Well it's been a long time since I reported back on my 5300.
I got the ZIP Drive working. What I did was to install MacOS 8.6. From there it just worked.
It's funny after using the machine and upgrading the RAM from 24MB to 40MB, it really makes me miss my old Pismo. God I loved that laptop. I used my BeigeG3MT to transfer the 8.6 installer and whatnot over to my hard drive via a USB enclosure. Copying a couple hundred megabytes of data across a USB 1.1 connection is not fun at all. However the machine is now up and running beautifully.
Now to find my Office 98 CD and install that. I am going to use Word mainly for ease of use when editing the documents on my PC or BeigeG3. Although I could use AppleWorks as well. Hmm...
I got the ZIP Drive working. What I did was to install MacOS 8.6. From there it just worked.
It's funny after using the machine and upgrading the RAM from 24MB to 40MB, it really makes me miss my old Pismo. God I loved that laptop. I used my BeigeG3MT to transfer the 8.6 installer and whatnot over to my hard drive via a USB enclosure. Copying a couple hundred megabytes of data across a USB 1.1 connection is not fun at all. However the machine is now up and running beautifully.
Now to find my Office 98 CD and install that. I am going to use Word mainly for ease of use when editing the documents on my PC or BeigeG3. Although I could use AppleWorks as well. Hmm...