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You have to be careful, though, if you want to do a dual-CPU upgrade. Older versions of the Sawtooth have a version (ver 3) of the Uni-North (Uni-N) chip which does not allow dual-CPUs under Mac OS X. One of the upgrade companies makes a utility which will tell you the version of the chip in yours.

Sounds to me more like one of the batteries.

No, just the internal hard drive.

And look... the QS has a Zip drive! :-)

If you decide to toss it, any possibility of passing it to a fellow recruit? :-)

Can you elaborate a bit more on these two? I don't think I've heard specific reference to these optimizations.

They always remind me of an old refrigerator. Also, they have one of those designs that makes your mind want to see a face, but too many horizontal elements to clearly focus on a mouth. (Probably better without the Zip bezel.)

Now, you want unobtainium... try finding a Zip kit for an MDD.

I pretty much did the shift as well, even though a colleague gave me enough erased 100s to last until the bovines return to their place of residence

Correct on both counts. Only USB, FW400 and ATAPI versions. (At $CUSTOMER, they had a few Dells fitted with internal 750s and lots of the USB externals.) I managed to scrounge two externals and an 8 pack of disks during a big cleanout.

OEM drive is master, generic is probably slave. Does the CD show up if you hold the Opt key at boot?

But don't expect to be able to get online using it. AOL dropped support for versions that old a long time ago.

Personally, I think your best bet is a SCSI Zip and BasiliskII's SCSI emulation.

This sounds a lot like an Airport card that I have. It will see networks, but won't connect (at least not after the first couple of minutes post-boot). The only difference is that OS 9 and OS X makes no difference. I just assumed the card was bad.

I thought the minitower version of the Beige G3 actually used an ATX supply in a funky bracket.

Actually, you should be able to install the card in the QS, boot from another drive, and then flash the card with the Weibe utility. That's what I did on my MDD.

I've gotten CPU temps out of both my MDD and my 12" PowerBook G4.

I was going through a box with my 13-year old and came across a transistor radio. She could not get her head around the idea of it being a radio and had even more trouble understanding where the knobs were (thumb nobs in the side). Sigh.

The Dell D-Bay is nice if you've got a Latitude D series laptop with no internal drive bay (i.e., Latitude X-1, D4x0). There is also a compatible port on the D-series docks (D-port and D-dock). It will take any D-series module with the exception of the D expansion bay battery (and third-party...

I have to confess that I'm surprised any G4 is selling for $300. Are the 17" ones particularly sought after or something? Maybe its me, but that price feels awfully close to impinging on low-end Macbook territory.