power macintosh g3

  1. wottle

    The black Mac no one asked for (Powermac G3 All-In-One Molar)

    So, I had picked up a pair of G3 AIO machines recently. Unfortunately on one the right side of the case was badly scratched with terrible black marks. On the other, the left panel had damage. So I took the two good sides, retro-brighted them and took the best internal parts and made a good stock...
  2. VicNor

    SATA SSD on a Power Macintosh G3

    Introduction My usual setup: IDE bus 0: the original hard drive (cable select/master) IDE bus 1: the original CD-ROM (master), passive IDE to CF adapter (slave). I’ve got the StarTech IDE2SATA adapter that I just pulled out of my iMac G3 (2nd gen), together with its Sandisk SSD. It works...
  3. VicNor

    Failing to install Jaguar on Power Macintosh G3

    Introduction I’ve recently gotten a Power Macintosh G3 Desktop 266 MHz, 384 Mb RAM with a working 4Gb hard drive with a semi-corrupt partition. After some investigations I found out that it had a failed install of Jaguar (10.2.3) on it. But the hard drive also had a working version of OS 9.0...
  4. SadMac

    Molar Mac (Power Macintosh G3) Upgrades!

    Hey everyone, I am proud to say that I finally got my Molar Mac restored and working! I currently am going to outfit it with three 256mb low profile modules but, that’s the only upgrade I will have done minus a full recap of all three circuit boards inside. My question to all of you is what...