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has been using Macintosh computers since 1990 and has owned, sold, and regretted selling nearly every Macintosh from the Mac 128K to the Quadra 840AV. He lives in Madison with his wife Josephine, their Power Color Classic, two cats, and a 40 MHz SE/30.

Tyler owns the fenestrated.net domain and has several Mac-related articles there as well.

• Mac System 7.5.5 can do anything Mac OS 7.6.1 can, 2007.06.04. Yes, it is possible to run Internet Explorer 5.1.7 and SoundJam with System 7.5.5. You just need to have all the updates - and make one modification for SoundJam.
• Format any drive for older Macs with patched Apple tools, 2007.04.25. Apple HD SC Setup and Drive Setup only work with Apple branded hard drives - until you apply the patches linked to this article.
• Making floppies and CDs for older Macs using modern Macs, Windows, and Linux PCs, 2007.03.15. Older Macs use HFS floppies and CDs. Here are the free resources you'll need to write floppies or CDs for vintage Macs using your modern computer.
• Mac OS 8 and 8.1: Maximum size, maximum convenience, 2006.09.11. Mac OS 8 and 8.1 add some useful new features and tools, and it can even be practical on 68030-based Macs.
• The Joys of Classic Computing, 2006.07.24. While older computers can't do as much as quickly as modern one, sometimes good enough is really all you need.
• Vintage Macs with System 6 run circles around 3 GHz Windows 2000 PC, 2006.07.06. Which grows faster, hardware speed or software bloat? These benchmarks show vintage Macs let you be productive much more quickly than modern Windows PCs.
• Free and low-cost software for 680x0 or PowerPC Macs in the recording studio, 2006.06.05. No cost and low-cost software that lets you use vintage Macs and the classic Mac OS in your sound studio to capture, mix, manipulate, and convert digital music.
• Setting up a NuBus Power Mac as a digital recording studio, 2006.05.08. Take a Power Mac 7100 or 8100, add a Digidesign AudioMedia II card and a fast hard drive, and you've got the core of a powerful, low-cost digital recording studio.
• Damaged Goods: A Quadra 840av brought back from the brink, 2006.04.05. The Quadra 840av motherboard somehow survived a tragic shipping fiasco, but where would it live and what would it be used for?
• NuBus RAID slower than single drives? Say it isn't so!, 2006.03.21. Everyone knows RAID, especially hardware RAID, is faster than a single drive. But that isn't always the case when using modern SCSI drives with older NuBus Macs.
• System 7.5 and Mac OS 7.6: The beginning and end of an era, 2006.02.15. System 7.5 and Mac OS 7.6 introduced many new features and greater modernity while staying within reach of most early Macintosh models.
• Turning an LC or other ancient Mac into a webcam with a QuickCam, 2006.01.25. As long as it has 4 MB of RAM and a hard drive, any 16 MHz or faster Mac that supports color can be configured as a webcam.
• System 7: Bigger, better, more expandable, and a bit slower than System 6, 2006.01.04. The early versions of System 7 provide broader capability for modern tasks than System 6 while still being practical for even the lowliest Macs.
• Radius Rocket: Far more than a Mac accelerator, 2005.12.13. The unique Radius Rocket has amazing capabilities but challenges the user to take full advantage of them. Here are three modern options.
• The Joy of Six: Apple's fast, svelte, reliable, and still usable System 6, 2005.12.06. System 6 was small enough to run quickly from an 800K floppy yet powerful enough to support 2 GB partitions, 24-bit video, and the Internet.
• The legendary DayStar Turbo 040 hot rods 68030 Macs, 2005.11.29. DayStar's vintage upgrade can make an SE/30 and most models in the Mac II series faster than the 'wicked fast' Mac IIfx.
• Which system software is best for my vintage Mac?, 2005.11.22. Which system software works best depends to a great extent on just which Mac you have and how much RAM is installed.

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