Office 98 works well on both 5300s and 1400s. Also WordPerfect 3.1. I think you might be able to use 8.0 and 8.1 with that level of RAM. 8.6, no, I think you would want to have 40…

I actually fixed the that problem by reinstalling the system software....but now some apps will freeze on startup

Well, I finally got tired of the dead B&W sitting on the floor, so I started checking ebay for a replacement motherboard. I ended up scoring a Rev. 2 B&W motherboar…

I'd definitely load ClarisWorks: WP, SS & Simple DB tasks are great if you don't want or need a MONGO SUITE of disparate apps, like MS Office. It's tightly integrated and n…

What is the fastest all-in-one that I can install an Ethernet card and IIe compatibility card in? I think it an LC575 but just wanted to be sure before I start acquiring the bits. …

Some of you may have read my other thread detailing the hell my iBook has put me through. All I wanted was a system to do some writing on and some vintage gaming. Enter my Powerb…

Congrats on the LCIII restore. It looks great and even better when mated with that nice lcd and desk. Makes me miss my old 475.

Nice haul you got there. The one item you got that really makes me jealous is the bbedit software. I love that program.

Ok I really have no idea what the problem is or what could be causing it. In the last few days I must have torn this machine apart at least 8 or 9 times now. I have torn it down 3…

Now thats a HAUL! :O And I see the SE/30 already has an ethernet card, sweet! Good luck getting that machine up and going

My own view is that the trouble with Apple's products at the time in question was that the company was in the business of soaking its customers by charging way too much for hardwar…

Many thanks, and though I don't understand all of what was said (which is a common occurrence for me), I get the general idea well enough. So, before I chuck the RAM in the eBay bi…

In response to an earlier post (I no longer know how to Quote): Apple did produce what is in some ways a superior compact to the SE/30. It just wasn't sold in the USA. It was the …

Well....partial success. Tore it down totally. Rebuild it to the last few steps of placing metal shield then bottom case plastics on. Powers on, boots up, recognized DVD/CD-RW d…

Since System 7 required more than 1MB RAM and a SCSI drive to run, it is unlikely many Classic users plunked down the money only 6 months later to add a very expensive hard drive a…

Many thanks, and though I don't understand all of what was said (which is a common occurrence for me), I get the general idea well enough. So, before I chuck the RAM in the eBay bi…

sounds like something is shorting out. I have tons of iBook parts. let me know.

try assembling it w/o the metal shield, I have not found it necessary,(on my 700mhz model—i have an aluminum shim on the graphics card, and all that happens is that the ibook gets …

Trag - that's as simple an explanation about SIMM sizes as I can imagine. It'd be the kind of thing that should be a sticky or something so that others can find it easily. Instead …

Yes, which is why I wrote System 7, not 7.0. And System 7 remains the first system Apple charged for, not counting boxed sets with manuals of System 6. So, 6 months after the Class…

Ok I am going to give this one more shot. I completely tore down the unit all the way to removing the logic board. This way I can check the logic board for blown fuses, a screw t…

Things are settling down a bit to be sure. What has been a major stressor though is the medical bills for the cancer treatment. Insureance is wonderful and without it i'd surely b…

If you must have PPC and more then 3 Nubus slots a 950 with a Daystar upgrade is the easier to get (then you get 4 free Nubus slots). I did this for my AVID systems. A 9150 would b…

I made it up into the attic a few weeks ago, and there are, indeed, three 91xxs in there. One of them seems to have some broken bits to the casing as the side panel doesn't want …

How long since you lasted boot the 8100? I ask because the problem could be that the heat sink grease between the CPU and the heat sink has dried out and is no longer doing its j…