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    Which 68k series can take a 5200/6200 logic board?

    Do we know off hand if the 580 works with the x200/x300 boards? It would more or less track as it's IIRC not compatible with the other previous 500-series or CC/CCII boards.
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    Recommendation on first 90s Mac

    Hello and welcome in! Ultimately, the best one is the one in your hands. That goes for pretty much any hobby. The "good" Macs are, in fact, very good, but the "bad" ones ae almost always never as bad as people say they are/were, especially here in the modern context where none of us are using...
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    2024-04-28 Site Outage

    Sorry for the delay posting this! The site was unavailable from ~middway on the 28th through to a bit earlier this morning on the 30th, due first to a technical error at the hosting provider, and then an error rebooting the application host as part of the resolution to the first error.
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    Performa 6200 Cache/ROM DIMM Error

    I don't off hand know the part numbers or any signifying markers of the original vs. fixed parts, unfortunately. I'd say if the service manual says, go ahead and copy the text and/or post a screenshot of it, it'd fall under fair use.
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    Performa 6200 Cache/ROM DIMM Error

    The 6200 (and all other Macs which share the same base architecture, of which there are many) can boot from CD/floppy, as well as other random external SCSI devices. However, based on: I think you are legitimately having a cache/ROM problem. Unfortunately, this problem was somewhat common on...
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    You know, I'm actually not sure that the multia would be any worse at basic file services than...

    You know, I'm actually not sure that the multia would be any worse at basic file services than the alphastation I've got, I suppose it'd depend on what internal and external storage it allows. And, you can argue how much that matters with modern SCSI replacers... hmmmm
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    *rolling the bad idea dice* NT4 on alpha running services for mac, for no apparent or good reason

    *rolling the bad idea dice* NT4 on alpha running services for mac, for no apparent or good reason
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    man now i'm thinking about my 8500/601-100 pentium-166 build idea and thinking I might need to...

    man now i'm thinking about my 8500/601-100 pentium-166 build idea and thinking I might need to put some time into that
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    Quadra 840AV video problem

    That monitor looks like it may be a performa plus display, but, that display was built by an OEM for, in addition to Apple, other OEMs like packard bell and I believe it may have sold separately. If it is the Apple Performa Plus display, it should work fine with the 840av. That said: the way...
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    Ah totally fair - are there even a bunch yet? I imagine if so a lot of 'em are power users or...

    Ah totally fair - are there even a bunch yet? I imagine if so a lot of 'em are power users or developers who should never have bought an 8/16g config to begin with and those'll have been "ridden hard".
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    (the dynamic on the windows side of things is weird for sure because buying a used 8th gen i5...

    (the dynamic on the windows side of things is weird for sure because buying a used 8th gen i5 OEM system and upgrading it, even "modestly" like to 16/512, is likely to cost more than a brand new N100/16/512 micro PC from amazon, so the only "value" is if you know up front you need even more than...
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    When you say "value" - do you mean, you don't think M-series/Apple Silicon is interesting, or...

    When you say "value" - do you mean, you don't think M-series/Apple Silicon is interesting, or lifecycle, or, are prices lower than you're expecting, or is this purely about after-the-fact internal flexibility upgrades like RAM/SSD? I'd expect minimum +5 years from today of additional life out...
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    Looking for scheduled reboot utility

    That's basically it. OS9 stability is assisted massively by regular reboots. Most period resources recommended a literal daily reboot for anybody running their machines full-time, and many use cases recommended reboots between running different tasks. In my case - on a bunch of my machines if 9...
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    re bundle(s) inside retail software..

    Do you have any more details about what you're looking at? Some software (Photoshop feels like a good example in this context) has multiple concurrent versions that are sometimes included with different packages, e.g. a lot of scanners bundled Photoshop LE for basic image cleanup/manipulation...
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    Open with Classic

    Stationery pad is the classic mac os term for a template, so each time you run it it's making a copy for your further use. I'm not aware, when something is compatible with both, of a way to force something to run in Classic Mode, and for almost any software that can (e.g. Photoshop 7, Final Cut...
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