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MacOS 9 Lives! New fansite.

crimsonRE

Member
Very nice! After a lifetime of UNIX boxen work (and OS X for everyday use), I'm getting into classic Mac OS - 7 and 9 at present. I'll be enjoying that, as well as, of course, the MLA!

 

uniserver

Well-known member
Screen shot 2013-02-21 at 3.01.05 PM.jpg

lol maybe i shouldn't of sold mine, :)

I have one at work but its a our workhorse, It internally hosts all the massive PDF files

we need for all our product lines, Some PDF files are 40mb+

Screen shot 2013-02-21 at 3.07.16 PM.jpg

 

ClassicHasClass

Well-known member
I have such a "holy grail" MDD (bought specifically new because it *could* boot OS 9 still). It has dual 1.8GHz Sonnet G4s in it now and is the Classilla development machine.

 

jongleur

Well-known member
My QS2002 might not be "Holy Grail", but with the Duet 1.8G upgrade it certainly is my preferred desktop machine.

Pity it only has a max of 1.5GB RAM. I think for its next birthday I'll by it a new SSD for 10.5, and put a IDE/SATA adapter on the 60GB SSD for 9.22 to play with.

 

Bunsen

Admin-Witchfinder-General
Stick a SATA PCI card in that puppy. It'll be way faster than an adapted drive on the internal IDE bus.

 

jongleur

Well-known member
The 60GB SSD (OWC with Sandforce Controller for built-in TRIM support) running 10.5.8 is on the PCI SATA controller, just wasn't able to find one supported by MOS9, so I'll try to get the 60GB working on 9.2.2 using a SATA/IDE adapter, and put a larger SSD for 10.5.8, probably a 256GB.

http://www.jongleur.co.uk/blogs/random-thoughts/how-old-is-retro/ for a overview of my QuickSilver2000 desktop, with XBench results for the HDDs and SSD added to the comments.

 
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