What machine are you installing 7.1 on, and do you have another old Mac to verify the network disk you made? Pretty much any Mac that came with a floppy drive will boot from the 7.…

The local Goodwill used to have the main store (standard botique setup, albeit larger), something called "Buy the Pound" (which sounds like your clearance centre), and an electroni…

I have never seen a Clearance Center. They operate "Clothing Stores" and stores called "ComputerWorks" around here, but there may be a large repository of donated items that isn't…

Yeah, I was planning on swapping the whole display assembly from the 180 into the 165's case. The only thing I need off the 165 is the back plastic, as the one on the 180's has a h…

The SimplyTV card would have its own VRAM, which is how it would be able to support the extended desktop. I haven't played around with mirrored displays in the Classic Mac OS for a…

The SimplyTV card would have its own VRAM, which is how it would be able to support the extended desktop. I haven't played around with mirrored displays in the Classic Mac OS for …

OK... i'm really not looking foreword to all of those disk swaps. would it be possible to install from my iMac via a network? Click to expand... Network installs work for most …

For the classic Apple monitors, the sense lines are only sampled at power-on time. So fiddling with the switches without power cycling won't give you the "true picture".

OK... i'm really not looking foreword to all of those disk swaps. would it be possible to install from my iMac via a network?

formatting a floppy took 10 minutes! like... 10kbps slow. 512kbps isnt slow...

So I had to just turn the machine off before the install finished and now when I boot up I get the old "The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be …

Wow... i didnt know floppies were so slow... Click to expand... 500kbps slow? Sheesh, back in my day.....

Wow... i didnt know floppies were so slow... Formatting... Verifing format... Re-Verifying format...

nevermind, i got it to work

An alternative to 7.1.1 is 7.5.3 (freely available from Apple; no need to download an unauthorized OS release of dodgy ancestry). If the size bothers you, just use Gamba's "digital…

This thing is like new tho, i've seen alot on ebay that are yellow and marked up. They are really heavy... I thought the emac was heavy... but since this is my only "Classic" mac…

IRC, and as I understood it back in the day . . . :-/ Apple's botched (read as intentionally crippled, IMHO) implementation of IDE on the Q630 will ONLY address IDE HDDs. I…

I owned two for a while; I did like them a lot but they are really heavy. Nevertheless, nice score!

Nope, just push up on the tab and pull out. It's possible that the hard drive was never touched, and after 10 years, it might take some force to get it out. Click to expand... …

Where did your "Programs" disk come from? Scribbling the word "Programs" on a disk with a crayon isn't going to fool it.

Yeah they are unique, that's why I like it. I also like it for expandability also... But they are heavy tho... 60lbs... my G5 is 50lbs...

Nope, just push up on the tab and pull out. It's possible that the hard drive was never touched, and after 10 years, it might take some force to get it out.

nope, none are mentioned in the Service Source guide at this stage.

are there any screws?

I am going to check the IDE connector on every laptop I upgrade from now on! Click to expand... No, you are going to check any work you do, BEFORE you apply power. Come on, thi…