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    SSHeven: a modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9

    Now get me an SSH-tunneling-working copy of MacX. 😂
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    SSHeven: a modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9

    Works with SSH keys‽ That's it, I'm bringing my PowerBook 540C into work next week and doing sysadmin work from it.
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    Introducing (and interest check) AirTalk: Wireless plug-and-play LocalTalk dongles

    Add me to the list for four, please! Now to find a mini-DIN-8 to DB-9 to connect one to my Mac 512k, and to 3D print some cases to match the machines they'll be connected to... (And rig up some ultra-short serial-and-ADB cords for PowerBook use.)
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    A/UX 3.0 install fail...

    Also, for a CD300 (or any old double speed or slower CD-ROM drive,) you'll want to make sure you burn the CD-R at the slowest speed your CD burner allows.
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    Is there a beige Power Mac that can make 800k disks?

    Interesting, I haven't had any problems writing files to an 800k disk in 9.2 and making it unbeatable...
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    iTunes Music Authorization

    You absolutely have to authorize the computer to download still, but when you redownload, it should download 256kbps "Purchased Music" .m4a files instead of 128kbps "Protected Music" .m4p files. Any previously downloaded protected tracks will still be protected, you would need to redownload to...
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    Compact Mac CRT - what are its power requirements?

    Hey, right there on the web page!  
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    Head hurts, IIvi versus IIvx

    Apple advertised as 32 MHz because they went 'cheap' and used a 16 MHz chip to generate the clock for the CPU, doubled to 32 MHz on that model; even though the CPU itself was rated for 33 MHz.
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    PowerBook 500 series Battery Rebuild

    Yeah, I sent it off to Battery Refill, they opened it up and replaced the cells.  Sadly, I don't have the email receipt any more. It took them like four months, though.  I had them do two at once (and got a slight discount for it,) and got about 10 hours between the two batteries when they were...
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    How to set up a bootable RAM disk on a Quadra with no SCSI devices?

    Because there is some confusion - some Macs can make a bootable RAM disk (although it loses its contents if you shut it all the way off,) some Macs can't.  I don't know for sure about the Q840av, I know that most of the Power Macs aren't bootable from a RAM disk.  (Some systems save the RAM disk...
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    Playing audio cd's

    As others have said, you can command the CD drive to play the audio CD, but the classic Mac OS doesn't do "digital transfer" of the audio over the SCSI connection. Macs with an internal CD drive have (as unity said) an extra cable to send the analog audio to the logic board.  External CD drives...
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    External Floppy disk qurstion

    Two options: 1. Format the floppies as "Mac" on the SE/30, then use them in OS X via a USB floppy drive (yes, they will work - you can't format HFS/Mac format on OS X, but you can read/write just fine.) 2. If you have PC File Exchange installed on the SE/30, just use the disks in...
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    PowerBook 5300

    I really want one of those mini CD drives from Independence Day, but I have a feeling that was a mockup, not a real thing.
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    HD20 failure rate?

    I've acquired three over the years.  Only one was fully working, even though all three power up, have the light turn on, and the drive platters spin. One of the broken ones appears to have dead drive electronics - while the platters do spin up, it doesn't identify to the system AT ALL. And yes...
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    hard disk 20

    I've acquired three over the years.  Only one was fully working, even though all three power up, have the light turn on, and the drive platters spin. One of the broken ones appears to have dead drive electronics - while the platters do spin up, it doesn't identify to the system AT ALL. And yes...
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