Use PowerPC for a week? — #62
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Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #55
I'm tossing out my PowerCenter Pro 240 with a bum logic board if you want the sweet SCSI II card and the 240MHz CPU for it. Unfortunately I'm in the USA, but you can have the parts…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #54
Welllp... power supply didnt explode immediately. It was more of a timid snap after a couple of dodgy startups, and a subsequent failure to draw power at all after that. Might be A…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #53
Well, as of yesterday afternoon the Minitower is now a complete unit booting flawlessly into a fresh install of 8.6 with a 7.5Gb U-series I found in a slotload drive rack in the cu…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #52
Byrd said:
Nice work! It's always a good feeling to get one cracking Mac from two junked units; the G3 Minitower is a real keeper as it's so easy and cheap to upgrade. Do y…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #51
Nice work! It's always a good feeling to get one cracking Mac from two junked units; the G3 Minitower is a real keeper as it's so easy and cheap to upgrade. Do you have a modern …
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #50
Thanks Nic, I look forward to seeing your thread in the near future... if the list in your signature is anything to go off, there are some interesting things. The 8500 and PB145 a…
Use PowerPC for a week? — #61
Are there any video downloading tools that run on MacPPC?
Back when I had a slow Internet connection, I'd use 4kVideoDownloader to save videos both so I could watch them (if I we…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #49
Some nice stuff! The 5500 DE is interetsing.
I'll definitely make a similar topic when I get my iMac back.
Cheers, Nicolas
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #48
I have to say you are definitely among the best people ive dealt with on evilbay in years mate... An absolute pleasure! I do very much look forward to seeing a stash thread in t…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #47
Glad they're proving useful
I will have to create a thread myself soon, to show off my collection.
BTW, I seem to recall there is a jumper switch setting on the G3 MLB to choo…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #46
Byrd said:
Nice score on the G3s - I was watching the sale (wasn't for me but hoping someone would buy), glad they are largely complete and you can build up a super G3 from t…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #45
Nice score on the G3s - I was watching the sale (wasn't for me but hoping someone would buy), glad they are largely complete and you can build up a super G3 from the two, hopefully…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #44
My latest eBay conquest arrived, in the form of a pair of G3 Minitowers which I purchased for 30 bucks and got a friend in Victoria to pick up for me... his mother in law (also a n…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #43
Yeh they are garguantuan and awkward machines the 5500... my first ever Powermac was a standard white 225 and it was at the time, a slick, fast and capable rig, and I have always h…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #42
Yep, I had a 5500 Director's Edition, but decided to move it on because I don't have the space, plus the plastics are terrible. Oh, and I prefer the Mac TV anyway, so I kept the T…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #41
Just recently pulled some machines out of storage including this Powercenter 132... One of a pair I have. I just replaced the CD-ROM drive with one I seagulled out of the dead WGS,…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #40
And here we have the IIci after a tidy up... I love everything about these machines and they are definitely among my favourite desktop cases... except for when it comes to cleaning…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #39
Next one looking sharp after a quick spruce up is the ROM03 IIgs... In all honesty I only ever really used this once and then put it away in a dark place as it was in such good nic…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #38
So as you probably know I intended to delve into the cave and retreive some more treasures, bats and spiders some time back but didnt know where to start... well I found the motiva…
Schmeaux's present stuff and future conquests... — #37
I've neglected this thread for a bit, however that isnt to say things havent been happening. :
For one, I recently added a Sawtooth G4 to the tower of power collection... It's ve…
Use PowerPC for a week? — #60
For those talking about YouTube performance on PowerPC, have any of you tried ClickToFlash with the latest Leopard-Webkit release? It allows direct playback of h.264 video natively…
PM9600/200MP startup chime but no video or activity?? — #12
Hmmmm interesting. I'm using a Crescendo 400/1M G3 CPU to preserve the stock card (and have more speed), and I actually noticed I have the Powerlogix control panel app and extensi…
PM9600/200MP startup chime but no video or activity?? — #11
I have the same issue using a 200MP dual 604 board on my 9600 get chime sound but dont get video, same problem on a 8600.
The trouble seem to be the L2 cache on the 8600 removing …
Use PowerPC for a week? — #59
The problem with PPC and Youtube is that once you can view video at 1080p resolution (using any old crappy pc) its hard to go 480p again. Plus I don't think Netflix works on PPC a…