iBook G3 (550mhz overclocked) serving as a Firewire target disk for my new acquisition, a Pismo Powerbook upgraded to a G4 by @dosdude1. I picked it up in trade for my Powercenter Pro G3. Love this little thing, Very pleased with it.
Apple System Profiler showing the new clockspeeds.
SHEESH I forgot how difficult these were to take apart.
I'm glad that apple smartened up and make the macbooks easy to work on.
Tore my iBook apart to repair a mild overclock I had performed on it almost 15 years ago.
Raised the bus speed from 66mhz to 100, and the CPU clock from 500 to 550mhz. A mild bump that makes it a little snappier.
I needed to make the repair since someone was interested in trading me for a G3 powerbook.
I still need to get some 12v regulators so I can knock the 18.5v of the apple PSU down to use for a DVD burner. This system is going to be my workbench computer and i need it to do floppy and optical burning. Going to try to wedge a 3.5" MO drive in there too, 2 of my classic machines have them and i love it as a format.
Little mods here and there improve it as I go along.
Mini Displayport to Displayport adapter, to a displayport to DVI adapter mounted to an old GPU PC plate so I can have external access to the video connector.
Also made a 180 USB connector so I can keep the USB Floppy drive cable internal and not have to snake it in and out of the case.
I still need to 3d print an I/O shield plate, but im going to wait until i have a USB hub for that. Tape will do for now.
Its got a little party trick too
At a good stopping point now. Its a functional machine and the rest of what I need to do is going to be a little more involved. Need to figure out how to get 12v for running full size drives, add a USB 3 hub internally for more expansion, and print up some port shields for the back. But right now it's going to serve duty as my workstation computer.
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