Recent content by wood_e

Rummaging through the server room at my job I found a Macintosh portable, and the accompanying case for it. Cosmetically this thing is nearly mint. I let it sit on a shelf in my office for some time but yesterday I decided to try and fire it up. I plugged in the AC adaptor, threw out the old...

Ding! Wrong bus! Now getting 60MB/s Thanks johnklos!

Ahh yes I might have it on the wrong bus! I'll check that out - thanks!

I suppose I should update this thread. I finally got around to making my MDD a storage server & DLNA streamer for my PS3. I found that newegg has kingwin IDE to SATA adapters that had good reviews. I picked up two adapters, and two 500GB SATA hard drives for under $100. The hard drives...

any info on which cards can be flashed?

I just picked up a decent Dual 867 MDD G4 at goodwill for $75. I figured I can make this into a decent file server. I actually have a copy of Leopard server I might throw on it, but it has leopard client on it right now. Anyway - I'm thinking of turning this into a file server & media...

Is there any way to fix a dim display on my 1710? I'd love to use it with one of my DTV->VGA boxes. Full brightness isn't very bright...

nevermind - something poped in the PSU - must be a fuse....

I <3 my 16/600 It's always on and prints from any computer on my network... Toner is cheap too!

It powers on and beeps... YAY!

pics!! Motherboard: RAM Upgrade card: Found this inside too... no idea... PSU... Enclosed in... (WTF?!?) Empty case:

I found out last night it is a 256k model. I will investigate further next week :-)

Thanks for the comments. If I ever get desperate for some cash it might go on ebay... I'm planning on taking it apart, cleaning it and then snapping a few pictures next week. This case is a behemoth!

Got an apple III from ISU's surplus for $15 No idea if it works Kind of dirty Anyone knows anything about these? Any interesting things i can do with it? I have no software for it.

Not sure what all to do with it... maybe I'll put it in my G3 MT