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Not so much of a conquest as such, but my wife and I just moved into a new house, and it’s rare to see so much (but not all) of my collection together in one place.

PM sent for the preorder. Apologies for the very basic question, but if I need an external power brick to power an 80-watt picoPSU, can the power adapter have either a lower or higher wattage rating if the Mac LC is only drawing a fraction of the power available? The other problem is the voltage...

That’s a great find. Enjoy the IIx! It’s one of the prizes of my collection. When my wife threatens me with getting rid of my old Macs, I tell her she’ll have to pry the IIx, IIci and Quadra 700 out of my cold, dead hands (by that point, I guess my arms would be pretty full).

Oh nice one. I hadn’t realised that there were third party versions of these at the time. Thanks for sharing!

Do you have any pointers regarding some of the latter examples? I remember trying to image a copy of Warcraft II, as I only had the original disc and didn’t want to lose the data if it were to get lost or damaged. That disc was complicated, because it contained both separate audio partitions AND...

Thanks so much for doing this. I don’t even own an EtherMac, but have run into the driver issue for ethernet peripherals in the past. How incredible that you stumbled across these on eBay.

That’s really helpful. Thanks for the links. Yes, it’s strange that the black ones are selling for less than the grey ones, given that they’re essentially the same. Will pick up one of the offerings from the UK.

I’m really sorry for necro-ing this post, but I’m after one of these adapters so I can plug one of my hefty multiple-scan Apple monitors into the VGA port on my MDD G4 or my 8600’s Radeon 7000 (or even *gasp* to test on my gaming PC). Has anyone had any luck sourcing these recently? I found...

This issue has annoyingly reared its head again. I’m not getting any Ethernet connectivity in Mac OS 10.4.11 or 9.2.2. OS 9 just self-assigns an IP (169.xx) and OS X doesn’t show ethernet as being connected at all. Any thoughts on what the culprit could be? I’m guessing hardware at this stage...

I’m going to expose my amateurishness here, but one thing I’ve done in the past is scrape away a little of the mask covering the trace immediately adjacent to the pad (near the point the pad disconnected from the trace) and then solder a jumper to that. Or, if the distance to the cap isn’t...

In 2009/10, I bought this 1st gen iBook for just £10. The replacement battery cost me 3x the price of the computer and I’ve long since discarded that (a side project may involve buying a replacement - likely dead - battery and rebuilding it, but I digress). Anyway, at the time, I’d noticed the...

Well, after all that - including adding a bit more solder to the connecting pins of the RJ45 port - I'm happy to report that Ethernet is seemingly back in action! I'm just glad it wasn't anything to do with the logic board. Thanks again for suggesting disassembly and testing with the multimeter...

I disassembled the Pismo to get at the RJ45 port. Ran a continuity test using a multimeter and didn’t discover any problem areas. There was clear indication of current across/between the 8 connections. I unfortunately can’t test the two capacitors, as my multimeter is pretty basic. So, in the...

Thanks for the response. Yes, I'm increasingly thinking it's hardware related. There isn't any discernible activity on the ethernet router. I've just completed an installation of OS 10.4 (my OS 9 installation was fresh as well) and 'Ethernet' doesn't even appear in the available connections...

I recently picked up a Pismo (400MHz, 512MB RAM) and I'm having issues getting it to connect to my network via Ethernet. On both OS 9 and X, TCP/IP reports a 169.x self-assigned address rather than the 192.168.x I would expect. Running a browser or engaging Network Time does not kick the...

Oh, that’s a really good point. A Rasp Pi could potentially be really useful in this scenario, but yeah, the drivers may be a limitation. I’d be interested to hear if you ever go down this route.

I have an early version SCSI2SD sitting in an LCIII virtually unused. I’m also contemplating version 5.1 or 6. For some reason, I’ve JUST come across the now obvious idea of using SCSI2SD as an external device after seeing this listing on eBay. Having one device where I could swap in different...

Interesting. I’ve always just opted for lower capacity CF cards for system files and most applications. 32GB is plenty of room for a lot of OS 9 apps and files. If necessary, I can then expand to external drives where necessary on ‘newer’ Macs like the MDD. Your first point about the possible...

I had gone the IDE-CF route for a lot of my IDE-based machines. Any opinions on why this might ultimately have been a mistake? I’m contemplating moving the IDE-mSATA route at some stage...

I had never heard of an ultrasonic cleaner until now. Interesting suggestion. Doubt I’ll drop the cash on that for this one task, but it might be worth having one for the future. Yeah. I’ve not had any negative experiences with light applications of acetone. That said, it’s typically been...