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Is it possible to use IDE drives with a Plus? I'd like to build a CF drive.
· 14 posts · started 18 Nov 2007 - 15:40 · last 7 Jan 2008 - 12:54
Good News: overnight I got the crazy idea to dive back into the eMac 1.25Ghz. After replacing components, I got it up and and running. Bad News: Ok, now it's up…
· 5 posts · started 7 Jan 2008 - 12:19 · last 7 Jan 2008 - 12:28
I was looking around on the giant wall of donated computing accessories at my school's computer hardware club room, and I found not one but two USB Sun Crossbow…
· 1 posts · started 7 Jan 2008 - 10:20 · last 7 Jan 2008 - 10:20
Well, as you all remember, I had an incident after trying to overclock an eMac (my last one) when I go to post on craigslist about the issue and doing a trade f…
· 6 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 08:18 · last 7 Jan 2008 - 07:41
Wiki shows this as an Apple IIGS Keyboard. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Apple_IIgs_Keyboard_A.jpg Well, the bottom one certainly is, but n…
· 12 posts · started 22 Dec 2007 - 00:16 · last 7 Jan 2008 - 04:18
I have a bondi. I removed OS X. I would like to put 9 on it again. 192mb RAM G3 233 4gb StockHD Stock CD ROM The drive had 8, but it boots to a question mark th…
· 8 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 19:58 · last 7 Jan 2008 - 02:35
Well I did a really stupid thing and unplugged / moved an ADB wire while the SE was on. Now I have no KB or mouse. Dead Mac Scrolls indicates I blew a filter - …
· 5 posts · started 4 Jan 2008 - 01:39 · last 6 Jan 2008 - 10:43
Hi, I've done a quick google search that didnt show up too much, but I was wondering if anyone had ever compiled a list of software that is known to work on a s…
· 5 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 07:13 · last 6 Jan 2008 - 06:46
I got bored today and I fixed up a few of the PCs that are sitting around my house doing nothing in particular. They both have minor problems but nothing that c…
· 8 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 20:49 · last 6 Jan 2008 - 01:54
Hey, Quick question: does a Powerbook 540 with card cage (in this case, a revision C model) allow you to boot from a PCMCIA-->CF adapter? And for those t…
· 4 posts · started 29 Dec 2007 - 08:42 · last 6 Jan 2008 - 01:14
So, the story goes: October 2005: I'm helping someone move into a new classroom for the afterschool program I'm in. We open the closet in the room and see a Pow…
· 30 posts · started 9 Aug 2007 - 22:37 · last 6 Jan 2008 - 00:37
Does anyone know where I can find the Tiger X wallpaper ? What I mean is the big X in tiger fur. Bert
· 7 posts · started 21 Dec 2007 - 17:05 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 23:50
My 466 clamshell's battery seems to have given up the ghost. It's had a recent history of being stubborn as to charging, but now its bottomed out. It always see…
· 3 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 17:56 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 21:43
While emptying boxes in my "office" I found a few items I forgot I had. 31 Zip 100 disks 2 Kensington Turbo Mouse Trackballs 1 Microspeed MacTrac 2.0 Trackball …
· 2 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 20:25 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 20:25
Snagged a IIgs (ROM 3), Printshop IIgs, GS OS 5 original disks, 1 of each floppy, imagewriter II printer, IIgs keyboard + mouse, and the color monitor. This was…
· 5 posts · started 5 Jan 2008 - 06:35 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 20:03
You know you're addicted to this game when... 1. You use the New American Desk Encyclopedia as a reference. 2. You answer questions right on Jeopardy and say yo…
· 6 posts · started 3 Jan 2008 - 04:14 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 19:31
Well, I took a trip back to Astro Too in Melbourne, Florida, and they had an old PM 6100 with AppleCD 300 sitting in the corner. They just gave it to me, so ive…
· 13 posts · started 4 Jan 2008 - 23:32 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 18:56
Anyone remember the game "Spectre"? The tank game that was a hit in the Mac world in the early 90's? (Possibly late 80's?) It has options for networking. Any id…
· 7 posts · started 3 Jan 2008 - 20:23 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 03:46
This is the one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120203169986&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 Ironic isn't it? All the "Super Ra…
· 16 posts · started 28 Dec 2007 - 17:04 · last 5 Jan 2008 - 03:36
Hey guys, I have a 80gb HD in my ibook and i have about 9gb free. I noticed that it is severely fragemented. I have tried iDefrag and it seems like it isn't rea…
· 3 posts · started 4 Jan 2008 - 15:21 · last 4 Jan 2008 - 15:42
Just purchased a matching pair of P3-600mhz processors for my Dell server. Hopefully it will speed things up in Ubuntu - it's a bit sluggish.
· 30 posts · started 20 Dec 2007 - 15:25 · last 4 Jan 2008 - 09:59
For the next couple of weeks, I really need to get focused on school, what with final and AP exams coming up in the next few weeks. I've decided that my Dual 50…
· 39 posts · started 3 May 2007 - 03:51 · last 4 Jan 2008 - 09:00
Don't know if this is possible, but I thought I'd throw it out there... What size LED does the SE hard drive bracket use? Are blue LEDs available for that size?
· 2 posts · started 4 Jan 2008 - 03:02 · last 4 Jan 2008 - 04:37
I'm an apple newbie, so bare with me. Several months ago I purchased a PowerPC G4 with Mac OS Tiger 10.4 install(no software). It worked fine until my PPC insta…
· 9 posts · started 28 Dec 2007 - 01:02 · last 4 Jan 2008 - 04:07
I might need to change my retro challenge... As you may or may not know, mine was to install Linux on my Classic II. Well, it's on there and booting reliably I …
· 22 posts · started 30 Jun 2007 - 01:31 · last 3 Jan 2008 - 20:15
Hi. I took my Mac 128k original out of storage. It nows shows sevral artifacts in the screen (Lines) and I get the sad mac immediately after the startup sound. …
· 24 posts · started 17 Sep 2007 - 18:21 · last 3 Jan 2008 - 20:01
Thought I'd post this here and ask for some insight. I've got a 12" Apple monitor (RGB, LC style) and it's got a slight problem. There appears to be a speck of …
· 5 posts · started 3 Jan 2008 - 02:40 · last 3 Jan 2008 - 16:27
Do you have to use a specific boot disk for a G4 eMac?
· 4 posts · started 3 Jan 2008 - 05:09 · last 3 Jan 2008 - 10:24
So, I was helping my parents clean up, and I vaguely remember playing with macdraw on their mac plus when i was a kid, but I was going through a box and found a…
· 16 posts · started 29 Dec 2007 - 21:09 · last 3 Jan 2008 - 09:42
I have itunes 2 running on my tam. I have about 20 gigs on an external firewire drive running to the firewire card i installed. Almost every time I start a song…
· 2 posts · started 2 Jan 2008 - 21:46 · last 2 Jan 2008 - 22:33
Well.....my ibook's battery holds 16% of its capacity according to coconut battery and other utilities. What annoys the heck out of me is not the fact it only l…
· 3 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 05:27 · last 2 Jan 2008 - 14:07
What is your favorite video game (Any console/platform/OS) and why? Personally, I REALLY like the Half Life series. I just started playing the Half life 2 games…
· 22 posts · started 1 Dec 2007 - 17:32 · last 2 Jan 2008 - 08:26
My friend found a nice haul on Craigslist, here's what he got... Beige G3 desktop with 800mhz Powerlogix G3 upgrade 384MB RAM 30GB HD External SCSI burner a sca…
· 3 posts · started 1 Jan 2008 - 23:45 · last 2 Jan 2008 - 01:25
I was in Ottawa to visit my relatives and we stopped by Value Village, the first part of the store I went to was the computer section. Holy Crap. They had so ma…
· 7 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 14:33 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 23:37
My sister ordered a Pismo last week to replace her B&W. The machine came as the sticker says: 400MHz, 128MB, 20GB, DVD-ROM. I put a 512MB stick in, so s…
· 6 posts · started 1 Jan 2008 - 16:50 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 22:51
Well, get this. If I finish off my new PC, and hand the G4 over to my brother for him to use, I may be able to have my iMac back. Finally, the little guy may be…
· 7 posts · started 30 Dec 2007 - 08:04 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 11:44
Is it possible to use a tray-loading CD-ROM in a slot-loading iMac? This would only be temporary, long enough to get an OS onto the hard drive and that is it. I…
· 10 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 04:56 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 09:57
I got an original LC last night. I have no idea what to do with it! I'm thinking of either having it take the place of my Plus or the IIsi server I use (only be…
· 5 posts · started 1 Jan 2008 - 05:40 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 07:22
This is a very very sad day. The HD in my Mystic appears to be kaput. I came in after the weekend to see it at a black screen, with the drive alternately spinni…
· 3 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 19:33 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 06:52
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/images/lee-stoetzel-computer.jpg Just like the one Fred Flintstone used.
· 5 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 22:50 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 06:10
The latest are a IIci and a pair of Appledesign Speakers. The IIci is for System 6 work; now for a good video card to match. The speakers, which are rather disc…
· 2 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 21:28 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 04:14
Hello guys, I recently did a video upgrade soldier to my Macintosh Color Classic. It seemed to go very well except for one thing. My monitor is now goes from bi…
· 12 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 03:32 · last 31 Dec 2007 - 23:24
Does anyone know where to locate schematic diagrams for Compact Macs? Particularly need for an SE/30 logic board. Or a list of what parts are referenced by boar…
· 3 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 04:17 · last 31 Dec 2007 - 21:51
I am planning on getting a Pismo on eBay, there's a bunch of them on right now that are mostly the 400MHZ. How hard would it be at some later date to upgrade it…
· 9 posts · started 31 Dec 2007 - 04:51 · last 31 Dec 2007 - 19:24

Source PPCMLA

An 8 kilobyte text file on an HFS+ drive shows up as roughly 30MB on a 1TB HFS drive (Mac OS Standard). That's what I get anyway. Large file sizes aren't too gr…
· 4 posts · started 5 Dec 2007 - 23:16 · last 1 Jan 2008 - 17:00
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