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Orinoco White/Bronze doesn't even use WEP, the Silver model is 64-bit WEP and Gold was 128-bit WEP.

They make decent mobile support machines for older Macs (burning CDs or Ethernet file transfers). Would be cool to have a USB to SCSI adapter for working directly with old SCSI HDs in a dock.

I would just use an old router for the few times a year you want to mess with wifi on an old laptop. I had an Orinoco on my Amiga 1200 a long time ago just to see it work. Airport cards in the US used to be everywhere 10+ years ago, no idea now. I would think the Orinoco's are a little rarer...

My newest Mac is a MacBook 5,1 (2008) and I was surprised how easy it is to work on (coming from G3/G4 iBooks and PowerBooks). The top case is decently thick that you really need to hit it hard to ding it. It was a cheap local find missing RAM and HD. Cleaning out the CPU fan is pretty easy. A...

The IIcx adapter won't fit either.

The heatsink for the CPU? Either buy a dead card for the heatsink or find something close and pull tie it on.

Weird card. It is defiantly Mac having ADC connection and the older Power connector on the bottom (the G5 models have that connector closer to the front). Its newer than the Radeon 9000 because of the square RAM chips so 9600/9700. The 9800 Mac edition was pretty much for the 8x AGP Pro G5...

The IIcx adapter was probably the hardest to find and you needed an early motherboard with a socketed CPU. Granted you might as well just put in a IIci motherboard and save the adapter expense.

It's the most common one made and has the most adapters for other systems that don't have the native IIci PDS. I have adapters for IIcx, Mac II , IIx, and LC2/3. The best is the Sonnet Presto Plus with Ethernet and 32MB of RAM but limited to LC PDS.

So are working 700-900Mhz iBooks worth much?

I think I had problems with the trackpad cable on higher end G3 iBook coming off the board (easy enough to fix). Taking the G3's apart was not much fun. If you want to run OSX get a G4 PowerBook, easier to work on and metal (better video as well), for OS 9 I think theG3 iBook's are cool.

The IBM 5150 64K I have came with a MonteCarlo RAM/Serial card to deal with having only 5 slots. You can tell it is an early card made for the 5150 because it uses the same wide black ISA brackets common on that system.

You seem to forget IBM made the first small portable computer in 1975, the 5100 and it flopped hard.

Internet on vintage anything isn't much fun. I had issues running Internet over 15 years ago on a 386DX/40 because Netscape kept crashing, wasn't much fun on a 68040 before that either. IRC ran ok back then.

I think people overthink why x86 won. IBM made an open system where nobody had to pay money to make hardware upgrades. Large software companies made programming languages for x86 to support office and industry and tons of applications came about because of that. Finally, sales were so great that...

I think both of my SE/30's have ethernet, very useful. AT&T T7720, you mean one of these? https://partsmine.com/all/at-t-t7220pc-integrated-circuit-in-dip-28-package-legacy-network-device/

I love the Beige G3 tower, wish I had more than one.

The rich have had jet packs for a long time. By AI it could just be ebay allowing you to copy another auction "sell one like this"

Out of curiosity did he have other auctions that sold and worked out?

They hold money for new members to make sure its not a scam.