I won't lie, if you decide to gut the Performa, I'd be interested in the case for an ITX project, because I'm a loser that way. I still think this is a really nice haul, considerin…

I don't think it would collide with the tube if the floppy drive in particular weren't in the way. It might well do that if attached to the riser card pictured, however.

G'day - nice to have you here. Impressive Mac history too!

What use of an old Mac Quadra 700, with floppy drive and all orginal accesories? What comes to my mind: Overclock to 33Mhz, Arcada machine? Case mod? Or some other application? F…

Your other option is to find or hack together a EuroDIN right angle connector and mount your second card sideways. Course, that involves moving stuff around... Check out this App…

na the drive hasnt been slammed as i am aware of. its a stepper motor drive. its a miniscribe 8425S? i forget. gotta tear it back apart and look. came from an SE

yes its in very decent shape for sitting in a puddle in a scraping shed / dump, I have a pic of the rear but its fuzzy and not that helpful, but none of the connections on the back…

That Performa 200 looks to be in great shape. It is a little bit of a rarity. As for the water that was sloshing around inside, unless the machine was turned on wet (which is high…

Model number? Some drives like the early Conner SCSIs didn't support low level format by the user, since they had a system of assigning spare sectors for failing ones. Problem is,…

The DC jacks on 5x0 powerbooks are pretty strong, but chances are there is a bad connection - what happens when you jiggle the power cable, around the jack? JB

My old 540c did indeed behave that way because of a bad power supply. Having said that, a backup battery and main battery are needed for reliable operation of the machine.

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Is there any way to re low-level-format a stepper 20mb miniscribe? i have one pulled from a macintosh SE and its giving me fits. of course. it works perfectly fine, and seeks all …

Hi All, My son's trusty Powerbook 540c has recently started to shut down at random while in use. After this happens it will not restart unless I unplug the power adapter and replu…

the Japanese fellow... Click to expand... That would be Mr. Manabu Sakai of ARTMIX Japan, from whom I purchased the TS Adapter PDS slot riser card, several photos shown here: …

Thanks for the links. On further reading there and some separate investigation, it looks like my SE/30 ethernet cards are one and all too short physically to do what I wanted -- …

If you don't mind running the SE/30 without its "bucket" (case back,) you can fit three cards in at once. There are quite a few people who have put two cards in an SE/30 just fine…

The 1MB of cache running at G3 speeds will also greatly improve the response of the onboard video.

It is what it is - a pass through (or duplicate) of the motherboard PDS slot, so you can add more than one card. Each one has to have a different slot ID - gamba's "SE/30 Corner" …

Very nice. Its been a while since I scored a freebie of that caliber.

Ethernet cards like the MacCon made for the SE/30 and the IIsi had a PDS pass-through connector. What was this pass-through connector for? Can an SE/30, for instance, take a PDS v…

Lucky...........

Not sure if this matters anymore, but Sonnet's page for the Crescendo/Nubus G2 for 6100 and others (http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_nubus.html) claims that it has a bui…

Free? :O :O 8-o Pismo?

Very very nice pair of bin scores!