It plays MP3's just great, I can setup IpRouter to serve the net over MacIP, and do all my work, scanning from it.

The only thing it needs is a new battery and maybe a NIC card or Flash Card. What I really want is a SRAM PCMCIA card for virtual memory. SRAM cards are fast and do not have a limited lifetime unlike Flash cards which die after so many writes.

I might grab an old Newton Flash Card and use it as an emergency boot disk in case anything every goes awry.

So far It's running great and it's my favorite mac, next to the 8600.

I also got a Classic II, which I will be using to run FirstClass Server, and hopefully if I can get my 50 User license disk repaired, I can have it functional over the net. It's so cool to have a little Classic in the closet running FirstClass, you never have to touch it iether, cause you admin it remote. :) (I just need a util to turn the screen off so it doesn't burn)

I'm gonna be having fun today, off to buy parts for my macs and be in heaven! ;-)

Enjoy your Macs and have fun buying parts for them.

G4From128k

Logan

Theres' alot of macs whose road apple classifications I disagree with as well, for example, one of them is probably the Mac IIsi (was it a road apple?) and even the *OTHER* 5300 useful lil' buggers they are. both 5300 series

But, FirstClass isn't graphic or power intensive, the Classic can have over 50 people hooked up at once and they won't use much bandwidth. If each person used 1KB/s and that was cycled between users, it would be speedy.

Not to mention Cory that FirstClass was one of the first suites that let you resume downloads.

Your area will most likely have messages and feedback, with your mailbox. I am not sure if the mailbox can be hooked online, I believ it's internal mail. Not quite sure though.

Oh, can anyone tell me why I can't double tap-click the touch pad on the PB5300ce? [I now that on my two Alps adb touch pads I can…]

As for why you can't double-tap the touchpad, poke about in the control panels (try "Trackpad", "Mouse" or "powerbook"). IIRC, there is some setting for that. Also the double-click speed (in "General Controls") might be too fast.

G4From128k

Personally I'm not a fan of the 5300 either though, I've worked on a fair few and they sucked pretty badly. the memory socket had snapped off one of the ones I saw and the LCD screen cacked it putting vertical lines through everything. A friends colleague got one when it was brand new, one with a flaming battery!

If you get one that works fair enough, but I'd never fork out any money for one.

There are guides on the net how to do it somehow.

Apple's real Road Apples were the ones that used IDE and had faulty chips and designs which rendered them completely useless, much like the Performa 3200CD and others. I remember a client of mine had a 3200 and the thing crawled. And OS 8 refused to install because of that chip problem Apple had, and I even took it in and they said it passed the test ok. So, a true Road Apple.

I think the Road Apples are ones where Aple decided to cheap out and it had a horrible effect on the machine, like those Performa series, which were buggy and the data access rate and cpu/bus design was so slow that updating the screen was slow and cumbersome.

I found a place that has batteries, but they Are gonna be 200 Dollars Canadian. I'll save up on that one.

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You need to be careful with SRAM cards, they are very volatile because they are essentially just regular memory that is powered by a small battery, which dies after several years. The fact that they use regular memory is probably also what makes them fast.

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I mean... look at it this way.

You have a Performa 5260/120, so you know what speed it is even, and then you have a Macintosh LC with the 12" color monitor..

I obviously wanted to use the 5260

but compare them to a 5400/180, or even a 5400/120… so much better…
the 5260/100's really were way too slow…

Oh well, it still works (other than the hard drive), after resoldering the ac adaptor socket twice, washing the mobo twice after my sister's "mountain dew incident", and being dropped 6 feet.

It is being replaced by a powerbook g4 12" superdrive that I just ordered

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and yes, I am completely aware of the shortcomings of this series of computer, 5200 (and both 5300s) but theyre still macs, they still have their place and still deserve as much love and respect as someone can muster for them....

If it won't run OS8, then I have OS7.5/7.6 somewhere around here, it'd make a great TV with or without OS8, it'll still run older versions of Office, and if it'll run OS9, it runs almost everything I could do with OS9 on the TiBook, just slower, smaller, and a bit less at a time.

Isn't this exactly the same rationale we use with our 68k's?

anyway, if the motherboard is ÜberBorked, they make really nice cases for 630's....

I didn't know people actually DID that!

Apple kept this design with it's Performas and Consumer PowerMacs for a very long time, because it was successful... *NOT* because it offered businesses that bought hoardes of 580's the chance to up themselves to something closer of a 200MHz 603e for half the price of a 7300 (or whatever.)

that's IMHO anyway, while that kind of stuff was possible, the performas weren't he business machines.

MANY apple products and product lines have had interchangeable parts, like the PSU in the IIci, IIvi, IIvx, IIcx, p600 and PowerMac 7100...

= semi or joke.

Apple was being kind, what better way to replace a twisted logic board with it's brother, it's all in the family! (Notice the wink, I'm not being serious here! Seriously!

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