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My dad came back from his office today with a whole bunch of Mac stuff that his office no longer uses. There were a few mice, an OS CD for a Power Macintosh G3,…
· 11 posts · started 24 Aug 2008 - 22:42 · last 30 Aug 2008 - 21:09
The spacebar is discolored, as is the case with 99% of the "clean" keyboards I've seen on EBAY. ... For what it's worth, my Mac 512k ... has not only a mint cas…
· 12 posts · started 26 Apr 2008 - 03:12 · last 30 Aug 2008 - 03:44
I was wondering why Deus Ex was horrible on my 9500/G3 - Radeon. Slow, graphics tearing etc. Turns out it was this nasty extension that came on the Sonnet cpu u…
· 2 posts · started 28 Aug 2008 - 12:21 · last 30 Aug 2008 - 00:00
I got a PowerMac G4 AGP (Sawtooth) from MacDan (Thanks!) during a trade. I just decked it out now (Mostly) except for the ram, everything I had was a drop in Th…
· 7 posts · started 22 Aug 2008 - 19:07 · last 25 Aug 2008 - 00:20
I bought a PowerMac G4 350/10gb/64mb ram/zip/dvd for 25 dollars. Everything is stock, but when I opened it up, I found 3 ram sticks. 2 64 sticks and a 512. and …
· 6 posts · started 22 Aug 2008 - 19:55 · last 23 Aug 2008 - 01:39
Power Macintosh 6320 - $9.99 Color StyleWriter 2400 - $7.99 Super Savers is a thrift store I have not been to. It's in a really bad part of town, but I was coin…
· 2 posts · started 19 Aug 2008 - 01:11 · last 20 Aug 2008 - 12:05
I have a question, my dual 450 G4 is having logic board issues, I am wondering if I can swap that CPU to my single 450 G4 powermac.
· 1 posts · started 16 Aug 2008 - 20:00 · last 16 Aug 2008 - 20:00
After my misfortune with the Quicksilver G4 (which may still see life) I have been given a second chance at an upgrade with this haul, along with one of my all-…
· 12 posts · started 11 Aug 2008 - 08:08 · last 16 Aug 2008 - 14:27
$25.00USD Need to get ready for my PowerMac G4 I am getting from MacDan So I figured, why not get a decent card? It may have been expensive, but anything other …
· 2 posts · started 12 Aug 2008 - 07:07 · last 15 Aug 2008 - 06:32
Thanks to Mike, I am now a proud owner of one of these! Beauty of a thing, and so quiet! It now has 1GB of ram, 80GB and 20GB HD's dual video cards, and a USB c…
· 3 posts · started 9 Aug 2008 - 20:31 · last 10 Aug 2008 - 02:21
Getting a Sawtooth G4 400Mhz from MacDan, and I have a dual CPU G4 450Mhz CPU module to throw in it god-willing if it has the right uni-north version of the bus…
· 1 posts · started 9 Aug 2008 - 23:42 · last 9 Aug 2008 - 23:42
I cant fire it up, as I dont have a monitor for it. I need the weird wire thing for the PC card too. I looked inside, and it has a l2 cache, a 1gb Hard Disk, an…
· 4 posts · started 3 Aug 2008 - 19:27 · last 4 Aug 2008 - 18:06
I just wrote a short article about running GarageBand on a slow G3. Specifically, using third-party software as a replacement for the built-in guitar amplifiers…
· 5 posts · started 17 May 2007 - 17:00 · last 3 Aug 2008 - 19:38
I just got back from my latest conquest: A 500 MHz G4 Cube! I guess the guy was desperate for rent money, so he told me if I picked it up tonight, I would get i…
· 12 posts · started 2 Aug 2008 - 03:11 · last 3 Aug 2008 - 15:39
Hey my headline says it all... If you want to IM about macs, this game, etc, PM me. Peace.
· 7 posts · started 24 Jun 2008 - 20:26 · last 2 Aug 2008 - 09:00
Well, I picked all this stuff up this morning, and it is an amazing value. For 75$ I got: PowerMac 7100/400AV (G4 UPGRADE!) 128mb RAM 2gb HD CD RW 9 Another 710…
· 16 posts · started 26 Jul 2008 - 13:05 · last 30 Jul 2008 - 08:25
OK well its not really a conquest as i didn't really save this G5 from destruction. it would be more accurate to say i saved it from a life of sitting on a desk…
· 7 posts · started 28 Jul 2008 - 02:23 · last 28 Jul 2008 - 17:46
Right now I use the same PCMCIA wireless card that has wireless-b,g with my Lombards and Pismo on 10.3.9. I am thinking of putting an airport internal card into…
· 14 posts · started 1 Jun 2008 - 23:19 · last 28 Jul 2008 - 06:38
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_n10131702 Was the Powermac G4 a super computer? It depends whose definition you use.
· 9 posts · started 2 Jul 2008 - 14:38 · last 28 Jul 2008 - 06:35
I went to the Houston Area Apple Users Group Swap Meet on Saturday. I became a member and members get a free table so I set up a table. I sold 3 iMacs and an LC…
· 1 posts · started 21 Jul 2008 - 06:30 · last 21 Jul 2008 - 06:30
hi!.. im waiting my "new" powerbook 1400 what i get free.. but it not have the Charger.. and i dont know if i can get the charger in my city.. so.. anyone knows…
· 11 posts · started 18 Jul 2008 - 18:41 · last 20 Jul 2008 - 17:59
I just got myself a DA G4/466 with 384 megs 'o RAM for $20. Came with the original box and packaging, which is always nifty to get Got it to set up for a friend…
· 6 posts · started 19 Jul 2008 - 21:54 · last 20 Jul 2008 - 12:21
Yesterday I installed the Airport extreme card in the iMac. I put it back together correctly and carefully. I booted it and nothing. It would make that spinning…
· 1 posts · started 19 Jul 2008 - 17:37 · last 19 Jul 2008 - 17:37
Found this thing sitting by someone's garbage bin and I went to their door to see if I could have it. Sure enough! What it came with... 40B hard drive 256MB ram…
· 31 posts · started 29 Jun 2008 - 03:04 · last 16 Jul 2008 - 05:37
I read somewhere recently that the 6360 was also available in a tower case like the 6400/6500. Has anyone ever seen one? I have only ever seen the desktop case.
· 6 posts · started 13 Jul 2008 - 23:14 · last 14 Jul 2008 - 03:49
Got this as part of a multi-machine haul from Freecycle. It's a PCI/"Yikes!" model, but it's outfitted nicely, with 704MB RAM, and two ATI Rage128 PCI video car…
· 6 posts · started 9 Jul 2008 - 07:33 · last 11 Jul 2008 - 04:53
Well at least I'm excited. 512mb of RAM, no HD (but I have a 120gb around that I'll throw in). I do web development on a MBP, and I'll be setting it up as a tes…
· 15 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 15:58 · last 10 Jul 2008 - 03:54
Got in the mail today Daystar XLR8 MachspeedZIF G4 550 boxed with everything that is supposed to come with it, but used. New 600mhz model is $200 from Daystar w…
· 4 posts · started 9 Jul 2008 - 20:16 · last 10 Jul 2008 - 01:12
Today I rescued a Power Pc G4. It was going to eWaste and the owner contacted me. The only thing missing is the monitor. :'( I can put it in my room because it …
· 14 posts · started 8 Jul 2008 - 23:43 · last 10 Jul 2008 - 00:30
Hi, As I told in other posts, I use a B&W G3 with G4 zif from Yikes! 400 at 450mhz (trying 500mhz still). I followed the voltage tweaking guide to achie…
· 17 posts · started 19 Jun 2008 - 23:08 · last 9 Jul 2008 - 15:51
I've got an iBook G4 that has a display problem that has me completely stumped. When turned on, it chimes and all is well, but then the screen flickers almost l…
· 3 posts · started 2 Jul 2008 - 18:47 · last 3 Jul 2008 - 01:17
I got the two Sonnet Encore G3 500 ZIFs from IC China today. They look brand new. If they've been cleaned up, someone did a really good job because these look i…
· 2 posts · started 2 Jul 2008 - 01:25 · last 2 Jul 2008 - 12:31
I may be able to obtain a logic board from a 600 MHz G3 iMac cheaply. Can this be put into my 400 MHz iMac? If so, what (if any) modifications are necessary to …
· 1 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 23:24 · last 30 Jun 2008 - 23:24
I am using a Viewsonic monitor on a blue & white G3 tower. When I boot up the computer, my monitor displays a bright green screen with the boot-up apple…
· 2 posts · started 28 Jun 2008 - 17:44 · last 30 Jun 2008 - 00:53
Hello guys, So I have this Macintosh Freestyle Tablet (basically a PowerBook 5300). The problem is the hard drive overheated I believe and has been acting funky…
· 3 posts · started 26 Jun 2008 - 09:27 · last 27 Jun 2008 - 00:16
Hello folks, my name is Daniel Jaramillo (don't ask about the last name). I'm new to the forums, but not to the Macintosh (having used them in school). Unfortun…
· 9 posts · started 21 Jun 2008 - 15:06 · last 22 Jun 2008 - 23:19

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I ended up taking a Lombard on my long trip. It held up like a true champ, took all the abuse, but it's heavy and uses assorted PC cards I have to switch in and…
· 3 posts · started 14 Aug 2008 - 20:48 · last 26 Aug 2008 - 21:33
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· 4 posts · started 14 Aug 2008 - 20:42 · last 15 Aug 2008 - 08:19
While I'm waiting for parts and money to come in for various motherboard repairs, I decided to fix up a few floppy drives. I took them apart, cleaned them up, a…
· 1 posts · started 9 Aug 2008 - 08:54 · last 9 Aug 2008 - 08:54
Very rarely do I get stumped, but I got one for you that stumped me: I have 2 macintosh Plus boards, both of them do the exact same thing. Both came in macs. Th…
· 2 posts · started 26 Jul 2008 - 08:12 · last 28 Jul 2008 - 07:53
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