I finally unbuttoned the prettier of my two 5300ce-s and got quite a surprise. Not only did it have a couple of screws loose, like yours truly, but most of the screws that belong inside her are missing!

There was a loose 16MB Card rattling around in there too! :approve:

So this little puppy and I are gonna get along just fine! :lol:

I've been booting it off Beater 1G, the 1GB Compact Flash Card/Adapter in my troubleshooting kit. It has an OS9 install "for any Macintosh" for testing Beater, my maxed out G3/1400c and now the Wallstreets and Pismos that are cluttering up the joint.

Back to the hack! :approve:

I stuck one of my LapisColor MV-16 ENs in there and installed the software, but apparently, it doesn't like OS9!

It works ok, but will only do 800 x 600 @ 16bit and 640 x 480, which I didn't even bother to try. I'll have to put another one in the uglier 5300ce for testing. The HDD's on board w/8.5 on it in Fugly Duckling. The pretty one doesn't even have the HDD cable! I'm sure I can dig another one out.

There's a, brand spankin' new, $10.29 "SD Flash Memory to 2.5" IDE Adapter as Hard Disk" waiting to be plugged into the missing cable and a brand new Kingston 2GB MicroSD Chiplet w/Adapter waiting to be plugged into that . . .

. . . unless I go for the 4GB HP SD Card.

So which OS should I install for the time being . . . :?:

. . . given the meager 32MB RAM/117MHz Proc configuration of ScrewBall . . .

. . . for the moment . . . while I figure some new twists to screw around with her? }

p.s. For the nonce, TWO 800 x 600 x 16bit screens are at least twice as nice as just ONE! :approve: