All compact Macs up to and including the initial release SE have signatures inside. Click to expand... Give or take a signature or two. Every time they modified the inside of t…

I have Never seen the silvery coating in any 128,512, Ke, or Plus... Click to expand... Neither have I. My eyes have only see the matte gray coating that feels slightly rough …

Fellow 68kmla'er wthww gave me a SCSI DVD-RAM drive last July, but I've never done anything with it. If someone figures out what drivers are needed, I too would be interested.

I think most of them have the coating, even as far back as the 128k. My 128k has it, I just assumed they all did. Here's a photo of the guts of a 128k, with the coating:http://kcom…

scsi dvd roms are out there and fairly plentiful, just expensive! Click to expand... I just bought an external Fantom Drive for $20 + $10 shipping on ebay. 8-o So it seems …

OS 7.6.1 can only boot from 2GB partitions, but can use anything you have left for non bootable partitions. OS 8.1 can boot from larger then 2GB partitions. Click to expand... …

Hmm... Do they have Steves signature inside? Click to expand... All compact Macs up to and including the initial release SE have signatures inside. Some later SEs are missing …

Hmm... Do they have Steves signature inside?

That's odd about the 2GB partition booting. My PowerBook 1400 is running 7.6.1 and has a 5GB drive in it (therefore partitioned to a single volume of 4.7GB). It boots up first time…

It wasn't necessarily a matter of functionality, since I already have a 512k, 512ke, and 3 Pluses. It was more for getting something I didn't already have. This 512k does have a SC…

OS 7.6.1 can only boot from 2GB partitions, but can use anything you have left for non bootable partitions. OS 8.1 can boot from larger then 2GB partitions. The early PPC macs had…

AAACK!!! part 2. I ended up having to go with OS 8.1 as it appears OS 7.6.1 only recognizes 2 gig or smaller. I also decided to pull the SCSI card as there seems to be conflict i…

It wasn't necessarily a matter of functionality, since I already have a 512k, 512ke, and 3 Pluses. It was more for getting something I didn't already have. This 512k does have a SC…

I started scraping away the coating using a putty knife. Seems to work pretty well, although I will have to finish it up with sandpaper. Will post results when I finish.

That's still a steal. Click to expand... Definitely... the carrying case alone, would have been worth driving 2 miles out of my way. It's not the typical Apple carrying case...…

No biggie; I'd rather have a 512k, anyway. They're more useful; more software will run on it.

Great epic find.

If you look in the SuperDuo thread in Hacks, I link to an ebay store with bare LCD panels of various sizes and costs, and he says he'll throw in a VGA converter board for $30 with …

hell even early G3s have trouble decoding DVDs. Click to expand... Add a Wired4DVD card and even a PPC601 or PPC604 can play DVDs well. It's a PCI card though, so no help for…

Yeah, the guy running Daystar Technology (Brian, I think?) is a swell guy. He's kept some excellent hardware on the market and brought some new stuff out that I never expected to …

That's still a steal.

If you look in the SuperDuo thread in Hacks, I link to an ebay store with bare LCD panels of various sizes and costs, and he says he'll throw in a VGA converter board for $30 with …

Quadraman's already conquered (conquested?) a SCSI DVD-RAM. He's asking how to use it with a Quadra. Now I may be entirely wrong about this, but my impression was that if you for…

Well, I just picked it up this morning... took it into work... opened the nice carrying case... and the back says 512k. Sigh. I'll have to open it up and take a peek at the guts, b…

You can use an IDE DVD ROM and a IDE to SCSI converter.