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No kidding. I remember when the B&W G3 came out and we used the mice from out retired computers (the good-old Bus Mouse II). I can't for the life of me remember the name or the company, but someone made a clip on accessory that gave the puck mouse a more traditional oblong shape.

One eBay auction and US$9.00 later and I should be seeing this arrive soon:

Your welcome. I'm glad it's gone to an appreciative home. That Sony monitor is absolutely spot on for the era. Very nice coupling.

Thanks for the info. I know that some Macs, such as those based of the 4400 mobo and a few Powerbooks (I believe), need the PRAM battery to boot. I wasn't sure about the G3 iMacs. Since this won't be a daily driver, I'm not too concerned about resetting the date every once-and-awhile. And I...

I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they used to clean it. Thanks. I will. I think I'll do them all in one shot. Can the G3 iMacs be run without the PRAM battery?

My neighborhood is a relatively small tract of maybe 40 houses in a rough circle with the only way in or out being the same road (no through traffic). It's comprised of mostly working professionals, civil government and safety employees and small business owners. It's not super ritzy or...

Look who made their way to the police evidence/property locker: The morning after the iMac was stolen, I filed a police report. After that, I set about making a color flyer with photos of the iMac along with the serial number and contact info. I took them to places that I thought someone...

Nice score! Looking forward to pics.

You might also try Electronic Arts Deluxe Music Construction Set.

Ha! :lol: Wouldn't that be the best? Almost like a really terrible heist tale. But I don't think Flower Power has the fore-planning to pull off a caper of this magnitude. I didn't think something like this would bother me this much; not that I put a lot of thought about people breaking into...

Thanks. Filed a police report. I don't know if anything will come of it. Also went to the pawn shops and gave a sheet with a pic & serial.

Ugh. My Tangerine iMac was stolen out of my garage last night. It was the only thing stolen too. Not the power tools, guitar amp or bikes, just the iMac. Weirdly specific.

I'm pretty sure that all the Power Computing line used standard ATX power supplies and pinouts. If you can find a standard PC ATX power supply it should work straight across. I had two Power CC machines (PowerTower 180, PowerBase 180) and they were fairly flakey. This is when they were only a...

This seems more straightforward (by recollection) than getting into the rev. A-D. I figured I'd be going in there eventually to replace the HD and then I could see what was jamming it. I'll wait until I get some ram so I can do it all in one shot and to minimize the chances of stressing the...

I like to think it was young teenage love from sometime in the past. But if it was the Mr. Cigar Odeur, than we might have a problem as the lady of the house was NOT named Leanna. 8-o It's a good and understandable practice. I'm not too interested in the personal lives of former owners, but...

(Pics at the end) As many have done here before, I've reassessed what I want out of a Macintosh collection. For now I've decided to stick with a couple of machines that, to me, represent the spirit of the Macintosh. The first is the Macintosh Classic, as I think its form factor is the height of...

Bibilit -- I saw your Zip drive in your conquest post. Looks the it was designed for Batman.

Thanks for the link 1moremac. Trash -- I used to work in print and design back in the mid 90's. That's about the time when Zip drives first came out and they were a pleasure to use. They were astoundingly more reliable than the Syquest cartridges that we had been using for large file transfers...

Saw a USB Zip 250 at the thrift store today. I've had bummy luck with the older ones in the past, mostly "click-of-death" issues. But now that I have a Classic on the way, it seems as USB and a SCSI unit would be the easiest way to move files around. So, are the Zip 250 units just as finicky as...