Neighbor of mine said he had a few old computers sitting around. I could have them if I would try to get his files off of them for him. Having no clue what types of computers they were, I said no problem figuring worse case, I end up with some junk but I help out a neighbor.
Turned out 2 of the systems were XP and Vista systems which were really easy to deal with.
The 3rd was a Power Macintosh 7500. He had the keyboard, mouse, monitor, an external HDD, printer, midi controller, piano keyboard, external Mac CD, boxes of software, and a few other pieces. This looked awesome, I couldn't pass that up.
Problem, I have no clue how to work on a Mac. I've rebuilt Osbornes, Tandys, NECs, Sun servers, etc. But I've never owned or used a Mac outside of high school to type a paper.
Don't get me wrong, I have found all the documentation I can, I've tried everything and either, the hdds are corrupt, which is totally possible, or, I'm missing something, which is equally possible.
I don't have another system to swap components with. My only other SCSI adapter is a decade newer, wrong connectors, and running Solaris, so it's not going to read the drives even if I could hook them up.
Any suggestions are appreciated. I am going to VCF East on Sunday. I was thinking of bringing the system with me, minus the monitor, and seeing if somebody could help me out. I just have no clue where to turn. Even if I find a SCSI to USB adapter, I don't know how to read the drives. Somebody gave me a link to an old HFS for linux site. And if I had an adapter, I might go that route. I feel like that's kind of a last resort.
Best I can get from being inside this thing, it's been upgraded, a LOT. It has an upgraded CPU card. 2 hdds internally, and about 32MB of RAM. It was booting to the Welcome to Mac splash screen and then just sitting there. It was the screen with no version number. So I'm guessing either 7.6 or 8.0. I didn't change anything that I can figure out, but now it just has a grey screen with mouse in the upper left corner and does nothing.
Turned out 2 of the systems were XP and Vista systems which were really easy to deal with.
The 3rd was a Power Macintosh 7500. He had the keyboard, mouse, monitor, an external HDD, printer, midi controller, piano keyboard, external Mac CD, boxes of software, and a few other pieces. This looked awesome, I couldn't pass that up.
Problem, I have no clue how to work on a Mac. I've rebuilt Osbornes, Tandys, NECs, Sun servers, etc. But I've never owned or used a Mac outside of high school to type a paper.
Don't get me wrong, I have found all the documentation I can, I've tried everything and either, the hdds are corrupt, which is totally possible, or, I'm missing something, which is equally possible.
I don't have another system to swap components with. My only other SCSI adapter is a decade newer, wrong connectors, and running Solaris, so it's not going to read the drives even if I could hook them up.
Any suggestions are appreciated. I am going to VCF East on Sunday. I was thinking of bringing the system with me, minus the monitor, and seeing if somebody could help me out. I just have no clue where to turn. Even if I find a SCSI to USB adapter, I don't know how to read the drives. Somebody gave me a link to an old HFS for linux site. And if I had an adapter, I might go that route. I feel like that's kind of a last resort.
Best I can get from being inside this thing, it's been upgraded, a LOT. It has an upgraded CPU card. 2 hdds internally, and about 32MB of RAM. It was booting to the Welcome to Mac splash screen and then just sitting there. It was the screen with no version number. So I'm guessing either 7.6 or 8.0. I didn't change anything that I can figure out, but now it just has a grey screen with mouse in the upper left corner and does nothing.