Recent content by mac27

Well unfortunately I've had no luck sourcing a replacement motherboard, so this machine and project are dead in the water until that happens. If anybody has a spare 366 MHz (or 466 MHz) FireWire iBook clamshell mobo they'd be willing to sell, or even a parts machine with one installed, let me know.

I see, that is good info. Presumably it had a SuperDrive? I was aware Apple was packing-in blank DVD-R discs with the towers equipped with them, but that's the first I've heard of it for a notebook. If you can provide the part number that'd be much appreciated.

The third and final portion of CompleteSet is now live, the "Documentation" category: This portion has been the trickiest of the three to pull together, and still needs a lot of work to fill in missing information. If you own a complete G3-G5 system and are willing to contribute information...

Well this was today's pickup ... an Xserve RAID in the box, along with the PCI card that's required to operate it with the G4/G5/Xserve. Definitely not something I ever thought I'd ever own, but a fellow collector in the local area was offering it at a price I couldn't say no to. I've never...

i assume you mean that just the display stopped working? On mine everything else still works (drives, caps lock light, speaker/chime) but just the display is impacted.

I've been going back and forth with the seller, and they suggested this. It makes me a bit nervous, as that also assumes there are also no OTHER differences between the panels (🤷🏼‍♂️) but unless anyone sees an issue with doing that, it's what I'll try next once I get a replacement motherboard.

I noticed a few weeks back that the display panel on one of my clamshells was beginning to succumb to vinegar syndrome. So after consulting with others more familiar with these than myself, I ordered a new replacement panel from the 'bay, making extra certain to match the original panel...

Today I am launching "Phase II" of CompleteSet, the "Accessories & Peripherals" category: I got good feedback from folks over email and elsewhere online from "Phase I" (software discs), and I've incorporated this feedback into the construction of this second phase. I thank everyone for your...

Thanks for sharing that, very useful to see it from the inside. Yeah, had a suspicion it might be painted. I would consider just literally taking the rear shell or the optical drive bezel into the paint store and having them color-match that, for the greatest degree of accuracy possible. I'll...

Man, nothing like some good ol' mushroom management and literally just deleting constructive feedback to quell the masses. Agree with you, not sure how they could have done a worse job beyond just taking out the whole site. Emphasis on the "we've said this before and not delivered." What a...

The front portion of the case on the eMac commonly yellows, probably due to exposure to UV light like with the older ABS plastics on Macs from the '80s and '90s. It ends up looking something like this: Interestingly it is just the front panel that does this, not the rear "shell" or the...

Yup, and I am working on copying all of the written exchanges with useful info I've had like this into a separate document. Though it is obviously somewhat "on hold" until if/when the site comes back up again. In this case it's probably only useful to me (at least for now), but depending on...

Given the constant and horrid unreliability, at this point it might be wise to assume that anything written/listed/stored/archived there WILL be gone at some point, soon. The admins clearly don't care whatsoever. Would encourage anyone who has anything of value to back it up immediately.

Done - I had a similar experience with mine. I did it on a concrete floor with a thin layer of vinyl on top. Little bits of chipping in the magnet but that's the cost of doing business I guess. On one side the shield popped off first, and then I had to separate the magnet separately, but on...