I've had three 500s (my first was when I was about 12 or so) and I believe it's a loose socket on the PowerBook. My current 540C has this problem. It works well enough that you can…

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The only Mac I have that I would be able to do that with is a first-gen 12" PowerBook G4, and I don't feel like ripping hard drives out of either system. (I do have a spare 2.5" h…

As much as I love Linux, my vote goes for 9.1. I'm getting old and just want my computers to work with minimal fuss. I don't really use OS 9 for browsing on an extended basis, ju…

Nope! )

Why would Apple show a 3rd-party product in their own brochure?

I'm just having a hell of a time getting Tiger onto my clamshell iBook at the moment... My external USB DVD drive *WILL* boot the Tiger DVD, but of course a stock Tiger DVD will r…

Was it a third party product or an Apple product?

running linux on my 8500 I needed to boot into a console, edit the window manager config file and hope for the best while using my (bad) apple monitor since X plays somewhat by th…

I know I've run Panther on a 640x480; but I don't know about Tiger. It could just be that Tiger really does need more than that, and Tiger may ignore the old fashioned Mac sense l…

So I sat down and fixed this thing, those mysterious green sips are house branded IC's which meant if they were toast the machines functionality would be lost without becoming a pa…

H3NRY's suggestion was right on the money. After a bit of fiddling, Akane the Portable comes right up. The magic numbers were 9V and 3A. Hard disk was initially recalcitrant, but s…

I would suggest trying a different possibly newer display. Apparently that one can only to 640x480@67Hz

Yes, it's a monitor support (absolutely necessary : ) intended to do both, they date back to the Mac II and are intended for TPDs, which are notoriously heavy and meant to sit …

A shelf to keep the cooling vents open.

Looks like a monitor platform to raise up the monitor a few inches.

Nice chart, I've got basically the same one in a book. The one on the webpage you mention is slightly better explained though. They didn't put in the XXXX after the class code so i…

What's on top of this IIfx?

A while back I attempted to install Tiger on my 266 MHZ Beige G3. Today I received a Sonnet G4/500MHZ CPU I had bought off eBay. I installed it and tested it. I decided to reattem…

phreakout, thanks for the history lesson, but I'm not sure I understand why you posted it. It's also wrong. The Classic and Classic II overlapped by one full year, the Classic II d…

You have a memory error, specifically the RAM failed the Mod 3 test. See here: http://www.mac512.com/macwebpages/sadmac.htm RAM failure is not common in a stock 128K, but it is v…

I've taken the topcase of an old G3 iBook without damaging it by shimming the plastic carefully with toothpicks. Mind you, you'll lose a few toothpicks this way, but they'll break…

Yeah, I paid something like $500 for the privilege of owning a 2c FPD and I think within an hour or two, I had already yanked off the clear plastic lens which made it a bit worse. …

The Radius GS TPD looks fantastic sittin' next to an SE, almost was attractive as the Radius FPD (the early ones w/o the tilt-swivel base) does. I've got some old Radius Brochures …

Nice find! I believe the error is memory related. It's not possible to boot the Macintosh without its full complement of memory, if I recall correctly, so your best bet would poss…