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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding Power Macintosh 9600
Date: 30 Nov 2024 21:57:29 GMT
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On 2024-11-30, scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <290920240831355501%vintageapplemac@gmail.com>, scole
><vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been meaning to rebuild a PM 9600 for some time now. I had four
>> of the things, all in various states of distress; one that was
>> particularly souped up and had been my main battlestation  for a
>> number of years but was very tatty, and the others that ranged from
>> ugly on the outside but fine on the inside to full of rot inside but
>> cosmetically fine. I had the makings, then, of at least one really
>> nice example.
>
> Update: I got this finished last weekend. Or, at least, finished for
> now...
>
> I wasn't happy with the SCSI2SD set-up I had, so recalled the
> recommendation someone gave to use a BlueSCSI and went ahead and
> ordered one. It did take me some time to get my head around the way
> that these need to be used, the placing of a hard drive image on the
> SD card rather than simply formatting the card itself. I also decided
> to find the original instyall media for the 9600 and managed to get a
> sensible deal on the install CD from a guy in America. When that
> arrived I installed the BlueSCSI board and got 7.6.1 up and running.

I've been using a BlueSCSI in my trusty Mac SE/30 for a while now and
it's been great. It's fast, stable, and now the only noise I hear when
it's running is the exhaust fan. 🙂

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