Recent content by sunvalleylaw

Thank you! that helps me confirm what I have been researching. And thanks also for the heads up on the main wiring harness. I was planning on replacing my PSU as it has not been recapped. As far as video/greyscale cards and accelerators, will be keeping my eyes open for units available to...

This has been very helpful. Thank you for the question and post, and thank you @zigzagjoe for your answers.

OK, here it is! I have been excited about this. Figured out from the UPS store today. First a little unboxing. It was packed very well, in my opinion. Hooked everything up. The newer keyboard that doesn’t have the rainbow apple seems to work better as the Q key seems to be stuck on the one...

This should get here Thursday!

Did some futzing and figured out prior owner installed an ATI Rage 128 with a VGA port from a newer G3. Which was good because I chose the wrong resolution for the M4551 Studio Display and lost all visuals and couldn't get it back for a while. So I went and got a used Acer with VGA and hooked...

I am going to have quite a few of these “duh” rookie vintage moments as I get going on remembering how to use these old machines and operating systems and programs. Thanks all, in advance for your patience… 😊

Yeah, I realized that. I have just 2MB VRAM.

The combination is up and running! But not sure I’m getting all I can out of the monitor. It doesn’t look like the settings are allowing me to use all the colors it can, and get as much brightness and clarity as I should be able to. I’ll read more and try to figure out more later.

The combination is up and running! But not sure I’m getting all I can out of the monitor. It doesn’t look like the settings are allowing me to use all the colors it can, and get as much brightness and clarity as I should be able to. I’ll read more and try to figure out more later.

Just finished watching the final final last night, and enjoyed it. I was trying not to be too critical of plot or whatever and just enjoy the characters I came to love over the course of the show. I was a bit older than they were in those years, being in college when the show started, and...

I now remember that first personal PC I ever saw. It was my friend and roommate's Commodore Pet (II, I believe). He later went on to work for Apple and later than that, ended up doing very well in tech. It was my study partner in law school who had the Compaq, which was sort of a "portable"...

So cool! I have a G3 PowerMac Beige coming and am quite interested in this!

Found this for cheap at the Reuseum computer recycler in Boise that does STEM Education supported by their sales. Was interested in what they might have to start me off on my vintage frolic. found this thing. It turns out people ask a lot for these on eBay. I will use it with the Beige G3...

As I got started into considering vintage, found this monitor at the local computer and electronics recycler which also runs and supports with sales STEM programs in Boise. Seems like it sells, or is at least offered, for a lot as it was the first Apple LCD display. Anyhow, got that for 20...

Just getting into the vintage scene, after using Macs basically my whole life, and the life of that line too. Starting in 1984. I did an intro thread in the appropriate place also! :) Got this machine to start with. It has been recapped and upgraded as listed below. The SE?30 board was...