Cool - thank you. It's good to have a link like that which people can find easily. I'd also like to remind people here that NetBSD for m68040s with no FPU (no matter which mask) c…

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

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…

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…

The Znyx ZX345 (aka Apple 10/100 Fast Ethernet Card) should work just fine with that G4, and they can often be found on eBay for <=$10 shipped. (look for an apple-branded o…

I'm interested in hearing the results of your transplant. I have a flaky 12x drive in one of my 1400s that I would like to replace someday. It reads some disks but not others. O…

I'd be interested in a better picture of those chips along the bottom of the board. The only picture I could find showed just the corner of the chips which looked like some kind of…

Thanks! Sounds like that will work then; I will post an update after I've done the swap. These 12x TEAC drives seem to fail a lot, just like the original DVD drives for the Pismo. …

Some photos when you get them?

Interesting... I bought it off the clearance table, so it had no cables. Looking through my stash of parts at home I found a Male-Male VGA cable. I'll try another cable later on…