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    Molar Mac SSD issues

    Shove a bootable SATA card in it and be done with it. The ATA bus on G3 beiges is kind of garbage anyway especially with 8gb first partition issue. You have slots and the space to drop a SATA card in and route it to the drive, even if it means getting creative with where exactly you put the...
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    National instruments Se/30 card?

    BTW, if you're wondering, here's what the connector looks like
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    National instruments Se/30 card?

    You may well be right. I've never done more than 5 devices. Wiki says 15 devices over 20M, but mentions active extenders that can allow multiple devices.
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    National instruments Se/30 card?

    31 :) , although if you have a computer involved that counts as one of the devices. IDs are assigned 0-30.
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    National instruments Se/30 card?

    GPIB(general purpose interface bus), AKA HPIB(Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus) or IEEE-488, was(is) used for industrial and scientific equipment. It actually predates desktop/personal computers. It's actually a really elegant interface-it has 31 addresses available, and for being quite an old...
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    Portable Hard Drive

    Very nice on swapping the boards-I'll hunt down one and go with that option. My experience with swapping PCBs on newer HDDs isn't so good. I inadvertently blew a surface mount fuse a year or two ago on a 100gb 7200 RPM Toshiba laptop HDD and needed to get some data off it. I bought an identical...
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    Portable Hard Drive

    I'm afraid that I've come to the conclusion that the original 20mb Conner in my Portable is dead. It will spin up, but the computer doesn't see it. I'd thought it would be simple just to drop a 3.5" desktop drive in it, but after I looked at it I realized that's not going to be the case. Is...
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    Macintosh Portable Battery rebuild

    I know you said you want to get away from SLA, but at the same time it's not difficult to do it with the correct battery chemistry. Earlier this week, I rebuilt mine with this https://www.amazon.com/Battery-replacement-QB24-QB26-QUANTUM/dp/B002BJZ2XI It's a 3 pack of smaller versions of the...
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    Ideas for Use of Mac mini G4?

    I've been saying for a while that CPU performance has basically leveled off since about 2012 or so. As said, most of the improvements have been in performance per watt, and with the "Lake" series processors Intel has seemed to even stepped away from the "Tick Tock" design philosophy of earlier...
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    Ideas for Use of Mac mini G4?

    I'm going to set up some side by side comparisons when I have a chance. One of the things I have in mind is to run lens correction filters on some of my medium large format film scans(which are ~20mb and ~80mb in size). Most of the MF scans are of originals taken with Planar-type lenses which...
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    Ideas for Use of Mac mini G4?

    I have the P4 Gateway laptop I got new for college in 2006 running XP and Firefox 52. Just in terms of web page rendering speed, my DLSD with Leopard and Leopard Webkit blows it away, although admittedly the Gateway is more usable on the web.
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    How long does OS9 take to boot for you?

    It depends on the computer, the amount of RAM, and the extensions installed. A stock OS 9 install has a lot of extensions that you probably don't need. I tend to trim down most of what I don't need(i.e. a lot of printers and the like), and can usually get a moderately fast G4 to boot in a...
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    Ideas for Use of Mac mini G4?

    Most late G4s like the DLSD Powerbooks, last gen iBooks, and even the 1.42ghz eMac are quite good on Leopard, but they differ from the Mini in that they have a Core Image capable GPU. IMO, the Radeon 9200 was really the downfall of these systems, and on a GPU heavy OS like Leopard it can make or...
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    Windows NT on Power Macs

    That's good to know-thanks. Time for full NT fun to begin! BTW, I'm kind of regretting not keeping one of the quad PII workstations we had. They were the size of a dorm refrigerator and I'd hate to think how loud they were, but they were impressive beasts. They also advertise NextSTEP...
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    Windows NT on Power Macs

    The PI I have has a "Made for NT" sticker on it. The PII I'm eyeing is a Dell GX-1(I think) and I'm not sure if it's stickered or not but suspect it would work. I'll have to check the PIIIs. They're desktop LoBos but are in 4U rackmount cases(I have a DA in a virtually identical case branded...
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