On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
I do, however, have a PowerMac 9600 sitting on the next desk and I've started buying upgrades for that too. In particular, I have a Apple PC Compatibility card that I'd like to talk about with someone who has experience of the thing.
I had a PC card for a Mac 6100/66 (the pizza box Mac) and it made a great stove. After a couple of hours, it started to melt anything plastic in the Mac. The 6100 was a terrible Mac to use for this, as it was tightly packed as it was. It didn't need a super-heated PC card added to the mix. It was pretty neat, however; a 486 card which used a partition on the Mac's hard drive, used the Mac's ram and various ports and monitor. You used a couple of keystrokes to switch from the Mac side to the PC side and back again.
I've always had a Mac to interface with my II's. I curently use an iMac (the 1995 version) running OS9.2.1. I never went over to OSX as it seemed to much of a learning curve for my tired, old brain and took even more compatibility away with my II's. So that Mac will be my last, as I treasure my II's more than OSX. I also have a Powerbook G3 OS9.2.1), running Bernie, although I'd liked to find out to how to get the hard drive image for that, running properly. It keeps giving me the old back and forth sliding Apple.