Has FireWire been known to give out on a G4 AGP Graphics? I hooked up my FireWire DVD drive as I always do to install the OS, but on this particular G4 it doesn…
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As you can see by this pic the inside of this GS has some rust and other corrosion, so my question is: what should I remove it with? Is steel wool the best opti…
Does Batteries Plus carry laptop batteries for older machines? I know they stock them for older cell phones and I'd be interested to see if anyone here has ever…
A little Googling has turned up V150H button cells as replacements for the V110H cells originally in 2400c backup batteries. The V150Hs appear to be simply high…
anyone tried adding a 2nd scsi drive to their LC with a scsi multiple drive cable (ribbon)?
I got 16 Macs today, all free: 7x Macintosh IIsi 6 with ethernet cards 1 with fancy NuBus "Macintosh Display Card" 1x MACINTOSH QUADRA 700 OH MAN I wanted one o…
hi guys. I have Jaz drive 1gb, I connected it in my Mac SE but not mount in desktop, I needs some software to use this Jaz Drive? 1GB Jaz Drive Iomega Mac SE, r…
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Today I got an external BackPack CD-RW drive (drive promptly put in my USB/FW external case) and an Apple power supply (yo-yo). So far the CD-RW drive appears t…
I bought three Apple toners for $10 each off eBay with free local pickup. It's a good sized recycling place about a mile away from my mom's house. They had Beig…
Hey, my sisters room mate came to me with her laptop telling me that it plays an elevator version of jump by van halen randomly. I couldn't find anything on goo…
I just got a blue and white g3 to replace my beige. I want to put my sonnet accelerator into the b&w, but whenever I clock the bus down, it will not boo…
I have a chance to buy a iMac Oct 2005 2.1 ghz, 500 gb hd, 2.5gb ram, and isight cam. Under Apple Care, he has replaced everything but the motherboard. He is as…
I bought a no-LEDs-light-at-all Pismo battery for $3 today at a flea market. I was planning to use the guts for experimental purposes. However, it is too good t…
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Anybody have any idea what it is? It seems to have the stock CPU and RAM in it.
I have acquired an SE that appears to start up fine from its internal HD but that has a black screen. Yes, I have tried the brightness knob. Couple of quick que…
So I had my Power Mac 9500 all ready, and was going to install OS 9 on it. I remembered that I had the Sonnet G3 card in it, and since I was reformatting the dr…
Today I got a 512MB PC-133 SDRAM for $30. My old PC really needed more RAM. Works great so far.
I received a Powerbook 2400c in the post yesterday, with the usual symptoms (DOA). There are some people around here with experience of these machines, and I ha…
I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's.…
I got this a few days ago from the recycler. Yesterday it turned on but now it won't Sometimes you see the green light flash on and off quickly, but that's it. …
Picked up from eBay locally for the princely sum of 99c. The monitor is an AppleVision 1710. I will check the specs out tonight but the 7600 looks pretty stock.
Not sure how much use it is, but I would LOVE to hack it and turn it into a regular terminal for Linux or something. This is a picture of it Anyone got some inf…
I found one at the thrift store for $35. 300mhz, at least 64MB RAM, DVD drive and the original 8.4GB hard disk No power adapter however, so I don't know if it w…
So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot s…
Was having a garage sale when my neighbor brought her old PC to include for a few bucks. It was in very good shape and hadn't been used in years. She thought it…
Well, I have changed default laptops. I recently acquired a Dell Latitude c610, with a screen and top plastic from an inspiron 4100. I have since put an interna…
I picked up a Thinkpad T60! Well actually my boss gave it to me. It's model is 1953-EAU and its base specs are: CoreDuo T2400 1.83GHz 1.5GB DDRII RAM Intel GMA9…
I just love my iBook SE (366 Clamshell). however, the battery seems to be completly dead. The iBook was running OS X, so i installed Mac OS 9 to run the Battery…
I got a IIsi for free from my church. For some reason someone "donated" it or something. Anyways, it has a 200MB LaCie SCSI drive, Mac System 7.0.1, 17,408KB of…
I have been considering Leopard on my 800mhz TiBook and my wife's dual 500 G4. The dual 500 has a PCI 32mb radeon 7000 in it and 1.25 gigs of ram. The TiBook ha…
Folks on these forums are so helpful thought I'd get more help... I found a Pismo 500 (awesome, always wanted one) and I didn't have the Yo-yo adapter so I used…
I have a Pismo battery that went one day from holding a charge for an hour to not taking a charge, the light would not even blink on it. I took it apart and man…
After running an old P3-600 system for a while I went to eBay looking for cheap upgrades. An auction for two matchine P3 1ghz slot 1 processors was found for ab…
Shortly after buying my Blue/White G3 the motherboard was replaced with a Revision 2 motherboard. After disappointing results with my Beige G3, I thought I woul…
5x G3 iMacs. 3 booted right up. One missing a hard drive. One missing a voltage regular on the motherboard - it turns on for only a few seconds and then turns o…
Well, I found these through craigslist. One of the pb 180's has corrosin in the battery compartment, im pretty sure its a lost cause, the other one just doesnt …
The Classic is not a new machine to me, as it was the first Mac I ever used, way back in ye year 1991. I thought of it even then as slow running MS Word 4, whic…
Hi everyone i recently acquired a brand "new" macintosh II. i recapped it because it didn't sound and didn't show any video at all. After recapping all 47 mfd c…
Hey, I have a Pismo battery that is shot, but since I have a couple spare clamshell batteries around i thought "their connections are the same, so lets try and …
Specifications 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 Processor 512mb RAM (Possibly more, considering this also has onboard) 10gb Hard Disk (Came without, I only had a 10GB around) …
Someone should make a movie with a title like that.... Anyway, I can report that an advert on www.kijiji.ca led me to four Classics, three working, and three wi…
It's probably very obvious once you know how to, but how do you get the hard drive capacity within System 7? I tried Get Info but it just seemed to tell me that…
I liberated a IIci this weekend, with 32k cache card and 32 MB ram, 80MB HDD. The machine was almost brand new. It was owned by some rich dude who never used it…
i have a wallstreet wel several wallstreets and unfortunaly no means of getting data from their hard drives other then a zip disk module ( but no zip disks ...g…
Now this upgraded Mac512 is what I consider a rather interesting find on EBAY, and currently being offered at a reasonable price too. Like my GCC Internal HD, t…
I was at a yard sale and they had a free pile! I picked up A Quadra 605, apple design speakers(1993), 14" apple monitor, a cyrix 686 cpu sealed in original paka…
I have installed a quantum 2-gig internal drive. All was well with formating, installing system software, etc. I was on my way to installing netBSD when after a…
I finally was able to pick up my Quadra 660av today, It has 68MB of RAM and OS 8.1 flooded with extensions... Not OK. I will have to reinstall the system and se…