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... and you'd be amazed if I were to tell you about the number of bitterly-fought wars that have been caused by disagreement about cheeses. de

Maintenance? HDD: file defragmentation/file-directory repair/archiving files (to maintain less than 85% fullth [a technical term]). Break-and-make of all connector-socket junctions. Cable-integrity check, especially the HDD cables where they exit from the fold-up part of the chassis if you...

A visit here will be easy, quick, and—in my own experience—entirely reliable. de

Not really. I just turn to the tray in which I keep all my special tools for working on computers … de

Without, in any way, contesting the ease of take-apart/repair in the PB140 and higher (I don't own a PB100), I feel obliged to advance the PB500 and PB1400 as coming out of the same easeful heritage. Doubting Thomas has only to attempt servicing of an iBook or newer to appreciate the older PBs. de

System 7.1 will run well in 8MB of physical RAM, but System 7.1.3 will run even better. It takes a little work, since you have to 'construct' it for yourself, but it allows many retrofits from System 7.5. Even better, it enables use of Open Transport 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, which will make networking...

8MB 0f physical RAM is not a bad complement, and implies that you have a 4MB daughter-card in place already. There is built-in VRAM enough to support mirroring on a CRT (two distinct groups of VRAM chips) if you wish. You can already support System 7.5, perhaps a little breathlessly under some...

The necessity for the system battery to approach its full 7.5V (NOTE: not full charge) before a depleted backup battery will recharge you will find many references to in these forums. The ceiling for physical RAM in PB1xx (excepting the PB100) is 14MB of physical RAM. However, the PB180c...

A few extra nuggets of information about the System on the Classic II, what you are using as 'server' to the Classic II's 'client', whether you are connecting into a LAN or directly via crossover cable, and whether you have the almost-obligatory 10Base-T hub between the Classic II and LAN or...

If the 840av is indeed the successor to/baton-carrier after the 950 it may well have both internal and external SCSI buses. While, theoretisch, the two should be independent, is it possible that your CD drives and HDDs with common SCSI IDs are conflicting? That could be the source of the...

'Nothing to do with it' may not be on target if your lack is the correct firmware version for the newer G4. The DA requires 4.2.8f1. The QS in all likelihood needs 4.4.8f2, and OS 9 to install it. It's worth your investigation. de

Can only sympathize. It's a happenstance that you will meet often when you try to shoehorn a different drive from the original into an an enclosure. The LED activity light's socket on a flying lead will almost never be suitable (usually far too massive to fit between as well as across a pin...

You didn't mention the Macs to which the external drive may be attached. This can be significant, depending as the Mac(s) have a single internal/external bus or both internal and external buses. If there is only one bus, the external drive must have a different SCSI ID from that of any other...

Has the QS its original (at release) software? That is, 10.1.2/9.2.2. Is your problem confined to OS 9 environment? Large drive support under OS 9 should be present, but you can check by looking in System Folder for the version numbers of Mac OS ROM (10.2.1) and the three Classic support...

Try starting from cold (ie, not a warm reboot). Press and hold in the 'T' key for as long as it takes the card to strut its stuff and cycle through the available configurations. Each will appear for about 4sec, giving you a rectangle with a more-or-less readable message that changes the...

On an iBook G3 Applications CD I have just noticed the bare application Acrobat Reader 5.0 (76.6MB) from 13/12/2001. That reminded me that I also have the installer for patch Acrobat 5.1.0 EFG (15.9MB) from 14/12/2001. If these interest you, why not PM me? de

Olde-mac-milt usually carries HDD cradles for the IIci/IIcx/Q700, which he groups together. I have one of each of those Macs, and can verify that they use a common (with minor variations) cradle. I don't know any of the other potential users of that particular cradle, but it is not impossible...

I have been, since reading it some years ago, persuaded that there was never a Retail OS 9.2.2 CD, although Retail OS 9.2.1 certainly exists as [Z-]691-3334-A. This is not a terminal impasse, however, for both 9.2.x Updates are available for download...

In the light of the discussion and listing in this thread, what could be of interest to you? My Install and Restore CDs for the immediately preceding iBook (600MHz/14-in/8MB VRAM)—OSs 10.1.2 and 9.2.1—will inevitably contain Apple's selections from 2001 rather than ATi's later versions, as...

Or the equivalent from SuperMac or MicroMac. The DayStar IIsi adapter has the legends under the slots 'For PDS Cards Only' (upper) and 'For DayStar Cache Cards Only' (lower). de