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That's true. In the past we weren't really exploring triple stacked expansion cards. Probably also voltage drift over time on PSUs. I feel like my comment was probably a little harsh, but I didn't intend it to be that way. The difference between 4.89 and 4.76 volts is probably not going to...

Noted. I don't understand the recent obsession with voltage drops: for >30 years we've been doing it all wrong?

I bought a Male to Female Molex 14 socket assembly off ebay, but then I found out the original is a Male to Male. Okay I guess mine is now an extension cable instead of a replacement. Is 20AWG good enough? Just running an Ethernet card, an accelerator may or may not be used, and 20MiB of RAM.

Interesting. So what was a good CPU back then, let's start from the 6502 and end it at the Core 2 Duo timeframe, which was "Best in class" i.e. "the one that was least bad"? I mean they all kind of did their purpose in their time. A 68040 is quite noticeably faster than a 68030 at the same MHz...

So I'm gathering from this is the 603 wasn't much of an improvement over the 601. And the Pentium has its legacy for a reason: while it had some flaws, it was quite a good CPU.

Found it. Took awhile. https://savagetaylor.com/TIL/TA20661.html

I think the only Pre-G4 machine that has some value to me would be the 8100/80AV, gets some expansion but also the 601, but also can boot 7.1.2. Pretty sure it's the last series that can boot 7.1.

There's a technote I can't find anymore about how OS X and OS 9 run into file name length issues. Basically Mac OS 9 supported characters of a certain length, but OS X likes to use file name extensions, which makes the same file "longer" in OS 9.

Feel like since we've got some CPU nerds hanging around, maybe it's time for another grave dig. Amiga side: How do you feel about the 68060? Mac perspective: Would the 68060 in hindsight, done anything significant? It was probably a dead end anyways, but was there even a hope of extending the...

I'm more interested in what you could do with an Apple // (let's go with //e, because that was realistically the most popular) that you couldn't do with someone else. cheesestraws is right. 8 bit computing by the early 90's was dead for serious work. We'll pretend Microsoft's 16 bit stuff...

yeah I was looking at getting a MacTwister about 2 years ago before I realized those chips are hard to get (i couldn't find any at the time), then just broke down and bought a different Asante SE30 card off ebay with RJ45.

All things considered I've been rather proud of our Mac community because for years, decades even, I feel like all the nerds were congregated in the Apple // world and we got left out. In the last 5-ish years or so there's been a lot of great stuff that max1zzz, zigzagjoe, Bolle, and a few...

See if it works? MacBench it, see if it sweats.

What do you plan on doing with it? I wouldn't get a Tower, personally...

How does it work in RocketWare mode?

That's a fair take. Any reason why you're using 7.1 Pro? Try using one of the more established RocketShare systems, i.e. 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.5. Start with a basic 7.0.1 system, no extras, and then try RS alone.

Basilisk II will never boot a Mac Plus as it's specifically designed to use either a IIci or Quadra 800 ROM. Which Asante bridge is it? AsanteTalk? those don't need drivers.

Thinking about this again, we don't want to dissuade you (OP) from pursuing what you feel like you'd like. You can stick an 040 in a SE/30. But the gains probably don't outweigh the costs, and there's probably a good reason zigzagjoe, one of our regular tinkerers, hasn't made anything available...

I think it was zigzagjoe who said something to the effect that after a certain point the SE/30 (might have been a IIsi) runs out of steam with upgrades and you end up sinking a bunch of money into what is basically a worse Quadra. Accelerators that jump processor generation (i.e. 68030 ->...