If you need to open the tray on boot, just hold the mouse button down, and it should pop out. If you're on the desktop, switch to the Finder, and in the "Special" menu, there is a…

As far as I'm aware, the CD drive cannot be opened by software unless there's a disc in the drive. The CD buttons on these systems can get hard to open if there's no shim between t…

Thanks for the reply! I still haven't taken the time to get to know those babies… So excuse me if the question sounds dumb, but by "changing the ROMs" do you simply mean a firmwar…

Thanks. I have finally figured it out with a little bit of help: http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md025.shtml :beige:

Tom's hit the nail on the head... just remember to pop in an "official" entry via the web site.

The CD push to open button on my Performa6360 is not working all the time unless i find the sweet spot. Is there a software application to open that drawer ? How difficult is it …

Yes, I know. Only problem; I seem to have misplaced the CPU... *Grrrrrr* Same problem applies to the "SuperDrive"; the original optical drive have gone missing as well, and the re…

There is such thing as a SCSI SSD so I believe it will be easy to find a ATA one. Another kludge you can use is:Getting a 2 Compactflash enclosure that goes to EIDE Put two 32GB C…

The failure to power up may be caused by corrupt NVRAM brought on by a flat battery, as the earlier posters suggest. However, the crashing you experienced is probably a heat sink…

Thank You. Well, everything's going well, except that I can't get off this metal shelf from the back side of the 7100. Two clips are holding it. I don't want to break it up. Cli…

Would anyone be willing to work on cap replacement on Mac Plus analog boards? If not I may just have to teach myself how to fix these things and start a service of my own. I love…

I believe that in previous years, this sort of set up has been acceptable. The main thing about the 'Challenge isn't the arbitrary rules, it's having some fun with old hardware tha…

So, I ended up installing Haiku Alpha 1 on it, works good, but its only temporary ( I will not use wondows for the life of me)

I'm thinking of entering the Retrochallenge with a little project of my own: to not only get my LCIII (my very first computer) on the Internet for the first time, but also to use i…

Ah that sucks that Rhapsody probably won't work :-( Also, agg23 I am already a member of that forum, my username there is macusr

Speaking of Rhapsody, myself and a few other people are working on a free Rhapsody OS. We also have support forums for Rhapsody as well (Apple's versions). We haven't achieved mu…

First thought: mosey over to cubeowner.com and browse the video card forum. Second, that's the way a GPU that's been running hot seems to die. Unless you had a fan on that 7500, it…

Just to warn you, Rhapsody is *VERY* picky with its hardware. Your board uses a VIA chipset, so likely will not work with Rhapsody. (Rhapsody officially dropped Intel support bef…

Beware. Some of the iMac G4 (later models before switching to the G5 processor) used DDR RAM on both the very bottom and inside. So make sure you have a model that uses SDRAM PC1…

It would have been easier to follow Bunsen's advice. If you still have the original CPU, put that one back in the Cube, install OS 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 upgrade, then put the CPU upgrad…

Update: My daughter LOVES Math Rabbit. I think I'll have to find some other vintage age-appropriate games for her. Maybe I'll get her started on LOGO Turtle, and get her programm…

Nice score, I got a ][gs back in june but haven't been able to use it (TVs make terrible composite monitors). The one time I did use it, the power supply was making noises.

For $40 CAD I got a Pentium 3 850MHz, 256MB ram, and 20GB HD, with a 17" viewsonic flat CRT monitor. I am going to install Linux on this beast, or Rhapsody. Pictures: http://yfro…

I think I might have cracked my own problem; enabling me to install OS 9.2.2 without my original cube CPU, and without installing on another computer: 1. re-install Mac OS 10.4 (C…

Nice conquest! I've always liked the early IBM PC's, and OS/2 is friggen' awesome! Click to expand... I've always thought IBM made some pretty awesome stuff. Even when I was a …