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    List of originally "included" peripherals by Mac model?

    hmmm.... not that I know of. Most Macs included a packing list, I have one for the educational/lab pack model of the Mac LC 520 for example. For the most part: "Pro" modular Macs from the II until the group just before the beige G3: OS media & documentation mouse power cable sometimes a...
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    Probably. Apple had been thinking about a next-gen OS basically since like literally 1988 with...

    Probably. Apple had been thinking about a next-gen OS basically since like literally 1988 with Taligent. Tough to say how carefully they considered it though and where it was in the running, or where they thought it would fit in.
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    What's the fastest drive option for a SCSI Mac?

    This is a little bit disorganized because it's early, but: As far as I know, the SCSI2SD v6 is still the drag race champion among the modern solutions. Mine gets ~7MB/sec read and ~4MB/sec write in my 8600/300. My benches are over at...
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    Slow SPI (Half Speed) BlueSCSI DB25

    It's always a bummer how these threads go. A thing I have to remind myself a lot is "what am I adding, how am I helping?" and I think several of us lost sight of that here. That said, I do think we also need to be mindful of context when we bring this these kinds of things up. People who have...
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    got emacs on the brain now! I got one this summer, I should poke at it

    got emacs on the brain now! I got one this summer, I should poke at it
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    2022-09-19 Site Briefly Inaccessible

    My super duper apologies on this one. The site was unavailable briefly ~7 to ~740 UTC-7, due to a DNS error. It may take longer than that for some people to get it back, based on DNS caching.
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    Using Magneto Optical drives on vintage 68k Macs

    I'm aware I'm the one who created the interest in optical and magneto optical technologies, talking about how the discs are the best possible archival technologies and the drives have proven themselves to be among the most reliable removable media technology formats for the '80s, '90s, and...
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    Using Magneto Optical drives on vintage 68k Macs

    What's SCSI DVD on 68k/PPC Macs look like? That'd get you ~9 gigs if you could make and burn a dual layer image (maybe on a machine with a SIL3112? Dunno how tolerant of Shenanigans, like, Toast is)
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    Announcing ZuluSCSI - A file-based SCSI device emulator

    Hey @dvincent - welcome in! I've hidden a couple of posts that just contained a large image. I think if you upload multiple images to a single post they'll come through as a slightly easier managed gallery view. Although, this is really an announcement thread, not necessarily a support thread...
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    PowerMac 9600 Logic Boards

    I've never seen 604r used in a public-facing Mac context, is that something IBM used for 604-based AIX machines, or was it the name of a further evolution of the 604 design that would have succeeded 604ev? If so, we should probably continue using the terminology Apple and all of the Mac books...
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    MonsterROMinator... a ROMinator for Levco Monster Macs

    There's any number of reasons someone may not have responded six years ago, so I'd say it's safer not to presume. I don't see it yet so tagging @bdurbrow - when you have a moment to take a look.
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    Should I take a risk on this beige motherboard?

    Great to see this is working, thank you for the update! Those monitors did come out a few years before the Beige G3, but I believe they may have shipped alongside it. Or, to be honest, Apple and Mac stuff at retail in the '90s and early 2000s stuck around long enough even if Apple stopped...
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    IIfx - weird Nubus card issues on A/UX

    Thank you for sharing the update on this! I don't know the underlying reason why but that makes as much sense as anything else!
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    The Performa 6200 wasn’t really a road Apple - here’s why:

    A note about this: in my experience, normal people do not buy a new computer every year, or every single time there's a new model. This type of comparison ("how much faster is it than literally the directly previous model") makes relatively little sense in consumer computers because most people...
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    The Performa 6200 wasn’t really a road Apple - here’s why:

    It's Christmas in July! I've been saying this for years. The whole "Road Apple" concept has literally never sat well with me and most of the machines on that list are basically "That way" because they were affordable and aimed at a non-pro market and the compromises Apple made mostly don't...
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    Katheryn's (k24a1)'s conquests

    Apologies for the delay (I just got back into town last night, long story...) Done!
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    It's supposed to, but IME they're not that different and just enough stuff would really rather...

    It's supposed to, but IME they're not that different and just enough stuff would really rather be on 9.1 than 8.6 anyway, and if you're on a machine that runs 9.1 poorly, 7.6.1 or 8.1 will likely be that much better, so it sort of depends on what machine/configuration you want or have. As ever...
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    Overclocked QS'02 CPU - Crashes X, but 9 is perfectly fine?

    AltiVec is a big maybe. If you have a graphics card that supports Core Image, you can likely avoid it. However - this same behavior is noted under 10.4 which does not require AltiVec, so I'm still a little bit skeptical on this theory. A way to test it could be to run an altivec workload (like...
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    Is there a way I can help with vtools?

    Got it - thank you!
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    Overclocked QS'02 CPU - Crashes X, but 9 is perfectly fine?

    It sounds like John found a workload that's fully loading the G4 CPU under OS 9, fairly similar to what's possible under OS X, so I suspect think this (quoted) is what's going on here. I haven't re-read my own posts in that thread in particularly close detail, but for what it's worth, what I...
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