Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

2018-05-17 Thread 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
To get any video capture to work on a NuBus Mac with the slow SCSI Apple used, you need at least a pair of fast hard drives and software like FWB Hard Disk Toolkit to RAID 0 stripe them. Even better is having two separate SCSI buses and striping the RAID across drives on both. I used to have

Re: What OS Should my Macintosh SE run?

2018-05-17 Thread superstar64
I'm not sure if I'M reading this wrong, but I don't think everyone's getting what I said. Early System 7 is basically anything before System 7.1, which came on later 68040 machines or so. I think System 6 is the sweet spot for the SE and some other late 68000 machines. -- -- - You

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

2018-05-17 Thread Kevin
I bought a Centris 660AV in August 1993 as an upgrade to my IIci. Actually, i wanted the 840AV but they were not in stock and i was in a rush so went with the 660. Much to my chagrin, it did not work well with a number of my software titles of the time. If i recall correctly, i had to use the

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

2018-05-17 Thread Alasdair Hepburn
I had a Centris 610 (replaced a Classic, which I sold to a neighbour) in about 1993, which was 8Mb RAM, 240 Mb hard drive, with CD-ROM, and was a special deal, since it was only slightly more than a 4/80 would have cost. It became a secondary machine (used by the kids for playing games) when I