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Wiki Expansion - PowerPC?
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BustedCap97
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I believe so. they are just as beige.
Like this idea, and, we should also start adding relevant info about Intel Macs. Things that each platform has in common should cross over (e.g. a hypothetical list of all nubus cards would be relevant to both 68k and NuBus PPC Macs, and a list of all PCIe cards would be relevant to the last-gen P'Mac G5s, Intel Mac Pros, Intel Macs with ThunderBolt (or other PCIe crime venues) as well as Apple Silicon Macs w/ ThunderBolt)
I know I say this all the time but today Macs from 2013 are as old as my Q840av and/or LC575 was when I first joined up. (roughly speaking.) And, well, all Macs will eventually be vintage so from my perspective it can't hurt to start thinking about what it would look like to add Apple Silicon info to the wiki.
Due to some other projects, right now's not the best time for me, but an idea I had been workshopping before was to coalesce all the different model pages into single hub pages for each series, e.g. "the 630 series" or "the powerbook 5300 series", etc etc. I hadn't gotten very far on exactly what the delineation should be, but the basic idea was to provide a brief description of the model, include specs on variations (e.g. performa 636 vs. quadra 640dos vs. lc630 and powermac 6100/60, powermac 6100/66dos, performa 6116, vs. AWGS6150) - Some demos of that were on my personal MacDex pages at https://doku.stenoweb.net/doku.php?id=macdex:introduction
In terms of machine pages I think a lot of what we have is basically copied from wikipedia which is itself (at least at the time) largely based on LEM so I think going through and adding further details or de-editorializing the site is another good project.
My thought, at some point, is to start doing a weekly work session, although at the start a lot of that is going to be inventorying what we have, re-collecting the wishlist, and then prioritizing all of that work, and, then, well, doing it.
I know I say this all the time but today Macs from 2013 are as old as my Q840av and/or LC575 was when I first joined up. (roughly speaking.) And, well, all Macs will eventually be vintage so from my perspective it can't hurt to start thinking about what it would look like to add Apple Silicon info to the wiki.
Due to some other projects, right now's not the best time for me, but an idea I had been workshopping before was to coalesce all the different model pages into single hub pages for each series, e.g. "the 630 series" or "the powerbook 5300 series", etc etc. I hadn't gotten very far on exactly what the delineation should be, but the basic idea was to provide a brief description of the model, include specs on variations (e.g. performa 636 vs. quadra 640dos vs. lc630 and powermac 6100/60, powermac 6100/66dos, performa 6116, vs. AWGS6150) - Some demos of that were on my personal MacDex pages at https://doku.stenoweb.net/doku.php?id=macdex:introduction
In terms of machine pages I think a lot of what we have is basically copied from wikipedia which is itself (at least at the time) largely based on LEM so I think going through and adding further details or de-editorializing the site is another good project.
My thought, at some point, is to start doing a weekly work session, although at the start a lot of that is going to be inventorying what we have, re-collecting the wishlist, and then prioritizing all of that work, and, then, well, doing it.
3lectr1cPPC
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I'll keep this in mind when writing future pages, and I can also begin work on this when I notice anything subjective.
Here's an example of one I made today: https://wiki.68kmla.org/LCD_Tunnel_Vision
Hopefully it's objective enough
Does this mean we're getting Intel sub-forums soon?
I'm pretty sure I could work something like that out myself. We don't have a page on the 5300 series right now, so I suppose I can take care of that one first.
jeremywork
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FWIW, I’ve been shoving images/specs on jeremywork.com in hopes of eventually having such a structured wiki. My machine pages attempt to simplify the way you’ve outlined, though it’s barely complete. Anything useful for the wiki here can be ripped freely.
3lectr1cPPC
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Anything I've put on my website (macdat.net) can be used on the wiki freely as well, although much of it may need to be modified a bit as my site is a bit less objective than a wiki. I'll also be remaining active on updating the site as well, as this past year has shown us that having multiple sources for this information can never hurt. Real life stuff just gets in the way of progress sometimes. Plus, my site is doing PC specs as well along with a couple other things.
Plus, my site is doing PC specs as well along with a couple other things.
