Re: Just wondering, any vintage Mac experts resident here?

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:01:55 AM UTC-5, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> I know that the core subject of this group is Apple2 but I was wondering
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> (hoping) that there is an overlap in people's expertise. I've hunted
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> around a bunch of Mac newsgroups looking for active communities like this
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> one, but have come up dry.
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> My main interest is in 68K Macintosh. As previously posted, I run a vastly
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> expanded LCIII+ as my main vintage system, but have previously owned (and
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> then sold when I ended up with dozens of machines) a wide range of the
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> early to late 90s Apple line.
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> I'm more or less at the end of the road in expanding this particular Mac,
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> other than a floppy drive for my iie card, there's not much else I could
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> bolt onto this frankenstein setup, so I'm mostly concentrating on software
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> for it now and turning it into a productive machine.
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> I do, however, have a PowerMac 9600 sitting on the next desk and I've
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> started buying upgrades for that too. In particular, I have a Apple PC
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> Compatibility card that I'd like to talk about with someone who has
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> experience of the thing.
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> Apologies for off-topic, just fishing really! If anyone knows of a
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> Macintosh newsgroup that's active that I've not found yet, please let me
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> know! (I am a member of the 68kmla.org site so could post this there, but
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> I'm getting a kick out of working on Usenet on this computer. Vintage
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> comms for a vintage machine!!!)
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> Stephen Thomas Cole
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I took my 9600, hacked up a pc ati card, tossed linux on it, which made it very useful in modern terms, though a bit sluggish (300mhz 256mB ram)

I have no experience with the PC compatibility card though