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Hello all! A friend of mine and I will be restoring her G4 Diamondtron monitor which at the moment does not power on despite being in excellent cosmetic condition. Going to document what we find here over time in case it comes in handy for others. At the moment it still needs to be fetched from...

The current batch of electronics nostalgia seems to be from more people who are very interested in them as design pieces and those folks historically are willing to pay a premium. The lack of SoG support does feel like a critical oversight, especially if your target market is people who want to...

I have a 170 that somehow doesn't have tunnel vision yet. I'm beginning to think leaving it in the same room as my orchids that need 45% ambient humidity or better is pushing my luck...

I have the ATI Rage GPU that came stock with my Sawtooth. I switched it out with a nicer Radeon supplied by a fellow MLAer. As far as drives I've been using solid state IDE drives from OWC with great success. If you'd like my GPU I'm happy to mail it.

That doesn't seem too bad. I might buy some individual NiCd cells since it would be a good opportunity to improve my spot welding skills, but getting a prewired pack probably is easier.

Here it is!!

Excellent news! The laptop is inexplicably in FLAWLESS condition. Standoffs look great, no corrosion on the board caps ok, plastics look extremely fresh. Replaced the hard drive with a ZuluSCSI and swapped the PRAM with no problems, booted to 7.5.3 and was able to pull some photos from 1993 off...

Sounds doable!

sweet! Should I solder a fresh battery holder to the board as well? I think they shipped in the weird plastic peel apart housing right?

Jumping back to the PRAM battery for a moment- does anyone have documentation handy on compatible replacements? The seller said that it keeps time when booted from a floppy and the settings seem to persist between reboots, so it's not all the way dead, but recommended I switch it out anyway...

I've yet to see the internals but based on the exterior condition of the hinges and case being utterly flawless the odds are better than normal. The description listed the lid as opening and closing smoothly too. I don't have a 3d printer myself but I live near a couple computer shops that have...

So funnily enough those screwposts actually look completely perfect in all the images I saw. So I'm hoping that can wait...

I'll keep that in mind! Looks like I'll aim for this time to be the only time I disassemble it- hoping to throw a 2Gb volume on the zuluscsi, put in a new PRAM cell, install system7, and call it a day. With that in mind, does anyone have recommendations for current coin cell batteries on the...

I have lucked out and got a PB170 off eBay in excellent condition- no tunnel vision, virtually looks new, boots off a floppy or external HDD. I'm hoping the fact I keep my humidity comparatively low prolongs the screen's health. I'm going to be replacing the PRAM battery, installing a ZuluSCSI...

I have been- VLC has simply shown a blank screen with audio but otherwise the computer doesn't stutter or anything, which makes me think it's the GPU being lacking.

Good point- it is the AGP Graphics model, I was just referring to the generation of PowerPC CPU. I'll check again after copying an mp4 straight onto the SSD. The barrier to entry for a GPU upgrade with the correct Mac firmware is like $30-40 plus shipping on eBay so I guess if I'm dead set on...

Fair enough. It is running off an SSD but I may just keep it for music then.

Hello all, Some time ago I acquired a lovely Sawtooth PowerMac G4 from @JT737. It runs OS9 flawlessly and after some fiddling I got Tiger onto it as well. I've been using it to play digital copies of my music via a fileshare and it can play DVDs as well- as such I've been using it as a media...

Yeah- at this point I think the only realistic way to do this would be with a paid email provider, an email relay server on your LAN, and maybe some scripting. I'm an IT admin and have functionally done similar things for clients who have scripts that send email alerts or on-prem mail solutions...

If you are willing to do sysadmin work and/or hate yourself enough you could always set up an SMTP relay on the Pi- it's Linux so you could install any mailserver software on there. There's plenty of people documenting ways to achieve this online and it would allow you to make sure the traffic...