Latest progress... found a 512Mb PC-133 stick in my RAM drawer and a 60Gb Barra drive I pulled out of an eMac in the cupboard, so Ive just taken out the test-RAM and test-drive and decided to throw them in in the interim until I get round to ordering a couple of new drives and some more RAM to fuel my various projects.

The eMac drive appears to have Tiger installed but it's hanging at the spinning flower so I'm gonna have to do a reinstall... Only issue being that at the moment I can only find my Panther discs, but not my Tiger disc. This is why I don't lend software. >

ALso found a pair of speakers with split surrounds that I'm going to perform some experimentation on with regards to preserving the old deteriorated surrounds with a flexible adhesive membrane such that they may still be lightly used without falling apart.