I picked up a dead (?) PowerMac 7100/80 today, and transplanted the hard drive to a Mac IIsi. It's a Seagate Barracuda, not sure of the capacity. At power-up, t…
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. . . or so Apple System Profiler hints . . . or it lies! Did the Wallstreet ever ship with a 333MHz processor? Machine ID 312 Machine speed: 333MHz ROM revisio…
Greetings. Hope you are all well. I have a rather odd question. I have a power Macintosh 7200/90 and it works and all but when I use Tech Tool pro to check its …
Looking through LEM, I noticed something curious. The low end Radius System 100 has a slower proc @ 80MHz on a 40MHz bus. The faster 110MHz processor sits on a …
I'm a collector of Vintage 68K Macs. However I do need 1 machine that's more powerfull to browse the web and download StuffIt files and convert these to Bin or …
Okay, so posted this on Applefritter, but sadly came to no resolution. What follows is a summary: Machine: Apple IIc Plus, in excellent condition - very clean a…
Sorry to cross post, but this is best placed here. Here's a link to the thread in the G3/G4 forum: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=22054
Woohoo, I just received 2 PowerBook G4's. One will be going to a young friend as her first computer! They are in remarkably good shape for their age. Very clean…
This toy arrived today: it's 2/3rds toward the bottom - flaky web page, but fast ship great telephone ordering service. SPECIAL! 2 Port USB2 PCI Card for the Ma…
Yesterday pickup up locally a 23" Apple Cinema ADC (plastic) screen, complete with an ADC to DVI adapter box. Paid $125, but I expect to sell on the adapter on …
Well, the original 80GB hard drive in my old 12" PowerBook was going south (irreparable errors reported in disk utility, etc.), so I decided to install an OWC p…
Does the 15" lighted keyboard fit in a 12" aluminum powerbook and keep the lighted feature?
Interesting question for you all... I have a 1400c with a 400mhz G3 upgrade. However, the L2 cache is bad and cannot be enabled without constant freezing (usual…
The early G5's were PCI-X and had PCI-x video cards. Would those video cards work in the G4 towers that had PCI-X slots?
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This is purely out of curiosity. I have had quite a few pre-G3 PCI Macs over the years and they all seem to boot up System 7.5.5 despite Apple saying that some …
Thanks to uniserver, I've acquired a Power Mac G3 Molar. It's a beauty (some aren't enamored by it's looks but I love the look for an All-in-one). As I've state…
Finally got around to installing the PB 540C LCD into my PB520. Works great, but its in definite need of a new CCFL tube. ugh... But at least it works.
Hi, I have a flashed FX5500/5200 PCI card in G3 B&W. It has support for QE/CI but every game and app crashing when using OpenGL. Any sugestions or solut…
Just picked it up. It came with the original system disks, a Leopard DVD, airport, original keyboard, mouse, and an iSight camera. On the downside no hard drive…
Up until now, I don't know that I've ever actually SEEN a Mirrored Drive Door system in person - save maybe a glance in an Apple Store when I was vacationing el…
Hi, As I mentioned in my "latest..." thread, I got a G5 with a mangled foot. So I got a new case for it, but what if it doesn't work? I guess I'd like to know i…
... for a Power Mac G4. Requirements: 1. PCI (of course). 2. OS9-compatible. 3. Should have a DB25 SCSI port. Were there any? And if, what are the models, or PN…
So, I'm digging around the local thrift looking for wireless stuff for a project (found both a nice 802.11b and 802.11n router) and lo and behold for $13: { "li…
SO I came across an ad for a Apple ADC flat screen. price was right so I inquired(figured it was either a Tube one or 15". reply I got was, it was last used on …
Hi all, At work I have a 3 monitor setup (MB Air screen + DVI display + USB Displaylink) and was wondering if there was a way to recreate that on a midrange PPC…
Can someone explain to me if its possible and how, to use a non apple branded IDE burner in a G4 sawtooth under 10.4? I have a plain DVD drive, but I need to ba…
Hi, I know it would be difficult, if not impossible to hack in an extra antenna, but I'm just wondering if it's even possible to get a card that'll fit in there…
I've come up with a few questions about OSX, I've been sitting on the fence about adopting it. First, I recall a discussion about a specific eMac install set th…
Hi, So I'm doing some cleaning and I found this under a desk... Now I'm wondering if this could be used on a Mac IIfx? I have no idea if this scanner ever had 6…
Back in 2004 or so there was a short lived alpha quality port of the Mac-On-Linux virtual machine to Darwin platforms. I took a keen interest in it as my Alumin…
Did the whole 68k-->PPC transition make OS8 not wonderful for 68k's, and not so great for some PPC's ether? Looks like even the 60mhz Power Macintosh 610…
Hello everyone, I need to test the hardware of my Power Mac G3, I've heard about MacTest Pro, but I don't know what version to use and I don't find any version …
Basically I just replaced this 30mhz oscillator with one that was 45mhz I tried other speeds as well. However 90mhz is running stable, With fan cooling. Don't t…
I had to kill a little time while I was waiting on someone so I started looking around on craigslist and saw a couple of xserves in the free section. Only thing…
I'm supposed to be downsizing. I'm trying but my digital picture frame died and there was this little 15" G4 iMac.
I was photo shopping an SE without drive slots and then I had the idea, what if apple still made these things.... Sorry it's late and I'm quite bored.
Hey, i have had a ma flashed sil3112 card sitting around for some time that my quicksilver refused to like, decided to give it a shot in my xserve G4 (orig tray…
Does anyone have any good experiences using one of the USB > RCA/Svideo video capture cards for converting VHS or recording input? Using Panther, Tiger o…
I recently obtained a 1Ghz PPC Powerbook Titanium (Model: M8859) as per this thread (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20660&p=200276#p200276). It works great…
Recent acquisitions include: - G4 iMac (700MHz, 15") - my second one - couldn't resist! - G5 PowerMac (2003 Dual 1.8GHz) - my first PowerMac G5 - I already have…
Mustang EVT PtotoBook I guess it's fitting that “my Eleanor” is the Mustang EVT, the prototype of a souped up 5300ce. I've had two run-ins with this machine of …
Does anyone know if sonnets firewire and USB cards are compatible with my pm7300. If they aren't can anyone recommend cards that work. I have already maxed out …
Does anyone know if sonnets firewire and USB cards are compatible with my pm7300. If they aren't can anyone recommend cards that work. I have already maxed out …
Not sure if this is the right forum area, but.... I have 10.4.11 set up on a Powerbook G4 and am connecting to a mixed SMB network (Windows, Linux, Mac...) The …
Has there been any success at all installing OS 9 on an aluminum powerbook? I heard the ROM is coded to not boot 9.2.1.
Hello! Is there a Mac Compatable Scanner with sheet feeder? I need to do a lot of OCR with Omnipage. I have a SCSI card on a G4 as well. Thanks Jerry
I'm that rarity, a G5 fan (yes, yes, I know, Intel is — y ... a ... w ... n — way faster/ newer/ shinier/ identikitier). For the past couple of years I've been …
Had a wanted advert locally for an M0001ED (Platinum) and had a phone call. Usual deal - "I've got one but you must take the lot." Turned out the M0001ED was ac…