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I feel as if I have asked this question before and apologies if I have. I'm setting up a Black & White G4 (that is, a PM G4 with the white case plastics from a Blue & White G3) as a gaming machine for turn-of-the-millennium games (and a bit beyond that too). I have 3 G4s * that I can use: 1x...

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a mismatch between the ADB cable and the mouse? Can it be that an ADB cable was stuck into a laser mouse? Platinum grey was most definitely out of fashion in the late 1990s. This mouse would have had a white or translucent USB cable. Here is a picture...

Max is @max1zzz on these fora. Send him a private message (PM) and ask him.

Ah, I did not know this. This explains trouble I have had in the past. Thanks for this.

Try max. His adapters are good. If he doesn't have any, I'll have a look for one of mine. If I find one that works with an 80-pin drive (and terminates it too), you are welcome to it. I prefer the SD-card based drives (ZuluSCSI, SCSI2SD and so on) anyway. I live in Switzerland.

There are pins for TPR (upper left) on the adapter in the link. And even if it didn't, some HDs allow termination on the disk itself. One could also use a 50-pin SCSI cable with several plugs and terminate the last port.

It should do. I used to run an 80-pin U320 SCSI server drive in my Performa 475 so I'm fairly sure that it'll run in your PM 7600. Make sure that the server drive support SE (Single-ended) mode. It will usually have SE/LVD (or maybe LVD/SE) written on the label. The power draw from these drives...

Her name is Lila and I thought about ideally cat-shaped compact Macs are.

You have a point. The equivalent of €50 for a Mac SE is optimistic and probably happens quite rarely. The Bay Area may very well have inflated prices in comparison to the rest of the world. From the market perspective in Switzerland-Germany-Austria (and possibly even England too), prices seem...

What does the seller mean by restored if no re-capping has been done? A broken hard drive was replaced by one that is working and ditto with the floppy? Hardly a reason to double the price. Depending on the amount of yellowing and the availability of keyboard, mouse, manuals and so, I would...

I find that some of the later server drives (U320 with the 80-pin SCA socket) are relatively quiet. They have a quite hefty power draw though. Many of them are LVD/SE and you should be able to run them from a 50-pin SCSI port. I had one in my Performa 475 for some years until the PSU went.

I can recommend them. Mr. Jobs has started having them installed into his company's NeXT boxes too. They are also all the rage in Japan too which is a great place both the disks and the drives.

The English/Indian publishing house Packt make one of their eBooks freeky available every weekday. Today (Wednesday, Nov. 22) there is a book on Mastering macOS Programming from 2017 available. It can't be downloaded (unless you actually buy it) but once you register on the site, you can put the...

I had in an AudioMedia II in there for a while but I never got around to using it, so I took it out. Once I had a choice to make about the Sonnet Crescendo card, I decided to keep it in and turn the 8100/400 into my file server.

I'm not at all a Pro Tools user. Concerning floppies, have you looked into using BMoW's Floppy Emu [1]. I try to avoid floppies now when I can. True, it is not all 1995 but it does save a lot of floppy swapping. Many floppies are now too old to be usable and many of us should grease our floppy...

If you are going to be completist, then under 0. you need all of the pre-Launch macs that were made. These include the Twiggy macs, the macs used during development and so on. They mightn't be affordable or available but they most definitely belong in the list.

Well done sir!

Why not get yourself a PCI SATA card? You'll need to flash it though. There are threads here on this topic. It will keep your IDE buses free. https://store.rabbitholecomputing.com/RETRO-SATA-PCI-p/rhc-sata-sii3112-pci-hard-card.htm

It's not an answer to your directly. If you want faster disk I/O, an external Zulu-SCSI should greatly help your Mac Plus, assuming they work on the Mac Plus. It's quieter too. I haven't used a Plus in decades and its implementation of SCSI is not as complete as it could be, so it mightn't work...

I remember being told in the early to mid-nineties by someone in an Apple dealership in Dublin that Macs were designed with a usable lifetime of 7 years and that they should all be expected to work within that timeframe. 2004 is ten years after the PB 150 was released, so, my guess is, Apple had...