It may have been damaged before. Please refrain from your nastiness, it is not necessary. I use the quote button because I believe quoting is necessary. xx(

its not so easy to fish out tiny slivers of scotch tape out of your agp slot Click to expand... So far swapping my 6200 around between my DA and QS many times and the tape …

Well, it depends on your definition of 'conquest', first. To me, there are three categories: 1. Something you purchased. For any price. I'd call these "a conquest", because you…

I meant use the User Reports database to search for examples of 533s in Gigabits so you can see if anyone's succeeded and what the hurdles involved are.

I was considering that myself, but that would leave a rather unsightly hole I would assume... I'd much rather have it all-original Click to expand... Well, you could always nic…

No, but plugging it in while wet would. /facepalm Back away from the Mac, put down the screwdriver and raise your hands where we can see 'em. Nice and slow. Do some research be…

from what i under stand the reason why we have to hack in tot he video cards is because apple decided to use the then unassigned pins 3 and 11 for their adc protocol a few …

I would almost advise you to remove those upgrades and bring it back to its original state, just out of principle. Click to expand... Click to expand... I was considering th…

Out of curiosity, is there a chart anywhere on the power draw from Mac components since Macs never came with upgradeable power supplies? The reason I ask is that I feel I was pushi…

You can see in the 2nd photo there is an extra port on the back, looks like parallel/SCSI/something? Not too familiar with these. He thought the memory had been upgraded as well, b…

ill probably slice the circuti trace of pin 3 and 11 away on the geforce the video card is easy to replace ( and i have 4 others ) its not so easy to fish out tiny sl…

Just tried it, the link seems to work ok , here it is, http://themacelite.wikidot.com/ . Good luck and it does make sense since the PC equivalents are so much cheaper.

they were offline when i searched a few hours ago they arent any more QS meet geforce fx 5200 ..play nice

Do a search online for MacElite, you will find all you need to know.

Not bad at all (ps thats a SCSI port)

Just finished cleaning off my latest find: An original Mac, upgraded a bit. This is my first pre-90's Macintosh, and I'm quite happy! Paid $40 for it, though it doesn't come with a…

The LC 5xx line is indestructable! I have a clean LC 580 with 52 MB (max) ram, 3 GB HD, System 7.5.5 and it runs any 68k app with ease. Never had any issues with it.

I have made a boot disk with a minimal system and RamDisk+. I startup from the floppy and run it from the RAM disk. The only thing is the battery will not show though it did (som…

Recieved the Airport compatible PCI card and it works great!!! it's nice to have the wireless now... So my upgrading is done on this... it as far as it will go... but it's a very…

I guess it depends on what you get into. Somebody who doesn't much like compacts won't think a conquest of a dozen SE/30's is a big deal while others would drool over it. Some peop…

Could a bad PRAM be killing it?

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale. Click to expand... That wo…

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale.

Yeah I agree. Yes Nico it was you. I do think a Mac Plus is epic because I don't have a working Compact (yet-- A 512k is on its way to me ) But I found a keyboard and mouse in …

8. EBAY LINKS. I feel we should not post eBay links at all since it often leads to discussions about the seller and even it doesn't, it will often lead to something negative about …