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That's real neat to see more people are getting into the idea. I was going to run a dedicated vintage oriented email server on the domain vtools.68kmla.org but at least with AppleShare IP 6, there's no way to require or ask for authentication of any kind on sending, so it immediately got used...

That's a neat find. Memorex appears to still be selling USB based disc writers, for example: https://memorex.com/at-home/mdw218b.html - the web site also still says 8.6 and up. It was probably pretty easy to find, Memorex has sort of become the default CD stuff in a lot of markets (USB cd...

Welcome in! These look like great finds and it looks like you're making good progress! Yeah, that's correct, the PCI PowerMac G4 can't boot from firewire or USB. It's, as volvo242gt mentioned, the same platform as the blue G3, which itself is very very similar to the beige G3. Though, the PCI...

That's great to hear, thank you for the update!

Great to hear this is working! As one example of a thing that didn't exist in OS 9. You can reformat individual partitions in OS X once you've partitioned the disk and put down an OS 9 install, including enabling journaling, if you want. Journaling was a reliability thing, not a performance...

Oh, I misunderstood what you meant and thought this still wasn't working. To be honest: No idea why what you had happen happen and this is one of the reasons on systems that support it I recommend installing 9 and using 9's disk partitioning tools, when you want to use OS 9. Mac OS X added a...

If you saw the partitions when you were booted from an OS 9 CD, the partitioning and drivers should be fine and something else is wrong. What iBook is it and what OS 9 CD did you use? Some of the later iBook G3s are very close to that point where you really do need to use the original CD, or...

There we go, great to see it! Honestly I forgot those adapters did different sync modes, but it looks like there are and I bet most PC monitors want separate sync. If anyone else needs it, the reference for this type of adapter is here...

Your iBook should be able to dual boot 10.4 and 10.5 -- exactly how you've done it by partitioning the disk (in either one) is the right way to go. You'd either have to use the startup control panel or hold option to switch partitions, exactly as you have been doing. The failure you showed in...

Sorry for the confusion. Scott Squires is exactly correct -- this is a wish-list or to-do list. If anyone sees something they'd like to write, please feel free to let me know and/or get started and then send it to me. I can do editing and adapt things to wiki format. I've got a few of my own...

Sorry for the confusion, I missed the picture the first time through. So, if your disk and partitions shows up when your booted from an OS 9 CD, then you're golden on that front. If not, boot from a 9 CD and use the partitioning or disk setup tool, it won't give you many but what it makes will...

It sounds like the OS 9 drivers weren't installed on that disk. It iwll need to be repartitioned and reformatted before it can be booted by OS 9 or seen by OS 9 at all. You can install OS 9 drivers when you're partitioning with OS X - I believe it's in the advanced area of disk utility when...

Welcome in! Apologies for the long post: If I remember correctly, these monitors have a fixed cable, but you should be able to chop the end of the cable off and attach a new connector. These followed a normal pinout, which should be in the developer guide for the Macintosh LC and LC II...

Netatalk on a modern linux machine is canonically the best way to do this. Though, for my part: I'm running an AppleShare IP 6 server and an OS X Server 10.4 machine (will mostly replace the ASIP6 box once I make some time to do it). Windows NT4, 2000, and 2003 Server also have the services for...

Welcome in! XPress 3 appears to be from 1994 and Freehand 7 appears to be from 1996. These may both be PowerPC-native and there's a chance Freehand 7 requires a PPC and won't run on any 68k. (For PageMaker, it will depend on the version.) It's possible that both of those are PowerPC native, so...

Thank you for these Dana! I was thinking of the foot on the right at the top-right of the drive/power section, you can see it at the far right in the middle of the middle picture, but both of these feet are fragile and need consideration. as you're opening up a 7{2/3/5/6}00 or beige g3.

Great to hear that this went well, thirteen years ago (ouch, we've all been here so very long). I think people like seeing things that are novel or out of the ordinary, even if it's a thing that's mundane or if the thing is older or lower end than what they're used to seeing. It's interesting...

When you pull the top case off, near the left hand side of the drive area (but to the right of the slots) there should be latches at the front and back, position those toward the inside of the unit then pull up, I think there's a little handle of steel toward the middle. On the right-hand side...

Looks like a great setup! Nice to know 840 boards fit in these cases too!

Neat. It's extremely common that Macs actually work with more memory than Apple specified, since typically the specs they publish were written before bigger sticks of RAM existed. (In this case, 1x4GB sticks of DDR2 weren't common until a few years after the Intel transition.) Mac OS X loves...