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#9
October 19th, 2008, 09:24 AM
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Fryke, I believe this was in reference to his Quadra 840, so 8.6 wouldn't work. The most he could put on it is 8.1, which would give him support for HFS+ formatted disks. On a PowerPC Mac, though, I would definitely go with your suggestion of 8.6 if 9.x would be too much for it, so for the 7600 it should be just fine. BTW, when I had my Motorola StarMax 4000 (a Mac clone when Apple allowed clones for the Mac OS in the mid-90s), I had installed Mac OS 9.1 on it and it was pretty snappy. Of course, I had a flashed 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 card in it but that's beside the point. 
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#10
October 19th, 2008, 11:00 AM
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I really thought the 840av was ready to handle more than 8.1. :/ But yes, then I'd go with 7.6.1 or 8.6. (Oooh, I had a Voodoo3 2000 card like yours in my PowerMac 9500 back in the day...)
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#11
October 19th, 2008, 12:07 PM
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 Yeah, the 68K Macs with 040 processors can only go as high as 8.1, unless they have a PowerPC upgrade installed. Yes, that Voodoo card is great. I originally bought it for an old Celeron 300a PC I built years ago. Did wonders for the StarMax I used to have when I installed it in there. 
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#12
October 19th, 2008, 12:47 PM
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Yes. My mind's off today, it seems. 
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#13
October 20th, 2008, 09:20 AM
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Hey all I did end putting 8.0 2 nights ago and I used a minimal install because I won't be using it for internet etc. It loaded fine I had to boot form the CD to install and it took a while but works great right now. It may an illusion but my Quadra seems faster with 8.0. I have a 1 gb drive that I believe was used with this machine that came in the box of goodies that came with the 3 machines. I plan to use that for storage if it works. Thanks for all your info I'll post back as things progress and it works for what I want to use it for. By the way I gave the 7600 to my son to play his games on it works flawlessly Dewey |
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