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It can be nicely upgraded with a Sonnet G3 card, a proper PCI graphics card and plenty of RAM :-) However, I would consider this option only with the ingredients available for free.

Since around 1990, my favourite text processor is a DTP software system called »RagTime«. Version 3.2 became freely available as of September 5th, 1998, and is a perfect match for most 68k Macs, with full support for many goodies implemented in System 7.1. Nowadays you will find RagTime 3.2...

Consider to install and use the ATI driver software for the Radeon Mac Edition. I think there was also a shareware called »Joshuas Hack« (or similar) to enable proper DVD playback on the beige G3 (given, there is a DVD ROM/Combo/burner drive installed). I used to use a beige G3 with expanded...

The PowerMac 7200 is a PCI machine, isn't it?

Is the VRAM properly seated? It is possible to start a LC 475 with no VRAM installed, resulting in black 1-pixel graphics output. You get a black pixel in a screenshot that was created in such a setup. One possible use is a headless machine that is used as a print server or file server...

As far as I remember any 040 cache memory cards were of limited use because of lacking software compatibility. As mentioned before, a special control panel is used to enable or disable the cache usage, mainly to allow enabling it for compatible software and disabling to avoid crashes while using...

Hello, macdoogie, If you have a Color Classic RGB Power LED/ Button board for sale, I would like to buy one (fully assembled), please. I am located in Germany and I could pay in advance via PayPal. Just tell me the total for the board and shipping, and a PayPal address. Snail mail would be...

You would not even need to carve the cylindrical shape; just glue it in place ;-) (This might give us a hint to what inspired the designer in the first place.)

In the days of System 7 someone wrote a little piece of software called "veraeusser" to do exactly the trick you are asking for: Deactivate the internal display in a PowerBook while driving an external display. Unfortunately I can not locate a copy of this. Probably a fellow comrade will provide...

Many rubber feet cause discolouration of the surface they stand on (like a table with wooden/plastic/laquered surface). You can easily make custom feet from wine cork (natural corc, neither plastics nor composite corc made from ground corc leftover). Just cut it to the desired size and attach it...

Most likely the schematics behind this are simple, as Apple would not have used a different controller to enable this function. Is there a pinout available? Probably one could wire a PB1xx the same way and use it with the driver mentioned above.

What a lovely setup! If available, please post a software configuration table to reproduce that project, given the hardware is at hand :)

A version of BeOS is available to run on Apple PPC hardware like the beige G3. I remember that I fetched a promotional CD with a bootable BeOS in about 1998. It took ages to boot but was usable. Because it was my office computer I did not install BeOS on the harddisk drive of that computer and...

A simple circuit schematic that adds SCSI activity lights to signalise not only transfer activity but also the involved device ID. This might be useful for diagnostic purposes. The complete information is available here: horst-lehner.mausnet.de/efaq

Kai Kramp's collection of Macintosh related hardware hacks seems not to be available as a website, anymore. However, it can  be found somewhere in the back of intarwebs as a copy of the early standalone file to be viewed on a classic Mac. Very useful this file can be: loeten-am-mac-016.hqx. This...

You could try if there is a simple way to patch the drive setup software to support an unknown type / vendor of the replacement IDE drive: Use a system profiler or similar software to look up the drive's identification. Make a copy of the Drive Setup software. Fire up ResEdit, open that copy of...

1. Once, I bricked my beige G3 Desktop by installing Dantz Retrospect software. Afterwards it came back to life only after proper use of the CUDA reset button. I remember that there is a recommended sequence to use this button. 2. Large amounts of RAM on old Macs cause an unfamiliar prolonged...

I would like to add to 6502's comment, that it is highly recpmmended to use an SSD or other Flash Memory to replace the primary hard disk drive in any (vintage or not so vintage) computer you would like to put into frequent use. Even a ten years old Macbook benefits so very much from fast mass...

The LCIII's clockspeed is set by some resistors soldered to the mainboard, similar to the LC475. The clockspeed is not set in the CPU itself. You may identify the clockspeed just by looking at the resistor setting. Many LCIII units with a regular 25 MHz CPU can be overclocked to 33 MHz easily by...

I found the female power connector soldered to the 180's mainboard to easily cause a slack joint. It can be damaged by bending the contacts, the solder pads in the mainboard can become loose, and also the contacts may corrode from the 3 A uptake of the PowerBook. My first PowerBook was pulled...