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Sounds like a plan. I doubt there's any reason to downgrade the iPod firmware. I don't think the TAM will run anything past 9.1 anyway.

According to this: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/specs/ipod.html The 1st gen iPod requires OS 9.2.1 or later. If you reformat it using another system your TAM may see it, I don't know. The Sonnet card may be an issue too.

Way back around 1997-8 in the the heady days of the Apple Clone Wars when I was at Motorola we had one of those PowerStack systems running NT in our office. Our admin had it set up as a server since everyone else in the office was still using Macs. I don't know what became of that PowerStack...

Shame about that one for sure. It's just what parts can be salvaged.

Agreed!

The 128K-512K Macs were realistically expensive tech demos. They lacked the memory and applications to be truly useful. Imho, the Plus was the first truly useful Mac. But you're right, the small screen and lack of color hurt the Mac. As far a low-end Mac I think it really took until ~1990 or so...

Nice summary! Andy Hertzfeld and Steve Capps were geniuses to shoehorn all that functionality into the original Macintosh software.

SoundJam was/is a great program. I still have my copy around somewhere. I'm still mad the Apple bought it. :mad:

I too used the pads from TexElec.

Cool find! $9346 in today's dollars is an eye-popping $24,675. For 16mhz! Interesting that the 851 is "XC". It's a early part and means it wasn't fully qualified at the time it was released.

So 1600x1200 resolution. Full 1080 would be better but for the price that's pretty good.

I thought I had one of these around somewhere. I remember running (processing) these back-in-the-day at Motorola.

Neat score!

Incredible accomplishment indeed!

Neat! Rather amazing the HD still works.

Yes, more ram will increase startup time. In OS9 you can disable the startup memory test. I think that same option is available in 7.6.1. https://happymacs.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/speed-up-mac-os-boot-time-turn-off-ram-tests/

Neat find! Fully loaded! Someone paid dearly for that package "back-in-the-day". That's an old '030. 1988

One of those grey labels says Foxconn so these were used for testing components or perhaps inventory tracking, if the GL50B means anything.

Huh, fascinating. It looks like Chinese to me. Lots of stickers, like they were used for a long time and/or passed around. Where did you come by these? Also, maybe just a coincidence but there is a device called GL50B GPS asset tracker. I wonder if these were used as a test/programming station.

That blue and white sticker reminds me of Motorola inventory/property tags. Have you translated the text on the other stickers?