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Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391841] Sat, 28 December 2019 14:22 Go to next message
Barry Cross is currently offline  Barry Cross
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I need an internal DVD drive for my Apple Mac G3 the bondi blue model.
The current drive is U/S, discs get jammed in it.
I would appreciate it if someone could help me out, with either a drive or where I could get one.

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Re: Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391842 is a reply to message #391841] Sat, 28 December 2019 14:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bolling Holt is currently offline  Bolling Holt
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Just got a DV SE this week and noticed discs get jammed in it. If you have
one stuck in there, I have been able to get them out by putting two credit
cards in the drive, on below disc and one on top, apply pressure, and
extracting it. The old drives may be repairable with some lubrication or
something. Haven't looked into it yet ;)

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 1:22 PM Barry Cross <ygwerin@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need an internal DVD drive for my Apple Mac G3 the bondi blue model.
> The current drive is U/S, discs get jammed in it.
> I would appreciate it if someone could help me out, with either a drive or
> where I could get one.
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Re: Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391843 is a reply to message #391841] Sun, 29 December 2019 06:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 7:22 PM Barry Cross <ygwerin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need an internal DVD drive for my Apple Mac G3 the bondi blue model.
> The current drive is U/S, discs get jammed in it.
> I would appreciate it if someone could help me out, with either a drive or where I could get one.
>
As alternative, how about using a different machine to create images
of the DVD/CD disks, and mounting the images ?

Cheers

Arne

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Re: Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391844 is a reply to message #391843] Sun, 29 December 2019 11:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
William is currently offline  William
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Hi Can you give some more details.

Is it a G3 B/W desktop tower or a G3 iMac Bondi slot loader.

Will

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:19 AM shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq931@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 7:22 PM Barry Cross <ygwerin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I need an internal DVD drive for my Apple Mac G3 the bondi blue model.
>> The current drive is U/S, discs get jammed in it.
>> I would appreciate it if someone could help me out, with either a drive
> or where I could get one.
>>
> As alternative, how about using a different machine to create images
> of the DVD/CD disks, and mounting the images ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Arne
>
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Re: Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391845 is a reply to message #391844] Tue, 31 December 2019 13:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Barry Cross is currently offline  Barry Cross
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It's a Desktop slot loader.
I know how to get discs out, but quite frankly that's such a chore that the last thing I ever want to do is try and use the drive at all.
I would prefer to take out the original drive and replace it with a working one.

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Re: Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391846 is a reply to message #391845] Tue, 31 December 2019 13:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I completely understand. I just didn't know if you had a disc stuck in
there. I upgraded the ram to 1 gig in mine last night, and with that I did
a fresh install of Tiger. It was not fun trying to get the discs out LOL.

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:24 PM Barry Cross <ygwerin@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a Desktop slot loader.
> I know how to get discs out, but quite frankly that's such a chore that
> the last thing I ever want to do is try and use the drive at all.
> I would prefer to take out the original drive and replace it with a
> working one.
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Re: Mac G3 Blue DVD drive [message #391847 is a reply to message #391846] Wed, 01 January 2020 00:15 Go to previous message
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Interesting... a desktop slot loader.
I bought one early this year and haven't tho't to check the DVD drive. The
one I had at Disney had a tray loading DVD.

I used macs early on in my life but abandoned them for NeXT in '88. The
blue+white has appeal to me coz it ran a variety of incarnations of
post-NeXTStep, including OSX. But OSX was slow slow slow on the blue+white
compared to the earlier releases.

I'd like to make a backup of the hard drive... since it's obviously
ancient. What do y'all use to boot with on the old ATA-3 / PATA
interfaces. Would like to install Rhapsody and DP1 on one or more drives
just ot have around. Rhapsody ran really nicely on that machine... as well
as various Dell machines I used to use for business reasons. I just found
all those old disks... yellow box/NT etc hehe. I think I ran yellow box on
XP when it came out too.

Thomas

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> I completely understand. I just didn't know if you had a disc stuck in
> there. I upgraded the ram to 1 gig in mine last night, and with that I did
> a fresh install of Tiger. It was not fun trying to get the discs out LOL.
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:24 PM Barry Cross <ygwerin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's a Desktop slot loader.
>> I know how to get discs out, but quite frankly that's such a chore that
>> the last thing I ever want to do is try and use the drive at all.
>> I would prefer to take out the original drive and replace it with a
>> working one.
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