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HAH thats so funny. I wish the customer wanted to keep trying to get it to work, because I really wanted to see this old G4 boot in 9 seconds. As for me, in my own retro Mac, I have a 7300 with a PCI IDE sonnet card, and a 2.5" SATA hard drive connected to a single drive SATA to IDE adapter...

I had this same problem with my Xserve. SATA3 drives just won't work. Or SATA 2 either. SATA 3 desktop drives usually let you jumper down to SATA 2 but not 1. SATA 2 lets you jumper down to SATA 1, so i had to buy some old stock WD drives to run in htere. My next server sadly won't be a Mac but...

This Mac is running Panther, not OS 9. And the card kind of worked. After the down-flash, the card worked with a hard drive. But the SSD wouldn't work. In the end, the customer has happy with the hard drive as long as it worked. But I wonder what would happen if we bought a bunch more, different...

Today I installed a sonnet SATA PCI card in a G4 powermac. Then I installed a samsung SATA card. The sonnet card is known to be bootable so I though this had a real good chance of working. The card was acting wonky. Turns out its a known issue where G4s need the card's firmware reverted. I did...

lol if you say so, guess i'll post it for $50 then

Both of those prices seem shockingly high

Reading the title of this post, it feels like someone forgot there was a G4 Mac mini too :D Speaking of, this is really a price check post. How much do you think this old one I have might be worth? 1.25 GHz G4, 512 MB of RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, Power cable and brick included. Boots up and runs...

So a very long time ago, when I was a wee little 14 year old, I was getting my first "modern" computer. The choice ended up being between a Performa 550 or a Macintosh TV. BTW for those curious, this was up at the ComputerTown store in Salem New Hampshire. Anyway, I was a young teen with his...

Turns out older versions of SMART Utilty itself do run on PPC and thats the vrsion i have installed on my Tiger utility volume so i guess i don't really have any problem after all.

Anyone know a SMART disk checking utility for OS X, that runs on PPC? I've been using SMART Utility for years, but it looks like that is Intel only. I have a few old PPC Macs that I want to verify have no bad blocks.

I was thinking about "modern old Macs" tonight too before I found this thread. However I was thinking an entirely different approach. Basically the ability to run system 7, os 8 and os 9 natively (aka boot up) on a late model PPC, like a G4 Mac mini. That would be perfect for me. No more huge...

Some mistaken updates but here's an accurate update: OS 9 wouldn't run the .sea to open the app but older versions did. So I have what looks like the megafiler app on system 7.5, the oldest OS I have. But when I go to open it, it asks me to insert the original MegaFiler disk. I of course have...

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MegaFiler was a database app I used on a Mac Plus back around 1992 - 1994. I have a few documents I recovered off some floppy disks but I have no way to open them. I have been able to find a copy of MegaFiler online but it crashes when you try to run it on MacOS. The oldest OS I have access to...

Ok now it's back, as an embedded broken link that is clickable to a real link. I did try the 1152x870 setting on my adapter, it gave me a picture that was bigger than my screen with the edges cropped off. I guess 1024x768 it is. 

I see no link in your post now either.

Attachment no workey :(

I recently upgraded my "extra" monitor from a 15" to a 19". The 15" had a resolution of 1024x768 which used mode 1,2,6,7 on my adapter, and all was well. The new display works at that resolution but of course is blocky and horrible. It's native resolution is 1280x1024, but I have not seen that...

How rude of me, to not include a photo in my last post!!