I'm toying with putting the "ultimate" classic Mac together, although I'm having a little difficulty pinning down the definition of what the ultimate representation of the type is, so was looking for a little input from Classic CMP'ers.
I'm aware that there's a clear divide between Motorola and PowerPC CPU'd variants, so I'm going to plump for a PowerPC based version so that I can get access to newer hardware and use it as a kind of bridge system between my current computers and the more historic versions. In terms of hardware I have a lovely mirror-door G4 PowerMac I'm intending to use. I have the original media that shipped with this, so I can get 9.2.1 on it relatively easily. Are there any add-in cards (PCI) I should be considering? It has a built in Airport Card (possibly Airport Extreme?) although my home Wi-Fi is 802.11n or better with WPA2 so I'll just use Ethernet to connect it to my LAN. Was a gigabit ethernet card ever released with Mac OS 9 drivers? I have a couple of 600GB PATA disks that I can use with it, but has there ever been a SATA implementation that worked with classic Mac OS? Also, I have an Asanté ether bridge tucked away somewhere that I hope to be able to use to connect some of my older Mac OS boxen without Ethernet. In terms of the software - any top-line utilities or System Extensions I should look to get my hands on? What's the state of the art in classic Mac OS browsing nowadays, Mr Kaiser - is Clasilla still maintained? -Austin.
