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    Looking to give away Beige G3 tower, QuickSilver G4

    Hi, all. I have an beige G3 tower and a QuickSilver G4 that have been doing nothing but collect dust for years. Would this be an appropriate place to try and find new owners for each of them? If so, I can post pictures. The G3's case is missing a piece that I removed to create a little bit of...
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    PowerMac Networking Setups

    Hi people, I'm curious on hearing what you guys do for networking on a PowerMac. It can be really just anything, some examples being: Any cool WiFi/BT related upgrades, multiple ethernet cards, network file-sharing, best web browsing setup, web-hosting, etc etc.. I'm curious on seeing what you...
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    PowerMac G3 B&W no signal

    Hello everyone, So I got an old PowerMac G3 Blue and White off eBay. At first, I had problems with getting a signal. I reseated the RAM a few times and everything worked again. Last night I was writing a text on Mac OS 8.5.1 and then I turned the Mac off. This morning, I wanted to use it...
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    Using ATX PSU with beige G3?

    Hi, I just recently got a beige G3 desktop, but the power supply seems to be dying. I heard that these support ATX PSUs but I'm still not entirely sure. I read on one site that you need to change some wires, but on another it says it'll work fine without any mods. Checking the pinouts, pin 18...
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    B+W Powermac G3 Wont go to Open Firmware or Bootpicker

    Hi, I'm fairly new to the world of PowerPC macs, and I have recently picked up a B+W Powermac G3 tower, and after a bit of fiddling with an unhappy PCI card, the machine now boots to the OS 9.2 install on the internal hard disk. However, I want to get to the boot picker to install Linux on the...