[NTLK] Wallstreet II

[Lloyd Conway]

Hello, Scott:
      I'm happy that you're on your way to solving your power issues.  
The WS is a fine machine, and the black G3s are my favorite Apple laptops.
     As to your question, I've done a few things with mine, a $1.00 
(plus reasonable shipping) find on eBay.  It already had a 6 GB HDD, OS 
9.2.2 and a lot of music editing and scientific software, as a former 
owner was either a student or a prof at Brown U., and needed only the 
battery (it had a Zip and CD drive) and one piece of software to go with 
MS Office 2001 (I had that on CD) that lets Word and Excel open .docx 
and .xlsx files.  It has wifi, courtesy of a Dell TruMobile 1150 card I 
had on-hand.
      What I plan to do, perhaps at Christmas, is to put in a 40 GB SSD 
that OtherWorld Computing sells, re-load OS 9, partition and dual-boot 
with Yellow Dog Linux.  If I can find a faster processor than the 266 
Mhz one it has at a reasonable, price, I may - may - go for that.  The 
only other thing I lack is a floppy drive, which will turn up on eBay 
eventually.
    It's my intent to use the WS as my daily computer for at least 30 
days to see if a computer that vintage can still perform.
I hope that yours gives you pleasure and good service, too, Scott.
Regards,
-Lloyd

Hi Lloyd! I bit the bullet and ordered a new main battery as well as a 
new PRAM battery. I needed a new main battery anyway, so I figured I 
might as well. I changed the PRAM battery once before a long time ago 
and remember that it wasn't a fun job, but not impossible. I had all but 
forgotten about iFixit - that's a really neat website with lots of cool 
stuff. I'll definitely keep you posted! Have you done any cool mods to 
your WallStreet? I was debating on putting in a bigger HDD and 
partitioning it to run an old version of OSX... Take care! Scott
-- Sent from my Apple MessagePad.

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