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If it is totally dead, then you can always use the case to make a sleeper build... I have wanted to do that with an SE case, but I love my SE too much. I actually got my SE it for 10 dollars when I was in grad school back in 2011. It came with KB, mouse and a carrying case, as well as the...

I forgot to mention that this is a little significant to me since my first mac ever was a quadra 630, which was the same form factor. I remember upgrading that machine with a 6360 motherboard and putting in an apple tv video system, but alas, I eventually purged and it is no longer with me.

Yesterday I got a Performa 6300 in the mail. It was sold as-is, but they said it powered on, chimed, and the cd drive opened and closed, so I figured the odds were in my favor. I was right, not only does it work, but the hard drive is still good, with system 7.5.1 installed (I believe this was...

Thanks ArmorAlley. It just so happens that I have acquired a Performa 6300, so I was able to test the drive on that machine as well. Unfortunately still no go. I tried the CD in the internal CD-ROM for that machine and it loaded up fine. I am thinking something is wrong with the drive at this...

I looked in my extensions folder and saw that there was a CD-ROM extension, though I have not updated it. I also ordered a scsi terminator on eBay and installed it on the drive. Turned the drive on, booted up, inserted an original Lunicus CD from 1992ish, and nothing happened. I will try...

I'm not trying to boot, just load the actual cd when mac os is booted and at the desktop.

Mine is a tray  loading one. There isn't a terminator on the second port. I will try the drivers and the terminator, then I will get back. Thanks!

I paid a pretty penny for an external SCSI CD-ROM drive on eBay. It was listed as working. I have had one of these in the past and I don't remember the setup being that difficult, just plug it in and it works. But for some reason I can't get it working with my LC III. I noticed there were two...

You said it Unknown_K... I had some pretty awesome machines back when I was in high school. The funny thing is all I had back then pretty much was Christmas money, so it was that affordable at the time. Now I am kicking myself because I sold most of it or donated it.

I should mention, pretty much any time you access the internet from an older machine, you should have something modern in the middle anyways; a proxy server, an stunnel proxy, etc. For SSL, you pretty much need stunnel since modern ssl doesn't work with old browsers. But even the TCP/IP stack is...

Programming the web side of this sounds like it would be a living hell. Unless you plan to have some kind of middleman in-between. My guess is you would be using some kind of API from major shipping sites (UPS, USPS, etc.) or otherwise a web scraper. This would be nearly impossible to do...

Hmm, the last time I had a 630 (quadra I think) I could have sworn it had ethernet built in... maybe performas are different?

Yep, those have broken off for me too. I just settle for a mobo and fan that are loose inside the case.

I use the ones with the DIP switches, it is the only way I can get the resolution that I want. They are great. I think a standard VGA monitor with the DB15 to VGA adapter is the way to go. You can still find the old Apple DB15 CRT monitors online, but they are usually pretty expensive, and if...

I had a non-working Color Classic I bought from a lady in central Austin last year that I was able to get working after a recap of the logic board. That was definitely one of my favorite time capsules. It apparently belonged to an art student at some art university/institute in New York (I...

If it is just email you are interested in, then that is easy. Here is a link to my howto wiki: http://legacyweb.wikia.com/wiki/Modern_email_on_legacy_clients Sorry about the wiki platform I am using. Hopefully one day I can change it. If you have issues setting up, like provider-specific...

When it comes to things like YouTube, etc. then yes, hardware limitations would be pretty severe. As to everything else... javascript is constantly changing, as is openssl and other client-side web technologies. Keeping up with them is not trivial. There was a browser like you are describing...

I bought a cheap LC III on craigslist as well. After 25 years, that plastic gets really brittle. Be careful with those tabs, mine are completely broken off

My school had 610s as well when I was a kid. It was nostalgia for those machines that got me into the old mac hobby to begin with. It is also the reason why I got an LC III (that, and it was 15 dollars on craigslist :p ). I have been setting it up just like the ones at my old school, with...

I have a SCSI2SD in my LC III. I remember it took forever to initialize using the HD setup utility. I think it took like 30+ minutes to initialize a 2gb partition. The first time I did it, I created an image of the resulting volume and moved software onto it from Basilisk, as I didn't have an...