[Dex13]

I have a performa 578, and was wondering of instead of having to buy an upgrade card if there is another mac from which i can pull a better card, a powerpc would be nice. Also could i pull a hd from another old mac?

[euphras]

You can use HDs from other old Mac´s, just be sure it´s a SCSI HD, If you plan to use a HD bigger than 2GB, partition it in order to get a system partition not bigger than 2 Gigs. Processor upgrade: Yes you can upgrade it to a PPC 601, via an upgrade card that fits in the 68k processor socket (in order to do that you have to remove the original, lt´s then mounted on the upgrade card). Try *bay to get such a card. For documentation see http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/manuals.html .

Pat
PS. I dont think card taken from other Mac´s will do the job since the card is designed to fit between the other components on the mainboard.

[Dex13]

cool i can put an ethernet card in there? Well ive searched ebay but what exactly am i looking for? Any help or links?

[jdbon]

A comm slot ethernet card is what you should look for.

[l008com]

I've never heard of this thing where you have to partition SCSI drives over 2 GB. I know on certain old IDE macs you have to partition over 8 GB but thats all as far as I know. And yes any SCSI 2 drive will work, or any other SCSI drive with a SCSI2 adapter. Ethernet should be pretty cheap if you can get your hands one one of these old old cards.