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Interesting read...

Agreed. Had that early 2008 8-core 2.8 GHz A1186 for a long time. Was my daily driver until I moved the Radeon HD 5770 video card up a slot and somehow caused the heatsink for the PCI bus chip to come loose. Became rather unstable at the time. Switched to the mid-2010 A1286 I owned at the...

There is one for $100 on offerup right now. Just the machine itself, of course. It's in Tacoma. Seller says it needs a hard drive. I probably will have a spare SATA 3.5" drive available. Sent you a DM with the link.

Conquesting an A1289 Mac Pro, finally. Picking that up on Saturday.

lol, yep. Was wondering if you'd notice...

TextEdit is close enough to SimpleText... I'd like to see the ability to customize the OS return. Seems like, as OS X got older, Apple removed the ability to do such. As an example, there used to be the CandyBar app. Used that to hack in the classic rainbow Apple menu icon on 10.4.11. Also...

That's cool... Means that if my Apeiron install somehow gets nuked, including the preferences, I won't have to try to remember the serial I got from Ambrosia back in 1998.

If I remember correctly, the Laser UDC can also control it. Had one of those in my last //e, controlling an A9M0106 drive. Photo from almost 13 years ago.

The RAMWorks cards are used as memory expansion under AppleWorks (machine is still limited to 128KB with other applications), but also offer the 80 column text mode, as well as the option of doing RGB color.

It does have some usefulness, if said Liron card is present... Makes it easy to get software transferred to/from a Mac with a built-in floppy drive that can read/write 400K/800K disks. Don't have to rely on a serial connection and ADT.

Nice. I would replace the 80 column card with an AE RAMWorks II or III, though. You also can add an Apple SuperDrive controller card to let the //e access 3.5" floppies, including 1.4MB disks with an Apple SuperDrive (M7287) floppy drive. The Reactive Micro site based out of Bremerton...

Yup, except for the Macintosh TV version of the M0487, and, I think a black version of the ADK.

Nice. Simple fix. If you've an extra ADB keyboard, use that with it. No need to stick with the somewhat mushy feeling USB keyboards.

https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/battery-iigs-rom0-1-caddy/ This also works. You could also get a normal Mac PRAM battery holder, solder wires to it, the use a *CR*14250, getting the same safety benefits as a CR2032, but in a higher capacity battery.

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