I'm a newbie to this forum, but I need help. My brother moved back north and left me to clean out his storage unit. I have uncovered his old Macintosh Performa …
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Does anyone know of a CD-ROM that would be compatible with both the Power Macintosh 8500 and the modern day Windows PC?
Just got one of those along with some other stuff. G3 upgrade, Power Mac RAM, some Sun cards, Zip disks, and a Roland TR-505 (which doesn't have the analogue so…
Hi folks, Can anyone offer pointers to solving the following problem for a client? The machine is a G4 1.4GHz Mac Mini, and it was working fine when it left my …
Hey gang, How big can an HFS (aka Mac OS Standard) partition be? I always thought they could be huge, but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card wit…
I found on eBay awhile back a "non functioning" 500 MHz Pismo for $60 shipped. Used my standard Pismo plug and voila, it booted up! Those 500MHz's are hard to f…
So I have access to a couple of PM 9600/200s, and I think I'd really like to use one of them to replace my current 8500 setup, as I'm really feeling a slot limi…
Hi, I'm a 28-year-old Mac fan with a small, but functional collection of a few Macs. I have been in love with Apples ever since I got my hands on them at school…
A neighbor was selling a Powerbook G4 (unknown specs beyond that) at a yard sale this morning. I was told that he had gotten it from someone and it wouldn't wor…
In order to file a claim to get my unfortunately destroyed Performa 5420, which I originally scored in Japan, I need to provide replacement/repair estimates. Ho…
So, after posting my two first messages around here, it's time for me to introduce myself, say hi to everybody and thank you for your welcome. So, basically I'm…
I bought a G4 yesterday! It is the 466 Mhz model with a single CPU,a big heatsink and a Rage 128 Pro. The configuration is stock,but includes 512 MB memory and …
A couple of days ago at the MIT Swap Fest I bought- a New in box 68040 LC/LC II/Color Classic upgrade card-$5 An OrangPC 233mhz Pentium MMX Windows Compatibilit…
Prices are what I paid, not the sale price on the forum. If I sell it on the forum it will be in the trading post and cost a little more since I have to clean i…
Completely obliterated. The person who owned it had it dropped by his nephew, which cracked the display. Trying to salvage the hard disk, he opened it up and tr…
Sony DVD-+RW 16x, w/ DL Ability @ 6x. It's SATA. Cost me $20USD, plus about $0.60 in gas T'was right around me not bad?
I went to my local dump one day and I saw something that stood out above all the other beige boxes. It was a tray-loading iMac. I thought that it would be cool …
Got an e-mail that the non-profit recycler had more Mac stuff. Power Mac G4 450 MHz Dual w/ nice specs - $40 Had an OF password but I got it cleared. Installing…
Been a bit inactive recently on these forums, only due to work commitments... However, i recently picked up a HAUL of stuff for the sum of $20 (not including fu…
A Powermac G4 Sawtooth(I think I posted this here earlier though, 350mhz, almost a gig of ram, etc) A Powermac G3 Blue and White-I have no idea where this thing…
I recently came into possession of a 1.6GHz 17" iMac G5 with a 160GB HD and 1GB of RAM, but severe video distortion issues. Opened it up to find the two video p…
My Grape iMac's CRT fails? The screen is rather dim but clear, it was burn in a bit. And it sometimes shows up red, witch I know in LCD's that the backlight is …
Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put t…
I just got a Power Mac 5400/120 at a yard sale today. Are there any old music making programs for Mac? How about for an SE/30?
Hey guys. Lately, my iMac has been painstakingly slowwwwwwww (at start up, with basic functions, and online. I guess it's lack of RAM, but I'm not so sure. What…
Okay, so as you may know, I've upgraded this bugger a bit. Here's its specs now: G3/500, 512 megs RAM, 30 gig HDD, OS X 10.4.11 It's a very happy machine, excep…
(1) Beige G3, ATI Rage 128 PCI video card, 17" Apple blue and white CRT monitor: works great. (2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 …
Hey! I have got some cool conquest news! Today, one of my friends and I took a bit of a trip to NAU's surplus store, partially as a response to the trip techfur…
Brand new Mouse Systems serial mouse: 50 cents (local computer store) Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One: Free from school. They gave me an AppleDesign keyboard and …
Just got rid of one ,300 mhz...and still have one more..the 225 model..My question is..Does anyone in the forum, surf with 'em ? How do you like the 6500 overal…
For my Sawtooth. I've been running the 128 pro in it since I swapped the Radeon into my 9500 and it's not very good under Tiger and the benchmarks for the Nvidi…
Although I use FW most of the time, high(er)-speed USB is getting to be a real need. USB 2.0 cards abound around here. Are there any that are particularly good …
I have a dual 450Mhz Sawtooth with a Uni-North Rev. 7 and 1GB RAM. I am wondering that if I bumped it to 500Mhz or 550, would it matter? Would I see a performan…
no not an asus EEE but an emac 700 mhz 640 mb ram 40 gig hd and a wonky combo drive you wil hear more about and a ibm thinkpad 700 mhz no adapter no hd but a go…
I will soon be getting a G3 AIO from Mike (thanks!) and I paln on upgrading it ot at least a 500mhz G3, maybe a 1ghz chip. How can I get leopard to run on this?
I CAN NOT believe the haul I made today. There was free computer recycling going on in my city for 2 days, and on the second day (today), I went down there and …
400mhz Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet. Just had a logic board replacement and needs the operating system reinstalled. It won't boot from CD though. Disc in, ever…
I pulled out a DVDROM-CDRW drive from a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 that had it's LCD hit by an elbow. Put it into the Pismo sled, and wamo. It works. I tried a …
While my formerly recycled PowerBook G4/500 is disassembled to JB Weld a broken hinge (it was easy to get the display apart, as most of the old adhesive had sin…
Have a Dual 800 pulled from a QS trying to get fully working 100% in a DA anyone have any other suggestions for getting the L3 cache to work/show up? I have don…
...what is it? It's an ATI Radeon ??? of unknown series, but based on a quick Google for part numbers i'm throwing between the 7500 and the 9000. 64mb VRAM on b…
Made a few phone calls today. First I called the City of Houston who told me to call someone at the Westpark Recycling Center. The person at Westpark says all o…
This is a sub-conquest. The shell of the system has been lying around for quite some time since the Sawtooth logic board failed. Today the Gigabit Ethernet boar…
Hi, I'm new here. I've been looking everywhere on how to be able to do this. I want to be able to run OS 8 on my PPC G4 QuickSilver 2002. I stumbled upon this a…
I have a G3 upgrade in my 9500 and Gauge pro is reporting 300 mhz G3 (correct) 1MB backside L2 (yup) and... 512k motherboard based L3 ??? I can't disable the mo…
Hello all. New user here. I have been a huge fan of Macs since before they were sold, I've been using them in one form or another since 1983 (Yes they existed b…
For £5. It has the L2 cache, PCI ethernet and a 2MB PCI graphics card of some sort. I love the look of the 6400/6500 series, much curvier then most other old ma…