Hey, all... Newbie to Supermacs here. I just bought a Supermac S900/150 at a garage sale for $4. The guy said it worked, it didn't, I vacuumed all the spiders and dirt out of it and now it does work after all.
It had 8.0 on it and the CD-rom drive didn't work. I hooked up an external cd-rom drive and installed 9.1 on it, thinking (wrongly) that it was a G3 and not a 604. Now I know the facts, I'm plodding on anyway. I see it has 2 hard drives, but only one 2GB drive shows up on the desktop. And I still can't get the CD-rom drive to work. I haven't taken it out of the case yet to see what kind it is, but it's probably a SCSI. And there's only 80 MB RAM. I've gotten this far after several hours and want to know: is it worth it? This is my first Mac clone. Should I pay for and install a new CD-rom drive and more RAM and let my 14-year-old (now using a 7100/66) have it for word-processing and "Master of Orion"? Should I upgrade the processor, too? Or should I keep scouring garage sales for good Mac deals? And what's with that 2nd hard drive? Shouldn't it show up on the desktop? Probably dead, hunh? Darn! I should add I'm living with a Mac-Hostile Hubby. All current Macs are garage sale purchases I've fixed up in a blundering, learn-by-doing kind of way. I'm using a G3/266 Beige Minitower, you already heard about the 7100, and my youngest has a Mac Plus (he'd sure like to get his hands on the 7100). Thanks for any help you can offer... Bonnie -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
