via a floppy disk install involving roughly 30 or 40 floppy disks from memory. Click to expand... 8-o :O xx( :lol: :?: 8-o :'( :O LOL Thanks for the tips, i'll try out…

I'm willing to bet you have a MiniScribe hard drive. These drives were prone to failure in the first place and seem to be failing at an alarmingly high rate as of late due to age (…

1. In my experience, if you have to use it RAM Doubler is certainly a lot better than Apple Virtual Memory, but at the end of the day, there's no substitute for real RAM. 2. As fa…

As assumed earlier up, it has Ramdoubler. Is it any good, should i hold onto it when i reinstall? Its running 7.6 now and feels pretty good, but i might try 7.1 first, because i fo…

But your question is about formating because it is not that the 6100 has a HD size ceiling, but that either the drive you are using, or the software you are trying to format it wit…

Ah, whoops, my bad. :I

Newer Technologies made a SCSI micro-dock. I've seen them on eBay from time to time.

the warehouse i buy old apple computer gear from sells everything w/o hds (although the imac g3 and emac I bought had HDDs I assumed that was because they are just a bitch to get o…

Gorgonops, I think you have unearthed the most useful information. (And excellent research!) Funny though, that he didn't talk about sensitive information - of course I would have …

and I suggest you do some practicing, weather its taking apart some old electro junk or going down to radio shack and buying some random caps and a perf board, soldering and desold…

Trag sells new SE/30 tantalum capacitor replacement sets. http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4884 Info on replacing them is on the board.

Sorry, my bad, you need a long Torx T15. Here are some helpful hints from the Classic Mac Repair PDF: Obviously, it’s very dangerous to work on the innards of any line-powe…

Thanks Guys (or Gals?) I had an brain-wave and tried the Norton Utility Emergency Disc - it booted beautifully (if painfully slowly), I asked it to search the SCSI network, and it…

The recycler in question wasn't this company, was it? http://www.recycleapc.com/ Parent company homepage here Looks like they host collection events... and actually, never mind,…

Regardless of SCSI IDs, I still get a grey screen. I'd like to try SCSIProbe, but the problem is that if I connect ANY external SCSI device, I get a grey screen, and the floppy dri…

"go to places like Japan or Nigeria" Click to expand... Yes, I've noticed that the Wall St Journal always puts Japan and Nigeria in the same bracket. Perhaps the bloke should h…

What would be a method to figure out whether it was the recycling company or apple who made the decision? As the guy obviously hadn't cataloged the donated computers yet (all of t…

Wow, great conquests!

It works fine, some games that it came with needed a bit of cleaning. It does smell a little like cigarette smoke but I've had to grow up with that smell so it doesn't bother me. A…

Could it be possible that the SCSI port is bad? Thanks! Click to expand... It's always possible. Have you gone though all the options, with/without termination, check ids, wit…

The issue here is not apple. It was most likely a lie. And that is going to just end up in china and be burned. Its the recyclers wanting MONEY per pound of "Junk".

Archived version of the same page Works fine for me.

The floppy disk is vital, and a X icon means that: 1: your disk has somehow gone bad 2: your floppy drive is dead (but I doubt it) 3: no bootable/corrupt System Folder on the di…

I doubt Steve gives a crap about 20 year old computers (that were built when he wasn't even at Apple at the time).

It means that the OS is corrupt or your HD has gone kaput. The Floppy disk could have also gone bad. Do you hear the HD spin up has it turns on?