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Thank God you didn't tell anyone your new secret identity then ;)

Well said that man

Very nice price :D

Woohoo. My iMac turned up but, thanks to the wonderful of eBay, it had actually been described wrong. Instead of a 400Mhz machine with 10Gb HD and 192Mb RAM, I actually ended up with a 500MHz machine with 20Gb HD and 256Mb RAM The guy selling it obviously didn't know what he was doing as it was...

Just one question: What is it with the feets?!?!?!?!?! :?:

Top bloke - I need the cash (and hopefully the book'll be at least as useful as the floppy drive) ;)

You really do need to get out more don't you ;)

As I remember it, the secret project you were working on at the time wasn't a hat ;) When the hats get mentioned on LowEndMac articles then I feel that they've passed form being the insane rantings of some English dude to being a cultural icon :D

Hats? HATS?!?!?!?! Did I hear something about hats? You know I reckon a 68KMLA hat would be a really cool idea... ;)

Evil? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me }:) Sadly she spotted that I'd bought it for her (I wanted it to be a surprise) but she understands that this is part of my collection and that she's only 'looking after it'...yeah right Then, if she decides to upgrade in the future, I'll no doubt get...

Sadly it's '+shipping' but as that's only £14 then I still don't think it was a bad price I even managed to sweet talk my other half by saying that it was for her and that I'd name it after her and that it would be hers to treasure forever. So help me God I will convert her to 'the Apple...

First thing to do (for me) would be to try booting from a floppy disk. If that didn't work then I'd try pulling the hard drive (sounds like it could be dead anyway), booting from the floppy, pulling memory etc. Worth doing a quick inspection of the motherboard too just to see if there's any...

After another less than rivetting afternoon in the office I was browsing eBay and came across a purple slot-loading 400MHz G3 iMac with 192Mb 10GB HD for...£19!!!!! All it needs is an OS re-install and I think even a klutz like me can manage that :D

My personal op would be to let PPC in but only after the 68K stuff (and probably Apple 1, ][ and ///) is setup and in place

What he said ;)

Can't remember if 7.5.5 has a maximum partition size of 2Gb or 4Gb (although I have it written down that 7.5.5 can use a maximum partition size of 2Tb - I might have been hallucinating though) but it can definitely use a 9Gb drive one way or another In short though, yes ;)

Oh now that's a very nice price for a very nice machine :D The 500 series are just the best when it comes to 680X0 laptops

Sounds like the leaky caps are the cause of the problem (had something similar with my SE/30) The dishwasher trick should fix it or, if you don't fancy going that far, just try surface cleaning using a q-tip (can't remember precisely where you need to look on the board though and probably best...

It just adds to the fun ;) Seriously though, finding 50 pin SCSI drives isn't easy so don't be averse to buying a complete machine with the sole intention of pulling the HD

If it's the same drive that it originally shipped with then it's probably just died a death (it is/was nearly 20 years old) - the Quantum's that Apple used don't seem to have a very long life at all (when I got my hands on a Mac II the HD was just screwed and had to be binned) Turning it over...