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I have a friend that has iBook G3, 500mhz with the dreaded 'squeeze the left side for the screen to work' problem. He brought it to me before a trip and I replaced the hard drive after it failed. It was just a small 6gb drive but it was enough for a working computer while on vacation. Well he's...

Load it with some BSD Unix and make it your own NAS machine (network attached storage. You could run them headless, I'm trying to do that with a spare machine I have kicking around. http://www.freenas.org/

I have one in my basement. Not a bad printer and since your in Canada, Staples/Business Depot (Bureau en Gros) have that promise with stocking printer cartridges. They still carry ribbons for image writers! Since you have it working I assume you have a printer cable, if you ever loose it I hear...

To sound like a Brit, sounds like a dodgy drive. Have you tried checking your drive with Disk Doctor?

I had a Lacie drive that had a 120gb limit but it also shipped in the 90's with a 20gb drive. I had a Lacie CD burner that I pulled apart and it ran with a 120GB+ drive and was bootable. Depends on the chipset. I hear great things about Oxford 911 and I trust most of Lacie's equipment. There's...

Well said Equill. I'm assuming your day job is a writer, teacher or editor?

Who tosses a dualie?!

I find that too plus you get more than a request, you get their life story and how much they need your box of random PC parts or empty/scratched AT case. Anyone have a similar experience?

There not a bad computer, I did 2 years of University with one. They take normal PC100-133 ram, which installs easy and are quiet because of they don't have a fan. With some more ram it could even handle Tiger.

About 6 years ago I swapped out my IIvi board for a Quadra 650 motherboard. It was a lot better, you could run OS8 and use 72 pin ram.

I had a IIvi and it was quite a stinker. You may be able to rig something up, I know for my Quadra 840av I put two double aa's in bracket and attached it to the terminals and it worked.