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As compared with the impulse to suicide when the other half of a desirable property turns up shortly after one has forgone the earlier half because it was only half …? de

Before you worry overmuch about the third NuBus slot, why not fill the RAM slots with 16MB 80ns cards, and the cache slot with a DayStar 50MHz PowerCache card at minimum, or an 040 card by DayStar, MicroMac or Mobius, or a DayStar 601/100MHz? Drool. Price and cool usually go hand-in-hand. de

I am using a 17-in Apple Studio LCD with an Apple DVI to ADC adapter from an ATi Radeon PCI 7000/32MB (VGA, DVI-I, S-Video) card in a Beige G3 (Rev. C) MT with a Sonnet G4/800MHz/768MB upgrade and a 2-port (NEC chip) USB 1.1 card. Works well. The slowest redraw occurs as raster appears during...

Until but a minute-or-two ago I had read none of the preceding discussion but ~tl's original kindling. Temetka's post (notably, but not solely) came close to enunciating the aching centre of the matter: taste. The presence of a Lounge is not inherently out-of-place for this Army, but some of the...

Interestingly, that Platinum Plus (logo in line with the FDD slot, no incuse rectangle around the keyboard port or the logo) looks to be more yellowed than the 512K, of which there was no Platinum version. Oh! the ravages of ageing. I have a Platinum Plus and a 512Ke that scarcely differ in...

From what you have written above there has been a wide variety of matters for the PMU to think about. The constant litany in Apple's literature for techs and wannabes is, if a New World Mac declines to start up, let the smoke clear and then reset the PMU. That's only slightly more painful an...

Yes, given that you use the option to install OS 9 HDD drivers, and that you wish to use a (pre-OS X) OS that can 'see' files on a drive formatted in HFS+ rather than HFS. That means OS 9 or OS 8.1 and above. OS 8 to OS 9.1 will not run from within all versions of OS X in 'Classic Mode', but...

I can second what Gil and LCGuy have written. The plastic HDD sled used by Apple for IDE (as they were, so long ago) was/is different in detail from that for SCSI HDDs. It has a narrower 'tongue', and is easier to break if you rely simply on brute force for its withdrawal. Use the long-nose...

Most Macs could not handle 8MB 30-pin SIMMs. The path for most, with a few notable exceptions, was 256kB, 1MB, 4MB, 16MB. That is, fourfold increments. Some left off one end or other of that progression, but could use 2MB (Classic II) or 8MB (IIci). 8MB seemingly appealed little to Apple...

By no means complete, and more useful for older cards than for newer, is: http://www.chipmunk.nl/DRAM/ChipManufacturers.htm The last-but-one (2000) of the Apple RAM-guide series is...

In my experience of four 500MHz iMacs (two Indigo and two Snow, from 2001, 2002 and 2000 respectively), this is a common phenomenon with the soft-silicone-clad multicolour cables. The cladding flows readily enough, especially when warm, to allow random misfit between mains-cable socket and the...

The term 'flupping' was originally coined as a specific appellation for a specific diode-related fault in the PAB of early Macintosh models, a fault that may precipitate capacitor failure, perhaps, but is not the primal cause of the problem. Some of what you described above is much more like...

Two iMac G3/500MHz DVSE Snow machines are the only Macs (amongst 40+ left after a recent change of house) in this house that were bought new. Always-on for 6+ years, with their rear feet elevated on 18mm timber blocks to ensure adequate convection, they ended their active day-in day-out lives...

Have you used Asanté EtherTalk Installer v5.6.1? Ideallly the software is installed before OT 1.1.1/1.1.2 so that it cannot overwrite OT with older componets. It is by no means essential, but it could be advantageous in being more up-to-the-minute, to steal OT 1.3.1 from an OS 8.1 Install CD...

As Charlieman suggested, 80ns RAM is needed. If you have no video card in place, onboard video needs Bank A (two right-hand pairs) DRAM to work (so-called 'Vampire Video'). Your total DRAM, depending on your installed System, may then be perilously low. (The IIci can support up to OS 7.6.1 on...

The HBC (the Plus) must supply termination power to its own on-board termination (resistor packs). Older Macs were not designed also to supply termination power to an external daisy-chain. The termination arrangements at the other end of the daisy-chain have to be taken care of by the user, ie...

Not all 9.2.2s are equal ... but there is a note here about squeezing more into (or out of) 9.2.2. For example, an installation of OS X 10.2.8 accompanied by an installation of OS 9.2.2 with the magic additives quite happily 'sees' HDDs of 128GB+ under OS 9. de

The SCSI port of the Plus needed an HDD formatted for 1:3 interleave, ie a drive slowed down in data acquisition rate. Silverlining 5.8.x gives more control over such matters as block size, that interleave requirement and other matters, while still adhering to Apple's partition scheme (5, of...

Or perhaps to someone's deliberate fomenting of unrest? de

I just now downloaded NUpowtG3v103.hqx from within Safari to the desktop of OS 10.4.11. Without opening Classic, I opened Stuffit Expander 5.5 from the Dock and dragged the binhex file onto its window. Voilà! indeed. There was the NUpowr installer beside the binhex in my downloads folder...