I am sure it varies from model to model, I know I didnt get a 550 watt power supply on sale for < 50$ becuase they were being nice (although I just saw a 500 watt ultra lsp …

I dunno, the thermaltake power supply I put in my wifes computer was very cheaply built, and constantly runs hot (not OMG hot but enough to make you wonder) ... Its not even a year…

Why use a G4 for such a task? I don't think a G4 would be good for a Studio machine... Please prove me wrong Click to expand... Firstly, it we be arrogant of me to "prove" the …

its mainly switched by the 1 and only transistor on the IIc, might be easier to deal with and yea I have not seen a computer monitor in a long time that will accept ntsc rgb, I ha…

Which Apple II do you have? It's easy to defeat the color killer on a II or II+, and I bet it can be done on a //e or //c as well. Bear in mind, text will have purple & gre…

Why use a G4 for such a task? Click to expand... He did say his studio software runs under OS9. G5s don't run OS9, nor do Intel Macs. I use OS9 for most music making on a G4, t…

I've never come across a lithium-ion battery that was trashed in storage as long as it was completely discharged before being put into storage. I've got some that are equally old a…

Apple Blue & White Studio LCD: Will display Apple //e color graphics as composite video. Will not display text, but then Apple says it won't display monochrome video, so no…

Tried a couple of things tonight. Apple Blue & White Studio LCD: Will display Apple //e color graphics as composite video. Will not display text, but then Apple says it w…

I just bought/ received a "new" 2400c battery from powerbookguy (in his eBay incarnation), thinking that I'd be best to have a spare (since where would you find one of these again,…

Why use a G4 for such a task? I don't think a G4 would be good for a Studio machine... Please prove me wrong Click to expand... They were made almost specifically for that when…

heh, at my last job we had a very expensive speaker come in in a odd box with fedex repack labels all over it, when opened the normally 10 inch tall speaker was totally flattened a…

I can understand that. When I have to source parts from multiple vendors I always get shipping anxiety as well. One item I needed recently for a complex job requiring parts from ab…

Dishwasher worked on my Classic II

Check out this page: http://macfaq.org/software/browsers.shtml It's a table listing 68k macs web browser specs/requirements, supported things, versions and some notes about running…

Make sure that you get a lot of use out of the IIe. $200 is an outrageous price for one. Click to expand... I wouldn't say that myself. Although I'll admit it was a little on t…

I dunno, the thermaltake power supply I put in my wifes computer was very cheaply built, and constantly runs hot (not OMG hot but enough to make you wonder) ... Its not even a year…

Why use a G4 for such a task? I don't think a G4 would be good for a Studio machine... Please prove me wrong

I *had* my dream MDD for years, a dual 1.42 transplanted into a 166MHz bus FW400 case, GeForce Ti 4600 128MB video, serial card, video encoder, lots of fast drives. It was always t…