>I did the same thing, although I added a twist, I installed one of >these
>new (and dirt cheap) removable drive caddy things that you >mount an IDE
>drive inside of. I install software on a "master" disk, >which has a bulk
>copy program on it. Then I copy the entire drive >over to a built in drive
>on the same IDE cable. I have a switch on >the outside of the case that
>makes the internal drive a "master" or >slave (dpdt toggle that is wired
>with wire wrap wire to the four >pins constituting the jumper positions on
>the drive.
>
>Switch the internal drive back to "master" status and reboot. Makes >fixing
>things when my 4.5 yr old drags the entire desktop into the >recycle bin
>and flushes it a lot easier!
>
>--Chuck
Old Pentium class computers make excellent kids computers. But if you're
*really* on budget, an old Mac Plus or, if they don't like the Mac Plus'
lack of color graphics, a Mac LC would be perfect.
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David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
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