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Something not particularly rare or well liked... perhaps a 7xxx Powermac as I wont be upset if you blow the ADB circuitry on one of those. :D Incidentally, my MacAlly AEK-clone recently died and I beleive it may have been a result of hotplugging in my 9600.

My Graphite DV SE has the inner bezels from a very early (99?) DV so yes, i can verify the slotload bezels are 100% interchangable with each other. Thre is a difference if I recall in the position of the CPU heatsink in the metal chassis itself which makes it very ill advised to put 350/400/450...

I do it a lot more than I really should...always have. But I try not to make it too much of a habit, because I know Im not meant to. For one, if I pull a keyboard, the cursor speed goes spastic and ends up rather slow.

Nice! I've just dragged my 6100/66 DOS out of the stack recently and am waiting on finding my HDI-45 adapter or buying another to plug it in and see what it does now. It used to run, but I never played with the DOS side of it. Would be great if somebody with the boxed software were to make an...

Welllp... power supply didnt explode immediately. It was more of a timid snap after a couple of dodgy startups, and a subsequent failure to draw power at all after that. Might be ATX conversion time...

Unfortunately there likely isnt one... and even if you can get a temporary fix, you will still be needing to change those old caps if you want the machine to last. Apple used some cheap, nasty caps in some machines in that era, and as explained before, electrolytic caps have a finite life...

You dont need to worry so much about the small flat orange caps as they have a pretty much indefinite lifespan, but ALL the electrolytic capacitors should be replaced... surfacemounts, axials and radials. These  do have a finite lifespan, and most are well past the point where they can be...

Well, as of yesterday afternoon the Minitower is now a complete unit booting flawlessly into a fresh install of 8.6 with a 7.5Gb U-series I found in a slotload drive rack in the cupboard, and currently using my test CD-ROM drive until i out a new or otherwise working unit in it's place. :)...

I probably wouldnt use the term "modern" to describe the 7.5Gb U-Series that is currently in it (first working drive I pulled off the shelf that didnt have things I'd be sad about formatting over), but alas yes, it is IDE nonetheless. :) But yes, I'm definitely with ya there Byrd... very...

I'm still not really comfortable with the idea of such a site being linked too so brazenly in the open for reasons that really require no explanation... sure, *most* of us probably dont hit he web with classic a whole lot (i am an exception and i sure there are others), and the risk of said...

Yep... very cynical way of selling a product I must say.

I recall reading years back that the 5500 (which uses the same logic board but in an AIO) could unofficially support 128MB DIMMs to give a maximum of 256Mb... that being said, i cannot verify the legitimacy of these claims. Unfortunately I am not even in a position to test the theory, as even...

I think it was generally expected that if you had the money to buy a Mac tower which were the flagship models, then you were likely going to want to bu some decent speakers anyway, or were going to be using it in a specific application where it didnt matter... realistically the only reason they...

Thanks Nic, I look forward to seeing your thread in the near future... if the list in your signature is anything to go off, there are some interesting things.  The 8500 and PB145 are ofparticular interest... also two machines I would like to get my hands on soonish. :) So, the G3 minitower is...

It's probably functioning normally... the speaker in my G3 minitower is appalling, and the ones in the blue and white and graphite towers were not a great deal better, just a bit louder and more meaty. Still sound like ass though by comparison to even the speaker in my 22 year old IIvx.

I have to say you are definitely among the best people ive dealt with on evilbay in years mate... An absolute pleasure! :) I do very much look forward to seeing a stash thread in the near future! And yes you are correct, the J28  jumper near the lower PCI slot configures the board for the DT...

Yep I couldnt go past it...  I beleive the may be a member on here somewhere actually as they mentioned both forums to me. :) I ended up using the bits I required from them to finish off the 9600 so it is now a 100% complete machine, and then spent the early hours of the morning assembling...

My latest eBay conquest arrived, in the form of a pair of G3 Minitowers which I purchased for 30 bucks and got a friend in Victoria to pick up for me... his mother in law (also a nerd from way back in the days of BBS's) just dropped them off to me an our ago after coming back from a 10 hr drive...

Yeh they are garguantuan and awkward machines the 5500... my first ever Powermac was a standard white 225 and it was at the time, a slick, fast and capable rig, and I have always had a soft spot for them. But yes, the plastics are among the worst I have ever seen on any Mac to date. It literally...

Yep, plenty of brands available and a wide variance in price between... Varta are among the most expensive. At one point they were about the highest quality batteries you could get, however I do not beleve they are made in Germany anymore. In any case, you dont specifically need to use these...