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I want to install Python on my eMac and some packages like NumPy, Matplotlib, etc. Installing the Python package was easy. I downloaded v3.5.4 from python.org. With some help from Google, I was able to get pip installed. I have pip and pip3 running, it seems. However, I cannot install any...

About a year ago, during days of better health and all that, I purchased a Power Mac G4 from the shopgoodwill site. The machine was advertised as having a 733 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. This is what is printed on the specifications sticker on the back. Now, after a long long long break, I...

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I am currently using a ZuluSCSI Mini v1.0 on my Centris 650. It connects to the 25 pin port on the back of the machine. Would I see faster R/W speeds if I used an internal ZuluSCSI device connected to the 50 pin ribbon cable? Or do these two ports perform identically? Thanks! :)

I'm back at it again! :) I did a quick eBay search for "mac pci sata" and found two promising results. This is a four port SATA card. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254669358361 This is a two port SATA card. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266155412364 The four port model is cheaper. Maybe I could get...

@Cory5412 The link of books at vintageapple.org is fantastic! Thanks for posting it!

Sorry for my delayed response here ... The machine has OS 9.2.1 installed on it. I didn't dig too deep into that system because the only thing it has is porn. I didn't want to mention it because it sounds kind of stupid. The only application is Netscape Navigator with literally 100s of links to...

After getting a taste of a 68k system through my Cenrtis 650, I decided to pick up a beige G3 desktop. Here is the eBay listing I purchased the machine from. https://www.ebay.com/itm/295533405617 I purchased this machine because the seller offered to pay for return shipping. The machine...

Sorry for being out of action here. Had a bit of a COVID to fight off! 😷 🤒 Here's my system's profile. Could the crash be coming from me running OS 8.1? I was thinking of trying to install OS 7.6.1, the last of the version 7 series.

Did that just now and a "Type 2" error pops up now.

I installed Mathcad 6 from the Macintosh Garden on my Centris 650 and it crashes when opening. It looks like the program wants to get past the splash screen but can't. The upper righthand corner of the splash screen disappears and the computer hangs here. I tested this installation on my...

The 65,535kB maximum was seen when I open up the "About Microsoft Excel 5.0a". It didn't register the 131072kB I entered. MatLab, Mathematica, and MathCAD are coming. My backlog here to explore is huge! 😁 Plus, I am still learning the basic ins and outs of the platform. I mean, I didn't even...

Thank you @ymk ! :) I did not know I could do this! Edit : It looks like the maximum value this can be set to is 65,535kB, or 65MB.

One of my goals in increasing the RAM in my Centris 650 is to load very large spreadsheets of financial data and have the computer churn through all of my calculations, no matter how painful it may seem. It looks like I am unable to load anything beyond 1.6MB. I stumbled upon this when I...

I found a neat little benchmark program called TimeDrive. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/timedrive Here is what the program said about my ZuluSCSI Mini. (apologies again for my super blue photos - CRT screens are hard to photograph) Is that a normal speed? Am I ahead of the curve? Am I...