Well, my first foray in eight years or more into the guts of a compact Mac has just finished. Simple upgrade - take out a half-height 20Mb drive, swap in a full height 1Gig.
Ye gods, there are a lot of screws to undo. Four for the main case, three for what I presume is the PDS expansion slot card support, two nicely inaccessible ones for the hard drive bracket, then four for the hard drive itself. Lovely. All went smoothly though. The only problem I came across was that the Apple LED wouldn't connect to the new drive. A spot of plastic breaking later (on the drive, not the Mac) and the LED was connected.
That gave me enough space to FTP over the 7.5.3 upgrade (running NetPresenz on the SE) and also the 7.5.5 to follow that. All completed, and I'm now running 7.5.5 with a gig's storage available. Not bad. Now all I have to do is wait for my RAM to arrive - 4x16Mb SIMMs are coming from the US, and 4x16Mb SIMMs from Canada. With the machine suitable maxed out, I can then start trying to find a use for it...
Cheers, Ian
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