A Quadra 950 is also a decent machine if you want to fill it up with cards.
Most 840av's these days have bad motherboards from leaking capacitors and
the plastics break if you sneeze too hard close to them.
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From: N0body H0me
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 1:05 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Building the Ultimate Classic Mac.
If I had the time and money (mostly money) to do this, I
would settle for nothing less than a Quadra 840AV. Be
prepared to spend $$$$, though; the 840 is quickly approaching
'investment grade'.
If I wanted the "all in one" experience, I would get the
SE/30. Once again, these are kinda pricey.....
-----Original Message-----
From: ot...@oryx.us
Sent: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:26:06 -0500
To: gene...@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Building the Ultimate Classic Mac.
I went thru this exercise myself a couple of years back. Even kicked off
a
thread on a Mac email list.
I don't/didn't have any experience or background with the Mac on the 68K,
so
that didn't come into my decision making.
I ultimately decided that I didn't need the fastest/biggest/most memory
power
house Mac that would run Classic. I just needed to run my Mac OS apps
and games
that would never be ported to x86.
I purchased a G4 cube and have been happy with that decision. I can boot
up
into Mac OS 9.x, and also boot into OS X 10.4 with Classic support.
This was what worked well for me. I will be interested to see what you
ultimately end up choosing.
Jerry
On 07/15/16 02:03 PM, Austin Pass wrote:
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.
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