. . erm . . . sorta . . . :-/
I met the enemy, infiltrated his supply trains (the electronics staging room in the back) and made off with a large pile of the enemy's equipment, enough that I needed to commandeer one of their vehicles (a shopping cart) and still needed to hump one large crate (original packaging) back to the LZ (my parking space) by hand!
There was so much loot that it wouldn't all quite fit into the trunk (boot? =8-D) of my Honda Accord! Mission completed with an expenditure of only $26.66 worth of ammo (American Greenbacks, tax included!) and a little petrol for my SpecOps Vehicle . . .
. . . the aforementioned Honda Accord. [
] ]'>
Loot in ascending order, by price:
$.99 - Got a really nice, if a bit dog-eared, coffee table book: PHOTOGRAPHY Barbara London Upton with John Upton, Fourth Edition, “ADAPTED FROM THE LIFE LIBRARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY” circa 1989, it's got a GREAT shot on the cover. A cutaway view of a large format View Camera, with the lens projecting a spectral type image onto the plate, as if seen on the focusing screen in a top view of a prism-less Nikon F3! Dunno the original price, but it's still got a bookstore (clearance?) sticker on it for $34.30 . . . SWEEET!!!!!!!!!!!
$2.99 - snagged yet another Gateway KBD, however this time it has the PowerBook Gray Key Caps that had me lusting for that not for sale USB KBD across the street two days ago! The square tube/wedge type key switch interconnects to the top plate are slightly different than the beige/light gray key capped Gateway KBD from two days ago.
The top acetate flexible circuits (the bottom flex circuits don't matter) both use good old fashioned edgecard/wedge connectors! The “beige-n-gray's top flex circuit has only 8 traces, while the “PBgray” KBD has ten top flex circuit traces/connections, still no biggie! With a little scissors work and one layout/etched PCB and . . .
. . . I'll be closing in on my best KBD hack EVER! [
] ]'>
$5.00 - grabbed a 1U “3Com SuperStack II Hub 10,” dunno if it's a router, hub or what, but it's got RackMacHack written ALL over it! It was supposed to be a freebie, but I think the cashier didn't understand that . . . so I “wasted” a bit-o-the-green on it, but then again, when I strip the 3Com logo off the front bezel there's a PERFECT lil' flat spot on the curvy side panel to glue on a rainbow Apple logo!
$5.00 - nabbed a GREAT hunk of Mid-Tower pop-riveted (my all time fave for hacking purposes) sheet metal work for the ubuntuGIMPboxHack! All I thought I was actually liberating was a simple pop-riveted (easily removed/re-attached to another box) 7 Slot ATX BackPlane . . .
. . . but this pile of sheet metal is a freakin' gold mine for the ubuntuGIMPboxHack!
. . . muahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [] ]'>
For all you 68k ONLY types: the following info/specs are a bit off topic, but interesting in a PC kluge kinda way: [] ]'>
. . . so feel free to skip ahead, I'll be pasting in pretty much the same .TXT with piccies when I post the ubuntuGIMPboxHack thread!
Well, the Mid-Tower didn't fire right up on the first try, soooooo . . . I scratched my head, thought for a bit and then tore the PSU out, only to find that the connector was ProtoATX, just four pins (?) shy of a straight flush . . .
. . . . so I ripped that useless sucker (read POS) to nibbles-n-bits! }
execrable crud found within:
Turned out to be some Missing Link sorta-kinda-maybe Proto ATX MLB with an early AGP Slot, (cover plate intact - never used) four PCI Slots . . .
. . . and 3 freakin' 16 bit ISA Slots! 8-o
Dunno WT . . . Heck that MLB is . . . the only hints are: “650B Rev 1.2” printed on the MoBo and that had been covered over by a sticker that read: P I I – 3 1 0 0 E! Looks like an “Intel PCIset” bridge IC and there's an AWARD PCI/PNP 686 BIOS circa 1998. It seems VERY strange not to find a copyright notice (easily) on a MoBo and the solder side just says:
CADAC CMVO - I
9913 E77755
I/O & Storage:
Non-Descript IDE HDD
Non-Descript CD-ROM Drive
Non-Descript 3.5” FDD
Attached to MoBo:
1 (non-parity) DIMM stick labeled: Compaq 140132-001 & YUNDAI PF168032-10
P II CPU Card w/ZIF Socket for a 370 pin PGA Package CPU
Intel Celeron w/“128 SL 36 C” and '98 printed on it . . .
. . . along with the usual indecipherable gobbledegook . . . :
8 bit ISA Card:
“USRobotics Sportster” Model 0460 MoDem
12 bit (?!?) ISA Card:
“ESS AudioDrive” Sound/Gameport Card hooked up to the CD-ROM-Drive
16 bit ISA Card:
“3Com EtherLink III” NIC
PCI Card: might've hit paydirt on this one, comrades . . .
“MATROX POWER GRAPHICS IS-STORM R2” circa 1995
w/25 pin header interboard connector and M/F DaughterCard Interconnect Setup . . .
prolly won't be much good for anything other than throwin' GIMP's toolbars. palettes etc. onto a second monitor . . . even IF it works . . .
. . . but you NEVER know! [] ]'>
SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST!
$10.99 - was marked $15.99, but I checked inside the original box WITH the styrofoam end protectors! for the different transparency adapters . . .
. . . but found they were missing. [
] ]'>
However the “main transparency tray” was intact and once I get the specs I can make my own 8x10, 5x7, 4x5 etc. transparency adapters for the Behemoth of Flat Bed Scanners, the MICROTEK ScanMaker 4! Actually, the adapters were optional, so I could very well find them NIB on eBay or elsewhere . . .
. . . but I got the cashier to knock off the sawbuck she mistakenly nailed me for on the 1U Rackage!
It is, as yet, untested: too little time and waaay too much PC offal gumming up the HackWorks ATM!
IF IT WORKS! It'll do an 8.5x14 reflective scan or an 8x10 transparency scan at 36-bits worth of 600x1200 dpi!
That'd be about two metric craploads of pixels from the 4x5 negatives and almost a metric crapload from the 2x2 negatives in the 1923-1950-60 something archive of shots of the OldTimeApple and its storefronts & signage from the Sign Company back in NYC . . .
. . . that I had to leave behind. :'(
. . . but I'm feeling MUUUUCH better NOW! court> :lol:
. . . and it was a GREAT DAY today! No Apple Logos on my loot . . . YET! But a very nice lot of captured equipment made its way back to the lines of the 68kMLA today!
I met the enemy, infiltrated his supply trains (the electronics staging room in the back) and made off with a large pile of the enemy's equipment, enough that I needed to commandeer one of their vehicles (a shopping cart) and still needed to hump one large crate (original packaging) back to the LZ (my parking space) by hand!
There was so much loot that it wouldn't all quite fit into the trunk (boot? =8-D) of my Honda Accord! Mission completed with an expenditure of only $26.66 worth of ammo (American Greenbacks, tax included!) and a little petrol for my SpecOps Vehicle . . .
. . . the aforementioned Honda Accord. [
] ]'>Loot in ascending order, by price:
$.99 - Got a really nice, if a bit dog-eared, coffee table book: PHOTOGRAPHY Barbara London Upton with John Upton, Fourth Edition, “ADAPTED FROM THE LIFE LIBRARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY” circa 1989, it's got a GREAT shot on the cover. A cutaway view of a large format View Camera, with the lens projecting a spectral type image onto the plate, as if seen on the focusing screen in a top view of a prism-less Nikon F3! Dunno the original price, but it's still got a bookstore (clearance?) sticker on it for $34.30 . . . SWEEET!!!!!!!!!!!
$2.99 - snagged yet another Gateway KBD, however this time it has the PowerBook Gray Key Caps that had me lusting for that not for sale USB KBD across the street two days ago! The square tube/wedge type key switch interconnects to the top plate are slightly different than the beige/light gray key capped Gateway KBD from two days ago.
The top acetate flexible circuits (the bottom flex circuits don't matter) both use good old fashioned edgecard/wedge connectors! The “beige-n-gray's top flex circuit has only 8 traces, while the “PBgray” KBD has ten top flex circuit traces/connections, still no biggie! With a little scissors work and one layout/etched PCB and . . .
. . . I'll be closing in on my best KBD hack EVER! [
] ]'>$5.00 - grabbed a 1U “3Com SuperStack II Hub 10,” dunno if it's a router, hub or what, but it's got RackMacHack written ALL over it! It was supposed to be a freebie, but I think the cashier didn't understand that . . . so I “wasted” a bit-o-the-green on it, but then again, when I strip the 3Com logo off the front bezel there's a PERFECT lil' flat spot on the curvy side panel to glue on a rainbow Apple logo!
$5.00 - nabbed a GREAT hunk of Mid-Tower pop-riveted (my all time fave for hacking purposes) sheet metal work for the ubuntuGIMPboxHack! All I thought I was actually liberating was a simple pop-riveted (easily removed/re-attached to another box) 7 Slot ATX BackPlane . . .
. . . but this pile of sheet metal is a freakin' gold mine for the ubuntuGIMPboxHack!
. . . muahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [
] ]'>For all you 68k ONLY types: the following info/specs are a bit off topic, but interesting in a PC kluge kinda way: [
] ]'>. . . so feel free to skip ahead, I'll be pasting in pretty much the same .TXT with piccies when I post the ubuntuGIMPboxHack thread!
Well, the Mid-Tower didn't fire right up on the first try, soooooo . . . I scratched my head, thought for a bit and then tore the PSU out, only to find that the connector was ProtoATX, just four pins (?) shy of a straight flush . . .
. . . . so I ripped that useless sucker (read POS) to nibbles-n-bits! }
execrable crud found within:
Turned out to be some Missing Link sorta-kinda-maybe Proto ATX MLB with an early AGP Slot, (cover plate intact - never used) four PCI Slots . . .
. . . and 3 freakin' 16 bit ISA Slots! 8-o
Dunno WT . . . Heck that MLB is . . . the only hints are: “650B Rev 1.2” printed on the MoBo and that had been covered over by a sticker that read: P I I – 3 1 0 0 E! Looks like an “Intel PCIset” bridge IC and there's an AWARD PCI/PNP 686 BIOS circa 1998. It seems VERY strange not to find a copyright notice (easily) on a MoBo and the solder side just says:
CADAC CMVO - I
9913 E77755
I/O & Storage:
Non-Descript IDE HDD
Non-Descript CD-ROM Drive
Non-Descript 3.5” FDD
Attached to MoBo:
1 (non-parity) DIMM stick labeled: Compaq 140132-001 & YUNDAI PF168032-10
P II CPU Card w/ZIF Socket for a 370 pin PGA Package CPU
Intel Celeron w/“128 SL 36 C” and '98 printed on it . . .
. . . along with the usual indecipherable gobbledegook . . . :
8 bit ISA Card:
“USRobotics Sportster” Model 0460 MoDem
12 bit (?!?) ISA Card:
“ESS AudioDrive” Sound/Gameport Card hooked up to the CD-ROM-Drive
16 bit ISA Card:
“3Com EtherLink III” NIC
PCI Card: might've hit paydirt on this one, comrades . . .
“MATROX POWER GRAPHICS IS-STORM R2” circa 1995
w/25 pin header interboard connector and M/F DaughterCard Interconnect Setup . . .
prolly won't be much good for anything other than throwin' GIMP's toolbars. palettes etc. onto a second monitor . . . even IF it works . . .
. . . but you NEVER know! [
] ]'>SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST!
$10.99 - was marked $15.99, but I checked inside the original box WITH the styrofoam end protectors! for the different transparency adapters . . .
. . . but found they were missing. [
] ]'>However the “main transparency tray” was intact and once I get the specs I can make my own 8x10, 5x7, 4x5 etc. transparency adapters for the Behemoth of Flat Bed Scanners, the MICROTEK ScanMaker 4! Actually, the adapters were optional, so I could very well find them NIB on eBay or elsewhere . . .
. . . but I got the cashier to knock off the sawbuck she mistakenly nailed me for on the 1U Rackage!
It is, as yet, untested: too little time and waaay too much PC offal gumming up the HackWorks ATM!
IF IT WORKS! It'll do an 8.5x14 reflective scan or an 8x10 transparency scan at 36-bits worth of 600x1200 dpi!
That'd be about two metric craploads of pixels from the 4x5 negatives and almost a metric crapload from the 2x2 negatives in the 1923-1950-60 something archive of shots of the OldTimeApple and its storefronts & signage from the Sign Company back in NYC . . .
. . . that I had to leave behind. :'(
. . . but I'm feeling MUUUUCH better NOW! court> :lol:
. . . and it was a GREAT DAY today! No Apple Logos on my loot . . . YET! But a very nice lot of captured equipment made its way back to the lines of the 68kMLA today!