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For this given Problem to share peripherals between two ADB equipped Macs, consider to include use of the software Remote Mouse and Keys. In short, you can share the Keyboard and Mouse input from one Mac via AppleTalk network connection with a second Mac. To trigger this software KM switch you...

If you are into HyperCard programming, consider to obtain a copy of HyperTalk 2.2: The Book, by Dan Winkler, Scot Kamins, Jeanne DeVoto, Random House 1994, ISBN 0-679-79171-X, 736 pages. Of course, you will need to fetch a used book. Also check Jeanne's House o' HyperCard and other resources...

The Apple Adjustable Keyboard could be a nice option, just with a mouse, without the separate numerical keyad.. The main drawback for me is the lack of a dedicated key switch mechanism for the caps lock key. I am tempted to try and hack an ALPS caps lock key from the AEKII into the Adjustable...

Please consider to check both the male and female connectors as well as the cable for faulty contacts. I found the power connector on the motherboard  and also the male 7.5V plug to be a permanent source of malfunction until reworked.

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...