Recent content by Quadra

It's October 1991 actually, so the "AppleColor High-Resolution RGB Monitor" would have been an often chosen option.

Wow that's stylish. Great work!

I use Apple CRT’s (M0401,M1297,M1212) but I have a ViewSonic va503b 15” LCD monitor that works very good with the Q700. Very nice colours for an old flat screen.

I once found one like that too. A IIfx board, hidden in a II. It’s reverted to II now though. Good II’s seem to be rarer than IIfx’s these days.

It`s restored!

Looks like it's this one: https://www.digikey.com/products/en?mpart=L212132MV02Q

Today I bought a Macintosh II that turned out to have a IIfx motherboard inside! So, besides my regular IIfx, I now have another IIfx in disguise. It doesn`t work though. Needs new batteries and caps. The caps have leaked a bit, but there seems to be no damage. Luckily, the Maxell bombs didn`t...

Spectre VR, an 68k game that runs smooth in 68k mode, runs chopped in PPC mode. It's unplayable. Fat binary games like Wolf3d or Pathways run much better in PPC mode. For Wolf3d, 512 screen size is playable in PPC mode vs just 320 screen size in 68k mode.

When I turned on a Quadra 700 that I just bought, it made a weird startup sound that I didn`t know. I thought there was something wrong with it. A "Power Macintosh 700" it was. When I opened it, I found that card inside. Later I noticed that the cards empty box was among the stuff that came...

I have a LaserWriter NT. I tested it once, but the testing paper was mostly dark. So I disposed the cartridge. I`m not in a hurry to clean and restore it, since there must be lots of fine toner dust inside. It`s in nice condition though.

What I do: Win 10 PC + USB zip drive 100 => PC format Zip disk Q700 Sys 7.5 with the iomega extension + SCSI zip drive 100 => read/write PC formatted Zip disks

With 7.1, I always used a control panel "DOS Bestandsuitwisseling" ("DOS file exchange")  system prog FN7.1P5, that I saparatelly installed. Made June-10-1993. That works with PC 1.44MB, but not ZIP. But I like 7.5 with its nicer backgrounds and Apple Menu, I`ll keep it. I will find the Dutch...

That's what I did then, installing 7.5 on the Q700. Works fine. Reads PC zips now. On the downside, its the English version, I haven't found the Dutch 7.5 yet. 7.1 was a Dutch version I had for more than 20 years. 

If there is a point where Mac could read PC formatted zips, OS9 can read them? With a bridge machine it will be solved. That QS DP I have is an OSX system. I am picking op another QS (733) next week that I want to turn into an OS9 machine and I`m going to install a IDE zip into it. 

I have a USB drive that works on a Win 10 PC and a SCSI drive that works on a Q700 with system 7.1. They can`t read the other ones formatted disks though. (they can with a 1.44mb floppy) Is it possible to transfer files via Zip 100 from a modern PC (or Mac) to an old Mac?