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Ok so first I tried connecting the external drive to my USB adapter. Played around with that, got nowhere. Then I tried connecting the external SCSI drive, via SCSI, to my old powermac. Played with that for a while, got nowhere.  Then I gutted the external drive, took the drive out, and hooked...

I figured I needed one. But that begs the question, how did it work for the customer without one?  There are no termination "switches" on the back of this drive, but there is an ID switch that lets me pick from 1 to 6. 

It's been a while since I've worked much with SCSI. I've got an external hard drive here with a bunch of files I need to copy off of it.  I'm trying the easiest way first, using my old SCSI USB adapter and trying to copy them right off, to a modern Mac. But alas, no joy. This is how this USB...

Is there a source for new batteries for these old machine? If not, is there potentially a place where you can get custom batteries made? I know my friends have gotten custom batteries made in the past for various things. And it wasn't prohibitively expensive. But that said, this half memory...

That page is really a lot more popular than I ever thought it would be. Now that it's on its own subdomain, it should be a piece of cake to run it forever... or at least until the very last beige Mac on earth dies. 

Greetings all! To all the users of my Vintage Software Library, please note the URL has changed to: http://obsolete.macfixer.com/vintage-software/ This will let me implement SSL on my main site without killing the vintage software library for old browsers. If it's possssssible for you to edit...

Uh yeah, I am.  www.whatsmyip.org is me too

I actually remember that control panel. But isn't the ability to sync time over the internet built in to OS 8? 

:pb: Don't forget, http://www.whatsmyip.org also works for super old browsers, as long as they have virtual host support. So Netscape 2+ I believe. It does redirect old browsers to a different subdomain, but that redirect happens at the header level, meaning it's seamless even for old...

You always want to run the latest of the generation you're on. In other words, you should definitely go to 10.6.8 now if you are on 10.6.0. It's not going to use any more RAM but it sill have lots of bug fixes and potential performance improvements. 

Ok why don't you PM me

Are you talking about the computer or the RAM? I'm definitely not listing the computer (although someone on the forum may be coming to get it today). 

I'm getting mixed messages. If I list it on ebay, you're not going to get it (most likely)

Well, before its off to the recycler, anyone want to purchase this ram (will ship) or grab the broken IIsi for free (will not ship)? Otherwise it's off to ebay with this memory. 

So I have this Mac IIsi that won't power on. Completely dead. I assume it needs a power supply. There's not much inside this thing to salvage. Given the limited number of components, I'm assuming the 4 chips in brackets below are the RAM right? Assuming they way, is it possible to determine...

hmmm thats possible I suppose. too late but possible. next time ill try that

If only these older Macs could NetBoot :D

Yeah I'm not going through all that trouble. Like I said I just ended up doing a clean 7.6. install and then filling the drive with system updates. Oh well. 

I have the disk tools floppies that came with my retail 8.0 CD, but they dont' have drive setup on them, they have HD SC setup.

How would a 2-disk floppy set work when the computer only has one drive, and you're not installing anything on the hard drive? Also I just sold this 160 MB drive on ebay for $50. That's more than the whole computer would get! Yikes.