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UPDATE! Okay. I got Tiger installed using Target Disk Mode. The machine boots ... but no video. > :( I can hear the Tiger intro music so I know the machine is booting. The LCD lights up and is gray but there is no video at all. I noticed that while I was running it in Target Disk Mode...

Thanks for the info guys. I finally had some time to look at this machine again and I think the DVD drive is bad. But first ... This is what confused me. No blinking question mark, just a grey screen. As discussed I was worried that it was also a hard disk size problem. I power up the...

Awesome! Speaking of the software does anyone have any suggestions on apps? I figured something like FileMaker Pro would be one of the most commonly used but I would welcome other suggestions for others that people have experience with.

Hi all, I am helping a friend with his iMac G4 and have run into some trouble. It had the stock hard disk which was failing, so I removed it and replaced it with a 250 GB drive. Now that the machine is all re-assembled I can't get it to attempt to boot. I press the power button and get a...

Does anyone have experience with/recommendations for barcode scanners that work with Mac OS?

Well true. I was hoping there was some way I could use it like one of the LocalTalk star switches where every segment of the network could have the full throughput of the port. I realize that I really asked the wrong question. Instead of using the connections for LocalTalk boxes I was hoping...

Could those serial ports be all connected to PhoneNet or LocalTalk boxes? Or would that result in some kind of profound chaos? :)

Does an Apple Multiport Server NuBus card have a practical modern use? Could it be used to change a LocalTalk network into a star topology?

It sees the full 128MB?

Have you checked the capacitors?

I 'liberated' the control board but I can't spot anything obvious. xx( Anyone have a theory?

Nope. It was actually a third-hand machine. I completely agree. The G3 is a spectacular processor. The only reason why I don't always run to put G3 upgrades into systems is that I like to roughly match systems with their intended software. For example, if I wanted to run apps or games...

Hi all, I have an M4551 that I need help with. This monitor displays a series of vertical lines and 'garbage' when connected to VGA. I have disassembled this unit and attached another known good LCD panel and I got the same result so my assumption is that the main board has failed. After...

http://allpointsnorth.co.uk/2008/08/05/i-interviewed-steve-wozniak-once-seriously-i-did/ Steve Woz considers the 8500 one of his favorite Apple products. I met Woz some years ago and I asked him about his favorite Mac and he said exactly what he said in this interview. Actually at the time I...

Wow, thanks beachycove. You are correct. :) I assume then that the fastest G2 CPU* for an 8500 would be a 200 MHz 604e card from a 8600/200 (being the fastest Nitro-based PowerMac)? * Without much fuss.

Are the CPU cards for all these Macs universally interchangeable? Are there exceptions?

Thanks Bunsen. I had forgot all about that site. A lot of the links are dead now but it at least gives me directions to start looking. Wow, Charlieman ... that is some awesome info!

I have one of the Radius cards with four DSPs and according to the benchmarks (advertising, really) it came with I did some basic math. While the card will certainly speed up computation considerably on certain tasks it would still be slow by todays standards. As a matter of fact, if you took...

Understood. :b&w: Your writeup on the Orange card is very nice and it was where I first discovered that these cards existed. The ISA slot was something that was exciting to me at first but after reading your writeup I became much less interested in the card. It seemed like you had to...

[emphasis mine] Good point, this is exactly what I am going for! I would like to build a system that has (some of) the best pre-7 hardware and software. It seems that so many people run for System 7, even on 8MHz Macs, and in doing so exclude some of the early Mac apps that weren't fully...