Thanks - I will get to work on this.
First I will contact my friend with the 8500. I know he doesn't have a monitor but I'll search for one in my university (I need to look at his 8500 to see what the monitor connection is).
I will also look through my cardboard box of assorted SCSI cables as i had all sorts of peripherals a few years back (zip, scanner, printer, Syquest(?), CD-R x2 speed, ..
Hopefully I will have all I need and try to reformat the 160 HDD.
I will heed your advice and drop the idea of OS7.5. I will download OS7.1 from Apple downloads and install if all goes well.
Failing all this I will simply have to disconnect the HDD and locate someone who will install OS7.1 on it for me. Til then I will persevere ....
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As an aside, in case anyone is interested, a few reasons i want to use the 160 is that it will run Filemaker 2 (I have heaps of files I want to look at - old research data and stuff) and also us it as a demo model on my ICT course . I sometimes train teachers in ICT integration and 1 unit (3 hours) is development of ICT and trends in teaching. Basically, I ask them to convince me of the advances of technology in the past 15 years and I use my PowerBook 540c and a Newton and an Apple Quicktake 200 and a Stylewriter all connected , and working, just to show that what they usually say could have been said by trainee teachers 10 to 15 years ago! A greyscale PowerBook would be even more impressive I think. . It gets the students/ trainees to be more critical of tech advances, not be wowed by any technology, and re-focus their attention on teaching and learning theories.
Michael
First I will contact my friend with the 8500. I know he doesn't have a monitor but I'll search for one in my university (I need to look at his 8500 to see what the monitor connection is).
I will also look through my cardboard box of assorted SCSI cables as i had all sorts of peripherals a few years back (zip, scanner, printer, Syquest(?), CD-R x2 speed, ..
Hopefully I will have all I need and try to reformat the 160 HDD.
I will heed your advice and drop the idea of OS7.5. I will download OS7.1 from Apple downloads and install if all goes well.
Failing all this I will simply have to disconnect the HDD and locate someone who will install OS7.1 on it for me. Til then I will persevere ....
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As an aside, in case anyone is interested, a few reasons i want to use the 160 is that it will run Filemaker 2 (I have heaps of files I want to look at - old research data and stuff) and also us it as a demo model on my ICT course . I sometimes train teachers in ICT integration and 1 unit (3 hours) is development of ICT and trends in teaching. Basically, I ask them to convince me of the advances of technology in the past 15 years and I use my PowerBook 540c and a Newton and an Apple Quicktake 200 and a Stylewriter all connected , and working, just to show that what they usually say could have been said by trainee teachers 10 to 15 years ago! A greyscale PowerBook would be even more impressive I think. . It gets the students/ trainees to be more critical of tech advances, not be wowed by any technology, and re-focus their attention on teaching and learning theories.
Michael