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  1. svanimpe

    Restoring a Quicksilver

    I have both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs. The machine seems to be quite finicky when reading discs (at least in OS 9). Sometimes it doesn't even detect there's a disc in the drive, other times, it reads and writes the same disc just fine 🤷‍♂️ Update: I've finally gotten Tiger installed by burning the...
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    Restoring a Quicksilver

    Hi everyone, I'm trying to restore a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver back to a usable state with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The hardware seems to work fine, but I'm having a lot of issues upgrading the software: I have the machine's restore disks, which installed both OS 9.2 and OS X 10.0. I first tried to...
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    iMac G4 replacement screens

    Does anyone know of a way to source a replacement screen for a 15" iMac G4? The machine has a broken screen (impact damage) but is otherwise working fine, so if I can find a new screen for it, I'd like to fix it up again.
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    Que Drive for iMac G3

    I'm looking at picking up an iMac G3 that is advertised as having an external CD-RW drive. I know of this brand of drives, but this particular model seems to have an IDE connector instead of USB or FireWire. The seller doesn't have any cables, so I'm wondering how I can power this drive and...
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