Recent content by TheNeil

I think he's being nice to me in the hope of a Christmas tip (that tip being "Don't jump up and down on my parcels for the other 11 months of the year and you might actually get a tip")

For absolutely no cash whatsoever, someone I helped with their iMac mailed me a shrinkwrapped boxed copy of Apple PC-Exchange As if that wasn't enough, the postman didn't jump up and down on it OK it might be worthless but given that I didn't even have to pay the postage I'm a happy chap :D

Yep - held the reset button in for 30 seconds with power applied, power not applied, battery in, battery out etc. but nadda, zip, nowt, nothing...just the ever glowing green light :'(

Managed to get a replacement power board for my 2400 (thanks to a nameless soul on here who pointed me in the right direction ;) ) All fitted, power applied and...still GLOD :'( This kind of makes me think that it must be something else (well, durr), but anybody got ideas what?

Really nice machine although I do hate you for getting yours for free and me having to pay over £500 for mine ;) Worth upgrading the memory though if it is 512Mb. Mine shipped with 512Mb and was 'OK' - upped it to 1Gb recently and it now flies with 10.4

I went through the same thing with my 333MHz Lombard. Hooked up a DVD drive, tried to get it to play DVD as a movie and...no dice. Did have some success using VLC under OS X but a frame rate of about 5fps was hardly great and it had a nasty habit of crashing. To get it to play DVD movies you...

Mmmm, Laserdisc ;)

Ok managed to fire the little beasts up last night. The 160 boots but the screen is screwed - it starts off OK and then either goes white (to the point of not being able to see anything) or decides to go totally yellow. Could just be a cabling issue, could be something nastier but a complete...

Once I get a couple of spare hours, me and Mr Screwdriver will see what's what, work out where the damage is and what can be done. I don't really want to create a Franken-Mac if I can avoid it but as I can't remember what state my current 150 and 160 are in, it could be that I end up merging the...

Got an email about a month ago from some random stranger wanting help with their PB160. Tried helping, sorted out a boot disk etc. but looked like the HD had just given up. The woman then said thanks and said that she'd just trash it - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Anyway, long story short, I...

The price was right so I couldn't resist :D I also like the Mac connection (although the first, and only, computer at my school was a Beeb - No Macs in sight :'( )(then again, this before the Mac was released so maybe that would explain why...) so I'll say that that justifies me posting...

I now consider myself soundly whipped and my wallet a little bit lighter

OK so it's not exactly a Mac (well it's in no way a Mac in any sense and has no connection with Macs, Apples, Cupertino or Lord Jobs) but picked up a cardboard box last night through Freecycle. So, for zero cash, I scored... BBC Micro Model B Manuals 5.25" disk drive (with all cables to hook...

Yes (and that's not just because you asked for a 'yes') - they'll need formatting but'll work fine

I managed to find an internal SCSI CD-RW drive and my Quadra 840 was more than happy to take it. Then as Dana says, Toast is your friend...