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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…
· 10 posts · started 16 Oct 2008 - 08:09 · last 18 Oct 2008 - 16:40
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…
· 9 posts · started 16 Oct 2008 - 21:03 · last 17 Oct 2008 - 21:20
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…
· 13 posts · started 2 Sep 2008 - 06:24 · last 17 Oct 2008 - 20:57
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…
· 10 posts · started 4 Oct 2008 - 03:41 · last 16 Oct 2008 - 17:18
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…
· 7 posts · started 19 Sep 2008 - 03:11 · last 16 Oct 2008 - 03:54
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· 3 posts · started 14 Oct 2008 - 07:10 · last 15 Oct 2008 - 01:41
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…
· 3 posts · started 14 Oct 2008 - 00:21 · last 14 Oct 2008 - 13:33
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…
· 15 posts · started 7 Oct 2008 - 01:30 · last 13 Oct 2008 - 22:23
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…
· 3 posts · started 13 Oct 2008 - 20:24 · last 13 Oct 2008 - 20:57
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…
· 4 posts · started 12 Oct 2008 - 23:31 · last 13 Oct 2008 - 01:26
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…
· 8 posts · started 12 Oct 2008 - 02:21 · last 12 Oct 2008 - 21:59
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· 3 posts · started 12 Oct 2008 - 06:03 · last 12 Oct 2008 - 09:14
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…
· 3 posts · started 12 Oct 2008 - 03:26 · last 12 Oct 2008 - 05:14
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…
· 4 posts · started 11 Oct 2008 - 19:01 · last 12 Oct 2008 - 01:28
Today I got a 512MB PC-133 SDRAM for $30. My old PC really needed more RAM. Works great so far.
· 1 posts · started 11 Oct 2008 - 17:53 · last 11 Oct 2008 - 17:53
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…
· 9 posts · started 5 Jun 2008 - 05:00 · last 11 Oct 2008 - 14:03
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.…
· 6 posts · started 3 Oct 2008 - 04:05 · last 11 Oct 2008 - 10:26
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. …
· 6 posts · started 9 Oct 2008 - 08:35 · last 10 Oct 2008 - 17:56
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.
· 3 posts · started 7 Oct 2008 - 04:31 · last 8 Oct 2008 - 04:47
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…
· 18 posts · started 5 Oct 2008 - 02:30 · last 6 Oct 2008 - 07:15
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…
· 6 posts · started 3 Oct 2008 - 02:31 · last 6 Oct 2008 - 04:05
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…
· 1 posts · started 6 Oct 2008 - 03:57 · last 6 Oct 2008 - 03:57
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…
· 1 posts · started 5 Oct 2008 - 07:16 · last 5 Oct 2008 - 07:16
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…
· 6 posts · started 2 Oct 2008 - 08:11 · last 3 Oct 2008 - 07:16
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…
· 6 posts · started 24 Jun 2008 - 21:59 · last 2 Oct 2008 - 20:38
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…
· 13 posts · started 30 Sep 2008 - 04:52 · last 2 Oct 2008 - 01:52
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…
· 3 posts · started 1 Oct 2008 - 23:16 · last 2 Oct 2008 - 01:38
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…
· 9 posts · started 27 Sep 2008 - 17:39 · last 30 Sep 2008 - 16:01
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…
· 6 posts · started 23 Sep 2008 - 13:15 · last 30 Sep 2008 - 02:55
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…
· 8 posts · started 23 Sep 2008 - 13:38 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 17:57
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…
· 19 posts · started 24 Sep 2008 - 08:23 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 03:42
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 …
· 4 posts · started 28 Sep 2008 - 17:36 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 02:02
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…
· 18 posts · started 26 Sep 2008 - 03:15 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 01:48
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…
· 2 posts · started 28 Sep 2008 - 21:03 · last 29 Sep 2008 - 00:21
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 …
· 8 posts · started 25 Sep 2008 - 19:23 · last 28 Sep 2008 - 02:59
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) …
· 29 posts · started 26 Sep 2008 - 06:16 · last 27 Sep 2008 - 16:34
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…
· 3 posts · started 26 Sep 2008 - 02:23 · last 27 Sep 2008 - 07:47
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…
· 3 posts · started 22 Sep 2008 - 09:56 · last 26 Sep 2008 - 10:29
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…
· 9 posts · started 22 Sep 2008 - 16:47 · last 25 Sep 2008 - 21:39
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…
· 7 posts · started 22 Sep 2008 - 07:52 · last 23 Sep 2008 - 13:05
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…
· 1 posts · started 23 Sep 2008 - 01:17 · last 23 Sep 2008 - 01:17
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…
· 6 posts · started 20 Sep 2008 - 04:50 · last 21 Sep 2008 - 20:27
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…
· 7 posts · started 17 Sep 2008 - 14:14 · last 20 Sep 2008 - 23:43
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…
· 12 posts · started 17 Sep 2008 - 00:50 · last 20 Sep 2008 - 23:22
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