Another C500
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I love the Umax SuperMac c500 as well! I have two, a 180 and a 200, although the 180’s power supply is dead. 
Is it possibly the most compact old world Mac …with two PCI slots?
When I was in college in the late 90s we used a c500 as the NAT router for our college newspaper office to get all our machines online with our single high speed (10Mb!) campus connection. Two PCI Ethernet cards and IPNetRouter! These were the days before you could buy a cheap Linksys router to do the same thing.
Is it possibly the most compact old world Mac …with two PCI slots?
When I was in college in the late 90s we used a c500 as the NAT router for our college newspaper office to get all our machines online with our single high speed (10Mb!) campus connection. Two PCI Ethernet cards and IPNetRouter! These were the days before you could buy a cheap Linksys router to do the same thing.
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Nice pickup!
I ended up with a bunch of Umax clone bits and pieces. C500 and J700 bezels, a CPU, several S900 port doors (the piece that often breaks off and gets lost) and a nearly complete S900 / Pulsar (logic board, PSU, panels, etc. Just missing the chassis, but I believe a Dell Dimension would work as a donor machine.)
So yeah, I guess I’m in the weird clone appreciation club too. But I probably need to list most of the above on the trading post, it’s collecting dust.
I ended up with a bunch of Umax clone bits and pieces. C500 and J700 bezels, a CPU, several S900 port doors (the piece that often breaks off and gets lost) and a nearly complete S900 / Pulsar (logic board, PSU, panels, etc. Just missing the chassis, but I believe a Dell Dimension would work as a donor machine.)
So yeah, I guess I’m in the weird clone appreciation club too. But I probably need to list most of the above on the trading post, it’s collecting dust.
I've been into PowerComputing clones mainly, but that's mostly because I just happened to acquire one – a PowerBase 200 – way back in 2005.
It was my only clone for years until I found a PowerTower Pro/225 a few years ago (I'm fairly sure it was pre-COVID).
I've never really paid much attention to anything else, except the S900, which has been quite popular, and the C500, because of this thread
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It was my only clone for years until I found a PowerTower Pro/225 a few years ago (I'm fairly sure it was pre-COVID).
I've never really paid much attention to anything else, except the S900, which has been quite popular, and the C500, because of this thread
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