Hopfenholz
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Nice! Is that a custom install of MacOS 9? I thought these were OS X only out of the box
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BetaC
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No, it's just a default install. The 2002 models, like this one, are old enough to actually boot it natively. They also use non-extreme airport cards, which I can't find locally, and SDRAM
Aeroform
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What extension are you using to get the wallpaper on there? I’ve tried most of them but neither work on my SE/30 (I’m however running 7.5.5)
BetaC
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It’s just Decor. It might be the version on the garden, or the version that came with the Marathon collection, I can’t remember.
I did a pseudo retrobright using the sun for mine.
Aeroform
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Ok thanks, that’s a bummer as it refuses to work for me on the SE/30 7.5.5 combo for some reason.
BetaC
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It should work, maybe there's just something missing from the installation?
BetaC
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I believe they do, but I'm iffy due to it using IDE for a HDD and SCSI for CDs, and me not having any spare IDE drives with OS7 on them.View attachment 48990
It's a beauty.
Do they boot like other Macs? If so you could do the old HDD switcheroo.
Hopfenholz
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That maybe many things but a beauty it is not! 
Can just imagine Jobs cancelling them with gusto when he came back. Or did clones end before that?
They can be very useful macs though. My dad kept a UMAX desktop going for years as it was the only mac in the whole studio that could talk SCSI, USB, FireWire and had a floppy drive.
Can just imagine Jobs cancelling them with gusto when he came back. Or did clones end before that? They can be very useful macs though. My dad kept a UMAX desktop going for years as it was the only mac in the whole studio that could talk SCSI, USB, FireWire and had a floppy drive.
tecneeq
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IDE drives might be a blessing, you can cheaply turn this to solid state. CF cards are basically IDE disks, they just need a passive adapter to get hooked up, something like that:
Best to order different models, they are cheap enough.
Small CF cards up to 4GB work best.
Booting from external SCSI Zip might work.
I have a Performa 630 with a Performa 6200 board in it, PPC 603@75MHz, i think these use IDE as well. If i installed say MacOS 8.5, i could make an image file that you can write with dd using any old Linux/Unix to write to CF card. Give me a note if you want to try this.
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Small CF cards up to 4GB work best.
Booting from external SCSI Zip might work.
I have a Performa 630 with a Performa 6200 board in it, PPC 603@75MHz, i think these use IDE as well. If i installed say MacOS 8.5, i could make an image file that you can write with dd using any old Linux/Unix to write to CF card. Give me a note if you want to try this.
BetaC
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I take it that there isn't much issue with finding PCI cards that work with this?That maybe many things but a beauty it is not!
They can be very useful macs though. My dad kept a UMAX desktop going for years as it was the only mac in the whole studio that could talk SCSI, USB, FireWire and had a floppy drive.
No worries. I do have SD card based solutions, I just as I said, don't have any spare OS7 or even 8 sitting around. And I'm at a loss as to why my ZULUSCSI doesn't seem to boot the garden-available 7.6.1 CD for this model.IDE drives might be a blessing, you can cheaply turn this to solid state. CF cards are basically IDE disks, they just need a passive adapter to get hooked up, something like that:
Best to order different models, they are cheap enough.IDE ATA 40pin zu Compact Flash CF Adapter Converter w/ PCI Bracket Rückseite GE | eBay
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Small CF cards up to 4GB work best.
Booting from external SCSI Zip might work.
I have a Performa 630 with a Performa 6200 board in it, PPC 603@75MHz, i think these use IDE as well. If i installed say MacOS 8.5, i could make an image file that you can write with dd using any old Linux/Unix to write to CF card. Give me a note if you want to try this.
BetaC
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After finding an Apple 600i SCSI CD drive to replace the effectively dead drive that shipped with the computer, and a bit of time wasting, I've finally got my Clone in a basically perfect state. Sure, I'm not maxing it out with RAM that's way too damn expensive, and I'm not even running 8 regularly, but I can officially say I'm happy.
BetaC
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I tried to do so once, but I refused to boot afterwards. I'm partially fine with 7.6.1, at least
BetaC
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As much as it's new apple, the OS is almost old enough to vote in the US.Sweet. I'm not into NuApple, but this box looks slick.
CC_333
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I would say that everything before macOS 10.14 could be considered "old" at this point, with 10.14 and 10.15 being in a sort of transitional phase. macOS 11 and up, while still somewhat similar in basic form, look and feel quite different than anything that came before it, and this is only the beginning of the changeover, relatively speaking.
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