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This has made my morning :D But yes... I do tend to agree with the sentiment leaning towards biting off more than one can chew on a secondary glance at where things are at. Not intending to discourage development in any way, but well... One has to ask whether it will be a particularly...

Quick question pertaining to AGP Powermac towers... Was the ability to use a keyboard power key removed from Mac towers when they started shipping with Pro Keyboards? I went to power on my Sawtooth with the power key on my lime keyboard instead of reaching down to hit the power button, however...

Will follow this post I think out of curiosity. :) I should point out that there are already options available in the world of Debian-based OS's that are well supported and perform very efficiently, and a fair bit of software available and maintained for OSX from independent developers such...

Nah havent got a Mac partition at all... partitioned the entire thing to use it as Mint-only, with seperate partitions for various shite as seems to be the convention that is most accepted among the seasoned enthusiasts. :) So I dare say that  the Netinstaller boot disc i used to install it...

Ah yes this sounds like the flat battery/double boot peculiarity that seems to be specific to the 8600 and 9600.... Basically, if the PRAM battery is flat or missing, they will chime and go no further and display no raster on the first power-up. To get around it you must hit the power, turn it...

Cheeers fellas... Well I got it installed but had to go to work. I breifly tested it and it was a little slow but I think I am only running 128Mb in the Saw so that would explain a bit. Also it is using the bad liney garbley Rage128 PCI card which seems to slow down whatever it is installed in...

Well... Ive decided to make some use of the Sawtooth by having a play around with it as a nixbox. From what I've gleaned, MintPPC would seem to be quite a nice option as far as a fast, functional and pretty looking distro to make the old bucket feel newish again, and get myself a little more...

Lols or internet cancer... one of the two. Maybe even both.

This thread just keeps on delivering... I love it! :D

Before I go any further, I must call a point of order...I cannot help but to detect a hint of passive-aggressive, sarcastic scoffing in the tone of the above post. I am unsure as to whether you meant it to be condescending in nature or not,  but it certainly does  have a rather derisory air...

So, as of last night I managed to get the 7600/200 running and booting with one of it's original HDD's (the other is fubar).... turns out the failure to boot properly was a result of a bad DIMM which i have isolated to one of two that were installed years ago. This might go some way to...

Good stuff! :) For future reference it is good practice to remove any battery that is present in an old (or even newer) Mac you pick up and either leave it out or replace it with a brand new one. Fresh stock from Saft, a reputable brand used as OEM parts in Macs for years, are cheaply...

It is highly likely you had multiple bad modules... tbh they might even work fine on a PC of a similar era , however Mac's tend to be a little sensitive to shit quality RAM. That is likely the intitial root of your issues. New World towers tend to be a little temperamental when it comes to...

I shall PM you mate, but yes, I am rather keen on the aforementioned! :) shipping shouldnt be prohibitively expensive across the drink for small items such as those anyway. :) The offer is very much appreciated... I can definitely put both these things to good use! :)

As covered above, can confirm that with the correct cable it is simply a matter of plug and play. The only consideration being that you must use the printer port for the purposes of networking on at least older Macs... I beleive OS8 may allow networking through the modem port also, but cannot...

You sir, have won the internet for today,... well... yesterday.

Yep.. that's a flat battery... pull it out and change it before it leaks. These settings are saved in volatile memory and being that the compact monochrome Mac's are hard-power only, when you switch off the switch, these settings are lost if the battery is flat or missing. I emplore you to if...

This is the 21st century... If it sounds too stupid to be done, there is every chance somebody has done it! lol Kinda like Rule 34... But not pertaining to pr0n in this instance.

Not gonna lie... this thread has taken a direction that I enjoy. :D :D

I've had a memory daughtercard go bad on one of my Classics... thought the logic board was toast initially but swapped in another daughtercard with the same SIMMs (i cant remember how i diagnosed it but i think it was by accident) and it worled again. tried the removed card in the other classic...