On 28/07/2005, at 3:46 AM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
Thanks for the advice - everyone! I may eventually go with
Ethernet PDS cards (but I understand you need a right angle
adapter, which I don't have).
The LC PDS cards do sit parallel with the motherboard unlike say PCI
or NuBus cards, a
Worth mentioning when it comes to who owns what part of the PowerPC
arch, and what can be done with it -- Straight from IBM's page:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/newto/#3
the architecture specifies an instruction set architecture (ISA)
that allows anyone to design and
On 24/06/2005, at 2:13 PM, NODEraser wrote:
Approximately when did IBM start making PPC processors? I thought the
first PPCs were Motorola...
A very long time:
http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/beige/ppc601?full=1
dana
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Small
It works great, but only boots the second time I turn the power on.
The first time I power it on I hear the hard disk spin up, but it
never gets to the grey boot screen. The second time everything spins
up and then it boots. Once booted it works flawlessly, it also
complains about the clock
On 28/04/2004, at 7:54 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote:
I've just about Chipmunk'd myself blind and cannot get a definitive
answer
on some 30 pin simms. They all have 8 OKI 514100A-70SJ chips
(20625069A9Z)
I just need to determine the size (meggage) of each stick. Anyone got
some
of these or any
The separating factor is that these LC III + machines have the body
of a
normal LC III but the front is rounded. It looks like the front of a
Quadra
605 but not the top, back, bottom or sides.
The floppy opening is like the 605. Shaped differently and having the
black
plastic door.
The badge
On 25/02/2004, at 7:33 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
Personally I've never sen an LCII in a new-style case! Photo please, I
gotta add it to the archive. :-D
I shall as soon as I'm back home and can take pics.
In the meantime amuse yourself with
http://www.akeara.net/~nezzie/beast/ =)
or an LC V -
It seems that there were 4 cases used for LC-form-factor boards:
original LC cases (with 2 floppy slots), the grooved type first used on
the LC II (similar to the LC case in look, but with only one floppy
slot),
the manual-inject type with no groove on the front and the LC-type feet
(the
On 01/02/2004, at 1:52 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemitem=2779557850category=16178
He claims it's not Mac Compatible. I looked it up on Seagate's site
here:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st32550n.html
And it looks perfectly standard...
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 12:56 AM, Ray Fryer wrote:
There must be some trick to removing the power supply from the Mac
IIcx. The manual talks about a latch but I do not see a latch
anywhere. The side facing the mother boards seems to lift but the side
facing the sides of the computer
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 12:56 AM, Ray Fryer wrote:
whoops. on http://www.danamania.com/temp/psu_latch2.jpg the red arrow
points to the PSU socket on the motherboard. that's also holding the
side of the PSU down a bit. Still, wriggling bit by bit gets it out :)
dana
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On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 04:06 PM, Dustin Rinebold wrote:
My Q700 draws 31W...Works out to about $3
worth of electricity per day where I live.
I think your computer is off by a factor of thirty. If not, let me
know where you live. I want to get some of that utility company's
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 04:02 AM, the pickle wrote:
Real-Time handling by the OS. I seem to recall it had a complete 68000
Yep. Mac Token Ring cards often had 68HC000s on them. Not sure why
all the
computational power was required but whatever. Not that anyone really
uses it
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 04:46 AM, the pickle wrote:
Just completely off topic for this thread (but vaguely on topic in a
wider sense :) An apple-branded HP Tape drive from a Q950 that I
peeked
into has a 16Mhz 68000.
Would that be the HP drive that was in the WGS 95?
I think
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:18 am, Ian wrote:
What, exactly are you trying to do? Hook an ABS through Ethernet to the
IIsi? How is the ABS going to get its TCP/IP connection?
What does ABS stand for?
Airport Base Station, I would guess :)
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On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 08:58 PM, flawed jai wrote:
or you could use two covers and one base, horizontally, and use the
middle cover as a spacer if you cut out the panel that ordinarily would
be the middle cover's top plane.
,__,
I__I-
I__I
I__I
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 01:20 PM, Terry Mathews wrote:
A lot of similar upgrades in the Mac world would have the CPU and RAM
on
their own circuit board and that contraption would plug into the CPU
socket.
Tricky stuff, but would allow faster RAM access, which is the only
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 07:56 AM, Shane J. Wolfe wrote:
I know most of the compacts have them. I haven't checked the Color
Classic
that we have. The IIci has them, but I don't know about the other II's.
do you know a list of which macs have them? or when they stopped
doing
On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 04:03 AM, /dev/null wrote:
brilliant, i will give it a go - i have a friend who has a G4 tower
that
may be able to burn it for me if windows Nero fails...
incidentally... is A/UX suitable for use on a Powerbook Duo230 ?
i gather it runs fine on 030's...
witch kind of machine is fast enougth for a/ux?
and how much ram is needed?
depending on what you want to do - most of the 030 and 040s with FPUs
will run it fine. I have a Quadra 700 with 20mb that boots and runs it
well, and runs macOS apps quite well also - however I haven't done a
great
On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 06:00 PM, /dev/null wrote:
the connection with Macs, i believe (which i am *extremely* prone to
crashing) has to do with the light plastic casing on iMacs and G3/G4
towers - i've never had problems with my beige macs. but i can sit at
an
iMac or G4 and
On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:22 AM, /dev/null wrote:
i agree with that one...
my computers have names (well, they're mostly linux boxen and have a
domain name... wembly.iriXx.org, hamish.iriXx.org, indigo.iriXx.org
...)
all have various stories behind them...
I name as many of
On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 07:25 AM, R.A. Cantrell wrote:
on 5/6/02 4:18 PM, Scott Holder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIci or something
I passed up 100 IIci's at $0.40 each. No place to put em.
Oh dear. my immediate thought is but they stack so well Then I
started pondering
On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 12:18 PM, Eagle wrote:
The 68k CPUs started life at mostly 32bit then went
full 32bit and didn't change much except for
integrating the MMU then finally the FPU and a small
internal cache in the 040.
That's a pretty good explanation of why I took 68k assembler
On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 08:32 AM, Teri Pittman wrote:
. .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again? Ever?
Ls see, I have a Classic, a IIci and next a Quadra. I figure I'll get a
PC and an iMac and I'll be set.
I'd take a 7100/66... if they were free, which really isn't worth a
On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 02:54 AM, Teri Pittman wrote:
Now less than 2 years after my first mac there are 36 of them being
kept
warm in my flat. Sometimes, a few of them do a little useful work :)
Now, that is what I'm afraid of! I am starting to think of having
these all
Just cos a bunch of you thought some of these pics were interesting last
time around, I've collated them all together in one spot. They're not
real macs, names have been changed to protect the innocent, this is only
a reenactment... etc.
http://www.danamania.com/vhacks/
dana
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On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
I found two hard disks in a box of stuff that I forgot I even had. one
is a Seagate ST255 5.25 1/2 height, the other a 1/2 height Quantum
ProDrive 40MB. I know the Prodrive will probably work if it didn't get
killed in the
ook. well. yes. ok.
Adam emailed me about the LC V - and here's a copy of the reply I just
sent to him to clear things up!
The short story:
I met a mac-mad fellow online a few months back who thought a pic I did
in photoshop looked terribly fake (It's at
a real mac - it's 2 real macs, an LC II case sitting on top of an LCIII
and played with a bit in photoshop.
The only real giveaways - and these are not only subtle, but not for
certain either - are the faint lines on the side of the case toward the
front (you must have cloned these out,
--- John Kocijanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. Will a IIsi accept a motherboard from any
other Mac? Thanks.
I think you could probably massacre a G4 cube enough to fit it in
there...
but perhaps that's a bit much.
danabanana
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Here's a hint for quoting parts of messages when using Eudora. I just
learned it recently (somebody told me), so it's possible other Eudora
users don't know it either.
Select the part of the message you want to quote.
Hold down the Shift key while replying (Command + R or Reply
So, I guess my addiction is confirmed. Now the question is, do I spend
my
hard earned cash on rehab, or on that nifty new Mac thing I saw on eBay
the
other day??
I'm with you all the way tracy - and that's straight to eBay... not rehab
no, no no rehab!
danabanana (1 mac going into
On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 01:26 AM, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
At 5:15 PM +0200 8/18/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
Anybody have a copy of 7.6.1 for an LCIII? I'm using 7.1, but
want
to move up to a version that has OT so that I can network it with a
newer Mac.
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Can't get on the net unless you grease and beat it.
Doesn't do more than 256 colors, 64MB limit, and it's
slooow if it's doing anything but going out a
window.
William
I've got an old 6200 and they are slow. I put 48mb of ram in it and it
helped alittle but not much. External 56k
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 10:30 AM, Sam Burrish wrote:
One of my coworkers is building a PC with an
ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Visible as part of the box
art is a corner of that PowerMac that had the floppy
drive on the left side!
You mean the 4400?
or a 7220 here in oz (among a
just for the reading value and nothing else...
I gave up smoking around 2 months and a bit ago, and seem to have turned
to collecting Macs. It's a lot more fun and cheaper, and most of the
machines I've found have been on eBay.
Just recently I came across a IIcx, sold as-is but probably not
One of my coworkers is building a PC with an
ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Visible as part of the box
art is a corner of that PowerMac that had the floppy
drive on the left side!
You mean the 4400?
or a 7220 here in oz (among a couple of other places apparently)
Now for the real Mac-head
When I was doing my usual thrift-store rounds, I happened to come
across
an Apple Adjustible Keyboard, still in box; just not shrinkwrapped. Of
course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was wondering what it's
original
value might have been; according to the packing list, it's
On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 04:07 PM, Steve Conrad wrote:
512K
Plus (3 working, 3 non-working)
SE - USS Reliant
SE FDHD
LC - USS Oberth
IIcx
IIsi
IIci - Utopia Planitia (my main machine)
Performa 40 5 - USS Voyager
Performa 450
Quadra 605
It seems a pizza LC or Q605 type sneaks
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