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Poppycock?! Sir, you cut me to the core. I challenge you to a duel - undischarged Compact Mac CRTs at dawn, 20 paces. Seriously, though, you do make a number of very good points, esp. about 8.1's Finder, and about it being a very good fit for well-equipped '040 systems.

Yeah, that's happened to me too. For better or worse, one really needs to decide almost instantly in these situations. Think about it for more than an hour or two, and often the opportunity's gone. But other opportunities will come along!

I agree, go for it. It's tough to imagine any scenario in which you couldn't get more than $100 parting them out if they turned out to be unfixable. And as others have said, if one of them can be saved, you can sell the other's case for about $100 alone.

They're actually not that much cheaper now. DDR2 sticks are dirt-cheap, but pc2700 DDR SODIMMs are still running about $80 for a pair of 1GB modules.

I think everyone has answered this question really well (intentionally or not): OS 8's real usefulness is pretty narrow: - Only one version is really of any use at this point: 8.6 - It's particularly well-suited only to a narrow range of Macs made in only two years - 1996 and 1997 - It's got...

This Powerbook originally came with OS 9.2.2 - which means it can't use earlier versions of the OS. So 9.0.1 won't work on it - it doesn't have the necessary support files. Your 9.2.2 disc appears to be an updater disc, yes? So it may or may not have all the necessary files even if you use...

I agree - looks like a VRAM problem. Could also be a bad VRAM module, or mismatched VRAM.

The 6100 supports up to 9.1, but you must install it from a 9.1 disc. You cannot boot a 6100 from a 9.0 install disc (even a retail one), so you can't install 9.0 or update to 9.1 from 9.0.

I used it a couple of times. Presents an authentic unix environment within OS 7/8, but it doesn't behave nicely - it runs as an app, meaning it can crash like any other app, and yet once you launch it you can't quit it without restarting your Mac. So in that sense it's sort of the worst of both...

Yeah, I have the exact same Hami model. I got it off eBay about three or four years ago, for about $150US shipped form Hong Kong. It's an 8.4" diagonal panel, which fits the Compact Macs perfectly.

That lot of two Hawks is a good deal.

It looks like a full-height drive. I believe your LC will accept only half-height drives. Also, it's a micropolis, which means it's (a) old, ( B) probably very noisy, and © probably very unreliable.

Great conquest! I love those G3 iMacs as secondary machines. Still very usable, and even their AIO design makes opening them up a little labor-intensive, they're still surprisingly easy to get inside and upgrade.

Don't know why you never saw that message before, but it's true - the beige G3s need to have OS X installed in the first 8GB of the drive. Re-partition the drive into two partitions - the first 7GB, and the second the remaining free space on the drive. Then install the OS on the first...

How do you put RAM in backwards? It's keyed and won't go in backwards.

This is an interesting example of something that's been discussed here before, for dealing with the scarcity of old 50-pin SCSI drives: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220468088819 It's a 50-pin card reader that takes PCMCIA, MS, SC, SD, and CF. The only thing is that...

Cool - a Powerbook 180 was my second Mac (bought it new back in '92), and I loved it. It was a tank, pretty much indestructible. Enjoy it! As for finding RAM, I'm guessing the cheapest and easiest way is to scan eBay for a 140/145/160/165/170 or 180/180c advertised with 14MB RAM (meaning it...

The SE's ethernet card probably has the AUI connector and the regular rj45 connecter. Either connector will work to provide the same 10Mb/sec ethernet connectivity, so you won't even need to fool with the AUI connection.

The auction's listed with free shipping. So it's $50 a machine shipped. It probably costs the seller $18-$30 per machine for shipping (depending on how far away the buyer is and how well the seller packs everything). So considering you're paying $20-32 per machine net, I think it's a very nice...