Recent content by Byrd

Yeah, if the Mac has a rattle when picked up, it's probably a Maxell that's done its nastiest deed then corroded itself off the board :D. Also check side vents and ports which are often rusted/corroded out.

As long as you purchase some vanilla good quality PC133 RAM (such as with Hynix, Samsung chips) it'll down clock fine to PC66, PC100 speeds

I'm not nearby any vintage Macs, but if you hold down option on the greyed out monitor section section in the DOS Compatibility control panel, it will let you select other resolutions. However, I can't say it seems to do much the Mac will "fade out" but the CRT won't switch over to DOS. Maybe...

I'm tempted so say if it's working with consistent CPU temps, leave it but check there are no leaks. This involves taking out the LCS and checking for leaks around the blocks and bottom side of the CPU - the damage is very obvious when you see it. Another tell tale sign is leaking on the PSU...

I tend to shuffle files between my 6500/TAM using either USB (slow 1.1 speeds but fine for little things), SCSI (real SCSI HD or SD based external device - SCSI2SD 5.1), or pull the HD itself for big jobs (moving an MP3 library for example). The easiest would be your BlueSCSI; I'd pull the SD...

No, it’s not that simple - I’ve been soldering for years and BGA swaps for CPU and GPU, RAM are the point where I opt out. You will need significant upgrades in equipment for this to be successful. There are members on here that can possibly do the transplant if keen. You will need to change...

You can, Wegenerer Media was a store years back that did just that

Bonus time! It's amazing how we still find treasures like this when the pool of Macs is thinning out. My best surprise, years ago, was a PowerBook 540c sold by an eBay reseller shop front that was not far from my work. I went to pick the Mac up in person, got it for about $30 and the lady...

Probably not - Aluminium G4 PowerBooks, Snow G3/G4 iBooks tend to not fetch much, great Macs but not a goldmine.

That's not a great thing to find when delivered :( A working CPU will result in a chime, I'd inspect the CPU connector very slowly for any damage/pins dislodged. The CPUs cards are known to sag in tower Macs, and over a long time make poor connection (worse if dislodged due to shipping...

That's popped out too? A thin sheet of flexible plastic might to, JB welded on the other side. But if really damaged = find a junk Pismo for the parts.

Yeah looks like that stock HD is hosed, probably not worth keeping especially with bad blocks. Anything else in there will make the Pismo zip along.

Yep you just don't see later 700 - 900Mhz iBooks around, they were so bad a common "repair" was to clamp or shim the GPU to get it to just work again before they were probably all junked. The iBook 500, 600s were great units for OS 9 and the 500 could be overclocked to 6 x 100 nicely.