>Does anyone know where I can get the tool you need to use to crack open
>teh case of an old MacIntosh? I seem to recall that in addition to
>special torx tools, probably one with an extra long shaft, that you needed
>something to pop the case open...
You need a T-10 Torx wrench with a long handle. I found one at Sears. As
for cracking it open, I'm using a welding clamp (don't laugh), I put the
tip into the crack and then open the clamp up, cracks them right open (once
all the screws have been removed).
>I'd like to upgrade the tiny hard drive in a mac se, and maybe in a mac plus
>1 Meg, to use a 250 meg scsi drive.
Let me get this right, you want to put an internal HD in a Mac Plus?!?!
Somehow I really don't think that's possible. They're ment to use an
external drive.
>Any idea if these units will run system 7?
But of course, they'll run up to about 7.5.3 I think, don't remember the
exact point support was dropped for the 68000 processor, might have been as
late as 7.6. Be aware you don't really want to run any higher than 7.1
because of the RAM requirements. In fact my SE/30 has 17Mb of RAM, but is
only running
System 7.1 to keep it from being to bloated.
With the proper software either the Mac Plus or Mac SE will blow away any
modern Windows 95 machine for ease of use and speed! Although it won't run
much in the way of Internet software, it will run some of the older stuff.
Zane
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Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 20:28:04 GMT