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That's the current plan. Hopefully I can dig up a 44-pin to 40 pin so that I can look at it in a desktop since that's a lot easier than putting it in a laptop :) Granted I have a couple of USB bridges, but I think they're all bus powered and sometimes don't have enough juice to spin up a full...

No luck with extensions off. The password window comes up before the splash screen. In fact, if I hit "cancel" the Happy Mac flashes briefly before the computer shuts off.

I just picked up a "non working" 2400c from a recycler on Ebay that booted right up as soon as I powered it on. Unfortunately, it looks like the OS is password protected. Does anyone recognize the password protection program, and if so how to defeat it? I'm a bit "stuck" on this one, since I...

Okay, no argument from me on that.

I hate to be blunt, but you weren't doing something right. I have a bunch of these cards, including one in my 9600 running 9.2.2. It works perfectly with full acceleration. I have used these cards extensively in both beige and B&W G3s under OS 9.2.2, and the performance is excellent and...

I have some beige boxes that would disagree with OS X not having a place, but that's a discussion for a different day :) (when you have a 1ghz Sonnet G4, it's hard to NOT run OS X on it). With that said, if you're running 9.2.x, be sure you install the ATI extensions BEFORE you fit the 9200...

The Radeon 9200 is the best option you have that will work in a beige Mac and one of the easier ones to find. The dual head version of the 7500 is harder to find, but works fine also. Most of the Mac 7500s I've seen for sale on Ebay are the single head version(1xVGA) that came with the Xserve...

Just to show off a bit, from left to right here's a Radeon 9650, Radeon 9800, Geforce 6800 Ultra, Radeon X800XT and Radeon X850XT. These are all Mac edition cards. The PC Radeon FireGL X3 actually flashes beautifully into a Mac edition X800. These were at one time cheap and plentiful on Ebay...

First of all, you don't need to worry about PCI-X since the video is AGP. The only 512mb option is a very rare flashed Gainward Bliss nVidia 7800GT. In terms of retail/BTO options, the best was the Radeon X850 XT. The X800XT is a lot easier to find and nearly as good. I actually have an 850...

Ahh, a crossover cable is probably what I was missing. I was using a straight through cable. Granted between two OWR Macs, a serial cable is probably easiest. With that said, I've loved playing around with IR transfers. Back in the day, I had a Compaq Armada with an IR port, but never had...

Apple really gimped the early non-pro Macs(iMac, Mini, MB) with the awful GMA 950 GPU. Those can run ML okay, but that's as far as you can go realistically. I have a 17" iMac that I don't use. My X3100 based Blackbooks do somewhat better, but the Macbook really didn't get a good GPU until the...

MP 1,1s with an upgraded video card can run up to El Capitan, although Sierra is a no-go. Mine is running Mavericks. There are C2D Macs supported under Sierra. There are a lot of others-like '09 MBs and '08 MBPs, that were deprecated but can run it with a little bit of work.

I don't know that I would agree with that. I have few web browsing issues on Quads provided that I stay away from flash-heavy sites. Youtube is perfectly doable even up to 720P-my Quad can manage with no stuttering or dropped frames. I'm not an anti-Intel zealot. My first Mac was a late 2011...

I still make extensive use of ZIP. I was fortunate enough to be given an external SCSI drive, and it has continued to work well for me. I have a nice collection of internal SCSI and ATAPI drives(as spares for installed ones or to add a new one), along with a couple of USB ones. To me, I like...

Having used both really nice flatbeds and dedicated film scanners, I can tell you that nothing beats a good dedicated film scanner except for a drum scanner. You don't have much option outside a flatbed for large format, but for 35mm and medium format a real film scanner will give you better...

I guess I should have phrased it better, and what I mean is more up to date versions of some of the apps I rely on. As a specific example, one of my main PPC uses these days is for scanning film(which I still use a lot) and I have one SCSI scanner. For all practical purposes on NWR Macs, this...

I've frequently been amused at what I see as absurdly high recommended specs for Leopard on this forum. Leopard IS big on eye candy, but you can tone that back and it will really speed up things up if you are running on a marginal specs. I have run Leopard on a B&W G3 with a G4 upgrade...

Thanks a bunch! I played with it on some clamshells last night, and they at least seemed to start charging. Unfortunately, my current "prize" Wallstreet(292mhz) is having some teething pains and I have limited I/O at the moment. I'll get the program on it via IrDA this evening-my new favorite...

I've yet to have a late 68K or beige PPC Mac shipped to me that survived the journey completely unscathed. The best was my 6500, which came in a Mac Pro box(refurb white box) but even it had a few odds and ends broken. I really, really hate working on the case style of the 800/8500 and the...

Sorry to dredge up an older thread, but I have a bunch of Wallstreet/PDQ batteries and not a single one that works. I'm going try the "jump start" method, but can anyone suggest one of the above mentioned battery reset apps? I went hunting on the garden and couldn't find any.