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Hi, I use a 20" G4 iMac and 12" G4 PowerBook both running Tiger's last update that you mention, 10.4.11, and running Office 2004 for Mac's Word, as well as Excel and PowerPoint. I don't think there is a specific Mac-version of "Office 2003" as you mention, I don't ever remember seeing one...

SneakerNet, with a pass-thru a Mac that handles floppies or Zips and USB thumbdrives, - I use my Pismo, less high tech than a network, but at least I get to run the machines for another good reason. I'll PM you about your avatar, but you can keep your $1...

This is great to know, thanks beachycove! I've been waiting and wondering what will eventually happen with the still-original backup battery in my purchased new Pismo. I still use it in regular practice, primarily to update a website that was made with GoLive 5 under OS 9.1, and since it ain't...

Hello z, Thanks for this, I can't say I'm technically experienced enough to have even imagined that if the drive may be on its way out that it would still write in some formats but not others, - seems unusual but I'll take it. Conversely, what does "tweak the laser" mean, how would you...

Hey thanks, Christopher. Using the OS' built-in burning feature was indeed my first suggestion in order to try to distinguish the issue between hardware and software, - and will be the missus' next step. They haven't run Disk Utility in over a month, (the following step...) and the problem just...

Great finds, congrats! Lucky you! The PB 180c has got to be the most recognizable PowerBook ever, - the tiny 8.4" screen, even powered down, is so glaringly obvious even from across the room, there's almost more bezel than screen! Color active matrix screens were so deadly expensive in the early...

Greetings, Wondering if anyone has experienced this, something similar, or any thoughts on the cause or a solution. At my wife's office, on an iMac G4, using Toast Titanium, the optical superdrive still writes audio and other format discs properly, but just recently began having consistent...

Congratulations, a great deal! How's the color, any shift toward amber around the edges? I picked one up several years ago to upgrade the 15" version I started my parent's out with on their G4 Cube in '01, but it ended up having all sorts of problems including that and simply dropping out to...

Excellent! You are the brave and skilled adventurer!

Hey beachycove, more good news and a little surprising too I guess, - at least I wouldn't have expected all these things in the course of a week. Your positing that regular use seemed to cure your 2400c ailments has applied to this 550c in several ways. After days and days of gentle daily use...

I wonder how many on this forum actually ever had one? I know that I felt it was the best decision at the time, coming out of The Dark Times right before the second coming of Mr. Jobs, when Apple's offerings in my price range were just not as powerful, and my trusty PowerBook 170 just could not...

Hey Man, thanks for that! That's encouraging! We'll see! I'm going to get my head wrapped around Macs circa 1994-96 (an era throughout which I simply used my PB170 for y-e-a-r-s... having skipped OS 7.5 in daily use and gone from the 7.1 PB170 right to 7.6 on a PowerComputing desktop in 1997.)...

Well, today the 550c started up just fine as it did yesterday. Unfortunately, the random fade out (and restore) of the screen backlight is still with it. No rhyme or reason to it. I rebuilt the desktop and then ran Norton Disk Utilities 3.5 from an original boot floppy (still good after all...

Success! :) :) :) This thing is sitting here with a clean install of OS 7.5 just purring away! Lost the RAMDoubler app in the process, might have that somewhere amidst my vintage software, but there's now only 70.5MB on the HD with 688MB free space. What a surprise! As they say, 98% of the...

With my neck in a brace from the whiplash I got when I opened the mailbox earlier this afternoon to discover the replacement AC adapter I'd bought on eBay on Saturday had arrived(!), I am sitting here running a standard U.S. English installation of OS 7.5 on this 550c from the 12-disk set (dated...

Hi JB, congrats on your score and great about the loose RAM solution. Those are handsome machines. I concur about the optical drives in the slot-loading era, - I suspect it's about heat in those fanless convection-cooled models. Another chapter in the Jobs-ian sacrifice-for-aesthetics mantra. We...

Well, having beaten up freudling's The Elusive PowerBook 550c topic more than I had planned to, (apologies there) I just bit the bullet and purchased a tested known-working M1893 AC Power Adapter on eBay. We'll see what happens... if it turns out to be the "magic" bullet, I may or may not decide...

Congratulations on this "score", Duos seem to be fairly hard to come by, especially working (!) complete systems with the Dock as well, and were one of the greatest realized concepts for business and the workplace ever, especially considering when they came out. I wanted one immediately and it...

Postscript: The only Macs I've ever given away were a IIsi with 13" RGB monitor (no loss there, those IIsi's were hobbled by Apple almost as badly as Color Classics) and a PowerComputing Pro 240 desktop with a 17" Color Pivot Monitor (which might have been great on eBay, all the original boxes...

If this was still functional for me, assuming the AC adapter, that has apparently given up the ghost since I've had it, is the culprit, I probably wouldn't have ever listed it in the first place. Or at the very least, doubled the price, as you surmise. Did you ever see the clear-plastic-cased...