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Seems we both are in the same boat. In my case, going to be swapping parts from the IIf to the IINT I picked up earlier today.

Another A9M0331 ADB mouse, and a non-Apple item, a replacement HP 48SX calculator for the one that was stolen out of my backpack at the Bellevue Community College cafeteria in early 1995.

The later drives do work mechanically and electronically. Issue is that the slot is too small to push the disk in all the way. Have to use another disk to push the one you want to use into place. Dealt with this on one of my previous Centris 650 machines that had a PowerMac 7100 style drive...

Hmmm, I'd be tempted to chuck the drive into an A9M0106 and see if it works on the external port. If it does, then you've a motherboard issue involving the internal port. If not, then maybe one of the motors on the drive failed, or another component failed.

That might be a question to ask in the hacks forum... The IIf, like the IINT, and IINTX, doesn't have ethernet.

Picked it up today. Was able to get a paper tray for it. Seems like it's in working condition, so I should be able to connect it to one of my older Macs (in other words, everything except the MBP) and use it.

Laserwriter IIf. Needs a paper tray, but otherwise seems to be functional. Probably will upgrade the controller board to the g version, so it can be used on our ethernet network, instead of doing localtalk.

You can trash the Sound Manager 3.x extension on pre-PPC machines. Super Tetris works fine on both my IIfx and Quadra 650, running 7.5 and 7.6.1, respectively. If the Sound Manager extension is installed, the game is silent. I've even run Arkanoid on a LC 475 under 7.5.5. Again, works just...

It may. Don't remember enough about my old 7100/80 when it had 8.6 installed. I do plan to upgrade to 8.6 on the current machine, though. Just have to find where I put the installation discs.

Thought about that a few minutes after typing my message. Did download the extension for when/if I get another G2 (PCI) machine.

Wonder if it'll work on my 7100/80... Am running 8.1, so it might. I'll let you know what I discover soon.

Blood rare or medium rare? 😉 The Beige G3 I had was a production unit, so 'twas not mine, @NoTrueSpaceman. It's possible that it was a machine that the late Chris Mitchell from RE-PC might've owned. I do remember getting a Piltdown Man prototype 6100 board from him in 2012.

7.5 is basically 7 Pro with some of the Performa stuff added in. Pretty much 99.9999% of stuff that runs under 7.1 also runs under 7.5, btw.

As does the Quadra 630 and LC 630. Those require 7.1.2P, like the Performa variants of the LC 630.

Yup, PowerMacs are fully HFS+ compatible and can boot partitions larger than 2GB.

I'd be tempted to put the 8.1 partition first, then have your A/UX partitions afterward. My old Q660av would not boot a partition larger than 2GB, no matter what OS. But, once booted, it could read and write to Mac OS Extended (HFS+) formatted media, since 8.1 was installed.

Roll of Kodak Gold 200 in my Nikon F right now. Portra 400 in my Nikon F3, and a roll of Ilford Pan F Plus in my FE2...

A regular GS-RAM card for the IIgs... Also picked up a mid-2012 A1286 MBP to replace my late 2011 machine. 2.7 GHz i7 processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB drive. Like my late 2011 machine, it has the WSXGA anti-glare display. I will max out the RAM on it, install a 2TB drive, then split it up into three...

One of the Centris/Quadra 650s that I got from @AppaloosaMac had the same thing occur. Maxell bomb had taken out the holder and rusted the drive chassis, but the rest of the board looked ok.

Seems the purple Tadiran batteries started being used in 1988 or so. My original IIgs had one in it.