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I don't really have much to directly say about this but I otherwise could maybe think of two small things to mention from myself tho 1. I don't know about finding beige rather than black sheathed "svideo connectors" (haven't really looked) but otherwise you could easily sap 20mA or whatever from...

i know i've heard quite a few mentions about the g3 imac's but I've always wondered if thats due to the extra heat and vibration from being stuffed together into one unit or not.. so mm yeah my question is re if theres anything to look out for in one of these standalone monitor as well...

@CMW85 afaik there wasn't really any external disk drives for macs except for the model-specific powerbook ones to themselves more or less, and excluding the few early 68k macs that could use the same external disk&floppy drives that the apple ii's used. so basically you'll have to rely on the...

@LaPorta and who (excluding linux cli powerusers for scrolllock as far as I have heard) is using these three dos-era print/scroll/break keys anymore for a long time too? I prefer the presence of visual-visible f13-f15 to simply assign more occassional user-defined macros to instead but mm :-)...

@mikes-macs when I was skimming through quite a bunch of old magazine scanlets (especially vintageapple's) before I did look at random samples of these classical full-page ads aside to any hardware-related q&a text sections that I somehow happened uponto and I don't think I had ever seen anyone...

sorry for a slight winded reply to the latest replies.. @bigmessowires and @Skate323k137 about consumer-facing warnings, I know I have seen 'NOT PHONE' crossed-out phone symbol etched onto the metal backplate itself above what otherwise looked like a normal rj11 port onboard on some rather old...

not to interrupt but is it just a bit of baseless heresy or weren't the later powerpc performa boards actually basically more or less 68k board designs kludged 'up' a bit to suit the faster cpu/bus/ram overall?

just to echo @sstaylor here, you know how ide drives have that one jumper to set cable/master/slave mode? well scsi drives generally use the same jumper concept to set their own id with .. so eg one jumper shortening pins 1-2 would be one id then 'sideway' 2-3 or next 3-4 pins instead would give...

I know its not quite the same kind of theme but I guess the "famous" wrt54 was somewhat a little generic too .. you had one with modest amount of ram, then one that had little ram, then yet another was later resold 'with more ram again for linux hacks', etc meanwhile except for the bottom serial...

i agree about most mouse cables being too long (too obvious with desktops and even pretty much look bad with any laptops), and as for backspace-vs-delete umm sorry to cause another minor offtopic flame in here but can someone tell me why I can't find the key named 'return' anywhere on the pc...

@MrFahrenheit just as a small more-ontopic addendum: I agree that sellers who just simply randomly clone listings then "suggest" that you know nothing are annoyingly ignorant but I guess thats a particular flaw of human behaviours in general tho, or as one aptly can refer to the classical...

@Melkhior hmm I do have to wonder indeed, considering that a lot of relatively expensive peripherals also decided to use db25 too (this was one particular tidbit I found out while I was just looking up re early scsi ports before making my recent post above...

@Daniël i'm sure everyone has long lost track of how many times they were looking at pretty much almost any sort of ad/auction for dense electronics and wondering along the line of "what does it come with??" from the lack of any kind of rear photo. computer, tv, av receiver, etc you name it...

@bibilit i know what you mean about not doing anything visually different (yet silly enough they did make two very different looking 2gb jaz drives, a good example of what maybe should had been done to the early zip drive?) on that footnote, i think that partially the scsi-vs-parallel blame...

@Mk.558 not to be too offtopic here but the airport/bt combo card was an optional extra initially but then at one point apple made it standard option instead

I know that both 'starwar x-wing collector' and descentII seem to quite like having a joystick (bit more if its one with extra aux functions optionally) but you'll naturally need a powerpc of some sort in the first place .. and agreed on ms flight simulator for just about any 68k

sorry @ArmorAlley was rereading now and noticed your post, i'll just note that although not many 'getting started' people would run into them i'll nevertheless suggest that if someone new to buying into a mac hobby sees a scsi drive that has one big single rear interface (eg...

@cheesestraws just saw your post now and yeah sorry about a lot of quadra chat overnight either way I looked up about the quadra 950 and indeed I did find exactly what I had thought was there in the name of this quote which seem to indeed suggest that you would need to run at least 7.5 if you...

anyhow just to continue with the original topics i'll add these reples of mine; 1. although I know most people would never run into them, still - what of the 'black terminator' (as I heard it was called) specific to the IIfx? 2. the "bastardized" scsi on performa systems was still a full scsi-1...

Ah I had somehow thought it was a late 68k system but mm I can see exactly why a 9600 would have that. Then again a 9600 is like "who could want to completely stuff that tower up? It would require mortgaging your silicon valley mansion to afford the final price" what with two scsi buses, six...