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    Netatalk 2.2.7 Released

    Congrats. A good maintainer for an essential tool!
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    Vintage computer / recycling stores near LA or Las Vegas

    Many have closed. I used to be a denizen of Halted in the Sunnyvale area but I think it's gone now. For the LA area, the swap meets used to be the thing, but COVID killed a number of them and the remainder mostly sell consumer electronics.
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    PCI Based NICs?

    You could use the Apple ones. The PCI-based 10/100 NICs intended for PCI Power Macs have four LEDs (the Apple Network Server-specific variant has two and may not work). Those should "just work" with 7.5.2 and up.
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    The Incredible KIMplement 0.3

    A new release of the Incredible KIMplement, a Commodore KIM-1 emulator that runs on your Commodore 64. The KIM-1 is a 1976 single board computer with a 1MHz MOS 6502 CPU, 1K of RAM, six hex LEDs and a keypad, and was one of the first complete systems you could assemble for just a few hundred...
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    Howdy y'all

    Welcome. I used to assist an elementary school teacher with a classroom full of CoCo 2s and a master CoCo 3. It used Tandy's "cassette network" system to distribute files. Quite a setup. My fraction trainer program was in use there for a number of years.
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    Surprise!

    Image that drive NOW!
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    Mac Classic II won't start, instead purrs

    My cat did the same thing until I replaced her power supply.
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    iMac G4 Appreciation Thread

    I still have a 1.25GHz iMac G4 I use for watching DVDs and playing music in the kitchen, and as a security monitor (I have an old video concentrator for the security cameras). It's a 15", so the arm is still great.
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    CodeWarrior I’m losing my mind trying to get this to compile

    Still struggling, huh? What's the most current set of errors you're getting?
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    2023 PowerPC Challenge!

    My pleasure.
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    MacLynx beta 4

    Is it still Lynx if we add mouse hotspots, dialogue boxes and scrollbars? I'd argue ... heck yeah! Runs on System 7.0 and up, A/UX compatible. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/01/maclynx-beta-4-now-with-scrollbars-and.html
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    2023 PowerPC Challenge!

    Too bad a POWER9 doesn't count ;) (doing this from a Raptor Talos II).
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    About to get the MacEffects treatment

    Very nice restoration. Hope it sticks.
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    BeOS Install

    Sure, go for it! I don't know what it will do on other Macs, though, so they should definitely only use it if necessary.
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    BeOS Install

    Here is a patched driver for other mute 6500s. Conclusion: there are at least two 6500 versions, and later ones have an external SRS module which requires setting the parallel output bits on the AWACS. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-strange-case-of-beos-srs-and-silent.html
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    Difficulty Upgrading iMac G4 from Panther to Tiger

    Tiger was distributed on both CD and DVD. Which image set do you have?
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    Hello Everyone!

    Welcome. I know the feeling.
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    About that white goop in power supplies

    Sure beats the epoxy old power supplies (notoriously Commodore 8-bit ones) were potted with.
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    BeOS Install

    We have audio on the internal speakers now. I'm doing some fiddling, but it did require hacking the AWACS driver. It does look like there are internal differences with later Gazelle systems. More soon.