The TAM Appreciation Thread

#31 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 - 21:11

USB card is a great idea. I'm hoping to get a 10/100 card for Comm Slot II to leave the PCI slot open for a USB card like that, anyone know where to source one of those? I think Farallon made the only ones. It's running 7.6.1 for now, I need to decide if I want OS 8 or OS 9! Any thoughts?

#32 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 - 21:29

Mac OS 8.6 would probably be the fastest and most reliable of the 8.x series, should you go with that.

Beyond that, I'm really not sure.

c

#33 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 - 04:57

Mac OS 8.6 has been successfully installed, along with those generic RTL drivers. Everything seems to be working great! Well except that barely any websites load in terrible old browsers

Hope my RAM comes soon and I find a Comm Slot II ethernet card so I can get USB going! Too bad there's no way to get AFP shares working in 8.6.

#34 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 - 18:55

Classilla will run on Mac OS 8.6, and will provide a much better internet experience than anything else (though still not on par with modern browsers, it's better than nothing).

c

#35 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 - 22:17

There's one card, I believe it's a Sonnet Tango 1.0 or 1.1 that has FireWire 400 and USB 1.1. It's really awesome to have both. The COMM riser card for Ethernet capabilities are seriously impossible to find. Any time I find one I pick it up.

I found a TAM, in the Bay Area, on CL that was in the box, unopened, and had the original receipt it with. He was selling it for 650. I had to snatch it. It was opened, and I'm cool with that because I wanted to remove the PRAM battery.

I love the TAM's probably my second favorite Macintosh.

#36 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 - 22:28

That's amazing. I wish I had the box! I'll be on the lookout for that Tango card, and a 10/100 Comm Slot card. Those seem particularly annoying to find too.

#37 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 - 00:33

haplain said:
There's one card, I believe it's a Sonnet Tango 1.0 or 1.1 that has FireWire 400 and USB 1.1. It's really awesome to have both. The COMM riser card for Ethernet capabilities are seriously impossible to find. Any time I find one I pick it up.

I have a USB card in my TAM along with the Comm slot network card. I'll check what my USB card is tomorrow. I don't think it has Firewire but I'm pretty sure it's USB 1.1 only.

haplain said:
I found a TAM, in the Bay Area, on CL that was in the box, unopened, and had the original receipt it with. He was selling it for 650. I had to snatch it. It was opened, and I'm cool with that because I wanted to remove the PRAM battery.

That's pretty awesome and would make anyone appreciate a TAM more when finding one like that

#38 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 - 02:04

I'm not sure about OHCI support on the USB side of things with this card, but it'd be mighty handy if it was works. http://inlandproduct.com/pciusb20rj-45ethernetcard.aspx

There have been some USB/FW/LAN combo PCI cards. It might be worth digging through the G3+ forum here as I recall a discussion about controller compatibility of the combo cards somewhat recently there for use in G3 AIO and desktop cases.