Recent content by Rick Dangerous

Super cool; thanks for all the great pics and explanation!

Appreciate the input; thanks all!

@Crutch would that be an easy thing to do or not so much?

Okay thanks! Had to ask; i figured if anyone knew it would be here :)

So I have a CD card setup as a extra hard drive for my 3400c (running 9.0.4) Every time i start it up it ejects it. Is there anywhere in settings I can change that so it doesn't? Just want to reduce wear and tear and not have to mess with it so much. It's funny when i loaded an OS on there...

Still.....$700 for a Performa. Seems quite steep. If he wants to see anything close to that he'd need to take a chance and put it on eBay. I'd be surprised to see it go for that much there as it's not a rare or desirable model. Still....nice complete packaging to be sure. Someone give me a...

This is on my local CL: Macintosh Performa 631 CD & Monitor - computers - by owner -... (craigslist.org) I want it so badly, but not at this price! I'm really tempted to make him an offer though. What do you guys think is fair for a local pickup like this?

The best kind of find!

Great post, very informative thank you! I hate subscription services with a passionate so looks like I may have to she'll out for the 2019 home and student. Found it for $125 on Amazon which is $25 cheaper so that helps. Cheers'

What's the right MS Office for this machine. I don't think 2011 will run on Catalina which is a shame. Would like to get a disc copy if i can...

VLC works fine, I'm done trying to get the apple DVD player to work. What a headache!

I reset the PRAM, NVRAM, SMC chip, and checked if it was a corrupted PList file. None worked. The drives are good it's a bug somewhere. After resetting the SMC chip I get 5 second of audio from the disk before it cuts out. And yes it mounts on the desktop.

External Superdrive also shows black screen on stock DVD player when I pop a movie in. Very interesting... Can anyone recommend a good 3rd party DVD player program I could use to test further?

Hmm....the Superdrive will accept a DVD but then the viewer screen just stays black. Tried multiple DVDs. Great...

Got a nice clean 13" MBP (mid-2010) 2.4Ghz Dual core from Craigslist this weekend for $85. The things that made it appealing to me were how clean it is, it has 8GB ram, and a 500GB SSD (a nice start.) This era is also pretty cheap to upgrade/repair right now. My short list for this unit is...