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BMOW is right - on all counts. In any case, the PB 150 is a personal favourite of mine for no good reasons at all. I remember borrowing one back in the day. I bet that person has since thrown it into a bin. :( That one is in fantastic shape! Welcome back to the vertigo of Mac collecting...

Wow. Nice find!! 8€? That's like £4000, right? :p *sigh*

In my humble opinion, I'd vote Floppy Emu first and then either the SCSI2SD or the cheaper solution: a 68-pin SCA SCSI server drive with one of max1zzz's adapters. The Floppy Emu (I own 2) is perhaps the one device single-handedly preserving these old Macs as fully functioning machines - so much...

Ah, I see what you did there!! :p

If I remember correctly, bbraun was working on one of these converters a couple years ago. Not sure where he got with it...

This forum is where I first explored and later succeeded in soldering capacitors (etc) on a motherboard. All the info is here (and YouTube) if you ever want to learn. :)

I've had a lot of luck with one of these (see link). In 'client' mode, it acts as a WiFi card, essentially. After setting it up on a modern computer, plug the Ethernet cable into the CC. Plug the USB cable into the wall (with adapter bought separately or from phone, etc). Done. You've got WiFi...

Well, the Colour Classic motherboard is quite a finicky piece of kit, especially once the caps have gone. I had a very similar experience to you when I received a CC. Without the mobo, it booted. With, it wouldn't. I had recapped the mobo and same result. The solution, in the end, was rather...

I hear you! Next week is going to be hellish for me. Not looking forward to it! In any case, I'm glad you have a few options on the table regarding a decent networking solution.

I've just had this issue with my iBook G3 600MHz. Guessing it must be a hard drive issue as well. The exact same symptoms. The annoying thing is that it's one of those IDE to SD jobs. So, that obviously didn't last long! Really annoyed that I have to take the whole iBook apart again...

Hey Joe. Maybe I'm not 100% clear on what you meant. Are you saying you wish you had a file server where you can access all the 68k Mac files via Ethernet? If that's not what you meant, sorry. But that's something I've been doing far more these days. The FloppyEmu is essential in getting a...

Brilliant find there! As far as your question goes, my inclination would be to fix it, given that I've got the 'things must operate bug'. But then...it's a 128k board. It's not necessarily going to be used much anyway. Sooo...maybe just leave it as it is - pure!

It's not a custom-built shelf, just really good Tetris work. =P

Yeah, I remember SoftMac. That was a useful piece of software back in the day. I also agree with BaldOldEagle on the whole FloppyEmu front. I actually own two of them. Kind of excessive. I realise this. =P

Just thought I'd take a couple snaps of (part of) the collection. There are a few things missing, including the Colour Classic, LC III and later PPC G4 towers. The laptops are a 600Mhz iBook, the original (300Mhz) iBook and a Lombard PowerBook (400Mhz in a 333Mhz case). I realise the...

At the outset, I'd suggest looking up the online manual by searching for it using the model number. I'm happy to explain the process in general terms, but it's been a little while since I set it up. Basically, the adapter looks like it's just a little mini WiFi router, which it is, but it also...

I need to get my hands on MacDisk for Windows. It's a shame there's not a solution as seemingly easy as that for modern Macs running, say, El Capitan (or is there?). I'd welcome a piece of software for Mac that could deal with HFS-formatted floppies. As it is, it's the FAT file system only on...

I use one of these (see below) in client mode, and it gives me WiFi access (WPA2) on any device with an Ethernet port, so even down to my Mac IIx. Can't recommend it enough as a solution to WiFi concerns on G3/G4 machines. Only drawback is the fact that the cables can be a bit messy. If you're...

Thing I find with the G3 600MHz iBook is that the only OS worth running on it is OS 9. App support for 10.3.9 is quite sub-par, so 10.4.11 is about the only version of OS X I like to use in the G3/G4 generation. It runs pretty abysmally on the iBook G3, and TenFourFox takes ages to do anything...

To be fair, it might be my specific setup. I feel as if it's slightly hit and miss, but perhaps that's down to the reasons you suggest. The CF to IDE solution isn't having to do as much to make the conversion. When you have to rely on a cheap chipset to make the transition from IDE to SD, you...