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I remember that those FW ports weren’t bootable… but not if the daughterboard itself was required. Will the B&W work fine without one installed?

Reminds me of when I replaced the internal HDD on one of these … must be 20 years ago at this point. I remember it being quite an endeavor just to pop it open to get down to the HDD… I can’t imagine fully stripping one down, especially with how brittle the plastic must be these days. No...

Status update: Finally ordered the MagSafe1 to 2 adapter and used it to power up the machine. It booted and ran fine, at least at first. I followed the instructions on the attached card for the seemingly replaced internal battery: to charge it until full and leave it charge for an additional 2...

Starting to feel like I’m on a hot streak lately… seems like when it rains, it pours. Found this at Goodwill today, a place that never has computers for me to find. It’s a mid 2010 iMac, with included wireless keyboard (not pictured). Started up to the question mark folder in store, and the...

Never really had such problems with Apple laptop charger bricks that I had bought new, though I’ve seen other people’s chargers get like that. Always tried not to wind my cords up too tightly and put a lot of pressure on either end. Maybe I was just… gentler with mine somehow? Really the only...

I don’t think I have any Type C power bricks beyond the kind used to charge a single phone, but my guess is they won’t be powerful enough to charge a laptop. Ideally, I’d need to buy both a beefier charging brick as well as the cable, and at that point I doubt it would turn out much cheaper...

Just picked up a 2013 MacBookAir over the weekend. It seems to have had its battery replaced recently, thus why the bottom case screws are missing. Besides that and the lack of a charger, the machine is in excellent shape for its age. Unfortunately, I don’t have a MagSafe 2 power adapter...

This guy is the first thing I think of when I hear the word MO, though I was today years old when I realized it’s actually M-O, short for “Microbe Obliterator.” The more you know, I guess. But seriously… Never owned or used a MO drive. I know NeXT machines used MO, but not much beyond that...

Glad they ended up going intact somewhere useful, though I can’t help but feel it’s just passing the same problem to someone else. If it was anywhere near me, I probably would have made a good 30 minute ride for them, though coming home with all 6 of them would more than likely get me into a...

Is it wrong to want a side panel as well so I can hang it on the wall like guys do with hubcaps in their garage? Don’t really have a place in mind to hang it, but… if I had extra panels laying around, that’s probably what I would do with one of them. Though getting one of these shipped to...

By my research, it seems that both the Single and DP 1.8 machines are mid 2003 models with PCI-X slots, and all the DP 2.0 machines are early 2005 models with PCI slots. G5s are HEAVY beasts in their complete state, so it seems ideal to keep them intact (or at least as intact as they are...

I figured it was something like that… just wasn’t too sure of the exact time frame. We had an external CD burner with our iMac DV around 2001… though we still had Zip100 disks and a couple USB drives that we kept using through the G4 iMac days. Were the 250 and 750 disks much more expensive...

Never dealt with anything but Zip100 drives before… is there that much of a difference between Zip750 internal drives compared to the Zip100? Are they really that different and can’t use the same front bezel that the Zip100 uses?

Was having issues attaching these photos to my last post yesterday… this is the SimCity CD-ROM I was talking about, from 1996.

For the Mac version, According to The Cutting Room Floor: Did find my SimCity CD-ROM, and it was later than I remembered… it’s got both Windows 3.1 and Mac versions on it, with a 1996 copyright on the back of the case, and 1995/1996 copyright dates on the actual CD. Looks like it’s version...

I have a later version on floppies (one disk for B&W, one disk for color) that ran fine back in the day on System 7.5, though I’d have to find it to check the exact version of the app on there. Going from memory, I believe the disks look very similar to the ones shown as SimCity Classic on The...

Connecting your machine right to the router via Ethernet usually works fine, at least in my experience. I‘be heard that there are some modern routers and switches that sometimes can’t properly detect and connect to older, slower Ethernet ports… not something I’ve ever experienced with my FW SE...

Can’t say I ever saw a G4 laptop get this treatment before. I remember seeing photos ages ago of an old clamshell iBook converted to a touchscreen device (I think for accessibility reasons) … and also remember the later ModBooks that you would send your 2008? MacBook to and the company would...

I always remember hearing that CF to IDE adapters were generally better as CF is pin compatible to IDE. SD to IDE needs a chip that has to translate, so higher overhead. I know there are a lot of other factors, but those are the general guidelines as I understand them. Also depends on the...