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I really don’t get the hate for the G5 within this group. All our old machines have limitations, geez! Looking at the pics, these particular machines were all reliable models, they all run quietly, they look good, they can all run Classic, they can take large RAM complements, they can take sata...

There is an old trick, which may be relevant as your batteries seem to be in pretty good nick. Freeze your batteries overnight. Return to room temperature, recharge, and cycle a few times from full to absolutely empty using Battery Recondition or a similar (NiMH) battery utility of the period...

I’ve been thinking about my comments above, and feel I ought on reflection to say that while I would prefer that the source was closer to home, I still appreciate those zillions of Chinese workers and companies making such stuff. I don’t like their government much, but that’s a separate matter...

As for the boards themselves, the widget pricing anomaly mentioned is surely the equivalent of the “dumping” of all the more obvious products such as phones, steel, ships, shoes, etc. in Western markets so as eventually to dominate said markets. This is pretty much the standard strategy and is...

Perhaps the video card just needs to be re-seated, i.e., re-installed properly. It is possible that some of the pins were misaligned earlier, especially if this is a G5 with an AGP slot (which included USB-related pins).

The 9600/200 was a 604e-based machine more or less the same as the 9500 — only a later iteration, and thus modestly improved over the 9500. I think, for instance, that its cache was expandable, and that you’d be far likelier to get a 233mhz 604e card (rare) running stably in it than you would in...

I am no expert in the PB1xx series, so correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t it possible to swap the processor card from, say, a 160 into a 140 and thus get a speed bump?

And some background reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20070821191206/http://www.apple17inchlcddisplay.com/

That is bad luck, especially as — so far as I know — a board swap is the most practical solution in these cases. It’s what I did with mine some years back, as I could not find replacement components. They do seem prone to failure. I would look for a known-working 20” ADC display myself. ADC...

It sounds like the characteristic behaviour I have observed in machines with a failed processor — or an overheating processor. But I am no tech. As someone who has gotten a lot of these going, all the same, I’d have said that a sensible first step would be to extract the processors, remove the...

Can you just extract another screw, toddle along to a suitable hardware store to find a nut to fit it, read the specs, and then do the ordering?

A link would be handy.

I believe that Dana, of this parish (and of vhack fame), used to claim on her old Q605-themed website that turning the fan over with a view to expelling the air made her Q605 run cooler. This mattered in her overclocked, FPU-equipped machines. Anyway, I certainly ran an LC475 that-a-way as a...

Working 2.5” SCSI drives are rare enough for you to be able to trade one to another member in need of one, in return for getting the extracted data back.

The posted price of $175 is way too much, imo. On the other hand, $75 would not be so bad if for that you were getting, say, a CD bezel and other working parts to keep a machine going if need be, even with a dud logic board. But you could do better, too. $100-ish has been the typical asking...

Interesting device, especially given the direction that computing has taken in streaming, etc. A quick search tells me that Bill Atkinson wrote the software: https://32by32.com/macvision/ . If you can find an address, why not write him a letter and ask about it? If he answers, you can then...

Never mind the SPARC. That cat looks to be baying at the moon. Is it a werecat?

The Q950 is supposed to use active termination rather than passive — Google is your friend here — but whether this would impact on a ZuluSCSI device installed in a Q950 is known only to the ZuluSCSI gods. Or maybe not even to them. In practice what active versus passive termination meant back...

I find a broad wood chisel, say 1¼”, slowly worked around the 4 edges works well. Insert and twist gently, left and right, a little at a time. The processor emerges nicely, and almost as evenly as it would with a proper chip puller, if you take it about 1mm/side at a time. Then pretty quickly...

One thing to check if repair is to be entertained as an option is whether parts obtained from machines based on the same print engine would be compatible. For example, the LWPro 600/630 (I used one for ~20 years) shared a great many parts with the HP Laserjet 4/ 4 Plus. The power supply could...