I'm acquainted with the tabs on the back of the "pizza-box" MAC's, but this
isn't one of them. The tabs on the back allow removal of a small plastic cover
that conceals the handle by means of which the PC board is extracted. It's
apparently a pretty well-thought-out packaging job, unlike most PC's, but I
haven't a clue how to get into the box itself to do things to the drives, etc.
Now, maybe it's not necessary or even advisable to increase the hard disk size,
but, since I have them available I'd do it if there's significant benefit
involved.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?
> >Right now, I'm pretty concerned about how to crack open the box
> >without breaking
> >it, so I can inspect the hard disk to see what it is, physically.
> >Does anybody
> >have a recipe for doing that?
>
> Most Mac's, other than the earlier compact ones, are pretty
> easy to open. Some don't even have screws holding the case lid on,
> just pull tabs at the back of the lid. Others, such as the II
> series, have little tabs that must be pushed in while lifting on the
> lid.
>
> >Moreover, I imagine I'll use one of the considerably larger IDE types I've
set
> >aside from PC use to replace the drives now in the machines. It's safe to
> >assume, however, that NOT any IDE drive will work, since Apple Computers,
Inc.
> >didn't like folks buying hardware at a resonable price from someone
> >else rather
> >than allowing Apple to gouge them. (part of the MAC culture, I
> >guess) I note,
> >also, that the CDROM is SCSI. That being the case, I'd like to see whether
> >there's room for a SCSI HDD in the box. There certainly is room in the
system
> >(logically). That would work even better, since I have lots of extra SCSI
> >drives. Have any of you MAC gurus got experience with replacing MAC
> >IDE drives?
>
> The problems with using hard disks other than those provided
> by Apple is pretty much limited to SCSI drives. I've never had a
> problem with popping a 3rd party IDE drive into one. Unfortunately,
> this also applies to SCSI CD-ROM's, though there are ways around that
> for using 3rd party CD's as well. If your 630 already has an
> internal CD-ROM it is likely to be an Apple drive anyway, so you
> wouldn't have to worry about this. I'd personally stick with the IDE
> hard disks so as to avoid the inability of formatting 3rd party SCSI
> drives.
>
> >It looks as though the drives in the boxes are 250 MB or so, which might be
> >adequate for some things, but I doubt it would be adequate for internet
> >activity.
>
> Depends on what you're going to use. Netscape 3 is pretty
> much as high as I'd go on that old of a machine, though versions up
> to about 4.08 are usable on non-PPC Mac's. For light use, using
> System 7.5.5 (which is available freely on the 'net), 250 MB isn't
> bad. System 7.5.5, as has already been pointed out, is less RAM
> hungry than 8.1 and it also takes up less disk space. That's what
> I'd stick with on a 68k Mac.
>
> Jeff
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