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Cameron is doing some excellent work on a web browser, and I recently discovered the program icWord that allows viewing of modern Word documents. Here's a wishlist of features I wish existed: - Modern Flash player. Even though it might be speed limited. - The ability to view Adobe Acrobat...

So, in a nutshell, there is really no practical reason for such an "upgrade." SpeedDoubler sufficiently boosts 68k emulation on 601s and 603s, and the 603e acheives parity with no additional software. Thus, a 68060 or Coldfire Mac would only be for bragging rights and the lulz. About right?

Right, but you can bet that bird will try to rise from the dead at some point. There have already been several 68060 topics on 68kmla. It would be nice to have a full accounting of why and WHEN it doesn't make much sense. BTW, with a certain amount of amusement, I note that the later Amiga...

THE THREAD LIVES! Just out of curiosity, as a means of settling whether this is even a worthy idea... what was the point in which 68k emulation on PPC overtook 68k code running natively on a 68040? Ignore for a moment the existance of FAT binaries or recompiling for PPC. I know the 601s were...

The biggest problems with the G3 iMacs are the PAV board and the internal plastics. Both are punished by the heat and tend to fail eventually in the case of the former, or become brittle in the case of the later (especially the slot loads). Some enterprising individuals might take the time to...

In a way, the auto EJECTION makes sense considering that the Mac was designed to be used by people who were not at all computer literate. It removes the chance of data corruption if the disk were ejected in the middle of a write cycle. A menu or disk light could easily be ignored by somebody...

Of course, if somebody would make a NuBus USB 1.1 card, this arument would be so over. Even for most 68k owners. :)

USB 1.1 might be a terrible interface for mass storage (Firewire is great), but it's still useful in emergency situations. I also use a thumbdrive for moving files around, even on USB 1.1. It's faster overall than most other removable media, and most computers built since the late 90s have the...

Quantum's engineering quality was fine. It was their marketing that was retarded. They would sell 4200 rpm drives as part of their "Fireball" line and it gave people the wrong impression. BTW, the thought crossed my mind that I have a unshielded sub-woofer 4 feet from my Mac. Any possibility...

Well, that's... weird. Does OS X boot off a CD (not your SoftRAID), either automatically, or by holding option?

Quantum was bought out by Maxtor in the late 90s, or so. IBM also sold their disk drive division to Hitachi. Quantum was pretty decent, although never a serious performer. IBM was almost universally hated. Especially the Deathstars... err... Deskstars. The Seagate I pulled out of my iMac says...

For older PowerBooks and iBooks, I know a number of people who have successfully used CF with an adapter. In low capacities (under 20GB or so) they are not too expensive, and are faster than the HDDs Apple put in those machines. But I think the shelf life of a CF card is considerably less than...

Right. If the CD doesn't show up at all when holding Option, then that is likely that the drive is not considered a bootable device *or* none of your OS 9 discs are bootable on that machine. There were a couple of different flavors of OS 9 that were machine dependent, or only worked on a certain...

IIRC, Macs with New World ROMs shouldn't require a PRAM battery to boot. I know for a fact that an iMac G3 will boot without a battery even in the machine. Absent PRAM instructions, the firmware goes serching for a system folder. HD first. Then optical. At some point it should also scan the USB...

Agreed. They don't quite make 'em like they used to unless you want super expensive (relative to consumer grade) drives designed for server use. Some of the best drives I had were old, small, and slow designs made by companies that don't even exist anymore under their original names. Remember...

I also seem to recall reading somewhere there was a DVD personality card released at some point for the Beige G3 (or it may have been a PCI card). An Apple IDE DVD player can be hard for dirt cheap. Together with the MP3 suggestion, you could hook it up to a TV and satisfy a lot of your A/V needs.

G3s make perfectly reasonable music servers. Drop in a large IDE hard drive (up to 128GB *should* work), hook it up to a stereo system, and play all your MP3s through it. Audion and SoundJam will run on OS 8.6, but with 786MB of RAM in there there is little reason why you shouldn't be running 9...

BTW, funny you should mention Samsung... I just bought a used Samsung Spinpoint P80 last night. 7200 rpm, and 120GB. $35 shipped. Some casual research shows that these were excellent drives for their day in terms of reliability, noise, and heat (18.9 degrees C). Should also see a performance...

When the PAV board or flyback transformer on this thing finally goes, I will probably pull all the useful parts and junk it. There are rather detailed instructions on the net on how to fix the CRT-related parts, but it seems like more of a problem then it's worth. Mine is in reasonable...

I found two possible replacements. A 120GB Seagate U Series 9 (7200), and a 120GB Maxtor Diamondmax (5400). Both are refurbs available from Operator Headgap for $50 shipped. The owner swears that the a 7200 drive will be fine because they "run cool." The IDE controllers in these macs can also...