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Very nice!

The picture of the purple MeowToast was created with plated oval slots at the ends of the board, and during final routing the slots were cut in half. Speaking as a former PCB manufacturing engineer, it’s a good design.

Next to R66 there’s a 6 pin IC with a hole in the middle of the chip - not good.

It looks like an 80 MB, 3.5 inch SCSI drive attached to a bracket. Based on it’s age, there’s a slim chance it may still work In a Mac made in 1986-1999.

I’ve watched a few of Sean Malseed’s video’s (Action Retro on YouTube) and he’s has a pile of IDE to SSD and IDE to CF adapters he tests - some work better than others. He usually has very good results with Dosdude1’s hand assembled IDE to SSD drives, which can be purchased at...

Seems like a good reason to upgrade. OSX 10.4.11 Tiger runs fast on most G4 Macs. 10.5.x was a bit slower.

According to my info, the first Mac Mini had a 1.25 GHz G4 and shipped with 10.3.7. Zip support should be built into the OS

I found this help page on gzip https://ss64.com/osx/gzip.html more examples of gzip https://osxdaily.com/2012/04/05/create-tar-gzip/

gzip is built into OSX 10.2 according to https://www.wap.org/journal/powermacg5/ Scroll down the article to find out how to use gzip

The Turbo Encabulator it’s not cheap, but I’m sure the government…

Run SCSIProbe to confirm your CDROM drives have different ID’s

Nice finds. I bet the CDROM works fine. Don’t know about the external drive, but if it’s not working you can mount a BlueSCSI or a ZuluSCSI in it.

I’m guessing the non-working adapter had liquid damage at some point in the past. New are available on eBay for $15.

A MacBook G4 is an excellent machine for this purpose because you can still browse the internet and download programs for your Classic Mac, using the TenFourFox or InterWebPPC web browsers and write them to floppy disk.

If you have an older Mac that runs OSX 10.4.x, then you can write 1.4 MB disks with your Imation SuperDisk.

Apple Keyboard II M0487. There is an Escape key next to the space bar - not a spot I would expect.

How do you Force Quit in System 7.6.1? My Apple keyboard has no Escape key, just a big power key at the top of the keyboard.

FYI G4 PowerMacs and iMacs and newer, used the eject key at the right corner of the keyboard to open and close the CD/DVD drive tray. I don’t know if the G3 PowerMac used the same method.

For PowerPC 603/603e/604 machines, software compatibility is better with OS8.6.

The site was down yesterday morning but was up yesterday afternoon and evening. It’s down again this morning.