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Hello, So back in the day I used to see ads for the fruit color iMac G3s and I always wanted one, but couldn't have one.  Fast forward to today and I have a small collection of old Macs.  I already have three G3 machines (Powerbook G3 Main Street, PDQ, and an Icebook), yet I still desire a...

I have read all of your replies and I will keep what you guys said in mind.   Since making my last post, I have added a PDQ to my collection and it starts up about the same length of time as the Main Street, but it behaves a bit differently.  Instead of silence I can hear HDD activity the whole...

Thanks for the tip.

Remember how I said things were going well with the 5300c?  Well now they are not.  The laptop randomly shuts off and I found out it has something to do with the solder joints surrounding the power supply connector on the logic board.  I lack solder capabilities and this seems like a very easy...

I'll keep what you guys said in mind.  I looked up the instructions to upgrade the internal drive and I don't think I'll be going that route.  I actually tried using a USB 2.0 external dvd/cd burner on the iBook, but it didn't work.  I'm guessing the drive either isn't backwards compatible with...

Hello, So I would like to be able to burn CDs from my iBook G3 dual USB with Firewire 400 port running OS 9.2.2.  Will any Firewire 400 drive work or will only specific ones work? Thanks

I finally found the right extensions.  I found the disc image for the CD that originally came with the drive (I didn't get this CD when I bought the drive) along with a disc mounting utility over at the garden.  I copied over the two files to my Powerbook G3 and mounted the image.  Then I copied...

Just tried it and nope, doesn't work.  I guess System 7.5 extensions aren't backwards compatible.  I will have to try something else.

When I was looking around for 68k compact Macs, the original SE is the one I decided on.  Why?  I liked the design of it the most and I liked the ability to use ADB keyboards and mice.  The bad caps issue with the later compacts such as the SE/30 put me off from getting them.  I love the...

Didn't realize there was a separate extension for that.  I didn't see it when I looked through Apple's old support website on archive.org.  The Powerbook 5300c I metnioned in the OP has System 7.5.5 on it.  It likes to randomly shut off, but if I am lucky and it stays on long enough (assuming it...

I use a Powerbook G3 Main street as my bridge Mac.  The passive matrix screen is terrible though, so I would recommend getting a model that has an active matrix screen.  I added USB via the cardbus slot and use an SD card via a USB SD card reader to transfer files between my PC and this Mac. 

Thanks everyone for your replies.  I set up the drive last night using Apple's CD-Rom extension (I ended up upgrading to System 7.1 just to see how it would run and it runs about the same as 7.0 did).  The Mac can see HFS Cd's, but not audio CDs for some reason.  Not a big deal I guess, but it's...

So I bought an AppleCD 600e drive recently for use with my Powerbook 5300c.  Unfortunately, that laptop is having power issues and I don't have the soldering skills to fix it, so for now it is out of commission.  This leaves me with a CD-ROM drive that I can't use...or can I?  My SE has 4 MB of...

Decided to buy an AppleCD 600e drive as well as a 2 GB CF card and CF to PCMCIA adapter.

Computer arrived yesterday.  The computer works, though I decided to change the OS on it.  I appreciate that the seller took the time to do a clean install of OS 9.1, but I think this OS is overkill on this machine.  I decided to downgrade it to System 7.5.5.  It starts up a bit quicker now...

UPDATE: Turns out I had the HDD access light cable upside down.  I now have it in the right way.  Still can't get the speaker cable to stay connected to the motherboard though.  I'm just gonna leave the speaker cable disconnected for now. I decided to install system 7.0 on the HDD since I have...

Over a year ago, I bought a Powerbook G3 Main Street (the one with the passive matrix screen).  Since I owned it, it takes a long time to start up.  When I plug it in, the HDD starts up immediately and the power light comes on and then the HDD stops.  I press the power button, hear the startup...

Well here's an update on how things are going.  I finally got a new hard drive in there.  I had to remove the logic board to get to the screws holding the bracket in place, but I did it.  It works, however it doesn't fit perfectly.  It's an old 40 MB Conner Drive.  I know they can break down...

Oh okay, I thought the caps were leaking.  The video and power are just fine.  

The hard drive still spins up and the red access light still comes on, but instead of going to the OS I get the dreaded floppy disk with a ? screen.