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Got this baby for free at the recycle center along with a very nice Extended Keyboard II (for which I need to get an ADB cable - I swear I already had one!) The case is rather battered (the bezel's coming apart,) but it boots and runs just fine. Already got 8.1 on it, and it runs nicely. It has...

So I'm putting together a Quadra 840AV basically out of parts (got a motherboard + RAM en route, need to find a housing for it.) But I'm trying to expand it a little, too; specifically, I plan on getting a NIC, since NuBus Ethernet cards go for about as much as AAUI-to-RJ45 adapters or less. But...

As it says, I've got a couple 68k Powerbooks (a 170 and a 180) which don't want to power on. The 180 I know worked when I got it, but evidently it reached its shelf life and now it doesn't; the 170 I'm not sure of, as I just got it from the recycle center, but it's otherwise in good shape. The...

I'm trying to strategize a setup for my slowly-increasing collection of MIDI gear, and one of the things I'd like is for it to be portable. To that end, I'd like to use my Pismo, since it's pretty rugged and has dual batteries. Mostly I can get by with just running MIDI in to MIDI out, since the...

Since I got my Pismo working again, I've wanted to start putting it to more use, especially in a travel context (thanks to the two battery bays - why don't more laptops have this option?) But I've discovered something aggravating: with OS 9.2.x installed, it won't come back from sleep mode. It...

I recently got my Pismo up and running again; the issue turned out to be a fried CPU card, and I got a replacement on the cheap. Unfortunately, the new card is a 400MHz G3, as opposed to the 500MHz I had in there before. That's a bit of a problem as I found 10.4 to be only just tolerable on the...

So I just pulled my 1GHz TiBook out of the closet for the first time in a while, only to find that it's now forgetting the date & time and leaving the L3 cache disabled on every boot. Sounds like a dead PRAM battery to me, so I'd like to replace it. Problem is, as far as I can tell...

Here's a bit of a puzzler. Somehow or other, Terminal on a Tiger install has gotten it into its head that it should be running ELinks every time a new terminal window is opened. I'm a bit baffled by this; I have no idea how it happened, and nothing seems to be obviously out of place. Nothing in...

As it says in the title, the PowerBook G3 I recently acquired suddenly choked and died in the middle of a reboot and won't boot. It's giving me four beeps, which is supposed to be a ROM problem, the solution to which seems to be logic board replacement, and only logic board replacement. I see...

Having just come into possession of a PowerBook G3 Pismo (500MHz,) I've been getting things all up and running and tweaked to my preferences as much as is possible. But while OS9 flies, OSX (10.4.11) is still a bit sluggish. Part of that, I know, is the RAM (512MB being kind of the practical...

Okay, I've just acquired a 2002 MDD Power Mac (1.25GHz DP) and gotten it up and running. It's quite a nice machine, but I've noticed that it's running a bit hot, even though the fans are working fine. Since the CPU is swappable, and since it's primarily an OS9 box and thus the dual-processor...

Okay, so I have a nice little 533MHz Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) that I've just got up and running with OS9. It's working pretty nicely, except that thanks to the piddly little 16MB ATI Rage 128 it came with, graphics-intensive tasks are just not so great on it. I do have, as part of my...

So I've just come into possession of a Mac SE/30 :b&w: Having a thing for the old compact Macs, and this being the best of the bunch, I'd like to try and get it all clean and beef it up a bit (ideally, I'd like to run Linux/m68k on it, just for fun.) However, I'm slightly confused by this...

So I've been looking at putting a new clock crystal in my IIsi to get the full 25MHz out of it. I notice on Marc Schrier's page that you can get it up to 27.5MHz with the appropriate crystal, but any higher causes problems with the floppy controller. My question is, is there any reason not to...

Well, I recently came into possession of a nice little Mac IIsi. It's in nice shape and runs fine, and some previous owner put a whole 16MB of RAM in it (plus the 1MB on the motherboard,) so I should be comfortably set for some 68k goodness :approve: ...or so I thought. I got System 7.5...

I have a Mac Classic II that I've been wanting to do some development on, and I've been trying to track down a good C compiler for System 7 Macs. It sounds like MPW is the recommended development environment, but the problem is that the version Apple has available for download requires a minimum...