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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...

Got it - thank you!

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...

It's probably just a normal prototype for the late stage development of the 6360 and 6400. Lots of late-stage prototypes from several different eras at Apple have leaked out over the years. My personal pet theory is that they weren't particularly well tracked and someone from the team brought it...

Great that this is working now! I wonder if it's just being weird because it's flash and OS 9 isn't detecting it the same way a modern computer would. SD and CF cards have worked well for me but I don't use many flash drives on old Macs, I primarily use USB pocket hard drives. USB and...

Nice. It should run great in that setup! AFAIK 7.5.x or 7.6.1 doesn't really unlock anything on the 840av, I don't even know if they're that much more stable, it was just logistically more convenient later on. I think a lot of people buying used Macs in the late '90s and early 2000s grew a big...

Good morning: I've run the original 7.1 Pro install, 7.6.1 and 8.1 on my 840av (24 megs of RAM). They all run fine, and they're perhaps all worth looking at in terms of the machine's history. The only version I've never really bothered with is 7.5.x. 7.6.1 offers significant technical and...

One more thought: As you poke around my wiki, be aware that a lot of what's on there truly is personal editorial. I've tried to mark it and that kind of stuff (like my personal opinions about Zip drives) probably aren't coming over to the main 68kMLA wiki.

Update to above: We had a discussion about this in the IRC channel and have decided to use my personal wiki at https://doku.stenoweb.net/doku.php?id=start as a holding space for drafts, until the wiki is up. I will transcribe anything for the MLA that gets posted on doku.stenoweb.net, once our...

one more idea for drafts: The forum software isn't super great for drafting wiki/knowledge type articles, if anyone was interested I could create a OneDrive folder or a SharePoint online site, you'd just need a Microsoft account of some kind to be able to auth in and add/edit things. I'm...

Reminded of this thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/16-things-to-do-with-your-networked-vintage-mac.38362/ Index of "things to do with networking" would be great, above and beyond things like how to use the 755NAD or how to connect to an ASIP server from a 7/8/9 boot CD (do all...

(disclaimer: I know very little about 8-bit Apple II) It depends on what "advantage" you want. I think you're on the right path that there could be a genuine advantage to leaving it stock, but I think the advantage is going to be in something like experience rather than, say, "some software...

Video conferencing would have been neat. I would be zero surprised to find out Apple was thinking about it, they announced the Quicktime Conferencing Camera in Februrary 1995 (shipping in the summer), just a few months after the 630 itself. However, the overall kit and doing conferencing...

Welcome in! That looks like a fun machine! Looks like the video capture card, the TV tuner, and the presentation system port, which created a mirror of the built-in display for use with a projector, since these were option used in education. This is often already known, but just in case: The...

I think @Trash80toHP_Mini proposed that, I like the idea, do we have the references built or a draft? In general once the wiki comes back I'm happy to help people adapt content for it, but I can't create that particular knowledge on my own.

waking up to the delicious morning smell of a new spammer -- should be cleaned up now

The TiBook 867/1000 should have a gray 10.2.x CD set (colored X is probably retail) and a gray OS 9 CD that's not actually a bootable disc, it's an OS X PKG file that lays the default OS loadout onto the machine. I would be highly interested if there were multiple bundles for the TiBook/1000...

If you have a chance and it's not already on archive.org, macgarden, or similar. Max1zzz had an archive a number of years ago but I never thought to look there. Unfortunately, I don't know or remember the part number and don't know if there's an accurate collection of the part numbers...

In my experience, back in the day, OS 9 and OS X were similar in terms of heat, noise, and longevity. My guess is that there's some driver or configuration oriented toward this machine that's not in the other installs. If you haven't yet, I recommend finding an 867/1000MHz OS 9 install disc...

Great to see you got this working! 7.5 and games should run fine in ~24-32 megs of ram, likely with room to spare. I have a Quadra running 8.0 or 8.1 on 24 megs and it's basically fine for the system 7 era stuff I run on it. I don't typically max out my own machines, mostly because I'm cheap...