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I'm planning to power the Micro EN/SC off the Mac Plus's external floppy drive port but I'm having to cut a 25 pin D connector down as I cant find a 19 pin connector in the UK! The only other problem is I'm not sure how to run MacTCP and ethernet on floppies, with or without using Ramdisk.

I got the HDI-30 socket this morning and after only four hours of soldering and double checking the connections it worked powered off my Classic's ADB lead!!! See below, not pretty but functional. http://web.onetel.com/~colingjones/mod1.jpg I soon had the Plus running System 6.0.8 (with no...

This is the spec of my nephew's iBook: Hardware Overview: Machine Model: iBook G4 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 1 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB Memory: 384 MB Bus Speed: 133 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.7.7f0 Serial Number...

Just a passing thought. I remember seeing a control panel with Zip drives which had options of whether you wanted the drive to sleep or not. Am I thinking of software which came with the later driver?

The G4 iBook does have firewire but it's a bit low on ram. I must say I've never seen an install programme with as few options as the 10.4 disk. I will try the XPostFacto route. Thanks

My nephew just bought an iPod Touch and discovered that he needs OS X 10.4.7 on his iBook for the iPod to communicate with it. The iBook is currently running OS X 10.3.9 so he popped an OS X 10.4.x install disk in it but this refused to install with some sort of message about the machine not...

Thanx. I WILL, I WILL, but I was thinking of putting OS X on the first 3.5GB of the hard disk and OS 9.x on the remainder. It doesn't have to be 8GB does it? ...

Thanks for the tips equill. I did get the iMac gong by re-blessing the system folder, it also had two systems installed!! and it still has problems with cross/linked files - as the previous owner must have had an external drive connected at some time. So I'm thinking of starting afresh, but my...

Alas, I think the pins are just too tightly packed for crimp on connectors so I'm also waiting for a HDi-30 socke, when the supplier gets round to stripping one from a broken Powerbook. (I must send him a reminder!) I've studied the pinouts of both machines and apart from the Powerbook's SCSI...

Not seen one of these before! http://cgi.ebay.com/Trackball-Thumbelina-Mouse-Vintage-Apple-Macintosh-Mac_W0QQitemZ320173233096QQihZ011QQcategoryZ80286QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Just a thought. How bad could it be if I got a SCSI wire wrong?

The Micro has one male HDi-30 connector, one RJ45 ethernet socket and a thinnet socket, and one power socket.

I want the above, and EN/SC's, or the equivalent, seem a bit thin on the ground at the moment.

I do have an AsanteTalk Ethernet/Localtalk adapter but I want the Plus to have full IP Ethernet. I did try IPNetRouter to turn my 6100/60 into a gateway once, which worked! but it seriously messed with my macine and I had to re-install Open Transport etc. to recover from it!

I'm now in the process of obtaining a HDi-30 Socket but I note that most pinout sources describe the pinouts as from the cable connector and not the socket - which could confuse?

Thanks, I will then have to beg, steal or borrow an OS 8.x startup disk. The startup options seem so limited on these machines with no floppy and no SCSI.

I was doing some repairs with Norton Utilities on a tray loading Bondi Blue iMac and everythng was going fine until it crashed in the middle of doing something!!!!!!!!!! It now bongs but then shows the customary flashing "?" on a folder and won't start. It was running OS 8.5.1 What I want to...

As a footnote I finally bought a Plus keboard off eBay and had to repair 12 of it's key switches! But it's OK now.

WHOOPS!!! I've just realized that my cable has a HDI-30 SCSI 'MALE' connector as on the EN/SC Micro, so I can't connect it. So not wanting to open the Micro en/sc I need a female HDI-30 SCSI connector!!! - but wonder, if I can find some tubes from a suitable female connector, if I could...

I can't find an Asante Mini EN/SC adapter in the UK to get my Mac Plus on an ethernet with IP, so I'm thinking of adapting a Micro EN/SC, made for Powerbook's, which I do have. I've studied the pinouts of the Powerbook's HDI-30 SCSI connector and the Mac Plus's DB-25 SCSI connector and apart...