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Found one at a local thrift store with the power supply and assembly manual for $10. Took me a while to figure out how to open it. EDIT: Would be nice to get a Mac Mini to go along with it. Hint, Hint. :)

Mine is the education version too. I'm not planning to use it for profit so I'm using it for education. :)

I stopped by the thrift store after work and surprisingly found some Mac software. Roxio Toast 5 Titanium boxed for $4.99. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 boxed for $14.99.

Mine has two slots. Currently one has a 256MB stick, and the other has a 128MB. It has a 300mhz processor board. Let me know if you need pictures of the part.

Could be. It's not in the greatest shape and appears to have had a rough life. Strangely enough the MacOS 9 install disc worked. I do have a USB PC Card and an external CD-RW drive I can try.

So far so good. Everything appears to work except the DVD-ROM drive does not like some CDs. I tried to put the original pressed disc for Power Pete in to install and an icon never appeared on the desktop for the disk. Any ideas? Does it need cleaning?

Not yet. Thanks for reminding me...

The PRAM battery arrived around Thursday and I installed it today. I forgot how much of a pain it was to replace it. So far it works well, but I need to take it apart one more time to make sure the cooling fan is free of obstructions. If it is powered on after being disconnected for a while...

I found an eBay auction for a PRAM battery for $10: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Powerbook-G3-Wallstreet-PRAM-Battery-M4753-/130446893978?pt=PCA_UPS&hash=item1e5f3da39a Seeing how that's around $10 cheaper than other PRAM batteries and main batteries average about $60 I snapped it up. I don't...

I bought a Wallstreet PDQ 300mhz at a thrift store last year for $35. It has a bad screen hinge, dead PRAM and main batteries. It has sat on a shelf for most of a year because I did not want to damage the display cable. I finally ordered a set of hinges for it last week and am eagerly their...

I don't have a Pismo, but for my Lombard I used CCC on my Sawtooth to clone its drive to a larger one.

Maybe I got lucky with mine. :) It's made by SYBA.

Ali-based cards also work well in them. I have a USB2/FW400 combo card with USB headers on the card.

Just did a quick look-up for one in NC, and there is one in Charlotte. They claim to have older computers and game systems as well. http://www.goodwillsp.org/computerworks.html

At the moment it's using a USB-PS/2 adapter connected to a KVM switch. I'll take a USB Apple keyboard with me to work to see if that fixes things.

A while back I found a 400mhz G4 Sawtooth for $5. After replacing the DVD-ROM drive with something I can actually use, it works except for one strange issue. Each time the G4 starts, it ejects the CD tray. It doesn't matter if there is a disk in it or not. So far I have tried an old DVD...

So far it has 512MB, 20GB IDE hard disk and Tiger. I tried booting from an OS 9 CD with no success. While I do have SCSI drives, they are either smaller than 10GB or are flaky.

Finally managed to get it apart and cleaned out. There are a few places left that I can't get to, but they are fairly minor. The ink came off quite easily using warm water. Too bad it doesn't work the same for my skin... :)

Today I got a Sawtooth G4 for $5. While it is missing a hard disk and memory, I have those floating around. It came with a Rage128 AGP card and an ATTO SCSI card so it wasn't too bad. It had ink spilled on the front of the case (I knew it before I bought it). I've cleaned up the drive doors...

I'm afraid not. There is only a VGA connector on the bugger. I did find out that if you set the resolution to be less than the actual resolution it will center the picture. Also Nvidia graphics cards don't seem to have the issue.