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I just pulled this from a computer and am wiping it. I have never seen anything like this and will be keeping it. It's a WD 160 GB drive. I have never seen a viewable consumer drive.

Yeah, it needs to be cleaned up a bit. After I tinned the wires they wouldn't fit in the hole. When the wires weren't tinned they just spread apart when I tried to get them in the hole. In order to fix it I need three hands, one to melt the solder, the other to hold the board, and the other to...

I am getting closer to having a Portable with a hard drive! That was hand soldered by me! This is Uniserver's 34 to 50 pin adapter, you can buy it on his site or PM him. He sells it assembled or not assembled.

How did you manage to get that for free? That's amazing.

I have plenty of Quantum drives but have no Conner drives, otherwise I would do the swap. That is why I am trying to decide between buying a Conner, getting a 34 to 50 pin adapter and installing a Quantum (which I hear are failing now), or just get a Floppy EMU, SCSI2SD or SCSI2CF and not worry...

I guess the floppy adapter would be better though, since there are two of them and it already comes with the cable. Can you run a regular SCSI drive alongside a floppy EMU?

I have limited knowledge of the Floppy EMU and the SCSI2HD. I knew it had to connect to a floppy port though. The portable has two floppy ports if I remember correctly. No way to connect a Floppy EMU to SCSI?

So I can just get a 34 to 50 pin and hook up a regular Quantum drive? Or get a SCSI2SD or Floppy EMU? Can a floppy EMU be installed inside the Portable and setup to act like a hard disk?

After the hard drive in my Portable failed, it has been sitting untouched. I have plenty of spare hard drives, but they are 50 pin and the 32 pin cable on the Portable looks like it is permanently attached to the hard drive board (correct me if I am wrong). I don't want to have to mess with all...

As I get some things out of the way and get back around to restoring the Portable, will it take a standard 50 pin Quantum drive? I know the ribbon cable is 32 pin or something like that at one end, but does it have 50 pin at the other end? I haven't had time to look at it again, so I am not sure...

I just saw this thread today, did you ever get this working?

How do I tell?

700 MHz/256MB/40GB

You may be in luck! I can't really find a good spot for it in the garage, and I already have one if I ever do need it. There are some blemishes to the front of the screen. I will upload more pictures if you are interested.

Just found this little guy at the Goodwill computer parts store. $10! I just put 10.4 on it, I thought about getting speakers for it and setting it up in the garage, but there's probably no room for it.

Not to hijack here, but aren't all of the G3 speakers going bad because of degrading plastics/glue? So in theory replacing them would be pointless? Maybe someone should make a new version of these speakers that fit the iMacs, so we can replace them and still have great sound!

Source(s)? One does not simply stumble upon these at a yard sale (in this era at least)!

I see them for sale with Snow Leopard and power brick for $130 or more, I would be happy with $70 + shipping.

Nevermind. I put Snow Leopard in one of them and it looks like it's booting. I'm interested to see what happens.