Great plan! Just a note, it would be wise to ask for any SCSI hard drives, as the converters go for chump change on eBay.

good luck!

Oh, and i asked my grandma who works at a school to ask the computer guy if they had some spare parts, i made a list of what i want, and it included 50 pin scsi harddrives! *cross…

ok. I don't have enough pocket money to get it right now, but i'm assuming that you searched for 'Apple SCSI hard drive' to get that?

here's the compatible systems. / 350MHz or a 400MHz / 500MHz or faster Click to expand... Wait - what about the Summer 2000 iMac DV+ 450MHz? Which side of the line does that f…

tada! Ok. When you install ram in a G5, it is NOT like the old power macs. The olds ones were like this 1|2|3|4|5 1|2|3|4|5. The new PowerMac G5s go likes this 4|3|…

You definitely can. The shop where I bought my HD from has a stack of 68-pin and 80-pin 9.1 GB SCSI hard drives for $5 each and I bet you can find them for that much somewhere …

You might find my travails with a 450MHz slottie informative. availability of iMac G3's in Melbourne Click to expand... is indeed pretty decent, especially if you look …

Oh, yeah. the cheapest 50 pin scsi hd i found on eBay was like... $17.

yeah, well i doubt i'll find a scsi harddrive for like... $4. I spent all of my pocket money on the LC III, the monitor adaptor, and the PC floppy drive, and i am not getting mone…

BTW, for those SCSI HDs, try searching at mom-n-pop computer stores which have a used parts bargain bin. I found my 9.1 GB Seagate (that's currently in my Macintosh LC 475) at one …

I'd hope to think the availability of iMac G3's in Melbourne would be otherwise quite good. Even if you can pick up a cheap iMac G3, you could transplant the case plastics and the …

I'll get a bigger HD when this ELS one fails!

This sounds to me like the power supply is the problem. When you take the CRT out of the work load, the "FLUP" sound was much faster, which tells me to check for proper voltage go…

4) Dealing with an "unsupported" port of a new-to-me OS to PPC w/a klugeware, patch on a hack on a . . . . Click to expand... It's not quite as dire as all that. "Unsuppor…

Nice haul. Was that a car boot sale or something? It's hell here trying to get any old stuff. If you go to the vintage mac section on ebay.ie and filter the results to "Ireland onl…

Alright, when you get a bigger hard drive then. xDD

Huh? Are you talking about a 10.1" HP Mini NetBook or an HP NoteBook? Click to expand... Apparently the full title is "HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC ". It has an Atom, real hardisk,…

No... 2 system folders would occupy too much space on my puny 80MB ProDrive ELS. I'll just install 7.6.1; i allready converted all 19 install disks and its disk tools disks to a f…

iMac600, This sounds to me like the power supply is the problem. When you take the CRT out of the work load, the "FLUP" sound was much faster, which tells me to check for proper …

Very nice job, 4season! Be proud of the success you have accomplished. Just keep practicing with those type of skills and they will get you someplace in life. I guess that Class…

WHY????? Wasn't it slow enough for you under XPHome3? Click to expand... It never ran XP Home, it came with XP Pro ( and Vista Basic ). It's now XP Pro SP3. Click to expand.…

WHY????? Wasn't it slow enough for you under XPHome3? Click to expand... It never ran XP Home, it came with XP Pro ( and Vista Basic ). It's now XP Pro SP3.

I have just built my "HP Mini 2140" a month ago from scratch. I used the XP Pro SP2 install disk plus the drivers from the additional HP application disk. No real problems except h…

The easiest thing to do is run two System Folders, one with 7.5.5 and one with 7.1, and use System Picker to switch between the folders.