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You have a point. The equivalent of €50 for a Mac SE is optimistic and probably happens quite rarely. The Bay Area may very well have inflated prices in comparison to the rest of the world. From the market perspective in Switzerland-Germany-Austria (and possibly even England too), prices seem...

What does the seller mean by restored if no re-capping has been done? A broken hard drive was replaced by one that is working and ditto with the floppy? Hardly a reason to double the price. Depending on the amount of yellowing and the availability of keyboard, mouse, manuals and so, I would...

I find that some of the later server drives (U320 with the 80-pin SCA socket) are relatively quiet. They have a quite hefty power draw though. Many of them are LVD/SE and you should be able to run them from a 50-pin SCSI port. I had one in my Performa 475 for some years until the PSU went.

I can recommend them. Mr. Jobs has started having them installed into his company's NeXT boxes too. They are also all the rage in Japan too which is a great place both the disks and the drives.

The English/Indian publishing house Packt make one of their eBooks freeky available every weekday. Today (Wednesday, Nov. 22) there is a book on Mastering macOS Programming from 2017 available. It can't be downloaded (unless you actually buy it) but once you register on the site, you can put the...

I had in an AudioMedia II in there for a while but I never got around to using it, so I took it out. Once I had a choice to make about the Sonnet Crescendo card, I decided to keep it in and turn the 8100/400 into my file server.

I'm not at all a Pro Tools user. Concerning floppies, have you looked into using BMoW's Floppy Emu [1]. I try to avoid floppies now when I can. True, it is not all 1995 but it does save a lot of floppy swapping. Many floppies are now too old to be usable and many of us should grease our floppy...

If you are going to be completist, then under 0. you need all of the pre-Launch macs that were made. These include the Twiggy macs, the macs used during development and so on. They mightn't be affordable or available but they most definitely belong in the list.

Well done sir!

Why not get yourself a PCI SATA card? You'll need to flash it though. There are threads here on this topic. It will keep your IDE buses free. https://store.rabbitholecomputing.com/RETRO-SATA-PCI-p/rhc-sata-sii3112-pci-hard-card.htm

It's not an answer to your directly. If you want faster disk I/O, an external Zulu-SCSI should greatly help your Mac Plus, assuming they work on the Mac Plus. It's quieter too. I haven't used a Plus in decades and its implementation of SCSI is not as complete as it could be, so it mightn't work...

I remember being told in the early to mid-nineties by someone in an Apple dealership in Dublin that Macs were designed with a usable lifetime of 7 years and that they should all be expected to work within that timeframe. 2004 is ten years after the PB 150 was released, so, my guess is, Apple had...

Does anyone know what brand this is?

I collected a G4 recently and it came with a front display with temperature (and other) information.

This G4 looks to have a 4-port ethernet card in it. I know that Cisco made similar cards but for the Mac? Does anyone know about these cards and are they supported in Mac OS 9?

I was thinking of myself when I got back into macs in 2009. I had some knowledge but the more modern stuff alluded me. This was as much a message to me then as it is to people new to the hobby. SCA-drives are admittedly rarer and pricier than back in 2009.

I would add to this: • There are various kinds of SCSI plugs but they essentially fall into 2 categories: a. Single-Ended (SE) — the original kind and all built-in SCSI in Macintoshes uses this. Essentially it uses 25-pin or 50-pin plugs. b. Low-Voltage Differential (LVD) — operates...

This is what I feared. Thanks for this.

<record mode='scratched'>I have a mac mini G4 running Mac OS 9.2.2 and it is great for downloading images, making images and burning images. I strongly recommend getting one and putting Mac OS 9.2.2 onto it.</record> I'll burn a post you out a burnt copy of Mac OS 8.5 & the Mac OS 8.6 Update...