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Just wanted to share that I followed the mica powder advice from this thread to treat the sticky rubber on a MP 2000 I bought. It seems to have worked great. I used black powder so it may be a little darker than it originally was.

Good to know, thanks. I want a Quadra for the collection anyway, so this gives me another reason to justify the cost!

Does anyone know if System 7.1.2 on a Power Mac supports 16 colors and 8-bit sound? I have a few games I can't play because I need to get down to those specs, and my machines only go down to 7.5. Trying to find out if I can run them on a NuBus Power Mac, or if I need to get a 68k machine (which...

Thanks, I've now corrected this in the post (y)

Thank you! I'll add this note in the post. I'd like to credit you by forum name in the blog post, but let me know if you'd prefer for me not to. (Same for if anyone else has suggestions in the thread.)

I played Marathon over LAN back in the day, but I was having trouble getting it working this year: the machines could not see each other. The fix was simple: I had to use the AppleTalk control panel to configure AppleTalk to run over Ethernet. Once I did that, the machines could see one...

"If you come to me you can have them free" — what city are you in? I apologize if I missed somewhere I can see that. Thank you.

(EDITED: sorry, duplicate post from phone, please ignore)

Got it. I appreciate your help!

It is not a situation where I need to use a paperclip. It's a situation where I cannot press the button on the B&W bezel; instead, I have to manually lower the B&W bezel to press the button on the front of the CD-ROM drive itself. The button on the CD-ROM drive works.

Since I don't have a lot of hardware experience, I was hesitant to open it up to clean the lens at first. But now that I have another drive, you're right: it would be good to eventually clean this one to get it working 👍 (New drive has RW as well, so there's a tradeoff back-and-forth between...

I got lucky and saw an internal IDE CD-ROM drive at the first thrift shop I visited, and it worked great to boot CDs. The B&W eject button on the faceplate doesn't work with it because the drive's eject button is on the right instead of in the center, but that's a small price to pay for booting...

Thank you! After your suggestion I tried burning two different images at the slowest supported speed, and no luck, so I will look into your other suggestions next. I appreciate it.

I just bought a Power Mac G3 B&W and am hoping to run Mac OS X Server 1.2 (Rhapsody 5.6) on it. I had original install media back in the day but sadly don't have it anymore. I've burned a copy of the installer disc, but sadly the machine's CD-ROM drive does not appear to recognize any burned...

It just clicked with me that I need to recap my TAM, and I’d love input on how urgent it is. A post in this thread suggested the idea of checking the caps for evidence of leaking. I’m no hardware expert and I don’t really know what I’m looking for, but I don’t see anything that looks like...

Thanks, yup, I replaced the PRAM battery to be sure! No visible rust, dust, or corrosion so that is good news! Thank you! The fans are somewhat dusty, but a first pass with compressed air helped. I will see if I can do a second pass. I'd like to replace them with silent fans at some point too.

Great, it's encouraging to know there are no big hidden damages to worry about at this point. I am east of Atlanta outside the perimeter in Conyers, how about you?

I just bought a beautiful 1.25 gHz MDD G4 tower, and it's running great. The seller found it in the attic of a house they own, so they aren't sure of its history. I expect the attic was probably not climate-controlled, and this is in Georgia so it gets fairly hot and humid. Despite the fact...

(I apologize if I've missed an obvious place to find the answer to this.) Where's a good place to buy RAM for old Macs? It seems like the SDR 168-pin SDRAM in my Twentieth Anniversary Mac has notch positions that don't correspond to most of the RAM I can find for sale online. Wikipedia says: >...