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Worth noting w/ re 1400 vs. 2400/3400: They are radically different architectures, with the 2400/3400 being one or two generations newer, on a much newer and better overall architecture. (this is even though they are basically contemporaries.) The 1400, remember, is a mobile Performa/PMac...

Here's my notes on architecture codenames: https://doku.stenoweb.net/doku.php?id=macdex:architectures Adapted from: https://macinfo.de/hardware/hardware.html Wikipedia has a list of codenames, but these are really product-oriented, rather than architecture-oriented...

Hmm. I didn't see 9 in particular, but here goes. This is long, because I personally think there's a lot of caveats: For 9, I'd kind of say "it depends". 9's biggest deal is that it really likes having about 128-256 megs of RAM, which is easiest and cheapest on G3 era hardware and on fairly...

Just as a sidenote, I absolutely love how many things this applies to. You can pretty much piece together an entire 7.5 install using the 7.1 Finder and System File if you really want to, but I don't know if there's "literally any benefit to that at all" other than saying you did it. (The more...

In addition to all of this, I often turn off printing. Part of what Extension Manager (and whatever was around before it, I think Conflict Catcher may do the same thing) does is let you reboot your Mac with different extension sets. A fairly common use case back in the day was to have different...

Hey All, We'd like to discuss the recent thread for Tony Diaz's estate. We knew Tony personally, which drives some of how we initially moderated it. Unfortunately for everyone involved, it looks like Tony's estate is enduring what happens when someone dies: many family members are involved, and...

All, My triple re-review on this remains in progress but I wanted to add that I apologize so incredibly much to Ried and everyone for posting what was meant to be a private conversation with Ried right on out here into the open. We have "incidents" here on the forum super rarely, and I do want...

Triple re-reviewing this later today.

All, This has been incredibly disappointing. I've been a part of this forum specifically for literally over half my life, more than twenty years, and one of my favorite things about it, the thing that's kept me from quitting the hobby, is by and large we keep our cool and act like the adults...

I'm saying you might, based on what we've seen from everyone else, you should coordinate with a2fan and pauhagstrom to confirm.

Sure, just because it's not your fault doesn't mean you don't potentially have from a legal perspective stolen goods. I'm sorry that this involvement is stressful for you, it's a tough situation and you can tell from a lot of the posts, this has been tough for everyone involved for over a year.

You know to be honest I'm a little surprised you didn't see this coming fifteen million miles away. A collection that big had to belong to someone right? And they were likely big on the scene, right? But we live and we learn. It's not all your fault, it really feels like the administration...

One more note: especially now that we have more info about some of the stuff Tony had. If anyone got anything that wasn't his and "bought it" that doesn't mean you're in the clear and the stuff really does still need to be returned to its correct owners. That sale was fraudulent. Of course, I'm...

This is going to be tough wherever it happens. If y'all want to do this here, which is happening purely becayse you posted it and then Jason Scott redirect everyone else here, that's fine with me. Given that this has been going on over a year I'm not 100% that shutting this down actually helps...

Just by way of vouching - @ried if you're running this, please coordinate with a2fan and @paulhagstrom on returning anything lent to it's rightful owner. Does anyone have an inventory on hand? This is one of those things that's tough to coordinate and I don't want to get in the middle of it...

I'm sorry that felt like a barrage! It looks like I wrote about 650 words in response to your part, which was itself about 580 words - I didn't feel like that was too big a differential. That was rewritten down from something over 2x the length - but I'm super bad at brevity and so it wouldn't...

+1 MacBench, 4 - 5 should also work. I've never used 3, but a couple of us have built up a few 4 and 5 results on vtools. The main benefit of the MacBench CD is to (this is going to sound silly) benchmark the CD drive, and for the video playback tests, which are primarily measurements on the CD...

TL;DR: yes, stuff is bigger. There's good reasons. It doesn't prevent The Plateau from having happened, you can daily a 10 year old computer with modern software if your needs aren't very specialist. This wasn't in what I wrote, but workplaces still replace computers around every 5 years...

The thing is: Software written that way isn't slow if you have a reasonable computer from the last ~10 years or a high end computer form the last 15 years. My daily computers are 10 and 11 years old respectively and my dad dailies a 12 year old machine. Nothing is slow on these computers...

RAM doubler was a third party replacement to the memory manager. That's, I'd argue, something to give a go a little later on. The built-in virtual memory on 7.6.1 and 8.1 will work fine. And yeah, if you have a working CD-ROM drive (I realize that's a bit of a presumption on my part!) I'd say...