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p72mad
16 MB  Posts: 23 
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on: July 07, 2006, 05:13
This is an outstanding resource you've created. I have used Macs since I was four years old, and despite the Dual 1.7GHz G4 running Tiger that's sitting on my desk I miss the days of the vintage Mac OS. Escape Velocity, ClarisWorks, getting frustrated by At Ease on my school's LCII's in 5th grade... good times. I had an almost mint 9600/300 in the closet that I hadn't booted since at least 2001. I ran across this website and was inspired to have some fun with it. Current specs: Mac OS 7.6.1, running like a beast Sonnet 1GHz G3 upgrade ($87 from eBay) ATI Radeon 7000 64MB (worked like a charm with your drivers  )PCI slot cooling fan adjacent to Radeon 7000 About 400MB PC100 SDRAM (on 7 DIMM's, haha) 18GB SCSI 7200RPM HD Internal Yahama SCSI 16x CD-RW w/Toast 3.5 Internal Apple SCSI 12x CD-ROM Internal Floppy + Zip 100 New PRAM battery 17" DigiTech Beige CRT VGA Display (Used to seem huge!) New Apple Extended KB + Kensington ADB Optical Mouse Any suggestions? |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: July 07, 2006, 06:35
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Wow that sounds like quite a system you have there. I wasn't aware Sonnet had a 1ghz G3 ever. Are you sure of that? Also, did you install SpeedDoubler 8? That will make it even faster since it speeds up 68k emulation and a huge chucnk of the OS, especially in the GUI area, is 68k based.
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p72mad
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16 MB Posts: 23
Reply #2 on: July 07, 2006, 08:48
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You're right - I searched the web for a 1GHz Sonnet PCI card and can't find anything. I did find this 1GHz G3 card: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/PowerLogix/PCIGX10001/ However, mine clearly says Sonnet, has the purple heatsink, and is definitely not the PowerLogix card above. System Profiler reports the card's speed as 500MHz, and I remember reading somewhere that an incorrectly reported clock speed is characteristic of CPU upgrade cards on PCI Macs. But if the 1GHz doesn't exist...? I guess this guy sold me a 500MHz card. :x Oh well, it's fast as hell and it's just for kicks. I would like to get WiFi running here - have you had any success with this on OS 7.6? Then I could really use this bad boy...
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p72mad
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16 MB Posts: 23
Reply #3 on: July 07, 2006, 08:52
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SpeedDoubler - I would definitely install it except for the fact that I don't have it. :/
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bd1308
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128 MB Posts: 198 
Reply #4 on: July 07, 2006, 14:54
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welcome! Unfortunately, this program is protected by its writer or developer and as of now its release on this site is prohibited. that IS quite a system you have there. I thought my 5500 was fast but your system is killer--although I dont know how you'll ever use 400MB of ram!  You should try putting a 120GB drive in there--it works fine and the extra space was a blessing! Again, welcome and enjoy. B
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #5 on: July 07, 2006, 18:51
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A 120gb SCSI drive might be cost prohibitive.
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p72mad
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16 MB Posts: 23
Reply #6 on: July 07, 2006, 20:20
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120GB 50-pin SCSI? Where did you find such a drive and how much did it cost? It might be nice if I was doing a lot of Photoshopping and such on the 9600 but I don't really need all that much space - the 18GB is fine, especially considering the OS's extremely small footprint. Also, wouldn't HFS standard make very poor spatial use of such a large drive?
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