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    Local estate find in San Diego

    The accusation earlier in the thread was, essentially, that someone other than the executor of the estate, without the authorization of the executor of the estate, is who you purchased the items from. If that accusation is true, those items would have been stolen from the estate.
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    A very late 040

    Four 6200s, ethernet cards, a hub, a second monitor for one of them, and a KVM might actually be significantly better and more stable for multitasking, though...
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    FUN CHALLENGE: 2006 iMac in 2019

    And, of course, the challenge explicitly stated you could run whatever OS you wanted. So, running an iMac5,2 with Windows 10 or Linux on it is basically the same experience as running a brand new $200 HP Stream 14 with Windows 10 or Linux on it, as far as the challenge is concerned, just...
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    FUN CHALLENGE: 2006 iMac in 2019

    Your reference machine has identical CPU performance to a brand new laptop. (I took the liberty of using a Mac Mini for this, because nobody bothered benchmarking a Late 2006 iMac with that CPU.) Not exactly an exciting challenge.
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    TenFourFox Performance

    And now, we're to the point where midrange smartphones can curbstomp even a G5 quad in performance. Atoms can curbstomp a G5 quad in performance.
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    What is the best Apple II to buy?

    As I understand, the problem with ROM 3 is PCB delamination in the internal layers. I've had terrible luck with ROM 3 boards, I think I've been through three? And, I mean, one didn't even recognize cards at all...
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    What is the best Apple II to buy?

    Turns out, I didn't realize that this thing was available for ROM 3 IIGSes (now if ROM 3s were reliable - they're not, which is why my IIGS has a ROM 01 board): http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/gsdvi/index.html $57 shipped from here: http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/english.html- and based on...
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    What is the best Apple II to buy?

    There's strong arguments for the //c, or using the IIGS as a //e, rather than going for a //e, because everything you need to get started is (hypothetically) included. The //c works very, very well as an 8-bit Apple II - mass storage isn't so easy, but everything else is already in there, it...
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    Project: Apple IIc video/boot problem

    If you're getting no disk drive spin, no beep, the problem isn't in the character generation circuit. Your CPU most likely isn't starting up, so suspect a failed keyboard (holding Ctrl-Reset, or having the keyboard unplugged, can cause those symptoms IIRC), failed CPU, failed ROM, or failed...
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    RGB monitor

    And, actually, EGA timings aren't actually 24 kHz, they're 21.85 kHz. (Oh, and for the sake of completeness, while I've been saying "15 kHz" for CGA h-sync, it's really 15.734 kHz.) Now, one of those cheap CGA/EGA/YUV to VGA boards will get a CGA (or 320x200/640x200 EGA signal, but not 640x350...
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    RGB monitor

    So those won't do what the OP wants either. In the arcade world, "CGA" is what people use to refer to 15 kHz h-sync, 60 Hz v-sync (TV timings) analog RGB, and "EGA" is what people use to refer to 24 kHz h-sync. Those converters sample the 15 kHz or 24 kHz analog RGB signal, and output a VGA...
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    RGB monitor

    For an EGA card, you really need a true EGA monitor, which has digital RGB with two intensity bits. That monitor is analog RGB, and won't support the timings an EGA monitor needs (15 and 24 kHz h-sync, 60 Hz v-sync) - it's 35 kHz h-sync, 66.7 Hz V-sync.
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    What software and functions do you miss in pre-OSX?

    My line about using the machine "properly" is more in regards to safe operation of the Harley or the Corvette, because it's literally possible to kill someone if you use them improperly, which would obviously be far more harmful than a PPC Mac in a botnet. However, some practices with the Mac...
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    What software and functions do you miss in pre-OSX?

    If you need to feel young, there are products whose entire purpose in life is making you feel young. https://www.harley-davidson.com http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-sports-cars.html The best part is, unlike with old versions of OS X, you won't endanger everyone around you just by using it...
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    Woo! TechStep!

    http://bhtooefr.ath.cx/images/techstep.jpg lololololololololol you should get a personal mainframe, that REALLY gets the chicks all moist :D
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