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My North American Rev. C iMac shipped with a very similar disk package featuring 8.5.1 Install and Restore disks, but it additionally included two World Book Encyclopedia disks (the main program disk and a data disk). It seems many (most?) iMacs shipped with either 8.1 (Rev. A and B) or 8.6...

I highly doubt any of those would work on a Power Mac G4 due to a lack of Open Firmware support. Unless I'm mistaken? I'm not sure if a Power Mac G4, with either an unsupported graphics card installed or no card installed, could boot with a blank screen and begin working when the OS drivers...

I think the only cards known to work with Mac OS 9's ancient drivers are cards derived from the ORiNOCO WaveLAN series of PC Card adapters. This works because the AirPort card itself was derived from the WaveLAN Gold card. However, since they're all functionally identical, there's really no...

You make good points, but so does @okto . It's a situation where StO (Security through Obscurity) is a valid and relatively effective model, for better or worse. c

Aaaahh, OK. So this is currently the only extant version, then? c

Maybe so, but it still merits being archived, particularly if it's a different version than that which is on Macintosh Garden. c

The MDD has faster PCI slots (66 MHz versus 33 MHz on all the other G4s). Does that make a SATA card faster on the MDD, then? If not, why? c

TL;DR: Yes. The Slot Loaders (the DV SE) used normal desktop DIMMs, whereas the Tray Loaders used laptop-style SODIMMs. In a basic sense, they're not too different (same form factor, similar specs), but internally they're quite different, as the difference in RAM style demonstrates. The Slot...

I have that case! I found it at the dump about 17 years ago, and I've used it for various builds over the years. It's currently running a Gigabyte Z370p with a 9th gen Intel CPU and serves as my main daily driver. I actually found another one a few years ago, and I'm keeping it as a spare. c

It's interesting they used a backslash ('\') between "020" and "030," rather than the more commonly used forward slash ('/'). I wonder why that is? c

OK, will do! Kind of been going through a mental funk for the past few years and haven't had much energy for my Mac collection, so I haven't been super prompt. I'm hoping that will change soon, though. I think I only have Rev A/B and Rev C machines, so it'll probably want a CPU swap. I see...

Do the 750P and 750A run at similar speeds? c

Yup, sure does. Regular AirPort can only do 801.11b. Obviously, AirPort Extreme won't work under OS 9, because the drivers aren't compatible with it, but there's plenty of ways to work around that (Ethernet should still work, and I believe there are 801.11g-compatible USB adapters for which OS...

Agreed. I think a general rule of thumb for determining which ones have native OS 9 support is that OS 9-native models had a regular AirPort card slot, whereas the OS X-only ones had an AirPort Extreme slot instead. c

This thread reminds me that I have an original eMac or two that I need to check out (along with a whole plethora of other long-neglected machines). I've had them for years and have yet to actually test them (I burned myself out trying to repair one from a friend, an original 700 MHz model, that...

Perhaps that was an unreleased prototype revision that was scrapped in favor of the B&W? There was some discussion of the elusive Rev 4 ROM awhile ago (earlier this year?), and I think that was the general consensus. c

@croissantking Agreed! If I sent one of my CPUs out to one of you "in the name of science" (I have three: one Rev A or B, and two Rev Cs), could I get an upgraded one in return? I'd be willing to pay! A long shot, I know. I'd do it myself, but I don't really have the skills, nor the...

I have a roll of Kodak Tri-X in my Nikon N75.... I agree! c

Those Mid-2012 MBPs are really are excellent workhorses. I'd still be using mine (an MD101LL/A bought new in 2016), but it has become too slow for most internet related things. So in 2023, I upgraded to a 2013 rMBP, and it runs all the same stuff, but just enough faster to be worth while (I...

Well, I pay about $180/month for two iPhones and ~$200/month for broadband cable. Compared to that, $60/month for a landline and probably a similar amount for a good paid dial up plan actually is considerably more affordable on paper. It also is considerably less fast and considerably less...