My "new" iMac G3 has 9.2 OS and I have no intentions of installing OS X because i have other iMac's with OS X. ( For now I am working with OS 9.2 on this IMac G…
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The iMac G3 has OS 9.2 installed. The internal optical CD drive is read only. I tried an external LG DVD burner connected via FireWire. Although DVD's and CD's …
I have come to really enjoy using classic Mac OS again, with my 7600 getting a key role in my photowork flow. And with on board SCSI and serial it's the perfect…
I'm on my iMac G3, and I want to set up my email to use Outlook Express. When it asks me what server I'm using for my email, I'm at a loss. It says that POP ser…
Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8, 2GB RAM and 80GB hard drive. I am pretty sure it barely used. Customer who recycled it said she never used it but bought it for her busin…
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but I finally got around to installing BeOS 5 Pro on my Power Computing 604/150 last night, so it's sitting happily on …
Seems like the original series of CRT iMacs turned Apple around when they came out. For some time the used machines were the cheapest G3 you could find making t…
I'm up visiting my dad in PA for the summer, and I needed parts for some computers I'm working on, so I went to the local recycling center. When I walked in I s…
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/290444424128 [] ]'> b: [] ]'> Getting a postage quote tomorrow.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PC66-256MB-SODIMM-Apple-G3-iMac-Lombard-Wallstreet-/400129682681 These seem cheap if they do in fact work on Wallstreets (they need low dens…
so a little back story...... In about September I fixed up a 800mhz Quicksilver for one of the teachers in my school and in return I got a G4 sawtooth, and now …
It's been a pretty good couple of days for Apple finds for me. On Friday, I rescued a small treasure trove of original Stylewriter printer inks that were headed…
here Every Q950 that I have clapped eyes on before this one has been two-toned. It appears that they were originally just one colour. I guess it helps for the t…
today, my grandmother's boss had me clear out his back room, for which i was given some new toys to tinker with! i only took some blurry pics of the model numbe…
My Ibook has poor video performance for watching live TV and streaming youtube. I wondered if I could replace the mac motherboard with and ITX-MINI pc board and…
Picked up a PB1400, 64MB with a 250MHz NuTech accelerator--equipment was in pretty good shape. It is running 9.1 right now and I am in the middle of reconfiguri…
Hi, I have searched and i cant find any information on flashing a pci video card for my B&W G3. I would like to put a fx5200 or any card that supports c…
Are there any free fan control utilities for the aluminum powerbooks? I've found one for the MBP, but nothing for the G4's except for two that you have to pay f…
Would the Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR internal module (A1115) that was used in the iMac (2006) work in an MDD FW800? From what I've read they work in the G5 Power Mac s…
Guess the conquest in this auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-G4-733MHz-CPU-HEATSINK-820-1314-A-MISC-LOT-/300433128952?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_…
I purchased this from a member of the Arstechnica boards for what I deem a very good deal. It is the 1.3Ghz model running Tiger and maxed at 1.5gig ram and a 40…
I'm hooked on high-end workstations, IIfx, Quadra, SGI, Sun, etc. and I love my 1st generation PowerMac G5. Because I'm not made of money, and I'm not an Intel …
Someone's clearing out tons of dual processor 1.33 GHz Xserve G4s on eBay for REALLY cheap: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&…
This isn't the first time i've torn down a newly acquired machine, but it is the first time i've documented the process. So for the first time i'll be giving a …
Wasn't sure whether to post this in the Peripherals or the G3/G4/G5 forum. I recently acquired a Power Mac G4 466Mhz (Digital Audio) computer, which I purchased…
I traded some stuff (netbook/Powerbook G3 wallstreet II) for a 1.5Ghz PowerBook G4. The guy I got it from on craigslist wanted $370, so I struck on a deal with …
Well, one of the bigger churches in my churches network has a small recording studio for spoken word stuff and they have dual 2GHz(early 2005) G5 sitting around…
Hey guys. I just found out that my coppy of 9.2.1 disk wont read. I must of used it to much. so i went in my stuff looking for my real 9 cd to make a coppy of, …
I just bought/ received a "new" 2400c battery from powerbookguy (in his eBay incarnation), thinking that I'd be best to have a spare (since where would you find…
I was reading about various cooling solutions in the fall, and found a page or blog which mentioned an actual MDD G4 liquid cooling kit from a company, the comp…
hey guys, After a long hideing, I have come back, for classic mac's and what not, I have moved on to windows 7. I have to say I love it. But last week on firday…
I have not actually gotten the machine yet, but one of my good friends from huntsville has a mac mini and I asked him if he would sell it to me I was thinking m…
hey- just got a used iBook G4 from the bay, only $99! 8-o only problem is, the trackpad's faulty... so i bought a new top case for $12.99!. unfortunately, it di…
I stumbled across an old blog post with some nice backgrounds for us retro-Mac types. Unfortunately the full-size originals seem to have disappeared. Maybe some…
Too rich for my blood, but read it and drool: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-PowerBook-1400C-Vintage-New-Sealed-G3-Ready_W0QQitemZ280461029188QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAppl…
Shouldn't the beige G3 be in with the PCI Powermacs since it's an Old World machine?
Hello all, I recently acquired a PowerBook 540c. So far, I'm very happy with it, blah blah and blah. Anyways, as I was snooping around the System Folder, I noti…
A while back I attempted to install Tiger on my 266 MHZ Beige G3. Today I received a Sonnet G4/500MHZ CPU I had bought off eBay. I installed it and tested it. I…
Hi, Today I picked up a WorkGroup Server 9650/350 - nigh on my idea of the "ultimate" Mac (just short of a Quad G5!). Super expandability with a super case to w…
I'd like to see if anyone else can test this theory... I installed Opera 10 on my 1GHz G4 iBook and enabled "Turbo Mode" which renders the pages on Opera's serv…
i am now the proud new owner of an imac g3 500mhz. yay! i got it for a bargain- 10 dollars at a yard sale! also, i just upgraded the memory to 512 megs from the…
I was wondering if anyone has any free software that they have used for the early versions of OS X (10.1 early). I have been looking for software because I want…
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From their twenty year stint in a New England barn, I procured one Mac SE and two Mac SE/30s. I was mostly interested in the SE/30s, as I had worked with one ba…
READ THIS ENTIRE POST If you have Mac OS X Installed and want to Install Mac OS 9 from within OS XIn the download folder (linked below), you will find a disk im…
Hello, I'm new here and was wondering if somebody could help me. I have a Performa 6360, and I was cleaning it since it had about 7 years worth of dust stuck in…
I posted this at the 68KMLA about the update to JavaScript for Classilla 9.2, which is already using the pure-C implementation of JavaScript (SpiderMonkey). How…
I borked the motherboard of my B&W G3 a while back, during a failed G4 upgrade? Anybody have an inexpensive one (pref rev. 2) available? Mike, I seem to rem…