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@iantm I am not sure that a Cintiq Companion will work on an old Mac. I may be wrong though as I have never tried it. I believe it requires a serial connection. Any Cintiq with a serial connection should work with a vintage Mac when attached to the serial port (with an adapter). It requires the...

Thanks @Froggy814 ! It is not perfect but I was very lucky to find a color that is very close to the original color as well! I have painted the keyboard and I will need to take care of the tower next. When I look at it, it makes me feel like when I first bought the computer.

Yes, I have seen a few videos on the topic. The result is great but it goes through heating the glass with the risk of an implosion of the tube. If I ever find someone confident in doing it, I may go for it. For now, I don't feel like taking the risk.

Last weekend, I worked on the electronics. I haven't recapped it yet, that is quite a big task! I wanted to test the display first. Therefore, I removed the dust out of the boards (it was very dirty!) and I reassembled everything to see how the picture behaved. Here is the monitor back next...

I have tried MacSurf and it is very promising! Well done @ptricky that is an amazing effort! I have just loaded a few websites and I was impress by the current status of the CSS and images handling. That's pretty nice! I am using a 9500 with a G3 500MHz and TLS loading time is pretty decent...

Last weekend, I painted the back cover so it now all looks uniform. Now is the time to figure how to rebuild the stand, which is long gone. I will have to re-create it from scratch. The idea is to 3D print it and I have started working on a 3D model.

My 9500's PCI plastics are long gone and while the cards are still usable without them, I also like the idea of fixing that. I have started messing with some quite advanced plastic repairing and want to move to rebuilding/improving my 9500 box next. I will want to rethink the PCI cards...

Thanks for the advise @jmacz , it makes perfect sense! I will note for next time!

Back in 1999, I bought a second hand Power Mac 9500 from a graphics designer, in order to start learning graphics design myself. This computer came with 2 graphics cards and 2 displays; an Apple Multiple Scan 14" with integrated speakers and a beautiful Apple Multiple Scan 20". I loved this...

I have been using and loving my 9500 for the last 27 years (mainly for graphics design). I am so used to it, I cannot be objective anyway! 😅

I agree it can be a pain when you want to manipulate the RAM (which you don't do that often when it's maxed out). However, you don't have to go through this process to access the PCI or processor ports. The plastics retaining the PCI cards are a pain though and I agree this is deffinitely a bad...

I agree, the IIci design fits pretty well with the design of the big box IIs and SE/30. It was all looking like a very coherent line of powerful computers implementing the same design. That said, beauty is very subjective. @jmacz 's 8500 has a fast G3 CPU and 1GB RAM (in 1995!). I believe the...

I would say the same! If there could be 6, I would keep the SE because a 68000 can read some very early software that no later CPU can read. if there could be 7, I would keep the Quadra 700 because 68040 @50Mhz! And I love its small tower form factor. Such a great collection you have anyway...

A Power Mac 8500 with a 500Mhz G3, enough RAM and a fast enough drive is a killer video capture and editing machine under System 7! It can easily digitize SD videos at full size and full frame rate. I would keep!

@A24A I am using the original power adapter. it gives the 7.5 V and it doesn't seem to have an issue. It is working fine with my PowerBook 145. Regarding the DC socket on the motherboard, I thought I would de-solder with the soldering iron slowly pushing each legs one by one but that was a very...

This evening I tried to replace the DC power socket and removing the old one was a total disaster! It was very difficult and I ended up ruining 2 of the 3 pads. The metal is still there but I may have been heating too much or pulling too hard, it became lose and there is no more continuity. I...

Thanks for the input @GRudolf94 ! I will check about the programmer switch. I tried to do a reset yesterday with both switches and I could feel the buttons working correctly when pressing and releasing them. Also, while I did not ground myself, I am not in a room subject to static buildup and I...

Thanks for your reply @A24A ! I have tried removing the BlueSCSI but the laptop doesn't go past the state of searching for a bootable device. The screen doesn't display anything. It remains dark. When the crash happened, I realize that there was something on my desk, that I pushed behind the...

I have been very lucky to find a PowerBook 180 with a screen that doesn't (yet) suffer the tunnel vision issue. However, after manipulating it (mainly to work on the BlueSCSI) it now refuses to boot. It makes the normal chime and straight after, it makes the chime of death while the screen...

Thanks for the links @LazarusNine ! I will check what's on the CD, there may be some interesting stuff in there!