I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much less "twitchy" computer than my Radius 81/110, which itself is far less troublesome than my 7300/200.
Every time I do _anything_ to the 7300 I find myself having to do a clean OS reinstall. Had it going good then dropped in a USB 1.1 card and roached the System.
The 7300 belongs to the generation of mac products I avoid. A colleague of mine has a 5500 black all-in-one powermac at home and he insists on keeping it along as his one and only computer because he likes the way it looks (tastes differ). It has been a continuing nightmare since it was purchased some five or six years ago. Things didn't improve when I added a g3 card because it was to slow to handle fancy websites.
Every once in a while it refuses to recognize its startup disk and every few weeks Eudora decides to mess up the incoming mail folder beyond recognition. Etc. etc. etc.
It has something to do with the generation. The older nubus macs and the newer Macs with G3's or G4's are a lot more trustworthy than the ones built in between. It's curious that the worst macs were made in the period Apple was bleeding money. The word 'performa' alone makes me sick.
I remember tolerating the constant crashing of system 7.5.x because soon we would have copland... But copland never came of course.
During the conception of 7.5.2 there were only six employees at Apple working on the operating system. Six people! I suppose the rest of the developers were waisting their time on technology that would never see the light of day. With Windows 95 around the corner. Talk about bad management. Now the OS development team at Apple has a MicroSoft division size working force of about 1000 developers which manages to keep ahead of competition pretty well. Quite an amazing turnaround.
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