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Faster compiles and IDE performance (I find running CodeWarrior on a 1280x1024 display on any of my 040s still exhibits lag in the editor window). Cross compiles are a bit nicer too. So yeah, need at least one PowerPC based machine. I could of course do development on a modern system with retro68 but I'm choosing to stay in System 7.6.1 :)
 
A Power Mac 8500 with a 500Mhz G3, enough RAM and a fast enough drive is a killer video capture and editing machine under System 7! It can easily digitize SD videos at full size and full frame rate. I would keep!
 
I have been trying to reduce my collection and sold a few of them recently. But having issues reducing further. For the following 11 machines, if you could only keep 5 of them, which would you let go?
  1. Macintosh SE - full memory, has a working miniscribe hard disk
  2. Macintosh SE/30 - full memory, 47MHz 030 Booster and color LCD kit from ZZJ, internal magneto optical drive, Bolle's combo card for ethernet
  3. Macintosh IIci - full memory, has a daystar 50MHz 030 accelerator, ethernet card, many supermac video cards to choose from
  4. Macintosh IIfx - full memory, ZZJ's NuCF compact flash drive, 8 * 24 GC, ethernet, another 8 * 24
  5. Macintosh Quadra 700 - full memory, running at 50MHz with Bolle's quad doubler
  6. Macintosh Quadra 800 - full memory, overclocked to 40MHz
  7. PowerBook 540c - full memory, overclocked to 40MHz, has a full 68040 processor (ie. FPU), working batteries
  8. PowerBook Duo 280c - full memory, has a full 68040 processor (ie. FPU), working batteries
  9. Power Macintosh 8500 - 1GB of memory, 500MHz Newertech processor card upgrade
  10. Macintosh Quadra 950 - full memory, having issues with the SCSI subsystem right now though.. needs to be fixed
  11. Macintosh 512K - stock
I don't think I can cut anything...

I vote to keep the 540c, Duo 280, IIfx, PM8500, SE/30
 
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