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@This Does Not Compute Congrats, Colin...

Here you go, courtesy of the Macintosh Garden... http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/apps/MAC_OS_X_10-6-3_SNOW_LEOPARD.ISO Burn that to a DVD, or Mount it using Disk Utility, and you can install it.

10.7.5 is the latest version that Intel machines with the Intel Crestline (GMA X3100) onboard graphics chip, like yours, can run. I would personally downgrade to 10.6.8 on it. Mainly because it makes a decent machine that can run both Intel and PPC programs. I used to have exactly the same...

Swapped out the 466MHz G4 DA for a 667MHz machine. Also picked up a PB180 that needs help (typical tunnel vision, needs floppy service, and a hard drive) from a client as partial payment for some data recovery I did for him on said machine's external hard drive, which I also wound up getting...

My daily for a few years was a similarly equipped 3,1. Difference was that I had only 6GB installed, and my video card was a Radeon 5770. Worked quite well. Did have an issue when I decided to move the video card to a different slot. Turns out, that doesn't work very well. Pulled one of the...

Almost does sound like a virus. Might be worth running Disinfectant on the hard drive and whatever floppies you have. I do remember that my original Plus, and all of its floppies got infected with the nVIR virus after I'd picked up a copy of Super Tetris at a computer store in 1993. Anyway...

Welcome to the asylum. A friend of mine from one of the other forums I frequent (a Volvo car forum) lives in Saint Paul as well. Anyway, decent Mac arsenal.

Well, you did ask Microsoft's AI bot... lol But, yeah, that's a Q700...

If the firmware on that iMac hasn't been updated, you could add a floppy drive to it. Logic board does have the solder pads for the 20-pin connector. If I remember correctly, it's the only post-Steve Jobs return desktop computer that can use a non-USB floppy drive.

^Ah, ok. Maybe a Mac that can use 7.5 or 7.6 without being too slow would work as a bridge for AirTalk, allowing your Portable and other 68000 Macs to connect via LocalTalk. Open Transport seems to be a bit more reliable for networking purposes than the older MacTCP technology.

On a 68000-based machine, System 6 is the way to go. 7 is just too pokey, even on those machines with the 16 MHz 68000 chip (Portable series, and PB100). I actually downgraded my previous SE from 7.1 to 6.0.8. Yes, 7.1 did run under 2.5MB of RAM, even though, on a 68000 machine, Apple...

Sure. One of the D830s we have is running a 320GB SATA spinner.

Agreed on the D series high point. Those, and the Inspiron 8500/8600/9100 machines were pretty good. My sister and I had an 8500 and an 8600, respectively. Hers was bought new in 2003. Mine, found it in 2010 at RE-PC in Seattle with a broken display and a bad video card. Replaced the nVidia...

Jeff, Yep. They were. Unlike Apple's soldered chips on the same era MacBook/MacBook Pro machines.

Sure, not a problem. It's not much more involved than doing the keyboard swap, and, if your machine has the nVidia Quadro GPU installed, it might be worth at least going in there and replacing the old thermal paste with some fresh paste to keep the chip from suiciding itself.

Just after my previous post, added a Mac II programmer's switch assembly to the IIfx. Didn't come with one. In November, picked up an Apple active SCSI terminator, in hopes of not needing to worry about the black terminator needed by certain IIfx boards. Last month, picked up a nicer IIgs Woz...

One thing that might be worth doing, is to upgrade to a Penryn die Core 2 Duo chip. I had a D830 about 10 years ago. Ran Win 7 Ultimate on it. Was a decent machine, but the fan would go bonkers while either watching YT videos or using Google Maps. Had the 2.2 GHz T7500 processor installed...

Hmmm, that blows.

Click on the new message icon in the lower right corner where it says "Messages", then type in his username. Should be able to get ahold of him that way. According to the Eamon Wiki page, he looks to still be alive. https://eamon.wiki/Donald_Brown