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I blew out an external SCSI hard drive years ago by crookedly installing a terminator. Oops. Gotta pay attention next time, I guess...

The character storage/display requirements/limitations were definitely a thing in the 16-bit era, but most of these Interware cards were...

My first Mac II also had the FDHD upgrade. I think it had an upgraded hard drive though, which is too bad because I really like the...

I figured VRAM was more important to getting higher resolutions than RAMDAC clock speed so I'd try to increase that first, but I'm...

Honestly, I find that most PCs of that era were either 72-pin SIMM or SDRAM (PC66) compatible. I rarely come across 3.3v EDO. It feels...

Did you try swapping power supplies between them, or finding a known good one to try? Also, disconnect everything (expansion cards, RAM...

Apparently PowerPC Enabler 1.1 (and the updated v1.1.1) was intended to support the speed-bumped x100 Macs (6100/66, 7100/80, 8100/100...

I probably have a stock 8100/110 somewhere but I'd have to dig for it. I have an 8115/110 with an overclock (to 120MHz) that's readily...

The 603 has a 32-bit address bus and a selectable 32/64-bit data bus. The 603UM says that operation must be selected at boot, so it's...

The original 603 probably could've gotten away with 16kB of cache if it was unified. Having it split into two 8kB sections is really...

Were they old-school Motorola chips or newer Freescale-branded ones? I may have seen some etched Freescale PLCC chips but they're a lot...

Yeah counterfeits are a thing. It's less so much of a problem with midrange chips than those at the high end (i.e., you're more likely...

The Diamondtrons are Mitsubishi's off-patent Trinitron clones. Usually they have faults in the HV circuit as mentioned, but whether it's...

The GeForce 4MX is an example of dishonest marketing: the GPU is basically a warmed-over GF2MX and doesn't have any of the features of...

It's a Digital Audio/Video (DAV) connector. It's to directly feed signals to an add-in card such as a hardware MPEG codec. I'm pretty...