[q] Performa 635 q's

[regan norton]

Hi all - I'm a recent "vintage" mac owner, and a new member of this list. 
I'm a professional when it comes to mac OS 9 and OS X. As my trusty 1st 
generation g4 tower was my first ever mac, the ins-and-outs of anything 
"pre-g" are pretty foreign for me. Recently, I had great fortune at a 
benefit fund-raiser sale. I landed a Performa 635cd (in great working order, 
and with all of its original internal parts) along with a ton of far out of 
date software and manuals, a global village external modem, and an apple 
laser writer 300 for virtually nothing. I have since also purchased a late 
model apple 15" monitor to go along with the setup - it's great, but as it 
is it's not too useful for anything remotely contemporary.

Enough background...I'm hoping you all can guide me a bit in bringing this 
rig closer to a useful state. I would like to RAM it up to 64 megs (I've 
found a source for compatible memory at www.memoryx.com, are there any other 
good sources? I would also like to install a big hard drive and an ethernet 
card, and upgrade to OS 8.1. Intended use would be a glorified jukebox - 
somewhere I could stash a ton of mp3's and back-up other files from my main 
mac. Is this realistic? Can a current generation OS X machine communicate 
with an older OS 8 machine over a network? How and where should I look for 
hard drives? I know this machine requires a PIO 3 hard drive (I only know 
the term, not exactly what it means except for its impact on transfer rate). 
Will any IDE drive work, and will it simply "downgrade" to that standard, or 
do I need to seek a hard drive that is specifically that type?

What other pitfalls are there? What are some must-haves that I'm 
overlooking? I'm intrigued by the TV tuner (not present, but it sounds like 
a nice upgrade), does anyone have any experience with that?

Thanks so much for having this list, and for all the help it offers.
- Regan
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