Thread
Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh - Hail to the king, baby!
Excellent... A bit offtopic, but the picture of your lab applefreak is AWESOME!!! I'll have to post pics of my kindred lab to yours sometime soon once I get the cubicle area finished and the rest of the basement sorted.
My question to you is?
I see you have a Tape 40SC there on your storage shelf? Do you have any experience repairing/replacing out the gumming/disintegrating rubber drive wheels in those? I have about 8 of them and all of them would easily destroy the few tapes I have left if I even attempted to use them.
I LOVED those drives since they were fully block addressable, not just linear reads. When my HD died in college back in the early 90's I used to boot my IIGS off the tape drive to System 6.01 IIGS.. Took 35 minutes but it worked and saved a few of my term papers that week.
My question to you is?
I see you have a Tape 40SC there on your storage shelf? Do you have any experience repairing/replacing out the gumming/disintegrating rubber drive wheels in those? I have about 8 of them and all of them would easily destroy the few tapes I have left if I even attempted to use them.
I LOVED those drives since they were fully block addressable, not just linear reads. When my HD died in college back in the early 90's I used to boot my IIGS off the tape drive to System 6.01 IIGS.. Took 35 minutes but it worked and saved a few of my term papers that week.
You'd be right - sort of. The "thin back" does not allow for the PCI riser card to be installed, or any additional cards. The "fat back" allows for a single PCI slot riser plus a CommSlot II riser - which would be housing an ethernet card. What do you do with the additional PCI slot? Ideally a FW/USB card, but mine doesn't work - found a patch though I need to test - so it's usually a USB 1.1 card in there.
I'm missing the CommSlot riser on mine
, but at least I can put large files onto it using a USB stick.JB
Bunsen, here's a link for you:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Twentieth-Anniversary-Macintosh-TAM-20th-Apple-Mac-/290489567705?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a28709d9
Get it posted to a freight forwarder, it would cost about $200 in postage. But, on the plus side, you'd have a TAM!
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Twentieth-Anniversary-Macintosh-TAM-20th-Apple-Mac-/290489567705?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a28709d9
Get it posted to a freight forwarder, it would cost about $200 in postage. But, on the plus side, you'd have a TAM!
I don't have $200 to throw around on optional luxuries.
Sorry, was just trying to help...
I had the TAM and fully loaded it with Sonnet G3 card, USB/Firewire and ethernet! But if I were to do it all over, I'd probably just max out the RAM but otherwise leave it alone. Really neat for running vintage software, but not so much for modern day-to-day tasks: A $300 notebook/netbook would be a better pick there.
That's my plan! I put out a request last night for TAM RAM, 168 pin 5V 64MB chips x 2 to do exactly that. It already has Ethernet, but I'd love USB.
There is no way I'd use any program made after 1999 on this machine, so I should be good to go!
UPDATE: I have upped the RAM to 128MB (thanks Byrd!) and have installed USB (Byrd again) but this won't run as I'm still on 7.6.1. It already had Ethernet, so that's all good.
I've also been able to source a Sonnet G3 L2 400MHz card from Classic (cheers, arrived today!) but haven't installed this yet. He was kind enough to make a CD with the drivers, so this process should be very straight forward.
I also was able to source another TAM, this one boots to the login screen and then freezes with an Address Error or mainly a Bus Error. It has the little panels that mine was missing, so I now have a more complete TAM. Oh, and it came with the disks they originally shipped with, and interestingly, 2 copies of the System Software disks. I spent quite a bit of time on this last month and was able to rule out HDD, cache and RAM, and 4.5V battery, and couldn't boot off a CD either.
Anyway, I'll use my Christmas break to get everything up to date and rolling the way it should have this time last year. Max RAM, decent processor, yee haw!
I've also been able to source a Sonnet G3 L2 400MHz card from Classic (cheers, arrived today!) but haven't installed this yet. He was kind enough to make a CD with the drivers, so this process should be very straight forward.
I also was able to source another TAM, this one boots to the login screen and then freezes with an Address Error or mainly a Bus Error. It has the little panels that mine was missing, so I now have a more complete TAM. Oh, and it came with the disks they originally shipped with, and interestingly, 2 copies of the System Software disks. I spent quite a bit of time on this last month and was able to rule out HDD, cache and RAM, and 4.5V battery, and couldn't boot off a CD either.
Anyway, I'll use my Christmas break to get everything up to date and rolling the way it should have this time last year. Max RAM, decent processor, yee haw!
Excellent news JS!
Plus I get to hear about ye olde tech being put to good use!
While being only a 400Mhz/512 cache card, it still made a huge difference on my 6500
Its a pity that USB 1.1 was/will never be implemented for Mac OS 7.6.1, as it screams with the sonnet card!
Mac OS 8.6 might be the best OS for the TAM as I reckon Mac OS 9 is a real memory hog.
I'd also recommend fitting in a faster, more modern HDD for more speed and partition the drive for multiple OS's
Beats ebay anyday!
Plus I get to hear about ye olde tech being put to good use!
While being only a 400Mhz/512 cache card, it still made a huge difference on my 6500
Its a pity that USB 1.1 was/will never be implemented for Mac OS 7.6.1, as it screams with the sonnet card!
Mac OS 8.6 might be the best OS for the TAM as I reckon Mac OS 9 is a real memory hog.
I'd also recommend fitting in a faster, more modern HDD for more speed and partition the drive for multiple OS's
I always measure value in Metric Ass Tons.Or at least the high tens of kilobucks.