#MAC OS 7.6 VIDEO CARD SHOW MEMORY INSTALL#
#MAC OS 7.6 VIDEO CARD SHOW MEMORY DRIVER#

This time there was video, and the Mac booted normally.ДЄnother good sign was when I connected an Ethernet cable from my router to the Colour Classic: the LED above the port turned on (that didnвЂ™t happen when I first attempted an EtherTalk connection between the Colour Classic and the PowerBook 1400).

#MAC OS 7.6 VIDEO CARD SHOW MEMORY INSTALL#

To see if everything worked, once again I had to turn the Colour Classic off, remove the motherboard, install the Ethernet card, reinsert the motherboard and turn the Mac on.

#MAC OS 7.6 VIDEO CARD SHOW MEMORY DRIVER#

After a few moments, AppleTalk was updated, the Apple Ethernet CS driver and related extensions installed (the following screenshot comes from a previous attempt, before I updated to AppleTalk 58.1.5): I turned the Mac off, removed the card, turned the Mac on again, inserted the floppy and launched the Installer. I had to make the system recognise the card.ДЇortunately I had my copy of AppleвЂ™s Network Software Installer 1.5.1 on a floppy disk, which updates AppleTalk to version 58.1.5 and installs the most updated versions of a series of network extensions and drivers. Since the system had no way of recognising it, I thought, perhaps it defaulted to thinking that a video card was inserted in the Comm Slot, so it shut down internal video and expected an external connection. Suspicions fell immediately on the new card. The Mac booted normally, but there was no video. Once firmly inserted the motherboard, I turned the Colour Classic on. I took measurements and, not without difficulty, managed to cut away exactly where the plastic was blocking the cardвЂ™s passage. The top edge of the card, in fact, collided with a piece of plastic inside the MacвЂ™s chassis that helps to keep the cables of the hard drive power connector in place. The first snag I encountered was right when I attempted to insert the motherboard with the attached Ethernet card back inside the Colour Classic. The LCВ 580вЂ™s motherboard also sports a Comm Slot interface, and the aforementioned Ethernet card can be installed without problems :

Luckily, years ago I also acquired the motherboard from a Macintosh LCВ 580, which fits perfectly in a Colour Classic and makes for a nice overall upgrade (it has a Motorola 68LC040 at 33MHz CPU versus the original 68030 at 16MHz of the Colour Classic, and the RAM can be expanded to a maximum of 52В MB instead of the meagre 10В MB of the original motherboard). Now, the original Colour Classic motherboard doesnвЂ™t have a Comm Slot interface, its only expansion comes in the form of a PDS slot.

Among the various goodies Richard donated me there was an Apple-branded Comm Slot Ethernet card (Part в„– 820-0607-A), which I hoped I could attach to my Colour Classic to bring Ethernet connectivity - and therefore Internet - to my favourite compact Mac.

Mac os 7.6 video card show memory