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Yep, that is ENTIRELY unacceptable "packaging", and ownership lies squarely in the court of the seller, not the shipping company... even handled like eggshells, the machine would have broken just from movement during transport, due to lack of any packaging in the box. This completely useless...

Any suggestions on a program to open those image files? Disk Copy 6.3.3 is throwing an error and failing to mount it. :(

Cheers mate that is brilliant! what format are those files in? under OSX it is showing up as just a text file, but presumably it is not. :) I might actual see about sourcing MacTools actually... could be a godsend with all the slightly bad floppies Ive found lately.

CHeers mate that would be fantastic if you can find it! I've never been so devestated to find a corrupt disk as I was to find thi one corrupt.

Yes, definitely do the caps as a precautionary measure as soon as practical to do so... you will find a lot of CC's tend to not want to power up when the caps start to go bad. This is often initially due to leaked goo shorting componentr, and they will come good with a toothbrushing. But this is...

I have spent the afternoon backing up another box of floppies into image format, and in copying my System 6.0 disks, I found the "Your Apple Tour Of The Macintosh Plus" (PN 690-5209A) training disk to be corrupted and unable to be copied. :( I figured this wouldn't be a major issue as I could...

Well played sir! :) I have just restored one of these myself and have a second one to do later, which needs some more in depth work. :) For secondhand drives, eBay is likely your best bet, however if you are confident with the lid off the drive, you may find the problem to be a simple...

And it seemed like not that long ago we were worried about Y2K and the world imploding! lol

He who take's cakes the Parsee man bakes, makes dreadful mistakes!

Correct as far as the floppy drive goes... will work but will not be able to be used with the case on, as no, they arent auto-inject whereas the IIci and IIsi are... this said, if it works, you definitely should hold onto it as a testing, go-to and whatever device. As for the CD-ROM drive...

Here we go... simply replace the extension and you are good to go. :) http://asa.max1zzz.co.uk/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/CPU_Specific_Updates/Power_Mac_G3/G3_Ethernet_2.0.4.smi.bin This is to my knowlege an issue and a fix specific to the beige G3 series... The pre-G3...

I shall have a look through maxx1zz's mirror and see if I can get a direct link... I simply pulled it out of my local dump of the defunct older software downloads page. :)

Welccome aboard from a fellow 9600 owner! :) Impressive looking setup you have... mine is a fairly meaty setup also, but definitely not quite in the league of what you describe above. I'd definitely say a 9600 constitutes vintage by this point in it's life, and at that, what a machine they...

The Delta power supplies seem to lack in reliability in this day and age... that being said, I have both a 7300 and a WGS 7350 with logic bosrd issues (likely failed caps), that cause wierd behaviour and a failure to boot to  raster, so this is also a distinct possibility.

Well... just after I posted this, I had a feret around through one of the Older Software mirrors and came across the G3 Ethernet update 2.0.4, containing an update of the Apple Built-In Ethernet extension that was intended to fix seemingly the exact issue i was having, with it being perculiar...

As the title suggests, my beige G3/300 Minitower running OS 8.6 will not display networked  computers in the Chooser, nor will it display anything in the Network Browser. I think I have mostly ruled out a hardware failure or incompatibility (including a bad cable) by the fact that it connects to...

Can you please describe in greater detail exactly what part of the process fails? To be able to diagnose and troubleshoot, we need to have abetter idea of what the nature of "doesnt work" is. Presumably it will not boot a system from the drive, however does the drive spin up at all and if it...

The guy really is an absolute genius in every sense of the word... Even when you parouse his often extravagant ramblings, whilst he has some views that might seem challenging to those who consider themselves normal, it is clear when you read through the brash, confrontational manner in which he...

Ah that does make plenty of sense, and if PRAM battery charge is a contributing facctor to the functionality of the power key, well I am going to assume this is where my issue lies, as I believe the battery I put in is dead... only put it in temporarily to boot the machine and install Linux on...