back in the day i used to use the IBM models of the 1GB and 2GB drives they were cheap enough... had to use the hacked SC setup though...

IIRC, for 8.1 you need to install the OS as a "fat binary" system containing both 68k and PPC code. I think you do this by selecting to install "For any Mac"

Going to try System Enabler 065 version 1.0 tomorrow with enabler 403. Hopefully that will work.

I'll Talk french as you also talk it Alors que WOW est un bien y trouver. Je voudrais pouvoir de Got cela, mais wow that guy a utilisé la brique StyleWriter Power. Il faut qu'i…

Yea I knew they only had one slot in the I-book I even just meses my 9 installed but that is another story and the added ram runs ines fine

Added System Enabler 403 to the System Folder, still nothing when trying to boot off the 7.6.1 CD with 575 board. Got Sad mac face at boot, when I tried to boot off the 8.1 CD . T…

anyone know what the LCD model number is for the active matrix? i got a ton of active matrix LCDs laying around, might have one that compatible....

That didn't work either.

I think I'm going to give System Enabler 1.1 a shot and replace the 1.0 enabler with that on the hard drive. Then boot off the 7.6.1 CD with the 575 board installed. I'll give you…

Update: Put barebones System Folder I extracted from 7.6.1 CD-ROM which I then put on a boot disk CD-ROM, booted from disk, copied System Folder to HardDisk with the System Enabler…

I have experienced SimasiMac on multiple SE/30 logic boards. SimasiMac in its truest form is a set of HORIZONTAL bars that are very clean with no stray pixels here and there. The…

I can't get this machine to install the Mac OS with the 575 motherboard. The original motherboard that came with the Color Classic is missing ram and gives me out of memory messag…

Seconded. I use a PowerMac 8500 all the time and its PRAM battery is dead, so I have to set the date each time I power it up (I turn off the outlet strip to it at night). Recently …

merry xmas fellow RCers! :-*

SemperFi94, THAT is a classic symptom of what is called "Simasimac", or "Zebra-like pattern". I refer you to the following link below: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/rep…

well when I get back from my parents this evening Ill have a 50 pin cable to test out this wd I have

Yeah I know

I would have thought that it should work straightforwardly under 7.6.1; the ppc upgrade cards reportedly required only 7.5.2 (buggy) or above. There was a NuPower extension that we…

yea but geez expensive enough

Would this fit? http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-Hawk-SCSI-Hard-Drive-2Gb-50-Pin-ST32151N-APPLE_W0QQitemZ180411644860QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item2a015f3bbc#…

pretty much anything before the B&W G3's are going to be narrow scsi, you can find them on ebay, or if you want to wait abit longer I am going to have a 2 gig scsi drive po…

What type of Hard Drive does the Color Classic use, does it use SCSI or IDE? Also will 2GB be compatible with this machine, and where can I purchase one online? I'll be putting a …

Hello I have an old Mac SE/30 that, like the title says, won't boot properly. The guy I got it from said it was working fine the week before I got it but he was freeing up space on…

It's really not as old school as it could be, but I'm excited. It's an IBM Personal Computer 330. It was destined for the recycler at work and I'd ask if I could keep it (we have a…

Hello All, I've obtained a Nupower 117MHz Upgrade for my PowerBook 540c but do not have the software to install it! Can anyone help me? W@hat do I need exactly to run System 7.6.1…