Yea, I figured that the whine was due to caps.. (all to familiar with audio circuits)

It's not offensive, so i'll tackle it later.

I'm thinking of putting a clean install of 7.0.1 or whatever would be the most recent OS that this machine can handle..

...other conflicts (aside from the lack of SCSI) are proving difficult to get around.

The software I'm trying to get working uses the printer or modem port to communicate with the sampling keyboard (Emu Emulator II) but it is failing to properly handshake.

The cable is fine + software + keyboard (I've used it on another Mac IIsi and that was fine)

I'm now thinking its some sort of driver (They are called extensions on this mac yes?) conflict.

so...If i own a PC, how do I go about

a- Getting the OS

b- Installing it on the Mac

I'll google away, but as before, any tips would be great.