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I decided to replace the thermal compound on a few of my PowerMacs lately. I noticed on one of them in particular (Digital Audio G4, DP/533) the heatsink is not…
Was bored at work, so I decided to browse on ebay to kill time. Ended up snagging these two: an Indigo iBook, and a Mint-in-box Apple TV/Video system! Pretty st…
I saw this on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/200874134116 mainly because I am always on the lookout for the 500 series PB's. I noticed it said PowerBook 520 but …
Picked up a couple of dual 1.33ghz G4 xserves today. One had a radeon graphics card. unfortunately the other had one of those Sonnet Sonata video cards. Now I h…
I was going through my part bin, and at the bottom, I found the Cube logic board and G4 card. I have no idea if they work, and remember the Cube was drowned in …
One of my Powermac G4 was supplied to me with a Giga design 1 Ghz accelerator, anybody here has drivers for that card ?
Snagged this one off craigslist today for $20, real nice shape! I've never had a 7300 (or any other 604 based box, other than a WGS 9650, for that matter) so I'…
Has anyone seen this yet? http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-LISA-1-ONE-KIND-VERY-RARE-STILL-WORKS-/290508066374?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a3a14e46 Very i…
Anyone looking for a IIfx Rom Simm, Mike Day has one for sale at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/lemswap/WOe8NtwkFaI
Dad's job was cleaning out the last of their Macs. I previously picked up a 950 from them, but this time I got two 8500/120s and two G3/266 beige towers. One of…
Just wanted to share with you all my most recent new-to-me Mac My girlfriend has an aunt that is extremely obsessive about taking care of her things. Her house …
Last week i found an old PC lying off the road...managed to remove drives, Graphic Card and Ram. Sticks were 256 Mo each (3 of them) PC 133. Was playing with on…
Macintosh Classic II with 10 Mb and 40mb hd Power Macintosh 7600/132 with 64mb and 1.1 hd Apple LaserWriter NTR Apple 14" rgb monitor All work! The only thing l…
What are some of the essential pieces of Software you'd be using in Tiger. I have Tiger installed on a G4 PPC but I have no software. I want to play with it but…
So the stock Toshiba from my G4 iBook took a dump on me. It will try to boot, then go black and turn off over and over again. Did verbose mode, and it was throw…
I have no experience with newer Macs whatsoever. I have a Rev A iMac, but believe it's not enough to play modern, games that where available for the Mac OS 9. S…
Hello. I picked up a 533Mhz Digital Audio for a few £'s recently with the intention of using it as a dedicated machine for my amateur radio station for digital …
Gents, would this do the trick? http://www.ebay.de/itm/4MB-SGRAM-Video-SODIMM-Memory-Upgrade-/350213344883 He lists all sorts of iMacs, but not the 233 MHz Mode…
Hello. I have an imac g3 with the following info: cpu: Powerpc G3 at 500mhz ram: 1 gb video card: ATI Rage with 16mb ram hard drive: 40 gb Can i do sth to make …
I want to buy a keyboard for my Imac G3 Indigo in the indirect future. What do you suggest? I would also like to ask what was the keyboard that came with this c…
Went to my local recycling/resale joint and saw this over in a corner with no price sticker. So I asked the tech guy if it works and how much. "Yeah it works bu…
I know I already have two 17-inch iMac G4s (both 1.25GHz, USB 2.0). About two weeks ago, I saw the 20-inch available on eBay. Surprisingly, no one (else) was bi…
I am just going to talk about hardware, no software. Here is what I got, and how much it cost. Some of the guys on here said, don't waste your money and don't w…
For the first time ever, I went to an electronic swap meet. There were some people selling ham radios, computers, parts etc. I tried to nab up what I could. Too…
More of a hardware "repair" than a hack. I was getting tired of how my cheap Philips CD-Rs just wouldn't work in my PowerBook G4 no matter what speed I burned t…
So today I went to Fry's and picked up a couple neat things at good prices, all in a way having to do with my Macs. Samsung 120GB 840 Series SSD (Non-Pro model)…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/140914495299?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 Well its not a 6100 its a preforma, but yeah the same as The Pow…
Nice freebie haul today, should keep me busy for a while. There's nothing specific known about these machines yet, so I'll cut right to the chase. Today I picke…
Hey there guys, first post on the forums. Thanks for already being such a help for me recapping my classic and IIci recently got into the classic mac world and …
...I'd love to play it on my Cube so I can take a picture of it for my site. Thanks
Given: A G3 Lombard with two batteries. I also have a stand alone battery charger. The machine recognizes the presence of battery #1. It runs on it and charges …
As the title above states, I was wondering if 15" iMac G4 LCDs use the same internal display connector as the 17" LCDs, and if they are compatible with both 15"…
So I decided to try and install Leopard on the eMac again, this time with better specs. Anyway, I remember that when I was having problems with it, I put the co…
Well, it finally came yesterday! My new-to-me 2003 iMac G4. I swear, the damn thing looks brand new. It is the 17" model, which looks nice next my eMac. The key…
My daughter's 15" 1.67mhz G4 has a newish battery that reports itself as having done 65,000 cycles. Yup. For obvious reasons, the charging is not going so well.…
Saw this big haul on CL today: http://charlotte.craigslist.org/sys/3445496258.html NICE example of a 512K. I know storage is at a premium at my place but I'm co…
A friend's company was trashing some older mac's (an advertising agency) and offered some for me to rescue, of cos, i could not turn them down, free and all.. H…
What would I need to look for to get wireless running on the G4 733MHz Digital Audio? There appears to be a connector on the motherboard, and an aerial wire con…
As I understand it: Regular Nubus operates at 10mhz; Nubus 90 operates at double the speed, 20mhz. The full Nubus 90 implementation allows both for 20mhz commun…
Air-Cooled, Forced Induction. Twin Centrifugal Blowers. 1.8 Single Performance. Quite a decent amount of boost. The inside of an iMac G5 certainly is reminiscen…
I am having a problem with my 2005 Apple Cinema Display (a1081, 20"). When I plug it in and turn it on, all I get is a dark screen. There is also no indicator l…
Well, my 17" Powerbook G4 battery doesn't seem to be working right. Sometimes, when I first boot up the machine after just being taken off of the charger, my la…
Someone local is selling a batch of 14 G4 & G5 xserves for $350. That's $25 each. I'd happily pay $25 each for a couple but what would I do with 14? I k…
. . . now I just need the B&W G3. :-/ But I'm a very patient collector! :beige: http://www.ebay.com/itm/190680549551 Peripherals and matching, doo-dads …
Do any of you have a source at a decent price, for the 3.6V 1/2 AA PRAM batteries? I need at least four but I can't ever justify 22 bucks for them. Leaving the …
Wow, this week has been pretty good so far, conquest-wise. Last night I picked up a few gems from a collector who is moving interstate. Highlights were: A worki…
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So I updated my Quadra from 7.1 to 7.5. The Ethernet adapter (the Apple Ethernet Twisted Pair Transceiver) was recognized by the system. Updated to 7.5.3, it st…
Got myself a 17" 800 MHz iMac G4, the last one that can boot OS 9, and managed to munge up the OS 9 install that was on there. It was obviously a "Classic-only"…