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It works, I have my old HD uncovered too, aaaaand.... the 44pin IDE cable I need for it is somewhere in my Collection of Stuff. Stuff which contains a good 200lbs of cables alone. This might be a long long night...

I've been after a 2.5" ATA Amiga for years - found this little Amiga 600 in grotty condition and grabbed it seconds after seeing it. I figured $10.. maybe $20... The dear old chook took one look, sneered at its filth and said "ick... two dollars" Done! Now to see if the ten year old HD from my...

I adore mine, much the same as johnklos A very fast (40MHz) compact 68k with lots of HD space, gobs of RAM, optical built-in, ethernet, dual monitors, remote, a/v connection and it's quiet. I'd call it my favourite 68k if the Q605 wasn't as damned cute as a button :D Dana

My Q700 came with a couple of those feet, from memory rattling around in the bottom of the box it came in - they're rubber and they clip in the case from the bottom. They flip about and are kinda wobbly just-for-show pieces. http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290335180130...

Battery reset is indeed useful for when battery capacity/use gets a bit out of sync. After months of regular use, a pair of WS batteries in my 300Mhz one will get me around 3 hours. Running battery reset, and they'll go back to over 6 hours worth, going down slowly in total usable time until...

I picked up a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 93SB in the last couple of months. It looked *horrid*. A big patch of the antiglare had come off around some obvious scratches, and over time it'd left a splatter of lightness in the middle, surrounded by perfectly good antiglare on the rest. You're probably...

Chips can definitely pop (sometimes loudly) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:No_blue_smoke.jpg was one of mine on a HD, and I had a voltage regulator in a Q840AV explode too, in a rather more dramatic manner. Dana

What wackymacs said. My first IIcx came to me via post from an eBay seller even further into rural NSW than I was at the time. It was filled with silt, had been through a flood, even leaves had come through the missing nubus slot covers and settled on the logic board. Mice had set up a nest...

Does mozilla 1.3.1 work any better? I used a non-official version from here last I used Classic to regularly browse online: http://www.wamcom.org/latest-131/ Dana

I've found since about 2002 that most ISP I'd tried wouldn't handle any dialup connections under 28.8k. Dingoblue was the last one I could use to connect at 2400bps, just for a lark to reminisce the old days. Know what speed your modems are gaining carrier at, before being disconnected?

Another sawtooth - this one boots it too: http://www.danamania.com/tmp/86.png I think my 8.6 install CD is the one that originally came from my sis, years ago, so the disc I installed 8.6 from is the exact original CD it originally came with. Dana

It hasn't yet seen OSX!. Still running an OS9 install. Dana

More a donation than a conquest, a pretty standard G4/400 AGP, my big sis's old tower. 20MB HD, 256MB RAM, SCSI, ZIP drive, modem, DVD ROM drive and an Ati graphics card. It's immaculately clean & shiny!. Dana

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA46754 has the info on weight by model. Dana

Like Unknown_K said, the g3 - for a video card to go into a 6100, you need an adaptor to turn the PDS port sideways. These adaptors are usually little more than an inch and a half high circuit board with tracks taking the PDS slot to another PDS connector at right angles to the original. The...

A little addition to the family - a trade for some in-home mac support fixing an iMac with some 10.3/Safari/Mail problems. Once that was up, I was given... A 7500/100, 48MB RAM and 1GB HD 14" Apple Color Display Netcomm 14.4k modem (!) - it's cute :) aaaaaand A Personal LaserWriter 300...

They looked like http://www.cc86.org/~hofmann/bilder%20mm/mm-performa630.jpg Dana

That sounds the usual for a system not running in 32bit mode. Turn 32-bit addressing on in the memory control panel ( looks like http://vectronicsappleworld.com/collection/articlepics/maciisi/memory.jpg ) then reboot, and you should get all your RAM. Dana

If you do, take *everything* electronic out, use the steel wool to clean only the components with rust on them while they're removed from the case, and wash them thoroughly before putting them back together. Steel wool breaks up, and makes wonderfully conductive short steel fibres that stick to...

That sounds like one of the cables connecting to the screen has come loose - mine does the same, and pressing on the bezel under the screen (left and right of the microphone hole) fixes it.