Recent content by Gorgonops

Not to be a downer, but personally I lump BeOS into roughly the same category as things like OS/2 or, (controversial!), AmigaOS; they were neat at the time but you kinda had to be there. Technically the PPC version wasn't *branded* "Warp Connect", or at least wasn't intentionally called that...

I would bet really entertaining things could happen if you flicked those switches while the machine was running.

Scrubbing through the video in question the observed speedup with the benchmark the guy used actually seemed to be on the order of minus 0.9%, so... what's the point of doing this mod again? The main improvement the 68010 provides relative to the 68000 is it fixes the problem that the older CPU...

The Lisa actually used a similar system to drive the floppy drives. Again, there's nothing really "wrong" with it in theory, it's a pretty big win in a multitasking system to not have to stall the main CPU so it can literally count cycles bit-banging disk I/O. It just didn't really pay off that...

The "PIC" is more commonly known in the Apple docs as the "IOP"; the IIfx (and Quadra 900/950) have two of them programmed with different firmware; one sits in front of the serial ports and the other in front of the SWIM and the ADB ports. It's a custom MCU based on a 6502 core with a piddling...

"Rage Mobility" comes in both Rage Pro (IE, Mach64-descended chips) and Rage 128 flavors, but digging through the rest of that doc it lists "PowerBook4,1" as a supported system... which translates to the first-gen Snow iBook G3s, which had Rage 128-based Mobility chips so.... yeah, it's pretty...

I'm honestly not sure there's that much meaningful difference in footprint between a IIc and a IIe, given on the IIc you need to leave enough room on the side to stuff a disk in, a IIe in at least some circumstances lets you stack the drives on top, etc.

... okay, FWIW, Here's the Fall 1981-Winter 1982 catalog, and it still lists part numbers for ordering an Integer Basic Apple II. (Page 3). This catalog, "Spring/Summer 1982 dated from March 1982, has it absent. So maybe that's the answer, the plain II was "officially" discontinued in early...

So 46th week of 80. So I guess the "1981" date attributed to Rev 7 is a ballpark number. Which makes sense, actually. What really sets the Rev 07 apart from the earlier boards is it incorporates a number of changes to reduce the amount of radio frequency interference the computer emitted. The...

Based on a quick Google to refresh my memory a board with soldered RAM size jumpers is a Rev. -04, made from 1979 through 1980, and that was the first board used in factory ][plus-es. It was also used in plain II's. As you've noticed the most common version in Plus-es is the -07, circa 1981...

Only if you're one of those people that wants one of every variant. Then, sure, you'll need it?

IDE is just plain janky in the B&W, even the supposedly "fixed" ones. (As it is on similar era machines, like the tray-loading iMac, Beige G3, etc.) I ran into all sorts of random compatibility issues with those things back in the day with normal hard disks. For most retro purposes I have...

To cut to the chase, no. It would be easier to give a precise answer if we had the datasheet for the Portable's LCD, but most of those ancient monochrome LCDs don't use timing anything like a CRT. (This was alluded to in the other thread you linked to this one. Some of these LCDs aren't even all...

I would assume it’s just a standard adapter that’s been “certified to work” in the car application, but I suppose it’s remotely possible there’s something proprietary about it.

I was unreasonably proud of myself years ago when I managed to get WPA1 working on an unmodified Orinoco Silver card pulled out of an original Apple AirPort plugged into an ISA->PCMCIA adapter slotted into a 200mhz Pentium I Dolch lunchbox running Debian. (There was some black magic you could...