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I do wonder how many original DOS 6100's were sold, mine has the DOS writing on the front. 128K Macs were pretty much useless, so if you absolutely want one you probably want one 100% complete in box with all papers and 100% stock (which few probably still are) to sit on a shelf. Prices would...

The DOS card is worth more than that, same with the cable if you have it.

386DX (32 bit memory) and above need 4 of the exact same SIMMs, you cannot install them in uneven pairs. 3 and 9 chip SIMMs work best (parity) unlike macs which don't care.

What OS are you using other than A/UX? System 7 allows 2GB partitions to be bootable, 7.5.2 to 8.x allow 4GB bootable partitions and I think 8.1 allows 2TB partitions but not bootable on 68K.

For the 300/400/500 series cards 2048MB emulated drive sizes are good (DOS limitation of 2GB).

Ethertalk sounds like you are trying to use a serial port instead of ethernet.

I keep 10/100 switches around for the old gear since those 10Mb cards probably won't work on a GB switch. Never had an issue with 100Mb Nubus Ethernet other than them being way slower than PC equivalent at 100Mb.

I really love my 68040/50 with cache plugged into the CPU socket of my Quadra 950. Oddly enough the accelerators I don't use much are the Radius Rocket 25i's I have.

Orinoco White/Bronze doesn't even use WEP, the Silver model is 64-bit WEP and Gold was 128-bit WEP.

They make decent mobile support machines for older Macs (burning CDs or Ethernet file transfers). Would be cool to have a USB to SCSI adapter for working directly with old SCSI HDs in a dock.

I would just use an old router for the few times a year you want to mess with wifi on an old laptop. I had an Orinoco on my Amiga 1200 a long time ago just to see it work. Airport cards in the US used to be everywhere 10+ years ago, no idea now. I would think the Orinoco's are a little rarer...

My newest Mac is a MacBook 5,1 (2008) and I was surprised how easy it is to work on (coming from G3/G4 iBooks and PowerBooks). The top case is decently thick that you really need to hit it hard to ding it. It was a cheap local find missing RAM and HD. Cleaning out the CPU fan is pretty easy. A...

The IIcx adapter won't fit either.

The heatsink for the CPU? Either buy a dead card for the heatsink or find something close and pull tie it on.

Weird card. It is defiantly Mac having ADC connection and the older Power connector on the bottom (the G5 models have that connector closer to the front). Its newer than the Radeon 9000 because of the square RAM chips so 9600/9700. The 9800 Mac edition was pretty much for the 8x AGP Pro G5...

The IIcx adapter was probably the hardest to find and you needed an early motherboard with a socketed CPU. Granted you might as well just put in a IIci motherboard and save the adapter expense.

It's the most common one made and has the most adapters for other systems that don't have the native IIci PDS. I have adapters for IIcx, Mac II , IIx, and LC2/3. The best is the Sonnet Presto Plus with Ethernet and 32MB of RAM but limited to LC PDS.

So are working 700-900Mhz iBooks worth much?

I think I had problems with the trackpad cable on higher end G3 iBook coming off the board (easy enough to fix). Taking the G3's apart was not much fun. If you want to run OSX get a G4 PowerBook, easier to work on and metal (better video as well), for OS 9 I think theG3 iBook's are cool.