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I disagree with the notion that certain OSes are meant for certain Macs, especially concerning II series and 6 only. I never liked System 6, it sucked pretty much from day one. Add that to the fact that 7 runs fine on most II's, and you have me happily running 7.6.1 on my IIsi and IIci. I...

I do not have a camera....as soon as I find mine or can borrow another I'll take pics. The machine has 64 MB of memory.

Hey can/should I install OS 8.0 on this? Or do you guys think it would be too slow? I got 7.6.1 on it now, and it seems very fast.

Ahh, OK. I was missing the Apple Video extension. This Mac has built in TV in, given the S-VIDEO ports on the back. It's working now. I was able to play a DVD into it, and save the video.

So I have been playing with this thing (Sorry guys the camera is still missing, which sucks because that's like $250 misplaced.) What do I need to do to get the TV in working? It's got 7.6.1 with the AV extension and apple tv thingy, and monitors extension. What else do I need?

I lost this battle, someone else got it. Arghs...sorry.

Somewhere in the cobwebs of my mind, the name "Centris" rings a bell.....weren't they crippled Quadras or something? Didn't one of them have an odd-speed '040 or something? I suppose I could stop being a lazy jerk and look it up myself.

There is a broken SE/30 for sale near me for $10. It has a Micron xCeed greyscale card in it (according to the seller) and he does not seem to know these are rare or valuable. I called him and he informed me that the machine is already spoken for, but if the guy backs out he will call me. I...

Good points, yeah, I accept it as new in box because for its age, it is as new as it could be to me, and has the original contents. But I shouldn't have labeled it as such since that usually means literally, "never opened." My bad.

Sorry about the terminology Fail on my part. I was not aware that on forums, though not in general, "brand new in Box" infers sealed in the box never taken out, though to me, less than two months used, and in the original box, means new in box. Sorry about that. I'll adapt to the generally...

wood_e, YGPM!

No, I did not get them for free...I paid $150, which is more than fair for two 840's and two 1710AV's. Mmmm they look so sexy... Unfortunately, they aren't as fast as memory serves (Or maybe I am impressing even Power mac status on these, given their age) because marathon 2 and Infinity don't...

My Digital camera is MIA at the moment, as soon as I figure out where it is (parents house??) I will take a picture. One of these is being sold to a friend of mine who collects old Macs for $450. I need the money desperately otherwise I'd have kept both of them. Pics as soon as I can guys...

OK, this could potentially be the sickest score ever (for this old mac fan anyhow) This past week I found (get ready......................waaaaait for it. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAit for ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt:) Not one, but TWO BRAND NEW IN BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!OMFG!!!! Quadra 840AV's...

Though this might interest some people....it's basically how virtual memory was first implemented on the early macs. US Patent 5063499

*Update: the cpu clock is handled by the first oscillator crystal. My mistake.

Nope, it is soldered to the board(bottom left, smallish square chip): See the four silver rectangular canisters near the top, under the large black RBV chip? IIRC, the third from the left is the cpu clock, but I'd have to double check. It is 40.000 Mhz so to make the cpu run at 25 Mhz you...

Check yer PM. :)

OK. I need some help guys. I got another Mac II, in very good physical shape, but it doesn't boot. At all...totally dead. Logic board looks clean. These machines are notorious for not booting if the two PRAM batteries are dead. They charge a large yellow 1000uF cap seated on a platform...

In case anyone else cares, I found the answers to my questions: "The general logic unit (GLU) chip performs support functions for the microprocessor in the Macintosh II, IIx, and IIfx. It provides address decoding, chip select, RAM refresh, CPU, SCC, and VIA clock signal generation and...