I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

Really the thing is that I don't have a bloody clue how you make a floppy disk drive work. So I think I need to expand my search to floppy disks in general and then focus on the Ma…

do you have an oscilloscope?

I took a look at Inside Macintosh. It did some useful information, but it mostly described the software interface to the disk controller. I am looking for information on the interf…

well most of my movies are just burned dvd's so it wont not need the decoder, and i think its on the dvd drive, if im not mistaken, I have herd of put squares of a disk under the …

So I really have no idea what data and commands the drive expects. So really if I could figure out how any floppy works that would be a good start. Click to expand... Click …

My Q605 running NetBSD does take about 45 seconds to pop out SSH keys. However, it has a 25MHz full '040, so ... Click to expand... Which ssh keys are these? When you first gen…

I had a lot of difficulty trying to install NetBSD on my 7300 with OF 1.0.5. I'd get it to boot the kernel and then the machine would reboot. It would do it so fast I couldn't see …

I love red PCB's. Click to expand... I love 'em too! I've got a beautiful red Half-Length Radius NuBus VidCard in my MinimalistDuo230/PB100TestbedDock™.

EvilTim's other projects. Click to expand... IIRC he also converted a monochrome CRT to greyscale by feeding the intensity level into where the brightness knob used to be. Cli…

Yeah I've never interfaced to any sort of storage device before. So I really have no idea what data and commands the drive expects. So really if I could figure out how any floppy …

My goal is a device which is plug compatible with the Apple external 400KB floppy drive. It will store images on some sort of modern storage medium. Click to expand... Thanks f…

This is probably a really good place to start. This device has insufficient memory capacity to replace a Mac drive, but that's just a detail. The unit supports emulating an Apple …

I don't plan to get rid of it anytime soon

They're hard to get rid of anyways.... I've never named any of my computers and I've still got 26 of them laying around here.

Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu,also how hard is it to open the…

My goal is a device which is plug compatible with the Apple external 400KB floppy drive. It will store images on some sort of modern storage medium. Click to expand... Thanks f…

I also had made it so it could boot up without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I just made an apple script file to start up the programs in order. Then play a sound file to indicate…

Just a little tidbit I thought I'd add; be careful naming your machines. Its kind of like naming a pet, in that once you name it you love the thing to pieces and its much harder to…

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like other Macs or Mac clones couldn't accomplish this feat; As ClassicHasClass mentioned, you can indeed bootstrap OF from a floppy, But I pr…

Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu, also how hard is it to open t…

The innards of that MacPro are gorgeous! I love red PCB's.

If you want newer versions of software (like Safari 4) then you'll need to run 10.4 on it. I don't know about the 466MHz models (they may actually be just fine) Click to expand…

If it has a Ethernet card, you could run some server programs on it. I made a LC III into a LAN Mail and DNS server. (Both programs were made by Apple.) You could also make it a…

Well... fight now it is kinda a monitor stand...