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Addenum to Holy Grail with a bit more info, from http://theducks.livejournal.com/492985.html

10.4 should be perfectly usable on a 900 MHz iBook. I would probably disable both Spotlight and Dashboard, but even on slow laptop hard disks I know some who persevere with them still turned on.

Hah! Never seen SIMMs like that before! I though low-density SIMMs were usually taller, with two rows of 8 RAMs on the PCB.

I think so yes, considering the stand alone one has a proper glass lens and a larger sensor. I've only seen the image output from a standalone model briefly though, and not right next to an inbuilt one ever.

Thanks Tom! I find myself comforted and warmed now, after so long using phpbb variants I suspect I shall never be able to leave. ;D

I quite detest this new theme as well. It's way too busy, with all of the useful elements being tiny, faint-coloured little things off in the corner. Everything is blue with no contrast! The phpbb designers must be mad or windows users. :D

That's a very cool trick/hack, but if you have to remove the internal hard disk to change the SCSI ID, wouldn't it have been easier to temporarily transplant into an external case?

Back when external Firewire drives/cases still cost a fortune, you could buy the bare FW-IDE bridge board itself for a lot less. My "Zytech" external 2x SCSI CD-ROM drive was thereby upgraded to a Firewire 16x DVD-ROM. :D

I suppose it's a bit of a moot point now, but the optical drive is fairly easy to change on the iMac G4s. I replaced mine when the burner died, and then removed it entirely so I could fit in a second hard disk drive. Nice haul though.

Which OS is on your 120? Newton OS 1.x is generally regarded as terrible. I sent a Newton 120 2.0 firmware to a member in the US ages ago, unfortunately if didn't survive the trip and wouldn't work in his MP.

I lugged over a VT-420 terminal and keyboard to the CS building in my uni days (2004) so I could debug and demonstrate an instant messaging application designed to be operated from a serial braille keyboard/touch strip. Got some looks over that trip through the campus, but a glimmer of...

Spaceway 2000! I think a demo came with PPC Performas and the like. Review/Description: http://www.savetz.com/ku/ku/ohman_spaceway_2000_for_affordable_action_june_1994.html Apparent download link: http://www.oldgames.nu/Spaceway_2000/Spaceway_2000/10335/ I remember cheating to get to the...

Unarchiver doesn't support all the features of 7zips anyway, like passworded archives. Better than having to use command line 7z for everything, though.

Lots of Apple's printers used Canon print engines, but that's not the same thing as selling a rebadged product. The logic boards, design, software, packaging, etc. were usually all Apple up until the last few StyleWriters, I believe.

I wouldn't really agree that the spirit of the Mac is anything like the spirit of the Apple II. Maybe you could claim that they both tried to make computing more ubiquitous.

An 8800GT should work fine in OS X. It does take a little screwing around with to get QE/CI working depending on what version of the OS you run, though.

I also don't think the SE came with a keyboard. You had the choice of the Apple Keyboard or the Apple Extended, both sold separately, or you could buy any one of a number of third part keyboards.

I'm re-reading my 3rd Edition Mac Bible (1990) and they make mention of the yellow plastic protector. They specifically say not to use it on SuperDrives, which park their heads when there's no disk inside. Do SuperDrives have their heads "sticking out" when there's a disk inside, even if turned...

Great write-up on the process, and quite informative too. Thanks for that. I keep meaning to try and connect from home, assuming the US-AUS latency isn't too bad. Hopefully I manage to remember one evening. ;)

It certainly surprised the heck out of me! MDI with SYstem 7 widgets seems so strange.