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From the Developer’s note: Summary of New Features 1 The Macintosh Quadra 610 and Macintosh Quadra 650 computers are essentially higher-performance versions of the Macintosh Centris 610 and Macintosh Centris 650. The changes in the new machines include ■ faster processors: 25 MHz in the...

Quadra will have full 68040 and onboard Ethernet (AAUI); Centris probably neither.

To Dana: and they say you can’t multitask in System 7!

I’d personally recommend something like a Quadra 650 for A/UX, which is also a vastly more robust and expandable machine generally. A IIsi will run A/UX, but it will be kind of slow. Where a IIsi really shines in my view is running System 6, with a Nubus video card and a decent monitor — just my...

I downloaded it from the Garden today and installed it on a PB 15” 1.67 without any trouble. The thing is a bit odd because it’s not an actual installer that you get, but a disk image that has to be installed by Disk Utility, the upshot being that you need a separate boot drive with an OS (I...

Battlefield 1942 Omnioutliner 3 Omnigraffle (v5 works, as I recall) Nisus Writer 2 BBEdit (v9 or some such) Macports gives you access to a range of Unix software

Via xpostfacto, I’ve had OSX (X.2?) running on an 8600/300 with the 604ev, and it wasn‘t what you’d call snappy. Some of that may have been due to the graphics limitations, as the 8600’s PCI slots are compromised somehow, plus the cards I had available wouldn‘t have been especially high end at...

I am glad to hear that it is still doing its duty! The ps wasn’t recapped, but it was thoroughly cleaned out. I used a handheld shower and hot, hot water. Lots of brown water emerged. Gallons. Fish died in the Thames. It had to done, though, as the fellow I got it from was a chain smoker, had...

Yes, I had a Macintosh II that had been upgraded to a IIfx, but the machine still had what I took to be the original power supply in there. Certainly that fan did not slow down on idle. Oh no. It was lift-off all the way. Another of our lot on here bought it from me and loves the machine, but I...

Do the dual 604e processors fit (and run BeOS)? These would be more common than the Daystar Quad.

I am pretty sure I had to set my HDD as slave, because the replacement DVD-RW was master and couldn’t be changed — or something like that. It was a long time ago, but anyway, it was a pain and the pain is etched on my memory because the darned thing had to be disassembled again to be put right...

I seem to recall (from replacing a DVD in mine years ago) that the Cube is uncommonly fussy about the Master/Slave configuration of its drives. You might want to check that all is well there.

Yep.

I once tried a G4 AGP Graphics logic board in a IIci case, just for fit, and thought it could be made to work. Didn’t take it any further.

Microsoft Word 6? Ho ho ho.

Can’t you just flash the card using the standard Radiusware utility? here: https://vintageapple.org/macdrivers/video/knighttech/index.html

This is probably asking too much, but a way of measuring throughput would sure be handy…. Beyond this, AppleTalk to IP and vice versa, Zones, LocalTalk to EtherTalk bridging [presumably wired to wireless bridging isn’t needed, is it?], and software mapping of the network (see shareware app...

Speaking personally, I would say that the main quality of life improvement for a machine like a Classic would be to avoid straying into anything internet related on it, since the results there will inevitably be poor. Bad ≠ good. The thing about a Classic is that it was really a 1980s machine...

Obviously, we’ve got to assume that any 1990-ish monitor needs recapped at this point. So I’d say that if there is no burn-in, it is worth the small expense and the not-so-small effort required to attempt a speculative repair. Given no burn-in, my working assumption would be that the thing...

Blades that have deformed over time can be retensioned with heat and rapid cooling in their new orientation. The blade just needs to press more firmly against the drum. Obviously, this won‘t solve problems resulting from degraded components, but it can undo (some of) the effects of time.