Recent content by John_A

I’m late to the party and you may have covered this already. But where do you get the components to populate these new mother boards? New? Nos? Salvaged parts? A combination?

Hmm, seems that I might be wrong about mac drivers for BJC-80 and 85.The only drivers I found was to an attachment, Canon is-12, wich replaces the printhead and turn the printer into a scanner.. A bit strange that there are drivers for the accessories but not the printer itself..

Found this in a basement storage.. Parallel printer port, drivers for dos & win95. Found fairly inexpensive cables online, parallel ->usb that works with MacOs 9.x -> osx 10.5. The BJC-80 & 85 should work with MacOS classic.  Whats your experience of connecting vintage...

Thanks! Did a bit of research and found that there are a few different versions, some with “x” in the end of the product name. I suppose those are guaranteed to work with OSX? I need one for  MacOS 9/usb, but I guess they are compatible?

Trying this topic again..  :)

Update 2: So, I tried today to compare some older videos, compressed with h.264 and recompressing the original files with h.265 and push the bitstream to really low levels. Honestly, I cant se much of a difference at 720x576 comparing the results. Original file: DV video  28895Kbit/s  total...

An update: It works! Actually better than I thought it would. The major issue is of course getting the files off the PB, i only have a USB HDD and copying large files are extremely slow. So, I went down to our storage and dug through the piles of electronics, found a HP nx9240 17" with a...

Yes, at the time it was a luxury to connect your camcorder to a computer.. What make me hesitate is the hard disk requirement.. At a closer investigation 13gb / hour is needed. Thats 200Mb / minute. So, compression is a must, but thats not a viable option on an old G3, although it would be...

Yes, you are correct. I thought at a quick glance that DVC was a compression method of DV, but DVC is as you pointed out, a slightly improved format with a wider track pitch when recorded on tape. It's quite a technological djungle actually, I found at least 5 different variations on the DVC...

I guess I need to get the cables and try then. According to the dv-specs it's 720x576 at 24fps (PAL).  25Mbit/s  with the dvc compression, plus the audio.  As I recall, the PB Lombard had a mpeg-2 card besides the graphics card to decode the dvd stream, while the Pismo has that function built...

I got my hands on a Sony miniDV tape viewer/tranfer station recently with a FW output. I guess the PB Pism FireWire implementation is one of the earlier ones. It seems FW400 came in different flavours with transfer speeds ranging from 98 to 393 Mbit/s. The main bottleneck is probably the HDD...

Would be fun to raise a ticket at Apples support site and report this as a software bug  :lol: Interesting to see if there is anyone left with a sense of humour at Apple or if all those guys are retired by now.. Anyway, keep reporting! It's a very interesting and fun read  8-)

Spectre supreme? Oxyd? 

As an upcoming project I have been planning for an updated, 3d printed version of the Appledesign Powered speakers 2. I have the enclosure specs, but it would be nice with a pdf with the drawings and measurements, if there ever was such a thing. Can only find the pdf for the taller, first version? 

Don't know if you have this technical note. https://www.fenestrated.net/mirrors/Apple Technotes (As of 2002)/os/os_06.html