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sorry for a slight winded reply to the latest replies.. @bigmessowires and @Skate323k137 about consumer-facing warnings, I know I have seen 'NOT PHONE' crossed-out phone symbol etched onto the metal backplate itself above what otherwise looked like a normal rj11 port onboard on some rather old...

not to interrupt but is it just a bit of baseless heresy or weren't the later powerpc performa boards actually basically more or less 68k board designs kludged 'up' a bit to suit the faster cpu/bus/ram overall?

just to echo @sstaylor here, you know how ide drives have that one jumper to set cable/master/slave mode? well scsi drives generally use the same jumper concept to set their own id with .. so eg one jumper shortening pins 1-2 would be one id then 'sideway' 2-3 or next 3-4 pins instead would give...

I know its not quite the same kind of theme but I guess the "famous" wrt54 was somewhat a little generic too .. you had one with modest amount of ram, then one that had little ram, then yet another was later resold 'with more ram again for linux hacks', etc meanwhile except for the bottom serial...

i agree about most mouse cables being too long (too obvious with desktops and even pretty much look bad with any laptops), and as for backspace-vs-delete umm sorry to cause another minor offtopic flame in here but can someone tell me why I can't find the key named 'return' anywhere on the pc...

@MrFahrenheit just as a small more-ontopic addendum: I agree that sellers who just simply randomly clone listings then "suggest" that you know nothing are annoyingly ignorant but I guess thats a particular flaw of human behaviours in general tho, or as one aptly can refer to the classical...

@Melkhior hmm I do have to wonder indeed, considering that a lot of relatively expensive peripherals also decided to use db25 too (this was one particular tidbit I found out while I was just looking up re early scsi ports before making my recent post above...

@Daniël i'm sure everyone has long lost track of how many times they were looking at pretty much almost any sort of ad/auction for dense electronics and wondering along the line of "what does it come with??" from the lack of any kind of rear photo. computer, tv, av receiver, etc you name it...

@bibilit i know what you mean about not doing anything visually different (yet silly enough they did make two very different looking 2gb jaz drives, a good example of what maybe should had been done to the early zip drive?) on that footnote, i think that partially the scsi-vs-parallel blame...

@Mk.558 not to be too offtopic here but the airport/bt combo card was an optional extra initially but then at one point apple made it standard option instead

I know that both 'starwar x-wing collector' and descentII seem to quite like having a joystick (bit more if its one with extra aux functions optionally) but you'll naturally need a powerpc of some sort in the first place .. and agreed on ms flight simulator for just about any 68k

sorry @ArmorAlley was rereading now and noticed your post, i'll just note that although not many 'getting started' people would run into them i'll nevertheless suggest that if someone new to buying into a mac hobby sees a scsi drive that has one big single rear interface (eg...

@cheesestraws just saw your post now and yeah sorry about a lot of quadra chat overnight either way I looked up about the quadra 950 and indeed I did find exactly what I had thought was there in the name of this quote which seem to indeed suggest that you would need to run at least 7.5 if you...

anyhow just to continue with the original topics i'll add these reples of mine; 1. although I know most people would never run into them, still - what of the 'black terminator' (as I heard it was called) specific to the IIfx? 2. the "bastardized" scsi on performa systems was still a full scsi-1...

Ah I had somehow thought it was a late 68k system but mm I can see exactly why a 9600 would have that. Then again a 9600 is like "who could want to completely stuff that tower up? It would require mortgaging your silicon valley mansion to afford the final price" what with two scsi buses, six...

@MrFahrenheit didn't at least one certain 68k system have two scsi buses that otherwise with the "incorrect" use of the lower version of supported system 7 would be seen as a single bus instead causing problem if one drive on each bus had the same id? (I think it was 7.6 as minimum that...

@Phipli have to agree with your first post here, i've read a mix of a few 650mb (been written onto to so many times i'm a bit surprised its dye is still reliable..) and handful of 700mb rewrites on a wide mismash of drives including performa-specific apple 2x scsi or an old dos nec's yamaha cdr...

I presume you have already tried the generic (plain or international one on top yeah) 8.5 from here? https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-85-851-update and just curious if do you not have a rewrite disc on hand? either way I would think that osx version might not be really a problem since...

I somewhat recall that the 9200 was one of these sort of card that was sold around a lot (and not just to retail at that) as not surprisingly it was basically 'as cheap as they could get it made out to' position in the radeon family tree at the time. And to confuse things further how about...

noticed this and even read the article on 404media itself too myself https://apple.slashdot.org/story/23/10/10/1546249/vintage-mac-community-begs-manufacturers-for-new-supply-of-rare-dongle-as-resellers-charge-250 and mm well to our own here ofc but being I'm not the kind to have a big room full...