Been inactive a little while on the forums, but added two items just recently to my conquest list. Was lucky enough to pick up a PowerMac 7600/200 with a Sonnet G4-400MHz processo…

Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released.

Dual-floppy LCs were rare. I only saw one batch of them in the field when they were in service (they were in a school library). I believe Apple also sold LCs and LCIIs with only on…

From memory the 750/750AV fixed a lot of the problems with the 1710/1710AV, and had an updated CRT with a slightly better dot pitch.

With all the issues they had, even back when they were new, I'd imagine that a working 1710 series display would be rather hard to find nowadays. Click to expand... It appears …

Umm.. I don't remember any 2gb limit on HFS. Click to expand... You may be thinking of HFS+. A hint is the range of a signed 32 bit number.

The 7200's were never popular and if I remember correctly(which could be wrong) they had some serious QC issues and bugs in the design. You are a brave man for trying to upgrade a …

Umm.. I don't remember any 2gb limit on HFS. I remeber that the custer sizes were huge after 2gb's, but there is no limit, and I have a quadra 630 sitting right here(need to put it…

As long as you are running system 7.5.3 there really is not a limit you will reach anytime soon. Click to expand... You mean apart from the 2Gig partition limit of HFS?

but its important to some people, hence why ... Click to expand... they bastardise IIsi or IIfx machines. I would consider a IIfx far more worthy than an SE/30. Just remember …

Aaaa... the 6100 doesn't use IDE. It uses SCSI and I don't really remember an upper limit on the size of the hard drive. As long as you are running system 7.5.3 there really is not…

I love the 6100 series, strangely thou I never liked them when they came out. The 7100 series I never really liked simply because of the IIvx case design it used. I always found th…

Not really a myth. Back in the day when these boxes and the 6100 alike was top of the line, several varieties of macs would not boot up with a dead cmos battery installed. Especial…

I have a Duo Type 3 battery that has a few small dents. Would it be safe to try it in my PowerBook Duo 2300c?

I think a better idea would be removing/unplugging the hard drive, all of the memory, any installed cards, etc. and just try to boot the Macintosh SE/30 with the bare motherboard a…

Thank you.

Yeah...I personally wouldn't run System 7.6 on an SE/30, but its important to some people, hence why the IIsi/IIfx ROM upgrade is so popular.

What sort of state is the Mac Portable battery in? The Mac Portable absolutely needs a good battery installed before the hard drive will spin up. This is because the AC Adaptor a…

...and can never run System 7.6. Click to expand... Forget 7.6, it can run AU/X. Also should be able to to 128Mb still with original ROMs.

porter: The reason why he put the IIsi ROM into the SE/30 is because the IIsi ROM is 32 bit clean, whereas the SE/30 ROM is not. Without a IIsi or IIfx ROM, an SE/30 requires MODE3…

My 6200 came to me with a dead PRAM battery, which I removed, and its never skipped a beat. I think the myth comes from the 6100, which shares a similar model number, and does suff…

The 7100 any day. Why? - Faster in stock form...although most 7100s were the 66 Mhz version, same as the 6100/66, there was also a version which used the 80 Mhz PowerPC 601, which…

Don't forget that the 6200 series will display nothing if a dead PRAM battery is installed, test it with a multimeter to make sure it is near 3.6 volts. Click to expand... Not …

I can't follow what you are saying, is the IIfx a red herring or an essential part of the story? Why put an IIsi ROM in an SE/30 in the first place?

A couple of weeks ago a IIsi ROM SIM appeared on Ebay with buy it now and I promptly grabbed it for my SE/30. The SIM arrived in an anti-static bag and was nicely packed. After d…