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    MDD Ultimate OS9 Machine Upgrades

    I'm using a MDD to play a few games. For gaming I found mechanical hard drives to be a pain. I tried various hard drive setups but right now I'm using a Compact Flash with ide adapter. Fast and inexpensive
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    mSATA to ATA bus Macintosh (and also PCI Macintosh)

    What software did you use for benchmarking?
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    PCI SATA bootable card?

    I have several Sonnet SATA cards. They are bootable. I've used one in an 8600. Earlier cards listed MacOS 8.5 as minimum OS but I've heard of people using earlier OSes.
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    Javascript slows down a G4

    Aside from CPU power, there's the RAM issue for the currant web. With 4 other tabs open Activity monitor says my browser alone is using 3gb RAM
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    LACIE - Joule Modular Storage System - Snow White stripes . . .

    Have one. Never liked it much though I like almost every other Lacie product.
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    Multiple Scan 20

    Bought one, I believe in 1995 to use with a IIgs with a Second Sight card. Later connected it to my shiny new 7600/132. It was a great CRT monitor
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    Parts machine, maybe not

    About 6 weeks ago I picked up a batch 9 Mac Pros for $50 each from a company that mostly wanted them out of their store room. One was a 2010, 2 were 2008 and the rest were 2006. I kept the 2010 and put 2 on CL and have almost made my money back. I keep meaning to put some others on CL but keep...
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    Parts machine, maybe not

    Picked up a 2009 2.66 quad core Mac Pro for parts for $50. No RAM, HD or video card. Installed those and it booted right up. Have to run it a bit to make sure it’s stable and maybe do a firmware update to 5,1
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    zip250 USB drive does not power on via USB - repairable?

    I believe you need the power supply
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    Target mode w/o keyboard?

    I only know of 2 ways to get into Target disk mode Using a keyboard at startup Using a mouse to select it in System preferences/startup disk
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    Lisa HD Question

    2 blocks per kb
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    G4 vs G5 iMac performance

    The intel macs running up to 10.6.8 will run PPC software. I'm using a 2010 Mac Pro to run PPC versions of Adobe apps
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    USB to ADB?

    There's the Geethree PS/2 to adb adapters. I've added a USB adapter to that and used a USB optical mouse. Not all optical mice do work with it
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    G4 vs G5 iMac performance

    Depending on which G5, I'd say 1.5 to 2x. The G5 iMacs do have a reputation for bad caps in the power supply For even more speed you might also consider a 2006 or 7 intel iMac. Those will run 10.4. And if you want hugely hugely more speed, there's the 2007 8 core Mac Pro but any 2007 or...
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    PCI Power Mac processor card cross-compatibility?

    It should work but you'd be better off getting a G3 card instead
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    Floppy Emu on my IIe - making disk backup

    It's very very rare to have a floppy controller with 20 pin connectors and adapters to 19 pin. In virtually all IIe with a 19 pin connector the cable is permanently attached to the card. Best choice is to either find another floppy controller or a physical disk of a copy program.
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    Some Mac Pros

    I got the SATA extension, had to modify it a little so it would fit. Tried it out with an external power supply and the drive showed up right away. It was late and I thought I’d think about the next step the following day. At 6am I wake up with a question. I’d tried a couple of different...
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    Some Mac Pros

    Picked up a bunch of  what were supposed to be 2.66 1,1 Mac Pros for what worked out to $50 each. In amongst them were 3 later machines. A couple of 2008 8 core 2.8 and a 2010 quad core 2.8 with 2 Radeon 5770s. All the machines are working fine except the 2010 which has an issue. None of the 4...
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    cache

    Looking for an opinion or maybe someone's tried this. If I transfer the cache chips from a 466 DA CPU card to a card from a tray loading iMac, will it show up as 1mb, 512k or not at all
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