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Nice to hear. Just make sure the device node is writable of course. I think it should be obvious by now, but I somehow edited out the fact that I did this under Linux in the first post. Now I can't find where to edit that post, so here you have it ;-)

Well, you should be able to use "Go to" from the Finder. I'm not too experienced with current OS X tough, and there have been some changes about where the filesystem is mounted when the machine is running, so /dev/ might or might not be the correct place. Regarding Commandline arguments to...

I forgot to add - I'd like to hear if this is also somehow possible from modern OS X? I have no hope for Windows tough ;)

Hi! Maybe this is old news for everyone, but I just discovered how to directly access a floppy disk from minivmac without any of the usual detours using disk images and the like. Using an external USB Floppy Drive, it is possible to directly drag and drop the /dev/sd* device file on the...

I would snip off the legs and then desolder them. Then attach wires to a separate battery holder that can be attached somewhere as far away from the board as possible.

Hi! Just writing to tell you that you are not alone. I have a Classic opened and waiting to be recapped for a few months now (Logic and Analog board). I could have used the cosole5 link a bit eralier, since I had to check all caps myself. Well at least I have something to compare notes :) I...

Thank you indeed. This is not mentioned anywhere but I can easily confirm it by looking closely at provided pictures. In fact I was not even aware hat AGP Pro existed until now - which I am a tiny bit ashamed of ;-) So I'll get a Radeon 9600 instead altough I discovered in the meantime that...

Hi! I have a 2004 G4 MDD - Apple's last machine capable of booting OS9. It has its standard Radeon 9000 installed which is fine for OS9, but does not support Core Image on OS X. Not that I really need it, but I could get a nice 256 MB Radeon 9800 XT from a PowerMac G5 :) Now there is my...

When the OS X support for PowerMacs was waning, I switched to Debian Linux and used said PowerBook as my main machine up to about 2009 - So my experiences are a bit dated. I'm a Debian guy and that's what I used. Power and temperature management were working fine, but only after I discovered...

I used a 2005 1.5 Ghz 12" Powerbook for many years, first with OS X (10.4 and 10.5) and then with Linux. It always got uncomfortably hot when used for things like video compression. I still remember the quite common jokes about not using it on your lap if you still planned to have children ;-)...

The CC has a maximum of only 10 MB RAM. A lean System 7.5 would work, but I stronlgy suggest to stay with System 7.1 with a few selected Extensions like Thread-Manager. The CC can run OpenTransport and there should be no problems with Networking. I did this in the early 2000s when I also had a...

You might be lucky - the damage does not look too bad. Let's just hope no traces or connections on the chip next to the battery are damaged. Just try to turn it on. There are some LC Models that wont power on without a battery, but trying would not hurt in any case. Others might be able to tell...