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I’ve used the Sonnet SATA cards quite a bit but they’re a bit hard to find. There are some flashed cards on ebay but I have no experience with them

I use superdrives quite a bit and have only had 3 issues. Dirty heads, dried lubricant and dead eject motor. In one case the dried lubricant let the disk go in but the heads weren't making god contact with the disk.

I’ve original superdrives and upgraded 800k drives. The only differences are LED colour and an extra metal shield. I happily use them interchangeably. Other than insufficient cleaning then my next thought is dried up lubricant not letting the disk go 100% of the way in.

I'd try checking the power supply voltages

One difference is that the Quicksilver has a faster bus speed so unless you solder/unsolder some resistors on ta Quicksilver processor card it’ll run at a lower speed than normal. A 867mhz processor in a AGP will run at 650mhz. Also one of the mounting screws on the Quicksilver supplies 12v. On...

No, unfortunately MDD processors aren't compatible with earlier Macs

I’ve been printing plastic labels with a Brother label printer and paper labels with a Dymo LabelWriter 450. All was good but then I was looking at the Dymo LabelWriter 450 Duo which had 2 parts to it, one for paper and the other for plastic. I got interested because it’d do graphics on the...

I had a Vulcan card using a CF adapter stop working. I first tried a known working CF with no luck then I swapped CF adapters with another Vulcan. Turns out that the adapter wasn’t functioning. Put in my spare but it didn’t work either. It’s a duplicate of the first bad one. So I decided to...

I believe he meant you can use 128mb disks in 230mb drives,  230mb disks in 640mb drives and so forth.

While I can’t guarantee it, I think it’s extremely unlikely that you’d damage the G3. I was thinking about the fact that I’d never tried a G4 in a Beige G3. The beige G3 is handy, the Yikes G4 is handy, lets give it a try. Did it and the Beige “G4” booted up. System profiler recognizes that...

The one use of an Apple card I've been considering if I can ever find the time is this one https://www.apple2pl.us/ Looks like an interesting project

I haven't tried a G4 ZIF in a Beige G3 but I am using a 350mhz one from a B&W, slightly overclocked to 366mhz. I've read lots of postings from people using a G4 from a Yikes in their beige G3 but I haven't had a spare CPU and I haven't wanted to bother pulling one out of a Yikes just to try...

One other possible factor is that the worst memory card for the IIgs is the Apple one. They're readily available and probably cost more to fix than replacing. A dying IIgs memory card is often viewed as a good opportunity to upgrade.

I think that’s a misprint. The link at the bottom of the Gazelle section takes you to another part of their site where they say 128mb. The only way I know to get more than 128mb on a 5500 is to fill in the empty RAM area on the bottom of the motherboard. That’ll take you to 136mb total.

I’ll agree with the incompatibility idea. About 3 years ago I tried an Intel ssd with a PPC Mac. The install went fine but after a couple of boots it seemed to lose it’s formatting. Reformatted and did another install and on the second boot, the same thing happened. I installed it in an Intel...

There's not much in one. 2 switches, a fan, 2 sets of outlets and some wires connecting those

For DOS, Pascal & CP/M. I believe it preceded ProDOS.

The Saturn and clones will work the same but other manufacturers may be a little different

Most likely it's a Saturn 128k card. You can check online to see if pictures of it match your card. The manual and software for the Saturn cards are available online

If you're running system 7 or 7.1, I think Apple File Exchange was an optional install