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There is a way of making the Plus provide termination power by installing a diode in the right place; unfortunately my google fu is failing me tonight and I can't find instructions. I'll keep looking.

One thing to be aware of too is that if a floppy drives heads are out of alignment, it may be able to read and write its own disks, but be unable to read the disks from a properly aligned drive and vice-versa.

You will need a CD extension for the OS to recognize the drive.  I don't recall whether a standard install of 7.1 would include the driver or not.  Take a look in your system folder and see. Termination is a maybe/maybe not unfortunately.  Theoretically it's required but you can sometimes get...

And if I recall correctly, it also needs a SWIM chip for the HD upgrade.

Huh.  I stand corrected. Happily corrected.

According to everymac.com, the 170 requires 7.01 at a minimum. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_powerbook170.html

Beautifully kept!  Very nice. I have a 170 but in nowhere near as nice condition.

You'll need a USB to serial adapter (and your job will be easier with a 8-pin mini din serial adapter) and an apple printer cable.  I picked up an old usb to 8 pin serial adapter for a pretty reasonable price on ebay a few months ago; I suspect they're not terribly hard to get hold of currently.

I seem to remember that RamDoubler could give the advantages of having virtual memory turned on without the downside of hitting the HD all the time.  Anyone else?

MemoryX has them.  They're not $6 https://www.memoryx.com/powermac9600.html

I have a couple of ImageWriter II's, a LaserWriter IIg, a couple of Personal LaserWriters, and an HP LJ 5 with appletalk card. You're not alone.

Someone did get this :) They're a 2003 ibook, and for school units they are in amazing shape; they've apparently seen very little use and had very little software loaded.  I haven't examined them all, but those I have looked at are as nice as the one pictured, which to be honest surprised...

A lot of the later system software CDs from Apple included Stuffit in a non-compressed format. I know it was on OS9 CDs, maybe on OS8; not sure.  Worth a try if your target machine has a CD drive.

Yeah, you're in a tough spot.  The Plus only reads 400K and 800K floppies, which can't be written by any modern computers.  Not having a hard drive or other mass storage device makes things even more difficult. Easiest solution is to have a less-ancient "bridge" machine as a go-between. You...

To add to Tanaquil's post: People have reported having trouble with old 10baseT cards connecting through newer autodetect switches and hubs.  If you have an older 10baseT switch/hub, use that.  I don't know whether direct connecting between the two machines will work or not, but some will...

I never got the patched Disk Tools to work for me; I had lots better luck with other formatting tools like Lido, Silverlining, and Anubis. I'm not seeing anything with the drive jumpers that is ringing any bells with me, but maybe someone else will have input.

I quite liked the graphite when it came out but I don't really care for it any more; I do still like the Sage and Snow.  Strawberry is nice, but I'd really like to get a Ruby.  And a Dalmatian.  The big problem for me is getting to be storage space; I have a nice display area planned out, but I...

I'm seeing a pair of iMac g3s for $20 for both a couple of hours away from me.  Looks like a graphite and maybe an indigo. Not in super shape. I'd jump but I already have a couple, including a Flower Power (Yay!)

Is that hot glue? It looks like hot glue. Only issue is, everywhere I look says the alcohol is good for removing hot glue, so maybe that's out. I saw someone recommend acetone for hot glue.  I don't know how that interacts with the circuit board, but I suspect it would be fine and it's a good...

Was the disk formatted with the Iomega software, or was other software used? I seem to recall that some formatting software installed drivers on the disk that marked it as a fixed disk, versus as an ejectable/removable disk.