I finally got it working! The cable that I had purchased was not a cross over cable and the Mac requires one to hook up to the Roland so a bit of splitting and soldering was in ord…

Very well written. Enjoy that machine. Click to expand... Thank you very much, I did try to do that one right! jt =8-D

Yeah, I was thinking that it would be better to buy a 2.5mm minijack socket rather than desolder it from the iLamp board, but it's all a bit of a moot point anyway because I sold o…

Question then comes down to. What I am thinking of that requires hard sectored disks. Click to expand... I can't imagine what you're thinking of. ;-) Hard sectoring refers t…

One last question - wouldn't Tantalum capacitors normalize the audio to an extent because of their high ESR ratings?

There was a thing called "macipgw" which seems to have gone to oblivion. I use my own program which does the job on my local network and runs on NetBSD. I wrote a daemon program w…

A bit of insight on the floppy drives... Click to expand... And for further reading: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Ex…

A bit of insight on the floppy drives... There were five different non-Powerbook external 3.5" drives produced by Apple during the 1980s and 1990s that plugged into the floppy dri…

Is there any usable information on doing it with Linux? Is OS 9 not an option, either?

I also didn't suggest an early Intel iMac or Mac Pro. Click to expand... You didn't make that distinction, so lets go for a Quadra 610 with built in 486SX.

Have you tried saving on a different volume?

Fabulous. I've got a G4 running Leopard - are there any third-party applications for OS X that can handle this? I can also run OS 9 if necessary. Click to expand... No Leopard …

Fabulous. I've got a G4 running Leopard - are there any third-party applications for OS X that can handle this? I can also run OS 9 if necessary.

Screw the keyboard - Timbuktu it. } Click to expand... Actually, thats a good idea. When I get it up and running with OS 8, i'll put a VNC server on it.

Thanks, guys. Question then comes down to. What I am thinking of that requires hard sectored disks.

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

Isn't that model number "M2943" for the defective 15" apple multiscan displays? Stay away... FAR away from them as well as the 1710's I have a 1705 and it has never given me a prob…

MacTCP manages to talk TCP/IP over LocalTalk by packaging each IP packet as a DDP packet and sending it to a "MacIP Gateway". Unless you have some component on your network doing t…

Is everyone 100% sure that these machines cannot go up to 1 Gig of memory? Click to expand... Unfortunately since the beige G3s only have 3 slots, yes.

desolder the socket from a dead compatible Mac Click to expand... Apple technote: Apple Pro Speakers: Compared to Power Mac G4 Cube Speakers Code: =================…

Love the wood paneling Is that an old ImageWriter? Nice touch

Yep up to 768mb

yes, I remember disk light. every time I installed norton, there it was. Pretty handy utility, and you could place it in either top corner. My only gripe with 7.1 is that it's not…

Is everyone 100% sure that these machines cannot go up to 1 Gig of memory?

Nice! I remember when those first came out. :beige: