I'm no expert on this, I think the only 68k Mac that can be brought forward to a PPC is the Quadra 800, and that takes saving the upper case, throwing out the rest and putting the upper case on a PM 8500. The back and the bottom will not work on a 8500. (I tried years ago, and bought the mobo and higher output power supply, but could not find the case bottom.)
Ahum. There is a ppc update for the IIci. And I am pretty sure the 800 isn't the only quad that can be upgraded with a ppc processor.
At Sys 7.1 and MS Works 2.1, I can boot the LC 16 MHz, and launch Works, much faster than my PM 7600/ G4 800MHz can even just boot. You would probably need to go to Word 5.1 for compatibility, and I do not know off-hand which OS is needed to support that, but it is probably much larger than 7.1.
MS Word 5.1 runs just fine on system 6. I suspect MS Works 2.1 will run on even older systems.
Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny
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