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I'm kind of thinking some kind of A/V card, actually. I've been wanting to experiment with video capture and editing on old hardware.

I'm so glad too, I was ready to give up and part it out but now I have a powerful machine I can use for uh...uhhh...something. I have half my PCI slots filled and I dunno what to add when I already have a Rage 128 and a 10/100 Ethernet card.

Well I'll be god-damned...I swapped the SCSI CD-ROM for an ATA one from my old beige G3 that got junked running off the other ATA bus on my controller card, re-jumpered the hard drive as Master, and now it's being recognized! Two years of frustration and neglect finally comes to an end with a...

My multimeter is so cheap it doesn't even have a continuity mode, but when I probed for resistance on both sides of the scratch I got 0.00, so I guess it's only cosmetic. Which means I have to try something else to figure out why the machine won't boot to anything other than a gray screen most...

Test where though? Each side of the break?

I think I might have found a problem, if not THE problem...see that line there? That's a relatively deep scratch that goes through the contacts. I don't know what those contacts are for but having a big scratch through them can't be good.

I don't have any SCSI hard drives so I bought an ATA card from someone here so I could use normal PC hard drives.

I haven't used my contact cleaner actually, that's a good idea. Right now my problem is that the system isn't recognizing my ATA hard drive, I've tried both 7.6.1 and 8.1 (the OS I want to install) so far and neither one can see it. I wonder if maybe my ATA card needs some bit of software run to...

With one stick of RAM per bank and every card removed except video, it still bombs loading 7.6.1, even with extensions disabled. EDIT: Somehow by magic it just...worked! The only problem is that I need to reattach my PCI ATA card as otherwise I don't have a hard drive...

So I've had this Power Mac 9600 for at least two years now that has just never worked. It just will not boot off a disk. My 8.1 and 8.6 CDs don't do anything at all (and this is after I cleaned the current optical drive and upped the voltage a little) and while it attempts to boot off my 7.6.1...

For a ton, it seems. Or at least people are trying to sell them for a ton.

I paid around $70 shipped for a QS'02 with no hard drive so $70 for a MDD seems good to me.

I find the Lisa about as interesting as the Apple III, which is to say I don't find it interesting at all. I feel like my Macs give me essentially the same experience as the Lisa at a small fraction of the cost.

Their prices have also gone way up, I remember buying a Quicksilver G4 from them for like $45 and shipping and now they have a beat up Sawtooth listed for $100. I miss the old Maven, the one that helped me get into Macs by selling working machines for $30-50. I actually got my first Mac from...

After about 2 weeks of waiting my G3 Blue & White finally got the CPU upgrade it needed and deserved in the form of a 500MHz Sonnet G3 ZIF from Hong Kong. Now to find a video card upgrade...

If you want to keep it, keep it! I don't need an optical drive immediately, I have a Sony external DVD burner with FireWire now so I can use that.

Hope it works!

That would be perfect, if it hopefully works!

That would be cool if you could find one, I use my G5 to burn CDs and DVDs for my other older Macs so I'd like to get it back in order.

I'd honestly be happy with just a cheap VGA 1024x768 NuBus card myself. I don't have any CRTs that can do the wacky higher resolutions anyway.