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Are you on OS 9 or OS X? There's different procedures for each, and, the compatibility with different wireless networks is different for each, with OS X 10.4 supporting WPA 2 wireless networks and OS 9 only supporting WEP and unencrypted networks. The solution lobust mentioned is likely the...

I think you're still using AFP over IP. It's my understanding that 10.4's AFP server doesn't have necessary bits (as in program code) to work over AppleTalk, the way the servers from 10.2/3 do. And, in 7.1, if you install the OT/AS from 7.5.x or 7.6.x you're... getting the IP functionality on...

This ultimately comes down to preferences and needs. 8.0 itself was renamed from 7.7 because Apple wanted (correctly) to end the clone program, and the easiest way to do that without getting sued too hard was to release Mac OS 8.0. I think Apple had already given up on Copland and had been in...

+1 fun project! Do you have a specific target OS for it? Random thoughts, maybe not super well structured, yes I spent 3/4 of the post on storage options, oops! "What makes a good OS 9 machine" and "what makes a good OS X machine" (and linux/bsd) are almost mutually exclusive, because, for...

Ah. I also wonder that. There's no good practical reason to run 7.5.4, so it may well be the aesthetics, similar to people who use exclusively old beta releases of things.

Oh gotcha, yeah I'd say it's fair to remove that wording. I'm pretty sure we knew even in 2009 it was possible to upgrade PowerBook hard drives, even if we hadn't written some of the limits down yet. I mentioned this somewhere but a lot of the more generic pages are basically direct copies off...

not having looked at the page: It depends on what "HDD driver" means in this case, but, a good example of "can't be upgraded" is that as an '030, the PB170 doesn't have SCSI Manager 4.3 and can't use its features so you can't to the best of my knowledge, say, use >4GB volumes on it, even if you...

Like this idea, and, we should also start adding relevant info about Intel Macs. Things that each platform has in common should cross over (e.g. a hypothetical list of all nubus cards would be relevant to both 68k and NuBus PPC Macs, and a list of all PCIe cards would be relevant to the last-gen...

There's no advantage to 7.5.4 or 7.5.2 other than to say you have them. 7.5.5 is the good/best version of 7.5. 7.5.x itself is mostly similar to 7.1 but with all the "batteries" included. You can add most of what's in 7.5 to 7.1, selectively if you prefer, to get a slightly slimmer overall...

To the best of my knowledge: AppleShare IP does not run under Classic Mode. Apple sold the QuickSilver PowerMac G4 in a special education-only OS9+ASIP6 configuration for this reason.

w/re wifi: To confirm what Corgi said - under OS X some CardBus cards like the Linksys WPC54G work in OS X and work with WPA2 under releases of OS X that support it (e.g. 10.4.) You'd use the cardbus slot for that, not the AirPort slot. Lucent WaveLAN cards also work with OS 9 using the...

One alternative option: Does your iMac already have a working Mac OS 9 installation on it? If so, you may be able to copy the files from that installation onto USB media that's under ~200 gigs and boot from that. OS X may require firewire, unfortunately. (I keep meaning to try this on my own...

Another option, for a fresh install on Apple hardware, if you have a Mac that runs High Sierra and needs it installed, is to boot into Mac Recovery mode. If the firmware updates were all done, most 2011+ Macs will be able to fetch High Sierra off Apple's servers, even with a totally blank disk...

OpenTransport includes DHCP, but you may need to enable it, I believe in the TCP/IP control panel. The other thing I typically do when I'm in there is go to the advanced or admin options and check the option to start the TCP/IP stack on every boot. For me, that makes connecting to TCP/IP...

10.4 is the first version to exclude AppleShare-over-AppleTalk. To the best of my knowledge, it's not possible to add it back. 10.4 itself retains AppleTalk for printers and printing, but not files. 10.2 or 10.3 will have AppleShare over AppleTalk for LT-only Macs that should, as far as I know...

Hello, I hope your November is going well! We have an update today -- we're moving away from the IRC channel #68kMLA on irc.oshaberi.ne.jp to the IRC channel #68kMLA on the server irc.68kmla.org. As on Oshaberi, we'll have encrypted connectivity and unencrypted connectivity, so our vintage...

All very fun. Most of my vintage Macs are '030s and newer on 7.6.1 or better so I put ethernet in everything and run an AppleShare IP server. I'm using ASIP6.2.2 on 9.2.2 on a QS'02 right now but my eventual plan is to move to a Mac mini G4 running 10.4 server - that QS'02 will likely become...

In addition to Wikipedia, EveryMac has some good notes: https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/ G4s/G5s sort of each cross-over into one another and into the previous and future design eras. The Pro Keyboard started with some G3s and then the PowerMac G4 and continued into the first-gen G5s. The...

hmmm.... not that I know of. Most Macs included a packing list, I have one for the educational/lab pack model of the Mac LC 520 for example. For the most part: "Pro" modular Macs from the II until the group just before the beige G3: OS media & documentation mouse power cable sometimes a...