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I looked into the HDD-dump a bit (the iso file) and there is a lot of stuff in there that was not deleted when the partition was reformatted. Many Photoshop images (8BIM header), Apple internal HTML-files (golden-web?) and such. Also Lotus Domino references, Mac OS 8.6, Games and random...

Apple 7" PC Compatibility Card Memory Compatibility Swapping out memory has shown me that the 7" PC Compatibility Card is very picky when it comes to the kind of memory it likes. I have not yet found out what the logic behind this is but: The Mac-typical 8 and 16 MiB modules with 2 horizontal...

Apple 7" PC Compatibility Card Issues with shared folders I have seen issues with the folder-sharing under Windows 98. I had multiple crashes where some VXD stopped working while copying or executing from a shared folder. The implementation of drive-access feels a bit janky. There seems to be...

Apple 7" PC Compatibility Card Benchmarks, drivers and software tweaks I have tinkered a bit with chipset registers and drivers. The 5x86 can be tweaked a bit with these tools: Cyrix5x86_Utilities.zip SIS496 chipset: datasheet IDE enhancements: The SIS496 IDE Driver does not work and will...

Apple 7" PC Compatibility Card Hardware modifications I have successfully changed the bus speed of the 7" Card from 33MHz to 40MHz, resulting in a 120MHz CPU speed (stable as it seems). On the back of the card, turn the resistor R69 90 degrees to the left (connect it to 5V) onto the bottom pad...

Apple 7" PC Compatibility Card Hardware problems & repair I have had problems getting my 7" card to work. It turned out to be a cracked solder joint on the IBM 5x86-100 CPU. It got a hard knock or something since the pins of the QFP-CPU are stressed on the bottom, tilted on the sides and...