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Final update on this topic.  With all the shenanigans I've been doing with the SCSI2SD I/F and the LC475, my ProDOS partitions have been copied a lot and the Apple IIe card would no longer boot from them.  After scratching my head a bit, I made copies of the partitions and booted the IIe card...

I wanted to update this for everyone.  I decided to take a different tack on this issue and work with SCSI drives to see if it would make a difference.  So I ordered a SCSI2SD version 5 and version 6 adapters to see if they would work any better than the backups I was doing before.  Yesterday, I...

There is a wrinkle I thought of this morning that I haven't mentioned because I thought it shouldn't matter.  The external SCSI backup HD is less than a gigabyte in size so I don't have any place to put all my copied files locally.  With a IIe card mounted, the LC475 ethernet network connection...

Thanks rickrob, I tried booting from a floppy and used the Startup Disk to select the first partition but it made no difference.  It didn't fix the System Folder.  I haven't tried 'System Picker' yet. What I did do was reinstall 7.5.3 from floppy and upgrade to 7.5.5.  The using the "Installing...

Thank you just.in.time for your suggestion.  I tried it and rebuilt the desktop files all Mac partitions.  But no change with the system file.  It's still a plain subdirectory icon. Gerry

Okay, I'm officially pissed.  I thought what I had done was fine but now I appear to have screwed myself so I need some help.  Here's what's going on. I replaced the System drive in my LC475 with an SCSI22SD version 5B and a 32GB SD card.  Of course I know I would have to partition the card and...

Good Evening all.  Since I have an SCSI2SD with 32GBs of storage on my LC475 to run OS 7.5.5 (with 136 MBs of RAM), I got rambunctious and decided to install OS 8.1 on a new miniSD card and remove the Apple IIe card and put in a Farallon LC ethernet card.  The installation went perfectly and the...

I googled this from Lifehacker: Remove the hard drive from the computer. Place the hard drive inside of a zip top freezer bag. (don't buy a cheap bag.) Place the wrapped hard drive inside of ANOTHER zip top freezer bag. (yes, you need to do this) Place the double wrapped hard drive in the...

If you want to go a completely different route, look for a SCSI2SD adapter as a drive replacement on eBay.  You can partition an miniSD card into multiple drives.  It works great in my LC475 with a 32GB miniSD card.  I installed OS 7.5.5 so I could use the Apple IIe card.  I just installed OS...

Very Cool!  Thanks for the feedback.  I forgot to ask about the best browser for a 68K Mac.  I have an LC475 with 128 MBs of RAM running 7.5.5 with a 10base-T network connection to the internet.  What's the best browser to use on this machine?  I like this Mac a lot and I love the older GUI but...

Good Afternoon everyone.  I have finished upgrading my slot loading iMac G3 DV with a 500 MHz G3, 1 GB of RAM and a 64 GB SD based IDE system drive running 9.2.2.  I have Netscape Communicator 4.77 which chokes on just about any website I go to.  I ran into Classilla 9.3.3 and it works a lot...

Wanted to give a small update.  The EN/SC I/F works fine but if idle for too long it goes to sleep.  I've been pinging the LC475 continously from the Mac Pro and after a while the it just stops responding.  When I turn on file sharing between the LC475 and the iMac G3 the I/F stays up and keeps...

I will add my 2 cents here.  I have an LC475 running a full 68040 processor with OS 7.5.5 and the Apple IIe card is installed.  I can run Apple II software as long as I'm in 24-bit addressing mode.  Since I have 128 MBs of RAM installed, I lose most of it to the OS in 24-bit addressing mode as I...

This is an informational post for anyone thinking about this.  I bought a used slot loading iMac G3 and added RAM to bring it up to 1 Gigabyte and the OS to 9.2.2.  I purchased an IDE I/F card for using an SD memory card instead of a spinning drive.  The original drive was a Maxtor 30 GB HD that...

Thank you EvilCapitalist.  You are right.  I turn on 32-bit addressing and now the largest unused block is 130,655K with the OS taking up only 4,345K.  Of course, I have to run 24-bit addressing to use my Apple IIe card but now I know how to resolve this issue. This is great!  Thanks again, Gerry

Okay, my second post for today.  This question is straight forward.  I've installed 7.5.5 on my LC475 which has 135,168K of RAM according to About this Macintosh.  The OS uses 131,268K and when I try to open a PDF, there's not enough RAM to display it.  What's going on and how do I put 7.5.5 on...

Good morning to everyone.  I hope your having a great day.  I'm new here and so I'll give you a little background.  I like to tinker with old Macs and PCs and right now my focus is on old Apple computers.  I own two fully functional Apple IIGSes that have Utheret cards so I can FTP over to my...

First of all, my thanks to omidimo for the link to the Mac Fixer website.  It's perfect for the mac software I'm looking for. To Byrd, I did some testing and whether the LC 475 is in 24-bit or 32-bit addressing mode, System 7.5.5 swallows up all the RAM as indicated through the Finder. The...

Sorry, I meant an early 2008 Mac Pro.  Great Machine.

To All: Hi, I'm Gerry.  I'm new here because I come from the Apple II world.  I belong (for some 30 years) to the still active OAC (Original Apple Corps) Users Group here in Santa Monica Ca.  With much of the group we discuss Macs since that's what people want help with but we also talk about...