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I am not sure what motherboard to use for this whole process, so let me try and re-cap what you said with what I understood.... I have not done the screen upgrade for my CC to have OS 7.5 supported with the Mystic upgrade. So I am assuming that I need to take out the LC 575 motherboard and put...

I was able to find Enabler 065 version 1.1 on mac512.com, but that did not work. There must be something that I am doing wrong. I noticed that everyone is saying that you have to put the enabler in the system file, but I tried to drag and drop it into the system file that was present in the...

I tried using 7.5 NAD on the CC everything seemed to work fine until I got a bus error. I tried restarting while pressing down the shift key to turn off the extensions, but still no luck. I am assuming this is because of the LC 575 board thats in the CC. I just realized that the system enabler...

I was able to use both disk copy 4.2 and 6.3. I am using a mac G3 along with an external floppy drive, so disk copy 6.3 would not allow me to write an image to an external drive. I forgot to mention something which may be important. I am trying to create an installer disk for installing OS 7.1...

Hello, I am trying to make an installer disk for a color classic. I am going to install OS 7.1. I know that I need an installer for this task and I have been able to find the system enabler as well as the installer. My question is: is that all I need to make an installer disk? And if so, can I...

Yes, I imagine it would be hard to get modern websites to display correctly on an older computer. The main reason why I want to connect a mac to the internet is so I can download various OS and enablers and create bootable installation disks that way. I thought that might be one alternative than...

Sorry for the late reply, thank you very much for that wonderful source! I think I have it figured out.....

Hello, I am trying to access the internet with my LC for the first time, but I have no idea how to go about it. Can you surf the net with OS 7.1? If so, do you need to install a driver for the farallon ethernet card, or does the system detect it automatically? Do I also need install a web...

Sounds Great. I just have a few more questions before I start. Can I reuse old floppy disks? I have a few old floppies that I used on a PC and I thought I could reformat them and use them for this project. Would that work? Also, could someone point me in the right direction for finding...

Thanks very much for the links and the info. Do I still need to install any third party software that will allow me to create a "bootable" floppy drive for these macs? Or does that only apply when you are trying to make such disks on a pc?

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I am trying to make OS and installer disks for a macintosh classic as well as an LC 580. If I am correct, both of these drives support 1.44 mb high density floppy disks. With that in mind, would using a G3 and a usb floppy drive be a viable option? Or...

Hello, i am trying to make a copy of an installer disk for the first time. I will be using a Mac G3 to download the installer files from the internet. I am just confused on how to make a readable floppy disk for a classic mac? Could someone please tell me the names of any softwares that do this...

I am replacing the hard drive of a LC 575. I see the 68-50 pin and the 80-50 pin adaptor on ebay. The 68-50 pin adaptors seem to be more expensive than the 80-50 pin adaptors, does anyone know why that is?

Hi guys, A couple weeks back, I posted a question about using modern hard drives with old macintosh computers. A few of you mentioned that it would be easier to use a 68 pin ssci hard drive along with a 68 to 50 pin adaptor and call it good. Well I'd like to give that a try. Before I do this...

Thanks for the link Uniserver! That was a really nice thread to read. It is nice to know that the path is already laid down for this task. I have had some bad luck in the past with SATA to IDE converters on a pc i was using. The BIOS wouldn't detect the sata hard drive with the connector I was...

Hi All, Recently, I've had a few hard drive failures. I have done some reading online and people all over have been saying that hard drive failures are at an all time high. I guess it makes sense since most of these hard drives are around 20 years old. I know that you can usually find mac...

Actually, Uniserver figured it out for me! He new what the issue was right from the start. It turned out to be a bad PSU. He recapped the board for me not too long ago, I should have sent him the power supply too! Uniserver is the best, he really knows his stuff!

Hello, I have a macintosh LC that seems to be having some hard drive issues? I turn on the mac and for a while everything was going well, the OS was loading and I could see the desktop. But suddenly, the screen froze as shown in the picture below. As you can see, the OS logo is not in the...

I've been using a tooth brush along with some rubbing alcohol, but to no avail, every time the alcohol dries up, I can see the corrosion again