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Hi, I just got myself a decent Powerbook 12" (The 867Mhz variant), and so far I have only managed to get it to boot twice, with several (in the tens) attempts in between. When powering on the system, one of the 4 scenarios below occur: - Power on and boots fine (Only happened 2 times out of...

My TAM has a Sonnet Crescendo G3 upgrade as well as the full 128MB RAM. I also have the ethernet adapter for it, and a PCI USB card. I use mine mainly for display and as a music player via either CD or iTunes, but I also run misc old software (mostly games) on it. I am running OS 9.1 on it. It...

Yes, BootX was the name. I forgot. I will look around and see what I can find. By running Linux I mean a GUI one, not just a minimalistic system :-p

Yes, I have read about that application as well. Does it have to live inside its own partition? I will google around for instructions and howtos regarding this.

Hehehe, that is one funny Bart Simpson quote :-) The TAM is considered an "Old world" or a "New World" Mac? I would guess the latter?

What about Linux? Is that a doable option for it?

Okay, so my TAM will never see OS X on it. Thanks for the heads-up. If the PRAM gets corrupt: Is this completely unfixable, or is there a hard-to-do-but-working way of restoring it? Just asking because I am curious on how this works.

Thanks for all the useful information. I will run OS 9 on the machine, but I will save this information in case I decide to experiment with OS X on it. It should also be able to boot Linux, maybe?

Yes, I will be using OS 9 on it. I just wanted to know some details around this. More knowledge is always good :-)

I have just gotten me a TAM, and on Wikipedia it stated that you can run OS X with a G3 upgrade and xpostfacto 4 but with some limitations. Question is: Is it actually possible to run OS X on a TAM? What are the mentioned limitations? and, did someone here already try it? I remember somewhere...

It was 650 eur including shipping.

Hmmmmmmm..... No :-p

Yes, the screen is perfect. No subwoofer buzz either.

Hi all, I just got my TAM. I picked it up from the post office yesterday. The packaging job was excellent, and everything arrived it great working condition. It has a sonnet crescendo G3 upgrade, and it also has a PCI USB card and the apple TP network adaptor. It also came with a bunch of...

I will get back to trying to restore this machine soon, and I will try to heat it more. If I break it I will at least have a spare machine for my two other TiBook's :-) It did definitely help after the first time I did this, as to begin with it was freezing much more than now.

The reason I have gotten nice scores lately is because the uni who threw this away has been using Apple products since ages ago, and they casually throw anything they dont need to their e-waste room. My Mac SE came from the same place, and I have also rescued other cool stuff from the same...

Thanks, I will try it out after my vacation. I will be gone more or less for 3 weeks, so see you all later :-)

That LCD sure is cool looking :-) How do I get the IIc to boot directly into basic? Now it complains about the disk if there is none in the drive.

Here it is running. With the appleworks disk, it complains that it cannot load dos. With no disk, it says "Check disk drive". With the "data" disk, it boots into basic. Check it out :-)

Fixed it. The secondary side on the transformer had a loose solder joint where it connected to the power supply DC converter PCB. I repaired the connection, and lo and behold. Whirring and a green light! Now for the reassembly and connecting everything together to see if it outputs anything to...