and also willing to dump that ancient ADC display

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Dump it?! The whole point of this thread was so I could keep it! (I haven't had it but for a few months, and I really like it; I'd rather convert it to DVI than get rid of it).
Anyway, that might be an option, if I convert the ADC display to DVI.

However, because this isn't my main machine, and I don't want to put tons of money into it, I'd rather stick with Apple OEM cards (or aftermarket cards which offer an ADC port), if any exist that will meed most of my requirements (full OS 9 support isn't terribly important for this machine; if I can boot into it and use it for some stuff with basic graphics, that's fine).

Somehow waiting for a Zip to read or write is far less painful than doing the same for thumblets and chiplets under USB-1 when transferring files to/from the USB-2 NetBooks. :beige:

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I think Zip, especially with a FireWire connection, will almost certainly be faster than USB (were many/most USB Zip drives 1.1 or were some of them 2.0?)
By the way, a normal, retail OS 9 disk should work, unless you have a video card which the normal disk doesn't have drivers for (or has ones which crash) or some other non-standard-for-that-machine thing.

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