But I ran into a big problem that I had forgotten about after all these years.
When I stopped in Part 1, the Zip and floppy drives were working and I was able to read and write to them from the Linux laptop. The chassis and all of its connectors are in very good condition. The machine was worth it, in my opinion, because it came fully loaded with RAM and VRAM, (20MB and 4MB respectively) and has an original and working hard drive. I got this old Mac from eBay for a price that is higher than I care to admit, especially for a computer that probably has less than 1/100th the processing power of the cell phone I used to take its picture. This machine was a top-of-the-line computer that cost $6000 in 1991. In the previous post, I installed Debian Linux on an old Dell laptop so that I could use its floppy drive and network connection to get files off the internet onto an ancient Apple Macintosh Quadra 700.
