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I will be retiring soon, and it was decided that this would be a good time for me to clean out our storage areas.  The goal was to catalog, recycle, sell or discard old software and hardware that no longer has any usefulness to the business.  Some of this stuff has been with the company longer...

I have a couple of old 7100 and 7200 units gathering dust.  I've gotten permission to evaluate them for disposal, and I was wondering if it is worth my time to pull anything besides the SCSI drives out of them.  I did some research and saw that these are not the most desirable machines due to...

I am being asked to clean out, dispose of, or otherwise downsize our stash of stuff at my workplace.  I have some odd cables I've come across that I know I have never used, and a USB cable I can't figure out.  What would you have used an ADB to mini din-8 cable to do?  One USB cable has me...

I have two desktop beige G3s. The cases are breaking down, and every time I open them, something breaks off.  One has a motherboard that appears to be non-functional, I can't get it do anything, although the power supply, the RAM, PCI cards, and everything I had in there appears to be good.  I...

Does anyone have anything to say about BMOW's Floppy Emu?  Good experiences, bad experiences?  It looks like it could make working on my II series Macs a heck of a lot easier, especially the IIsi's.  I don't have any external hard drives for these old Macs, and the ease of being able to flop the...

How do you diagnose NUBUS slot problems on a IIci?  Are they repairable? Here is the situation:  IIci, hard drive was replaced with a SCSI2SD.  We have a special card in the NUBUS slot which communicates with a motion control board which is attached externally.  From everything I can see, the...

This G4 is really taxing my patience.  I've posted another thread about the dying hard drive which was replaced.  It's running OS 8.6 on a new hard drive, and seems to be just fine, except when its backup is completed at night, and the backup script tries to shut it down. To elaborate a little...

G4 Yikes, OS 8.6 has been chugging along for a several years. It sat in storage for several years before that.   Last week, we started getting disk error messages "item could not be saved due to a disk error" or "item could not be moved due to a disk error."  Yet the items would be saved, or...

This is the inside of a Mac IIci.  This chip is corroded.  I don't know what this chip is, or what it does.  Can someone enlighten me?

Hey All: Is this worth fixing?  The socket has broken loose from its solder.  It did work until that happened.

I had a G3 develop some issues that required a clean install of the operating system (8.6).  The problem is, my old copy of Microsoft Office98 wants to run first launch, and I have no idea where that 22 year old CD got to.  I still have the previous system folder, but I have no idea where the...

Still working on that Sawtooth.  I downloaded the disk image for the install disk from Macintosh Garden, and it installed without any trouble.  I installed the drawing program we need to use as well, no apparent problems.  I also installed the printer description for our HP Color Laserjet 5550...

I bought a new "white label" IDE/PATA drive to add to a Sawtooth G4 I am attempting to beef up.  Can someone relieve me from my woeful ignorance as to what the labels mean on this thing?  16 heads?  32GB clip?  I tried the cable select setting for both the "16 heads" diagram and the "32GB Clip"...

Beige g3 running OS 8.6 I did a lot of searching for a similar issue both here and through Google, but didn't turn up any useful information.  I didn't see an OS forum. Since I am using a beige G3, this is where I decided to ask the question.  Any help is greatly appreciated. The G3 has been...

Is it even possible to network a G5 and a IIsi?  I am looking at a G5 to replace an old G3 in which I have not been able to successfully increase the storage capacity.  I've tried multiple things like Pata to Sata adapters, SCSI cards, etc. etc.  I have not been able to get it to perform...

I am looking at some B&W G3s as possible replacements for some of our beige G3 units.  Everything I have been finding is updated to OS 9.2 and/or OS X.  I have a vague memory of updating a machine (don't remember which series) to OS 9 and getting a warning message that if I did so, firmware...

I had roaring success putting SCSI2SD board into a couple of Mac IIsi's.  I thought a G3 would be even easier, and to an extent, it was.  I bought a 512GB SD card, configured it into 2 partitions, 1 @ 2 GB,  1 @ 500 GB, and installed it.  Started up the G3, there were my two new drives.  I...

Has anyone ever had this problem?  I just dragged an old G3 out to try to get it running off of a SSD, and I am getting no video from the built-in video or the ATI video card.  Trag suggested I zap the PRAM (which i should have thought of myself).  When I restart with all the correct keys held...

I have several beige towers and beige desktops that have to work in a dirty, sometimes quite warm environment.  Are there Solid State drives available for these vintage Macs?  I would really like to replace the vintage hard drives with something that has no moving parts.

Please help.  I have some failing hard drives on my Mac IIsi's we are using to run our CNC machinery.  We found SCSI2SD adapter cards, and if I can get them to work, it will save us tens of thousands of dollars.   I have read Simon Carr's "idiots guide" on this forum, and it did help some, but...