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this is the best opening to a restoration thread I've ever read, I think. good grief. Also, ew.

Female to female. The male connector for these is the board-side one. OK, so if someone sends you a link to a product on a site from another country, the trick is to look for the manufacturer and the manufacturer's part number. Here, on the RS page, you can see the brand is 'Molex', so it's...

oh, that daughtercard that I didn't notice at all when I first looked. Ooops.

the one next to the three PCI cards with the audio ports on the back? That's the personality card, which pretty much contains the model-specific I/O.

Looks pretty normal (but probably useful) to me. Is that two firewire cards?

It is! I'm going to answer this and your next question, but please read to the end of this post, because there's actually another option that might be easier for you here. It's always worth remembering that there are lots of cheap "compatible" connectors for KK396 available on eBay or from...

Somewhere like RS will sell you pre-terminated mini-fit jr cables, but they won't be particularly cheap.

Do you see a reset signal being sent to the CPU on power up?

How long does it take your computer to boot? WiFi links take a lot longer to come up than Ethernet, and I wonder if the link just isn't ready yet when it tries to mount the drives...

Last I heard there were some bugs preventing it from working, and the rest is just that the set of people who have enough expertise to make it work aren't really interested in doing so, whereas the people who want to make it work don't have the expertise to do so. I don't think there's any...

Ah, yeah. Bloody brexit :-/.

I can lend one of you a IIe card if it would help.

This is a really good way to learn this stuff - take something that works, fiddle with it a bit so it meets your needs, then see if it still works. Then keep fiddling. Hope you had fun with this one!

The other thing worth mentioning about tantalum capacitors is that tantalum is a conflict mineral often mined by, essentially, slave labour. Depending on your ethical stance, you may wish to take this into account; I used to buy tantalums from respectable companies and recommend this but as...

Yes, sounds like perhaps the oscillator is damaged. The CPU is responsible for keeping time while the machine is on.

Good luck, hope your surgery goes well. That does indeed sound like a good time to play with software projects!

The 9600 MP is on the supported list, so it ought to be relatively straightforward. The only thing to remember is that the bootloader stops working in later MacOS versions - I can't remember when the cutoff is (maybe it stops at 8.6?), but if you try to boot into the installer and it just...

Play with BeOS on it? Not perhaps entirely productive, but rather cool

You say this but there was someone on IRC recently still using one as a control system for chemical synthesis over LocalTalk (!). Really fascinating. You're right, though, I just thought you might enjoy that little bit of information. Anyway, back to the thread...