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  1. pakra

    Pakra's journey

    Finally the last part. In January this year, there was an ad for five Powermacs (1xB&W, 2xDA, 2xMDD) about an hour away selling as parts. The seller did not want to bother revealing the contents of all of them due to being busy, but said they were all fully equipped and was working at some...
  2. pakra

    Pakra's journey

    Before I picked up the Powermac G3, I got my hands on a fantastic professional IBM CRT. However, I started feeling buyer's remorse as it was $100 and I could tell that it needed cap replacement as the image was completely red unless I put the red channel down to zero. Space was also a bigger...
  3. pakra

    Pakra's journey

    To start off with, I distinctly remember the moment I started this journey with, in June 2020. At the time, I used to live in a dorm that had these small storage rooms at the end of the hallways that always had a bunch of junk in them. When I had moved in a year earlier, I spotted an HP Pavilion...
  4. pakra

    Pakra's journey

    So, since I haven't posted anything in this forum yet, I figured that I'd give an introduction to what I do. I started my Apple collection and tinkering journey two years ago in 2020, and have spent a great deal of time fixing, learning, and pushing the most out of the gear that I own, teaching...
  5. pakra

    My iMac G3 was damaged during the shipment and I need new beige CRT mount

    I'm late to the topic (just registered here!) but I've always seen these described as the "inner crt bezel" - looking at the service manual seems to confirm this. I would recommend looking at a 3d printed replacement since finding other old bezels would be just as brittle. And besides, these...
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