I had a thought about this in the shower yesterday! My buddies at Tekserve got their start in Macs by building the (Mac controlled) Directory Systems for the Rockefeller Center (y…

74hct161 Click to expand... binary counter, counting is very important when fabricating a video signal from a computer

Keep in mind that most of these batteries are very old by now, and almost all of them are dead or very near it. I don't have the links on me right now - I'll post them when I get h…

There are close to 40 ICs on that board. An NTSC or PAL conversion board typically has three logic chips. There's a bank of eight pc74hct161p (MOSFETs?) and an unidentified bank of…

Wow, I sure do wish Chiefs-Trading-Post shipped internationally. =( I could use a NewerTechnology Floppy adapter or two to cannibalize for evil. And by evil, I mean WiFi.

I was considering bidding on that 2300c - I could really use a bunch of junk out of it. I'm glad you picked it up, though, if you're going to use it as a system. I hate pulling par…

Here you'll find a floppy-driven Macintosh Portable web server with a how-to, in case it's of interest to you!

Cool for you! If you get that Turbo running, it will be like having OS X 0.1. Click to expand... Oh, it does run just fine! A clean NeXTSTEP 3.3 install was done by the selle…

Congrats! I've always wanted a NeXT machine but the shipping costs would kill me.

Cool for you! If you get that Turbo running, it will be like having OS X 0.1.

For those who don't read Japanese, the procedure is pretty simple. I had taken off the floppy drive cover, but I didn't need to. I just needed to unscrew it so that I could fit it…

Holy crap I found some more pictures. http://square.umin.ac.jp/~itoh/dual_fdd_2.html This guy is seriously awesome.

Holy crap I finally found some pictures. http://square.umin.ac.jp/~itoh/dual_fdd_1.html That guy seems to be a serious Macintosh Portable nut. I wish I had found his page sooner.…

For the Ram gurus here, a question. What happens if you mix FPM and EDO Ram in an 8600/9600? Machine gets flakey, won't boot at all, smoke and flames, or?? Also, I just picked u…

I'm afraid not. There is only a VGA connector on the bugger. I did find out that if you set the resolution to be less than the actual resolution it will center the picture. Also…

Wikipedia's article on EDID talks about the "divide by 8" issue, specifically in reference to this resolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_display_identification_data#Li…

Yeah, I've since loaded it up on my machine, and I'll agree, it runs beautifully. I've even installed my copy of iWork '08 on there, and since learnt that "G4/500 required" is mere…

Tiger runs like a peach on my 600MHz slotloader. Just throwing that out there Nice score by the way! I've fallen in love with my iMac in the short time I've had it thus far - i…

If I'm correct, doesn't the 12x drive use the standard laptop ATAPI connector, rather than the 2.5" IDE connector (like the 6x and 8x drives)? If so, you should be able to swap jus…

What do you recommend as far as audio is concerned (application wise)?

Very nice score...faster than the iMac I got recently too And yes, I have to agree with you on the speakers...apart from the BOSE system on the TAM they're probably the best bui…

I'm in love with the speakers in it - they sound amazingly good for a machine like this.

Yes, it has ethernet. The letters at the end of the model number tell you what features it has: s for SCSI, c for (I think) colour (as in an external video port) and e for etherne…

I will make new pictures, with more detail of the chips you mention. If I connect the board to the 512, I get a bong and a black screen. No effort is made by the Mac to start from…

That looks pretty slick with the new chicklet keyboard. I gave my 600MHz Snow to my little brother to use, and its still serving him well. I sure do wish it were a 700MHz model t…