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You can certainly use DVD-RAM with old 68k Macs... I was doing it for years as a backup medium for my SE/30. You need "DVD-RAM Tune-Up" which is abandonware (and very hard to find). Later versions of CDROM Toolkit support DVD-RAM also, but it didn't work for me years ago when I first tried it.

Given my track record for Mac stuff lately, we'll be lucky to see 72 days 8-o

I can confirm that NuBus cards *can* work in the SE/30, at least in principle. The "ExpanSE/30" expansion case interfaced via a PDS card and had 2 or 4 NuBus slots. I don't have one, but I want one! I'm fairly certain that the IIsi NuBus adaptor card will allow use of a NuBus card in the SE/30...

I've got some Supermicro P6-DBS boards that are great dual-slot-1 boards, but they only officially support 100MHz FSB

Gorgeous! For many years this was the best possible card to run Diablo II on in a Mac, as you could turn on the anti-aliasing feature :-D

Your favorite. :-D

They're not very nice (blurry scan dithered to B+W) but if you view them at 100% they're readable... reduced by the browser they just turn to mush.

The Quadra 900 that was introduced at the same time as the 700 had an optional CDROM, but very few people wanted or needed them back then.

The 700 is fairly speedy and comes in an adorable, smallish case. It's not very good for the highest-end 68k tasks like video editing, but still has nice expandability. It is a nice midway between compact machines like the Q605 and larger multislot Macs like the 900 and 950. That MacProteus...

This is the expected behavior, sadly. It seems to be a problem with every web browser running on a 68k Mac. Do you get the same horribly-slow speeds when using another networking application, such as an FTP client? I suspect that you won't...

They're NuBus machines inside, they just don't happen to have a NuBus controller. :-) Grats on finding the problem!

Everybody else said it in much more detail, but the real short of it is that the (stock) SE/30, PowerBook 140, and PowerBook 170 are color macs that just happen to only display 1-bit color (or, as you and I would call it, black-and-white).

Radeon Mac Edition is probably the single best possible card for 7.6 or 8.1; hardware T+L but without the driver issues of the Radeon 9200 series boards.

That'll be a seriously great 7.6 machine... what to do with the other 5 PCI slots...

IIRC the IIsi is picky about what monitors it will drive... what monitor are you using?

I've never seen such a thing, but I do have an LC575 rear bezel here... I could take a straight-on photo of it with a ruler visible in the picture, if that would help.

taking video input on an RCA jack, my guess is that you can feed any NTSC video source right into it... such as a DVD player or a Commodore 64. I'm going to guess that it's color, and was meant to be used with something like a commodore or the real cheap Amigas.

Is the +28VDC actually necessary for the G4 to run? I thought it was only used as a power source for the ADC monitors...

OOh! A Rocket in upgrade mode would be pretty hawt too. If you use a Toby card, please also use the 13" fixed frequency monitor that goes with it, and use MaxAppleZoom or Monitor Expander to do the magic thing. They can put a custom mode timing on the Toby card to fill the black monitor band...

I've wanted one of those ever since I first saw them reviewed in MacAddict magazine so many years ago. If I had the opportunity to pick one of them up, I'd do it in a flash if the price was right, not because it's 'good' or even very useful, but just because they were obviously trying so hard.