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Do you have some benchmarks?

The fact that the screen works on other computers does not in and of itself mean it will work with the 840av. I’d make sure to try it with a monitor known to support sync on green, since the 840av is fussy about third party monitors, and that doesn’t look like an Apple-branded monitor to me. I...

That’s quite a list of BOS software. I didn’t think there was ever so much. I liked the eMacs description: “Editor, platform, religion.” My kind of software!

I also like the 030 Compact Macs for writing. It is what they really excel at, as I see it (I like Nisus Writer 5 with Verdana as the screen font). In a certain sense it is what the Compacts were designed for, i.e., the production of documents. They were often just called “word processors” back...

Given the ease with which a board can be ruined by beginners (I speak from experience), I think you’ve made a perfectly sane decision. This is especially the case given the difficulty of desoldering all those through-hole capacitors on the analog board,

I rather like that WritingTableHinterland compound noun!

Amen on the 2 chip chips in an SE/30. I’ve seen instability problems as a result.

A Quadra 650 should be 33mhz. The Centris ran at 25.

I think what you are talking about here can partly be done by running a machine with Apple Internet Router + Apple IP Gateway. These networking products from the late 68k era worked together very nicely. Other options from years back were the proper, full version of ShareWay IP, or to some...

How do you manage to do that, software-wise?

It used to be conventional advice that a CC sometimes needs to be plugged in (with a logic board installed) for a few hours in order to boot up. That advice was given 10-15 years back, at any rate; what time and tide has since further degraded may make it redundant, but if I were you, I’d begin...

Stupid question, but needed at this point: You do have the ROM installed in its slot, do you? Lots of old machines have been cannibalized for parts.

That would depend on how much storage I needed, but if the goal were just to NetBoot some Apple II machines, and maybe some light duty as a source for basic installers and such, I’d go for something low powered that could run everything from a RAM disk, and otherwise spin down the hard drive to...

Just to add to an excellent suggestion: the “Erase all data” in the previous post means to reset to how the machine came from the factory, rather than to blank everything out. NewtonWorks et al will still be on there. Also, don’t interrupt the device if and when the erase starts!

On the CD bezel question, I recall having trouble with mine also. It was maybe four years ago, but as I recall, the bezel from an 8500 would not fit the Q800, and I went back to using the original blank (I have some external scsi drives, so that was no special bother). The machine was...

I have had several passive-matrix 100 series PowerBooks pass through my hands over the past few years. All have needed the screen recapped, i.e., all showed the symptoms described, and all came back to life after the screen was recapped. I did the recaps myself. I am no expert with a soldering...

Why the best Mac ever?