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Thanks chaps.

A friend has one of the above drum scanners in GWO but no computer for it! He has Mac software and has been told that the scanner and software can run in a beige G3 mac. I believe the connection is via a SCSI cable. Does anyone know of this scanner? Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks again. Someone at work today suggested cutting the cans with a Dremel type cutting disc. That sounds viable if I can work out a system that ensures the tool doesn't run away with itself.

That's great, thanks. Now, another question. I've looked around the internet and seen quite a few ways of removing the capacitors. The one that takes my fancy is a bloke using side cutters to cut the pot in half before using a soldering iron to remove each part. Any thoughts?

I've been looking around at capacitors to purchase. There are many types, Tantalum, polyester, ceramic, and all sorts of other esoteric stuff. Given that the tantalum ones look a pig to solder on, I wonder about the other options. Any comments? P.S. You're doing great! Thanks to all.

Well, all drives disconnected, nothing has changed. Looks like a recapping job. Nothing to lose there I think. As far as home much ram is on board, I mistyped it. There's 13 meg according to the computer. Can anyone direct me at what capacitors require changing, and what values, and maybe how?

No, I haven't recapped it. It seemed odd that it's just stopped so I want to investigate all options before I risk wrecking the board. I have to say that the board seems in good condition. I've examined the files on the disk image I copied and the latest item seems to have been last accessed...

Just took the RAM out to reseat it. While it was out I tried booting up again, same result, i.e. none to speak of. So, I tried it with half the ram, no change. Odd thing, as an aside, it has eight RAM modules, but from memory the system indicated there was 12 meg on board. I can't do the maths...

Nope! Entirely as before I'm afraid. Nothing other than a black screen. No sad Mac, nuthin. For lack of anything better to do I removed the rom jumper. Still nothing except that the screen was now a bright green. Shut it down, put the jumper back on and switched on, same as before.

Thanks for that. It's in progress and if it works I will owe you much beer.. ;)

OK, I just purchased a IIci and it worked fine for a day. After copying the hard drive, and replacing the PRAM battery (It booted up fine with a dead one but I like the time and date to hold) I was looking around on the extensions etc and I found one called, IIRC, Inventory, or something like...