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My PowerBook 540c has a grid on the screen. It's as if there is a white border around every single pixel, so the overall effect is a "screen" or white grid. The PowerBook seems completely normal otherwise, and the whole display does seem to be visible with no other artifacts. Having no...

TAMs aren't that rare. Anyone with the cash can buy one on eBay. They come up pretty frequently. Peace, Drew

I want an Ultra 45. Very nice machines. ;-) Peace, Drew

AppleTalk is medium agnostic. If you can pass AppleTalk packets, it doesn't matter whether it is Ethernet, LocalTalk, ARA, or IRTalk. So long-distance network play via Apple Remote Access should work fine. On the other hand, you're not likely to find anyone interested in making a long...

That's actually less than I expected. Still, it's pretty impressive. Peace, Drew

Showoff... :rolleyes: Peace, Drew

Let us know how you fare with the CD-R in the 630. I think you might have some trouble there... IIRC, they don't support SCSI Manager 4.3 (though according to Apple, they do work with SCSI Manager 4.3.1 - Support Page). Plus, SCSI on these boxes is darn slow, and termination is tricky. You...

Me too! I liked to play along at home... I also liked 3-2-1 Contact. ;) What are you playing it on? Peace, Drew

Does it still have kiosk mode? That is a handy feature... Peace, Drew

Read this page. http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/faq.html Peace, Drew

Yeah. The card has some "flash" storage on it (usually EEPROM or the like) that contains embedded software or firmware. This code can be replaced through the use of a special utility to "flash" it with new code. Many cards (though not all) can be flashed to change them from PC specific to Mac...

The 631 and 640 actually have two RAM slots. The second one can only use single-sided SIMMs (one bank only, I suppose). I don't know what the max capacity is. All 630, 635, 636, 637, and 638 boards are otherwise identical, and they should all have the empty pads for the second RAM slot. A...

This is just a guess, but I'm thinking your card is actually a Kingston EtheRx card. You might try the driver here: http://www.kingston.com/support/networking/downloads/etherx/kne120/120_10.hqx No guarantee that is the right driver, though. Peace, Drew

I agree with Blake insofar as you should either go for a 500 MHz Pismo or don't bother and instead look at a TiBook. Replacement 500 MHz G3 CPUs are harder to find on the used market (though there are a handful of G4 upgrades available if you trade in your CPU). Swapping CPUs is as easy as it...

That is the problem, then. You need to track down drivers for the card and install them on Mac OS 8.6. We might be able to help you with that. Who makes the card? There should be a company name silkscreened on the card somewhere. If there isn't, you can try going to the Apple menu and...

That it worked with OS 9 and doesn't now isn't necessarily a problem. It is most likely because the card is PCI (is it?) and doesn't have the drivers installed. This is just like it is in Windows. If you install a PCI card while running Windows XP and then decide to install Windows 2000, you...

British spelling, eh? Don't you live in Florida? ;) Anyway, well done! What did you use for the coloured backing? Peace, Drew [edit: Excuse me, I forgot the u.]

You can download 7.0 from Apple: click here! You can probably find updaters to get you up to 7.1 after that. Peace, Drew

Is the ethernet card a PCI card or one of the custom Comm Slot II cards? The CSII cards are tiny little stinkers, and should be easy to recognize. They don't look anything at all like PCI cards, so you can't miss it if you are looking at it. The CSII cards are natively recognized by Mac OS...

Do you still have it, and would you be willing to part with it if so? Do you still have your C500? Peace, Drew