Recent content by M235i

I've been working with Apple's forgotten workhorse, the XServe G4. It's an orginal dual 1.0GHz with FW 400 and tray load drive.  However, I ran into the issue of the Ethernet port it giving up after about 20 minutes of running under any circumstances.  I was able to secure an XServe G4 board...

Really cool rediscovery! I always like buying something with the original documentation, especially one that documents the process of the purchase. It was like that for me when I got my iBook G3 Clamshell. It had all of the original documents, from the purchase receipt, the memory expansion done...

Well, I was never able to find what went wrong in the power supply. All of the multi-meter tests showed that it was working properly, so something had to had gone wrong within the voltage regulator board or there is a capacitor that I missed. I traded the machine for a Performa 600 but I still...

Not well to be honest. Infact, completely dead. The 5300 turned out to have a bad screen and the screen cable was too short for it to be mounted. So out to the parts bin it went. Anybody need a 5300ce motherboard or HDD? 

Lol I thought I was one of the few 8 track listeners around here. I wish it was a recorder, but as you said trying to acquire anything 8 track (working or otherwise) is becoming difficult, I mean it took a year to find a player that would hook up to my system that didn't cost $60 and needed...

Backlight burnout is somewhat uncommon for the C2D iMacs, it is just the CCFL backlight. They are only about 1/3 as bright as the new LED one's they put in the iMac today. Once you give it a few minutes to warm up though it should be comfortable to view at full brightness. I do not know too much...

Shoot, I still use my 2.16GHz 20" as my daily machine in my bedroom, hooked up my hi-fi system (record, cassette, 8 track and graphic equalizer) for mp3/m4a library, cd/dvd, and mainly YouTube video playback. Never have had an issue using Chrome 45 and 2GB RAM. Runs 10.6 (because Front Row) and...

@dcr Actually some progress has been made, but it is not in the direction that I thought I was going to take it. I am currently working on prototyping with, of all things, a briefcase. Since both the 150 and the 5300ce have irreplaceable plastics, and we found out that the manufacturing process...

UPDATE: After disassembling the PSU (which had tested faulty), it looks to be a transformer or a fuse on the voltage regulator board in the PSU. The model is seen as a Wan Nien 03c30-00011. Google has come out completely dry, and there is no way to determine what the transformer specs may have...

Interesting, I still see some occasionally on eBay, you just need to be on the lookout. I still have my casings, probably should get them out and start making 3d prints of them. I may also still have some circuitry, but I would try if you could find the schematics, I think there are some lurking...

Thanks for the advice, I never thought about that. I will try to report back on what that gets me when I get the chance.  PS: Love the car too, I have been using this username since 2011 when the 1 series was still a thing in the US, I never thought the 2 series would be a real BMW lol. 

I recently bought a Power Mac G4 Gigabit (450DP, 128MB) at a thrift shop. It was working when I tested it at the store, and it powered on and attempted to boot it. When I got home, I hooked it to my ADC Studio Display it powered on fine, but had a kernel panic before it could fully boot to the...

Looks like this may have some more interest than I thought! I could certainly see what fabrications I could do to get some of these basic shapes molded. I was working with my PowerBook 150 last night, and to say the least, the plastics made sure that that was the last time the machine would ever...

What about fabrication of just the hinge mounts? We should be able to just fuse together the rest of the frame. 

Thanks! As a sophomore in HS right now, I could only wish I was in an era where computers were moving at such a rate, and the colors so beautiful. All we have now are the standard black office Dells. They're great, don't get me wrong, but there just isn't anymore passion in them like they used...