lol I stand corrected...G4 toaster! hmm...think of the endless possibilities with a G4 Microwave, with all that alti-vec to cook your food...nm... I'm a smorph (as they call it in…

I am looking to buy an Athlon(TM) powered BBQ grill. Congrats for your 1st year in real school.

I know that McLaren are using 4 PowerPC chips for their car control systems. I read that on TheRegister a while ago. The article also mentionned that the PowerPC was the only chip …

IIRC, one of the recent Mars missions used PPC chips for its onboard computing. And IBM manufactures AIX servers based on the chip. I know that NDSU in Fargo, ND has a few PPC 620…

Very interesting, very interesting. I have just read that those TiVo boxes can be hacked to run Linux on them. The HD can be upgraded, could the CPU be upgraded too? To bad that …

Quote: Originally posted by Evangellydonut: anyone care to surf the web with your home toaster, using a G3 chip? I'm unable to find it now, but I could swear I saw …

I don't know about you guys, but I would love to have this:

um, you can already do that with an Athlon 1Ghz if you replace the heat-sink 'n fan with the pizza!

A lot of assembly control systems run on PPC chips. I used to work at a factory that manufactured corrogated paper-making machines and all of the control systems were VME's, some …

I thought the PPC was developed for the Mac, and later used for embedded stuff Anyway, my DSL modem (they call it a gateway) has a 40 MHz PPC in it... and interestingly enough, …

It's been done many a-time.

I surfed around the board and I started to find more and more. DUH, didn't think to lok backwards... I do like the Red LED behind the front apple logo and have it hooked up to the…

Have you done that hack? If so please email me Or post here. I want to do it, but don't want to screw anything up - and don't know how to hook it up to the HD array. TIA Cipher1…

heh, I was hopeing hat someone else has, It shouldn't be that hard, all it is is just an led hooked to two wires and they attach to 2 pins on the array. I have an external drive ca…

well crap... I took my led light and wireing out of my external case and went to wire it up, and THERE'S NO FREEKIN PORT FOR AND LED LIGHT ON THE MOBO?!?!? (Venting my fustrations…

Have you seen those turquoise-glow nightlights that plug in your wall outlet? Of course you have! Take one of those, clip the two power pins to a very short length and solder two-…

Soon I will be releasing info about how to handle those electroluminiscent nightlights.

The controller is integrated in the chipset. There is a LED connector directly on most HDs, use that instead. There should be a label on the drive with what pin does what

SCSI idea that I don't know if will work or not...I heard it was risky but worked for me, and like I said, it's an idea for SCSI, I'm not sure if you can do such on IDE... Only pl…

Avoid the Single setting. The Single setting is a foolproof setting if just one drive is on the IDE bus. It causes the drive to respond to all commands, regardless of if they were …

I'm @ a friend's house right now, but when i get home i'm gonna try both of your suggestions. One question, however, where would i locate this so called "CUDA master reset button".…

The CUDA switch is on the motherboard, it is not the normal reset, or the programmers interrupt switch that you refer to. I don't know where it is on an iMac, but it looks like a …

This is a pic of the CUDA switch on a 2nd generation iMac - a DVSE 400 to be exact. Apologies for the image quality. I could not find a good pic online, and had to grab one with…

Further thoughts, I have to run off and do some work, so I had better kick them out now. If the blank HD is confusing the iMac, try booting while holding down Cmnd-Option-Shift-De…

Well...i tried the CUDA button and the battery trick. At first i couldn't find the CUDA switch, so thats why i did both. Maybe it wasn't the CUDA switch, it was way smaller than t…