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They're both much the same to be honest. I've bought and used products from both company's and never had any problems with either. Out of personal preference and given the choice, I'd go for Farallon. Probably for the simple reason you tend to stick with what you know best and I've used a...

I just recently purchased an 160Gb Iomega Firewire 400/USB 2.0 drive as a boot drive/extra backup for any of my G4 laptops that prove troublesome. So far its worked like a charm - I've been very pleased with it.

Larry Pina's book 'The Dead Mac Scrolls' has some useful information on fixing 400k, 800k and 1.44Mb floppy drives and a section on how to re-align the heads without the need of an Oscilloscope. That tends to deal with the later drives rather than the earlier ones, but I suspect the procedure is...

Surely 1.0 is the version number, what is the enabler number? That's curious it boots with 7.5.3 given that the pre-installed system was 7.6.1! The 6500/250 came with System Enabler 411 and 7.5.5, is that the same enabler number?

Capacitors don't have to show any outward signs of failure to have either failed or be failing. In many ways electrolyte leakage, exploding tops etc are extreme examples of failure - they're by no means the 'norm'. Most of these capacitors have 1,000 hour MTBF's and maximum operating...

Those figures look okay, but it's through the logic board where it's losing voltage and that's probably being caused by failing capacitors. There's a couple of other things you could try - 1/ Plug the HD into a good known PSU (not the Mac PSU) and see if that spins the HD up sufficiently to...

You're about the 3rd or 4th person to say exactly the same thing, the symptoms the machine is showing are typical of failing capacitors. If the OP is not prepared to spend any money on purchasing a replacement PRAM battery, somehow I doubt he's going to invest any time, money or effort in...

Mick Great to hear about your latest acquisition and fascinating reading about the sound quality of the various DACs used. Really interesting read! Cheers!

PM reply sent. I tend to use a couple of utilities to mount disk images - Drop•disk and ShrinkWrap both of which pretty much do the same thing, although ShrinkWrap seems to have more facilities. They're both freeware too from what I understand, I've used them for years!

I don't know what the disks on MacintoshGarden are to be honest. But I know for a certainty that the disk images I have are for a Powerbook, the only question is, which model. I've just looked at the images and it has an "Install me First' disk image and a "Install" disk image. Under the Install...

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do here, but in my experience of working with floppy system installs is to have all the floppy install disks as disk images. Mount them all on the desktop and perform your installation from there. It's much faster than feeding in floppy disks and gets...

On a SCSI disk following Inside Macintosh V, the first block (block 0) contains the driver descriptor map which is the first data read by the boot code in the ROM and contains stuff like number of blocks, block size, number of drivers and location and size of the first driver. The boot code then...

Apple made three imac G4's with the PowerMac4,2 identifier - iMac G4 700 - M8672LL/A - NVIDIA GeForce2 MX - 15" TFT - Pre-Installed MacOS: 9.2.2 & X 10.1.2 iMac G4 700 - M8535LL/A - NVIDIA GeForce2 MX - 15" TFT - Pre-Installed MacOS: 9.2.2 & X 10.1.2 imac G4 800 - M9105LL/A - NVIDIA...

Presumably you're booting from the 500mb partition and trying to modify the 1.5Gb partition with Apple HD setup. I don't really know Apple HD setup or any of the formatting utilities that come with the System well enough to say whether they can do what you want to do as I mostly use FWB Hard...

Not to worry - I found what I needed here - http://macmost.com/free-iphone-ringtones

Not strictly a peripheral per se, but you can connect one to a Mac! Can anyone please direct me to a modern 'normal' telephone ring tone that isn't the star wars theme or rockford files or some other cheesy movie or some horrible midi-fied beep that masquerades as a ring tone. All I would like...

How would you then know which port to communicate AppleTalk through? I think that would cause some confusion :)

Yep, already advised that! You can speculate and theorise till the cows come home, at the end of the day you have to start proving or disproving some of these theories and you can't do that if you have 'unknowns' in the mix. It may well be a faulty PSU, but variable and inconsistent startups...

It adds 4 serial ports? Used for modems on ARA (Apple Remote Access) or I used one (not an Apple one) to run modems on a FirstClass bulletin/email board connected internally to the network.

I have a Mac IIfx PSU as well and they're pretty much identical on the outside, but I think they're slightly different inside, but I don't recall what that difference is. I've taken a pic to show the capacitors I intend on replacing and they are fairly tightly grouped together. Am I safe on...