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Well I’m glad to hear that for sure! I’ve never owned a compact Mac before, but I’ve wanted one. Always was afraid they’d be tough to maintain. I have fond memories of them, though. My high school chorus teacher didn’t have an accompanist but he had a compact Mac of some kind hooked up to a...

My local Goodwill has this today. There was a tag that said it powered on but didn’t boot. Figured I’d give it a go. Came with System 6.0.1 disks but either the drive doesn’t read anything or they’re damaged. Plugged in my ZuluSCSI with the Mac Pack on an SD card and it fired right into...

I am with you in that I wasn't successful burning 8.5 or 8.6 ISOs that would actually boot the machine. But I think it's actually the image, because 8.1 and 9.1 will boot from a ZuluSCSI on my PM 6500/225, but 8.5 and 8.6 will not. So it's not just the CDs I burn, it's the images themselves. I...

The 68882 from Eric, along with a full-fat 68040 33 MHz to stuff into my Quadra 605, arrived while I was out of town. Finally got them installed (removing the LC 040 from the 605 was nerve wracking!) and both seem to be working flawlessly. I'll be getting my chips from Eric from here on out.

I learned this the hard way in my first retro Mac purchase, a Power Macintosh 7300 with a G3 400 upgrade card. It came with 64 MB of memory and I stupidly bought a bunch of uber-cheap PC100 168-pin DIMMs. That was back when the price of pre-G3 systems was through the floor in like 2007-08. While...

The email alert was a good reminder to follow up - I've got one from Eric on the way. Thanks everyone!

That's super helpful, thanks! I just sent him a message about a 25 MHz one, since his listing says to message before ordering.

I'm not in a big hurry. I'd be happy to wait until you're back since I know I'd be getting what I'm hoping for and not taking a shot on eBay.

Hey thanks for the reply! I had no idea there were fakes out there, so I guess I need to be careful. Mine is a stock LC III, so 25 MHz, and I have no ambitions to overclock it. So hopefully I'll be able to make one work. When I googled for "legit 68882" the first Google result that came up...

I just picked up an LC III with maxed RAM and I’ve got a ZuluSCSI on the way to put in a hard drive. Very excited about it, honestly. My question is about the FPU. It has an empty socket on the motherboard. Can I just get any old 68882 off of eBay and slap it in there? I also see PDS cards...