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This is a little bit disorganized because it's early, but: As far as I know, the SCSI2SD v6 is still the drag race champion among the modern solutions. Mine gets ~7MB/sec read and ~4MB/sec write in my 8600/300. My benches are over at...

It's always a bummer how these threads go. A thing I have to remind myself a lot is "what am I adding, how am I helping?" and I think several of us lost sight of that here. That said, I do think we also need to be mindful of context when we bring this these kinds of things up. People who have...

got emacs on the brain now! I got one this summer, I should poke at it

My super duper apologies on this one. The site was unavailable briefly ~7 to ~740 UTC-7, due to a DNS error. It may take longer than that for some people to get it back, based on DNS caching.

I'm aware I'm the one who created the interest in optical and magneto optical technologies, talking about how the discs are the best possible archival technologies and the drives have proven themselves to be among the most reliable removable media technology formats for the '80s, '90s, and...

What's SCSI DVD on 68k/PPC Macs look like? That'd get you ~9 gigs if you could make and burn a dual layer image (maybe on a machine with a SIL3112? Dunno how tolerant of Shenanigans, like, Toast is)

Hey @dvincent - welcome in! I've hidden a couple of posts that just contained a large image. I think if you upload multiple images to a single post they'll come through as a slightly easier managed gallery view. Although, this is really an announcement thread, not necessarily a support thread...

I've never seen 604r used in a public-facing Mac context, is that something IBM used for 604-based AIX machines, or was it the name of a further evolution of the 604 design that would have succeeded 604ev? If so, we should probably continue using the terminology Apple and all of the Mac books...

There's any number of reasons someone may not have responded six years ago, so I'd say it's safer not to presume. I don't see it yet so tagging @bdurbrow - when you have a moment to take a look.

Great to see this is working, thank you for the update! Those monitors did come out a few years before the Beige G3, but I believe they may have shipped alongside it. Or, to be honest, Apple and Mac stuff at retail in the '90s and early 2000s stuck around long enough even if Apple stopped...

Thank you for sharing the update on this! I don't know the underlying reason why but that makes as much sense as anything else!

A note about this: in my experience, normal people do not buy a new computer every year, or every single time there's a new model. This type of comparison ("how much faster is it than literally the directly previous model") makes relatively little sense in consumer computers because most people...

It's Christmas in July! I've been saying this for years. The whole "Road Apple" concept has literally never sat well with me and most of the machines on that list are basically "That way" because they were affordable and aimed at a non-pro market and the compromises Apple made mostly don't...

Apologies for the delay (I just got back into town last night, long story...) Done!

AltiVec is a big maybe. If you have a graphics card that supports Core Image, you can likely avoid it. However - this same behavior is noted under 10.4 which does not require AltiVec, so I'm still a little bit skeptical on this theory. A way to test it could be to run an altivec workload (like...

Got it - thank you!

It sounds like John found a workload that's fully loading the G4 CPU under OS 9, fairly similar to what's possible under OS X, so I suspect think this (quoted) is what's going on here. I haven't re-read my own posts in that thread in particularly close detail, but for what it's worth, what I...

It's probably just a normal prototype for the late stage development of the 6360 and 6400. Lots of late-stage prototypes from several different eras at Apple have leaked out over the years. My personal pet theory is that they weren't particularly well tracked and someone from the team brought it...

Great that this is working now! I wonder if it's just being weird because it's flash and OS 9 isn't detecting it the same way a modern computer would. SD and CF cards have worked well for me but I don't use many flash drives on old Macs, I primarily use USB pocket hard drives. USB and...