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I have spent the afternoon backing up another box of floppies into image format, and in copying my System 6.0 disks, I found the "Your Apple Tour Of The Macintosh Plus" (PN 690-5209A) training disk to be corrupted and unable to be copied. :( I figured this wouldn't be a major issue as I could...

As the title suggests, my beige G3/300 Minitower running OS 8.6 will not display networked  computers in the Chooser, nor will it display anything in the Network Browser. I think I have mostly ruled out a hardware failure or incompatibility (including a bad cable) by the fact that it connects to...

Quick question pertaining to AGP Powermac towers... Was the ability to use a keyboard power key removed from Mac towers when they started shipping with Pro Keyboards? I went to power on my Sawtooth with the power key on my lime keyboard instead of reaching down to hit the power button, however...

Well... Ive decided to make some use of the Sawtooth by having a play around with it as a nixbox. From what I've gleaned, MintPPC would seem to be quite a nice option as far as a fast, functional and pretty looking distro to make the old bucket feel newish again, and get myself a little more...

So, after reading trag's contribution to a thread involving CPU card compatibility in edge-slot Powermacs, I note that there are actually fairly significant differences between the Tsunami and later Kansas boards in the 9600... In any case, I decided to pull out my spare 9600 board to identify...

Does anybody have any information or experience to share with regards the use of genuine Apple OEM 604 daughtercards from x500/x600 series machines (and others that are related) in clone PPC machines? Specifically, I have a PowerCenter 132 that I recently pulled out of the Stack™, which uses...

So given that I usually run my 9600/200MP with a Crescendo G3/400 card for daily driving because it is fast, cool-running and not terribly hungry, I have a dual-604 daughtercard sitting in the cupboard most of the time not doing much. I'm keeping it for if I ever decide to revert back to...

So I booted up the 9600 this evening and it froze before the icons appeared on the desktop, which I discovered  after I turned back around to open up Classilla and check something out. So I restarted it and this time it booted up but gave me a dialogue saying that localtalk bridge couldnt run...

I recall reading somewhere... fairly recently even, that there was a certain CPU upgrade available for the 9xxx/8xxx/7xxx series PowerMac's that had an apparant link to failures of the onboard  SCSI controllers on 9600 logic boards when installed, inasmuch as machines fitted with said specific...

So I just went to boot up my Classic and got the following sad mac error... 00000002 0000FFF7 The first boot produced a bong, then the sad mac appeared, 2nd attempted boot I got no bong and went straight to the sad mac with some video artefacts. 3rd attempt I got no bong, still got the code ...

I am posting this from my recently conquered and initially troublesome, but now operational 9600/200MP which I received as some of you might recall from a member a couple of hundred kilometers away along with a bunch of other choice goodies and a pair of II-series machines. As you may also...

As the title suggests, I am jonesing for some info regarding the use of modernish TFT displays on pre-PPC Macs, as I have a couple of VGA adaptors and limited space. I assume the onboard graphics controllers simply will not support large high resolution monitors or smaller monitors designed to...

So, under that cover panel on the Classic just above the power switch, there are what appear to be two unlabelled adjustable potentiometers or such on the analogue board... I've never known or particularly cared what they are for, but assumed they probably relate to display V- and H-position or...

So, I just decided to consolidate my various stuff and things into a single thread on another forum yesterday so figured I may as well do the same here. Some of the stuff here you will have already seen threads about, other stuff probably not. But yeh, I'll just add things to here as I procure...

Well, as of late I have noticed my SE Superdrive has developed a bit of a jittery display most noticable when it first powers on, and some ever so slight dimensional changes with changes to or from largeish areas of white. As the machine warms up the jitters diminish... and a tap or so on the...

So, my latest conquest has still not successfully run under it's own steam yet and I am beat as to why. It will chime, and will power up the monitor (I have tried both my old Phillips 107T5 that works on basically anything and my Graphite CRT Studio display with the same results) momentarily...

Welp, this weekend I am driving 500km round trip to Canberra to meet up with a fellow Aussie collector and 68k member to conquer myself a machine I've wanted for nearly 2 decades... a 9600/200MP. Also getting a couple of IIvx's and some other goodies to sweeten the deal further, but the main...

So, I just booted up my clapped out and flakey Dual 2.0 G5 which works sometimes when it feels like it, and it is for the moment, running without a glitch... I am actually posting this from it using shared-screen being that it has the studio display attached and the Dual-Core does not, and I...

OK, so I am currently in the process of throwing together a website to be a kind of central resource for unsupported and vintage Mac's, primarily the latter. It is going to, among other things, contain the old support site directories and files as something of another mirror, such that people...

So, what can learned people tell me about these machines, the //gs Limited Edition with Steve Wozniak's signature printed on the front bezel? I procured one nearly 15 years ago, followed by another pair of standard gs's. What made these units special if anything at all, as compared to the plain...