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> Cool, thanks for your help. I will check the G3 shortly. > Shoot, it is the ver. with no floppy drive. So I guess that's out. > > The PB180, right now, only has the base 4mb ram (I was going to upgrade that > later though). with 4mb ram 7.5.3 seems to me too much. If you get a full ram upgrade to 14mb it might be ok. > If I was to continue to run 7.1 on there, as you suggest, what would be the > best way to reset everything to factory? Good question but hard to answer. Best would be you try to get a System 7.1 on ebay or probably here on the swaplist. Although Systems 7.01 and 7.5 are free, 7.1 is not. Dont know why. > See, my worry is that I bought this off of someone and I want to make sure > all his stuff is completely off there. Since the HD is soo small, I want to > start out with as much space as possible. I had thought that, while doing > that, I might as well upgrade the OS. Maybe I am thinking like a PC person, > who knows ;) But, if 7.5.3 is going to be clunky, I am fine with sticking to > 7.1 for now, as long as I can get it clean-as-possible. With 7.5.3 the OS will eat up all your ram and mem swapping would slow down this nice 68k book even more. If you have 10-20 meg free space on your harddrive you have quite a lot of free space. To clean up try following. Old macs do not spread there files all over the machine like PCs or Linux do. In most cases you will find standalone apps with or without a prefsfile in harddrive/systemfolder/preferences Or you will find apps within their own folder and probably a prefs file You can start an unknown application, look what it does and then decide if you delete it or not. You will 99.9% not have any depencies to ruin your setup. No dlls or such. One thing why we all love the old macs :) -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | () Gruesse/regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | /\ Manfred Guentner www.serv.de.eu.org | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
