Mac Forum / General / Hardware / April 2010

I have a 27" iMac 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo, with 4 GB of 1067MHz RAM, OS X
10.6.3 Snow Leopard.
I have a couple of older, but excellent, film scanners, that I would
like to connect to my iMac:

I'm trying to repair my an old Mac Classic and I think I have located
the problem to be the SCSI controller chip - a NCR 53C80.
Do anyone know a place/website that deals in obsolete chips? I have
tried google, but without much luck.

I'm playing around with trying to connect my old G3 (not firefire or
USB) to my home network. Sources indicate it can be done with the Dell
Truemobile 1100 PCMCIA card and I've got one but I can't find a driver
for MacIntosh for the thing.

Hi. I'm getting an IPad for a business project. I'll be using it at home
where I have an IMac hooked up to cable internet service. I'll need to
set up a wifi network so I can use the IPad on the internet. However,
I'm not sure whether I need an Airport Express or an Airport ...

I had two external FW drives (Seagate/Icy Dock for TM; and LaCie d2 Quadra
for SuperDuper!) connected in a daisy chain to my iMac. The Seagate/Icy Dock
is closest to the iMac, and the LaCie is daisy-chained off of it.
I received two additional FW drives (larger LaCie d2 Quadras) as ...

I have a Quantum Q 280 SCSI hard drive out of an original Mac II that
I want to get the files from. I eventually want to get the files to my
PowerBook G4 and as an intermediary machine I picked up a beige G3.
I selected this beige G3 because it has SCSI, ethernet, Safari and USB

What is your recommended performance checker for an iMac that has been
slow for the last 6 months?   I want to narrow down what can be fixed.