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,…
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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…
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…
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…
So I picked up a cheapish five inch composite PAL/NTSC TFT LCD in a car roof mounting. It runs on 12 volt 4 amps, folds up/pops down, swivels about 30 degrees e…
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 …
hi i was just wondering if this harddrive would work with my g3 ibook dual usb Fujitsu MHV2040AH any help would be great
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…
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.
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-…
$25.00USD Need to get ready for my PowerMac G4 I am getting from MacDan So I figured, why not get a decent card? It may have been expensive, but anything other …
Thanks to Mike, I am now a proud owner of one of these! Beauty of a thing, and so quiet! It now has 1GB of ram, 80GB and 20GB HD's dual video cards, and a USB c…
Getting a Sawtooth G4 400Mhz from MacDan, and I have a dual CPU G4 450Mhz CPU module to throw in it god-willing if it has the right uni-north version of the bus…
I cant fire it up, as I dont have a monitor for it. I need the weird wire thing for the PC card too. I looked inside, and it has a l2 cache, a 1gb Hard Disk, an…
I just wrote a short article about running GarageBand on a slow G3. Specifically, using third-party software as a replacement for the built-in guitar amplifiers…
I just got back from my latest conquest: A 500 MHz G4 Cube! I guess the guy was desperate for rent money, so he told me if I picked it up tonight, I would get i…
Hey my headline says it all... If you want to IM about macs, this game, etc, PM me. Peace.
Well, I picked all this stuff up this morning, and it is an amazing value. For 75$ I got: PowerMac 7100/400AV (G4 UPGRADE!) 128mb RAM 2gb HD CD RW 9 Another 710…
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…
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…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_n10131702 Was the Powermac G4 a super computer? It depends whose definition you use.
http://macspeedzone.com/archive/01/upg_revw/xlr8/mpe_dual_500.shtml Has anyone used one of these?
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…
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…
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…
Howdy, 68kMLA-ers: REQUEST: Xfer data from old ][e-format 5.25" disks to modern files. BACKGROUND: Back in the day, my family cut its teeth on the digital age w…
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…
I was looking at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G3 and found this "The PowerPC 740 is completely pin compatible with the older 603, allowing upgrades…
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…
Well, I was walking down the street this morning when I saw it. A simple newspaper article on the front page of the Daily Olympian. I picked it up and saw a pho…
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.
sorry, not sure if people have seen this before, but I saw that someone did this: http://www.applefritter.com/node/23084 granted, it was on a G4 upgraded machin…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Our iMac G5 came with software disks, as all Macintosh computers. I took the "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" disk and I put it into the G5 (which now runs 10.5.3). In…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Can I get a w00t?!? Official courseware for the Asia/Pacific AppleCare Engineer certification. Total spendy: AU$21.01 That and these shall go nicely together. N…
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…
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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…
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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…
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…