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Post #8 by QuadSix50
Source ForumAnother clone to the collection! — #8
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateFri, 25 May 2007 - 09:34
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/another-clone-to-the-collection.8492/
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This reminds me a lot of my StarMax 4000 minitower that I used to have (mine was 160MHz), except this looks like the desktop model. As far as the floppy drive on my StarMax 4000, it was the same floppy drive used on the regular Macs (autoeject). Although I've also seen the pictures depicting the manual eject drives, I've never personally seen them in a Power Mac clone. Maybe it was just used for show?

Also, the PS/2 ports worked great, but the second mouse button didn't work out of the box. You needed either the software that shipped with the StarMax's installed OS version or something like Mouse2B (which I recently used on it). Only then could you pull up the contextual menu using the right mouse button (if you were right-handed, of course).

I eventually gave this to my father who had his Power Macintosh G5 CPU fry out on him. 8-o (Hey, it runs OS 9.1 great and he has the needed apps for it). But while I had it, it dual-booted wonderfully with Mac OS 9.1 and Debian Sarge with only 128 MB RAM and a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 vidcard. :)

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