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Additional Info: I was able to install 10.2 from a CD, and that works fine. It recognizes the 10.4 DVD as a bootable disk and I can select it in the Startup Disk control panel, but the computer still refuses to boot from it. The DVD drive had trouble mounting the 10.2 disk 2, and hung the...

So I snagged my dad's old G4 from a storage unit. It's an M8493 Quicksilver G4 that was originally 733Mhz/128/40GB and had been upgraded to 1GB of RAM and a 1.4GHz G4 from Sonnet. Had been sitting in cobwebs since 2010 or so. Nobody remembered the old password, so I replaced the old HDD with an...

@MinerAI - that's pretty close, yeah. Thanks! @Bunsen - Hmm, yeah, I have a 3D printer and a Shapeoko milling machine both. If I can find Platinum-ish sheet plastic... maybe at an art supply store or something. Thanks for the idea.  :)

So, I've been buying some old Mac-II era carcasses (gutted cases) on eBay and whatnot, intending to mod them into semi-modern cases. However, backplates generally need modification, and it's hard to make that work well. I would like to try just cutting out most of the rear and 3D printing a new...