Recent content by Brett B.

So out of curiosity what did you pay for it? QS's are some of my favorite Macs ever, probably my #2 favorite PowerMac. Power supplies were the main failure point. Otherwise they are pretty reliable... mine works really well, I have a 4 port SATA RAID card, a Radeon 9200, and a Giga Designs...

I like the tower version better simply because they have more options for drive expansion. There were a bunch of different drive bezels available back in the day and it was pretty cool to have a couple of CD/DVD drives, a tape drive, Zip, etc and have it look like it should be there.

What format are the sound files saved in? What type of computer are you trying to transfer them to?

The 630's VRAM is soldered onto the logic board, whereas others have a VRAM socket for upgrades (FYI in case you were not aware.) I have no experience with the Spicy-O-Clock but my 630 was overclocked to 40MHz and my LC475 to 33MHz using the resistor moving method. Both have full '040's, both...

Those speakers were terrible from the get go and it was real common for kids to poke holes in them... common enough that you could get a guard for it. If I was in the market for a QS, I'd be happy with one that has an intact speaker for appearance only. Rest of your plan sounds great, QS G4's...

Assuming there is no memory limitation (RAM in many cases is soooo cheap these days, no reason not to max out everything...) this was my go-to for operating systems: 68000/020/LC/LCII - System 6.0.8, 6.0.8L is my preference, 7.1 if I had a good reason Slow 030's - Usually 7.1 Faster 030's, slow...

In my experience there is not much aside from networking that justifies the System 7 performance hit on a 68000. StickyClick and a couple other extensions make System 6 pretty nice to use. When I had LC & LCII machines hanging around I would usually run 6.0.8L on those too. Makes them feel...

The 5260 was a great machine, especially in the 120MHz flavor. I had a bunch of those that were broken and donated their logic boards for upgrades but regardless they just worked well and didn't operate at a snail's pace. I think I sold off one of those a few years ago, it's one that I sort of...

Wild that a mouse found a way in... was there a port cover missing on the back or something? Too bad that it's not fixable, the 5x00 Power Macs are rarely seen in the wild these days. I think whether or not these deserve the Road Apple label really depends on whose perspective you're looking...

Very nice, I had a LW 12/640PS that would leave a couple thin horizontal lines on the first page or two of every print job and I wonder if it was a similar problem that caused it.

I quit messing with this shortly after page 1 of this thread so I'm still at 148MB on the Mac side and 32MB on the PC side. Wish there was a chance for more on the PC side but it appears that we've exhausted most or all of the ways to get there without finding one that works. I'm pretty happy...

I joined eBay back in 2002 and it was exactly like that. Buyer beware. I seem to remember that it worked just fine... at some point it became more of a marketplace for new items and that's when they really started adding buyer protections - for better or worse. There's no excuse to...

eBay should be "buyer beware" as far as I'm concerned. I guess if I was the typical person off the street who knows nothing about old computers, and ran across a vintage item that seems to be worth good money, I would not feel bad listing it for what it appears to be rather than really digging...

I personally do not feel that you are fighting an Apple-branded HD issue. I have had OS 8.1 on mine for many years and PC Setup and the PC side in general works perfectly, and I think I just have some random small IDE drive in the machine (IIRC just a 2 or 4 or 10GB one, I will have to check.)...

Really cool, I am surprised nobody has figured this out already. Lack of onboard USB has always been a frustration, if you wanted better video, 10/100 Ethernet and faster SCSI you had to give up USB... or keep USB and give up 10/100 ethernet... or a SATA card and give up something else. Always...