Thanks to evberyone for the great information. I'll have a few more questions in my next post. For now, I wanted to let you all know what progress I've made so far.
I spent the whole day on eBay (Monday's my regular day off, and it snowed so I stayed home) and browsed the entire Mac area. I learned quite a lot - and have a lot more questions, some of which I posted before this. (Sorry that some of the questions are redundant or have already been answered. I'll try to formulate my list of querys tonight to boil it all down to the essential points.) Yesterday, before I found this list I had purchased a CD that has all the PCP manuals on it, along with all the Macs. I'm hoping that will be useful. I had downloaded the PTP service training manuals from apple.com but they are not that useful. Very simple, just for the phone center. I hope these other manuals are more technical so I can get a little deeper into these machines. [I am a personal computer hobbyist but have followed mostly the history of the IBM compatible market up 'till now. It is clear that the basics in both platforms are the same. It's challenging for me to get my head around this Mac System software but the similarities are enough so that I am figuring it out. I am very interested in "catching up" with the old world Mac. I love the history. I do not intend to turn this PTP into my everyday machine (I've become too attached to my IBM Thinkpad T23 for now) but I do want to bring it is far as it can comfortably can go. (Seems OS 9.1 will probably be the way to go.) I will add it to my collection of PC's which has grown to over 15 working units. I use about three of them for everyday work.] Today I made two purchases. The first was a "box lot" of several old mac parts, including disks, DIMMs, cables, etc. Only 10 bucks +s/h. Maybe I'll be able to use some of it in the PTP. The second purchase was two 128meg DIMMs from a reseller, for $14.99 each. These will bring me up to at least 256MB Ram, possibly 272 with existing 16. Maybe there will be some 168-pin DIMMS in the box lot as well. I have been looking at the OS cd's on eBay. There are a few but I can't tell if any will work for me. I'll need more help with this. Next, I'll install the HD, pourchase an OS install cd and start upgrading the OS. Hopefully that will start in about two weeks. In the meantime, more questions and research! Thanks again for all the help. Sean Kennedy -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.5.2 - Release Date: 12/13/04 -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
