Mac Plus and External SCSI — #14
The Mac II onwards were designed to use NuBus bus mastering for high speed data transfers. Both devices had to be on the NuBus, of course, and support bus mastering, at least as a …
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not mac, but still my oldest computer — #2
Awesome! i loved those things. I used to have one. Try to find the floppy drive (and accompanying disk) that gives you 100KB floppy storage on a modern floppy. The floppy also ru…
Mac Plus and External SCSI — #13
As far as I know, the first Mac to actually have DMA (which the very first IBM PC had) was the IIfx and it was only used under A/UX.
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The Mac II onwards were …
Mac Plus and External SCSI — #12
1) External drive must supply termination power (the power supply in the Plus is too feeble to do the job, so the design team decided that the external box should supply term power…
BatteryReset on a Lombard — #1
Out of curiousity... have any of you ever used BatteryReset 2.0 on a Lombard? If so, were you successful at fixing a battery?
I've got a Pismo and a battery that refuses to take a…
not mac, but still my oldest computer — #1
about a year ago i purchased a trs-80 model 100 at a garage sale for $3. at that time i thought that it did not work. today i took it out, plugged it in, adjusted the screen resolu…
Mac Plus and External SCSI — #11
Another factor is that Apple probably didn't want to re-engineer an older board when they were focusing on replacing the Plus with the more cost-effective Classic. The Classic was …
PB3400 + PB3500 "Kanga" RAM changability — #5
Wow I believe this is one of those posts that should be backed up and archived.
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #15
The thing would take an aeon to start up
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An excellent point -- something I too often forget about 68k machines is the RAM check at startup.
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PB3400 + PB3500 "Kanga" RAM changability — #4
I was very lucky, but it goes to show how proprietary RAM modules - must have some "play" in them to be mass produced for slightly different computers. So that's another unique th…
PB3400 + PB3500 "Kanga" RAM changability — #3
Wow - very impressive! Well done.
PB3400 + PB3500 "Kanga" RAM changability — #2
Great news - I was able to hack my 3400 128MB module to work on the Kanga!
It surprised me that the 3400 128MB module didn't work - considering that the 32MB Apple module worked…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #14
From memory it's doubtfull that 128Mb simms would work...
Still I'd love to hear that it did work...
I record video with my 840av sometimes & the more memory the better..…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #13
What would you even do with 512MB in a Quadra?
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I run NetBSD on a number of m68k machines, and having just one machine which can compile those huge packages (…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #12
What would you even do with 512MB in a Quadra?
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I think it'd be pretty much like beachycove said -- you'd do it just to say you did.
If I ever come across…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #11
What would you even do with 512MB in a Quadra?
Would it be possible to install the OS to a RAM disk assuming you never shut the machine down? You'd have to reboot to use the OS fr…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #10
I have never used anywhere near 128MB running OS 8.1 and apps that run on a 68K. The extra RAM is just for bragging I guess.
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #9
The thing would take an aeon to start up
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An excellent point -- something I too often forget about 68k machines is the RAM check at startup.
PB 180 resurrection — #26
Hello once again,
Update: I managed to get a good-condition working PB 180c, and it works great! Kind of makes this thread useless, but I'm keeping the 180 around in case I want t…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #8
Apart from saying that you'd done it, is there any good reason to put 512MB of RAM in a Quadra, especially if 128MB SIMMS cost $20 a pop?
I suppose that, with 512MB, you could run…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #7
Look for 128 meg 72 pin SIMMs for Cobalt Raq2 systems. They'll work, and they aren't ridiculously large like some 128 meg SIMMs. You can usually find them on eBay for $20 USD or le…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #6
Just so you know, it's been said that the Q840av will take 128 Meg SIMMs, giving you 512 mega total. Give it a try, and let us know...
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I'd be glad to -- any …
PowerBooks! — #15
The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge.
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Oh man, that's truly a great find - I've sought out one of these bridges for years.…
Holy of Holies -- Quadra 840AV! — #5
Just so you know, it's been said that the Q840av will take 128 Meg SIMMs, giving you 512 mega total. Give it a try, and let us know...
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I didn't know 128MiB S…
PowerBooks! — #14
The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge.
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Oh man, that's truly a great find - I've sought out one of these bridges for years.…