I have started work on a project to emulate the floppy drive used in the original Macintosh.
My goal is a device which is plug compatible with the Apple external 400KB floppy driv…
Apart from the LCD, what's "souped up"?
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Dunno, ask alk, my guess would be VRAM . . . :-/ . . . and maybe the LCD ASIC.
Whatcha want, egg in your…
68kMLAPowerPCby Trash80toHP_MiniTue, 24 Nov 2009 - 01:35
If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.
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You don't even need an FPU.
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I found mine collapsed in a heap trying to …
If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.
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You don't even need an FPU. Also, because the LC III is only 25 MHz, and since most FPUs were …
Mustang EVT PtotoBook
I guess it's fitting that “my Eleanor” is the Mustang EVT, the prototype of a souped up 5300ce. I've had two run-ins with this machine of myth. The first tim…
68kMLAPowerPCby Trash80toHP_MiniMon, 23 Nov 2009 - 19:28
What to do with my LC III...
Right now it's just sitting here, so anyone got any ideas of what I could use it for? It'd be a shame for it to just sit here unused...
Yes there was - it was briefly marketed as an upgrade for the Beige G3 (not slot compatible with AGP graphics G4s). I think it was pulled for power and/or reliability issues. You…
Didn't there used to be a G4 daughterboard of some sort that could run 2 unbalanced G4 CPU's, i.e a 350 mhz and a 450 mhz. Always imagined that could be useful if you could find a…
I don't know, that was the way it came. What I think happened was the heat sink pulled away from the processor, so the processor with no cooling burnt itself out. The replacement I…
Grrr. I still use 10.3.9
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Any Mac that can run Panther can run Tiger, that's the thing. Even a Power Macintosh 7500 with a G3 card can run Tiger.
Tiger may be …
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonFri, 20 Nov 2009 - 23:38
Well, if and when tiger loses modern browser support you still might want to get on the entire internet. A kvm is a great idea if you have the space for another machine and if so g…
68kMLAPowerPCby ClassicHasClassFri, 20 Nov 2009 - 23:06
Actually, I believe their both PB 3400 RAM modules. I got a PB 5300 ram module in my hand here. (Goldenram, 09/30/97) The connector is reversed on the 5300. Apple did this so that …