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That would do it! Why rely on the drive's on-board cache when you can cache it all in the System heap?! ;-) Peace, Drew

Wow, is this thread still going? I think people need to move on already... Peace, Drew

I'm thinking closer to $2000. We should have a competition to pick the final bid amount for that machine. No guesses allowed within the last 24 hours of the auction. Whoever wins (closest without going over - Bob Barker rules) gets a free... Anybody got any old Mac junk to donate? Peace, Drew

That is kind of surprising. Dana, what extensions are you running on that Quadra that make it take 10 MB of RAM for System 7?! Peace, Drew

Was your G3 upgrade an L2 upgrade, or was it one of the very special and very rare ZIF upgrades for the C500/C600? Peace, Drew

Regarding dual processor 604e machines and gaming, it should be noted that having multiple 604e processors will be a performance HIT for gaming, not an improvement. I am aware of no games that run on Mac OS 8/9 that take advantage of multiple CPUs. This means that the operating system is in...

That's cool. Congrats on the upgrade. I'd love to get an upgrade like that as a gift, but my wife and family are too uncomfortable shopping for computer equipment to buy something like that for me. Have fun with it! Peace, Drew

For the record, I have run an ATI Xclaim (Rage II+/Mach64 graphics), a Formac Proformance III, and a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 (not all at the same time, of course!) in my 6500. The 6500 was equipped with 128 MB of RAM. It runs Myth II with the Voodoo 3, but only just barely. It still labors quite a...

If you make your goal clear, you might get more appropriate or directed feedback. As for the feedback so far, I don't think it is off-base. People naturally jump to the conclusion that you want to do some sort of gaming (practically the only recognized use for upgraded video cards these days)...

Nanosaur plays well, and some OpenGL 1.x games like Star Wars Episode 1 Pod Racer play pretty well. QuickDraw 3D RAVE (or just RAVE for short) games like Tomb Raider also play pretty well. I think Carmageddon might play alright, but I've never tried it myself. Quake 1 (RAVE) plays okay, too...

Indeed, the WSII takes low density SO-DIMMs, 256 MB per slot. Max RAM is 512 MB. In addition, the bottom slot must be low-profile. macintoshme, you don't like the keyboard? The Wallstreet has my favoritest keyboard of all time! I love the firm but super smooth action of the keys. I need...

Additionally, the Zip drive requires drivers to run correctly on Mac OS. Iomega shipped a special "Disk Tools" disk that had the appropriate drivers on it so that when inserted in the drive at boot time, the host Mac would recognize the disk. You could then install the full Iomega Zip drivers...

They are interchangeable, but they won't mate up with the backplane correctly. The tray designs are different. Peace, Drew

In that case, it might be possible to track down the 512 kB cache that shipped in the 6500/275 and 6500/300, but those would be pretty rare. I don't think there is a 1 MB cache available for those machines. I don't know for sure about clones, but a possible source could be something like a...

L2 cache is an expensive way to increase performance on either of those Macs when a G3 can be had with 512 kB or 1 MB of cache for often less than the L2 cache SIMM all by itself. Unless you have a specific reason to need the L2 cache for either machine, I'd go the G3 route. Note that the 6400...

Mach V/Kansas uses a 100 MHz "inline" L2 cache resident on the daughtercard instead of the 50 MHz look-aside cache of the PowerSurge/Tsunami/TNT boards. This probably helps. If the L2 cache were arranged like the G3 and operated at speeds like the G3 (1/2 to 1/3 the processor speed), there is...

Quadraman is right. The card is only compatible with the Kansas motherboards and certainly not with the 8500/9500 or any 8600/9600 with an original speed lower than 250 MHz. Also, the resistor beside the 250 MHz label is an indicator only as already explained above. If you examine the board...

To figure post count, do this... Go to http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?search_author= Where is the name of the user you want to look up. After this post gets posted, I'll have 356 posts. Peace, Drew

MEK will do it. MEK is also highly carcinogenic. Be careful when using the stuff. I've had reasonable luck with super glue (of all things). I don't know which particular supplier I was using or if a solvent was an ingredient. I had a problem with some cracks on a camera recently, and the...

The 6500/275 and 6500/300 shipped with 7.6.1 and likely won't support 7.5.5 or 7.6. It doesn't seem strange to me at all that the 6500 won't boot 7.6. Several Macs are in this category including the Mach5 8600 & 9600 and the 2400c. Peace, Drew