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Congratulations !! I now have 2.5 working Pismos running Tiger, but the 2 fully functioning machines have 1GB RAM which makes a huge difference. Upgrading to G4 makes another difference; the G4 550 boots in just over 40 seconds, while the G3 500 one takes well over a minute. I'm also now...

The latest Pismo has arrived and as suspected had the dead PRAM battery issue - swapped in the working battery from the broken screen one and booted fine into OS 9, still with all the personal files of the previous user 8-o ... when are people going to learn about personal security? Now...

Sorry, didn't mean to upset anyone, I like TenFour, but when running on an old PowerBook, Camino has the edge on speed for me. I have recommended TenFourFox to countless folks who complain about lack of PPC support from Firefox. Cheers :) Hugh By the way, I've looked for a "Donate" button...

Update - the £1 Pismo arrived as described, now up and running with a clone of the original machine, 512mb RAM, G3 500 card, and 32GB SSD. Airport card not present, indeed it seems the cage has been removed, so a Belkin PCMCIA is in and running. Full testing to follow, firmware update yet to...

Let me see now, Gimp for Tiger is good (and free), very powerful image manipulation - search for GIMP-2.6.6-Tiger-universal.dmg Burn is a great free CD/DVD burner Caffeine for disabling the screensaver Camino is also a very good free browser, in my opinion works faster than TenFourFox...

Nice one ! We have exactly the same machine here; unfortunately my wife and I used have own one each, but the screen went on hers (logic board issue, not economically repairable), so I had to put both our accounts onto the remaining MacBook. Cheers :) Hugh

Oh yes, I was happy with that result! My bid was a lot higher than I won it for though. Cheers :) Hugh

It's all right, I've found another spares/repairs Pismo with a good LCD. I'll see if I can win that one too :lol: Cheers :) Hugh PS don't mention it to my wife !!

Hard drive no problem, I have processor boards coming out of my ears, and plenty of RAM to spare, but I don't know how easy it is to come by an LCD. I'm probably jumping the gun here because the seller hasn't even posted yet. Cheers :) Hugh

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160977181427?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 £1.04 - now I will have some spare parts for my running Pismo - lets hope most of it is OK. Apart from the screen damage I probably have enough parts to actually make a 2nd machine (500Mhz, 768MB...

Last thing, just in case someone needs to know - the temptation was too much and I installed Leopard, and it runs like a dog 8-o As others have found, only the battery in the right hand bay is recognised. The dock is very jerky, Mail wouldn't open until I applied the 10.5.8 combo, the...

He he he ... You're welcome to have the G3 for postage cost mate, just pm me when you are ready Cheers :) Hugh

Well, it turned out the seller had a G4 board in stock, and although he wanted an extra $90 I went for it. It also turns out it's a 550, so I might be tempted to give Leopard a whirl, give that I have a Carbon Copy Cloner USB drive to fall back on and that I've proven to boot. I now have a...

Good work. I was going to offer a 400mhz daughter board (for the cost of postage from UK) if you needed it, but it seems not. I currently have a 400mhz, 450 (overclocked 400, being used at the moment in my Pismo, running stably), but I'm waiting for a G4 daughter board from the US, so won't be...

When I had a sagging display in one of my iMac G4s, rather than take it apart I ended up pushing a small plastic wedge into a gap in the arm. This straightened it up and also stopped the wobble. You're right, when something doesn't sit straight it drives you potty! Cheers :) Hugh

Just bought a 500mhz daughter board from eBay US, but before shipping to me the seller (mac-pro18005253888) will look and see if they have a G4 board. So, pleased with the 500, even more pleased if they can supply a G4. I currently have a 400mhz board, overclocked to 450 (overclocking to 500...

I'm actually pleasantly surprised by Tiger on the Pismo, it's a no frills proper OS X, unlike Lion on the MacBook which is beginning to have a Windows-like feel with all the decisions the OS makes on the user's behalf, and all the fancy extras. If I ever get some sort of G4 processor for it I'm...

Indeed not, I paid £38 ($60) with free shipping for each of my two eBay batteries, and of course won't know how good they are for quite some time (I hope 8-o ) Cheers :) Hugh

New 32gb KingSpec KSD-PA25.6-032MS SSD arrived yesterday, only 7 days from China to UK :) 5 hours last night to do a Carbon Copy Cloner to the new drive in a USB enclosure, and test booting from the USB drive once cloned - it boots fine using the Option key at startup, but not recognized in...

It seems Camino is a lot faster than TenFourFox on this machine, so I'm giving it a whirl ... Cheers :) Hugh