dang I knew I left mine somewhere

The Portable has a few of oddities. It's basically a low power 16MHz CMOS MAC SE. It requires more juice to spin up the HD than the AC adapter can supply, so it needs a charged bat…

Kinda makes the DP500 I just picked up for it a little redundant Click to expand... Renderbox for say, MP3 encoding or video encoding? I know it's a slower machine, but....

Okay. I've reassembled the SE/30 and did a voltage measurement just as JDW mentioned. I am getting between 5.00V and 5.01V DC through the floppy port. The SE/30 is powered on, s…

Cheers, compadre. You got two of those for 27$?! Click to expand... AU$30 each (~US$27) Click to expand... But yeah, who's complaining? } One's going to re…

Bunsen...Have you taken your pills? Click to expand... No, I ran out. Can I have some of yours?

VERY nice haul, comrade! [] ]'>

Holy jeepers! Good haul!

Wow, nice!

Well, i've found and documented some extensions that can supposedly push the Wings card right over its boundaries into 640x480 territory. The downside is that on a G3 processor it …

So Leik can these work in PPC as well? Click to expand... Most of the time they will, but not always. Some programs are written specifically in mind for that particular era of…

Bunsen...Have you taken your pills? Click to expand... Very thin ice... Click to expand... *Ducks* Click to expand... Not that thin, it was a joke. I vented . …

Bunsen...Have you taken your pills? Click to expand... Very thin ice...

I'll look into the Wings card, but that's something I wish I knew before I dropped $40 on the system, otherwise I probably wouldn't have even thought about it. That said the SCSI t…

Bunsen... Have you taken your pills? *Ducks*

You got two of those for 27$?! Faints

:I Sorry, comrade, I've got to try to curb my tendency to vent about Apple's Quadra/PPC era decisions.

Hey! No I didn't! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be lo…

Toni_: does that mean you now have all of the IM library? "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" Click to expand... That's the only title in that haul…

Wings card / may actually make a decent VHS importing box. Click to expand... Isn't the Wings card restricted to QVGA (320x240)? On the other hand, save that as MPEG-1 and it …

Last time I looked, (which was, uh, yesterday?) good ole IC-China on ebay had a couple of G4/500 ZIFs going cheep. Act fast And nicely scored there btw

Advertised as: 800MHz G4 tower with 512MB RAM and 40GB hard drive (self install) 17" Apple LCD Turned out to be: Dual CPU 1GHz, 512MB, 80GB self-install Seagate Barracuda 17" …

I have to say, that G3 is a really nice example of a high end Mac setup from the mid to late 1990's, especially with those external SCSI drives.

(Ps. noticed the "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" there? Maybe I should someday try to build the mythical Nubus USB card, as that book has all technical infor…

So Leik can these work in PPC as well?