Recent content by JT737

You know, these old compact Macs actually don't use as much electricity as you'd think. I myself always thought that something like a Mac Plus would use somewhere around 100 watts-which isn't completely horrible, especially compared with some of these modern gaming rigs! But it actually uses...

I know! They are just their for the photo shoot. This is also after I gave the monitors an extensive cleaning; these two were being stored in a dusty garage:

So these were headed for the trash-until I saved them! This is part of a larger haul I got yesterday. At the same place, there is a stack of mostly off-brand CRT monitors....I haven't decided if I am going to take any more of them. Most amazing to me was to find three unopened boxes of 5...

Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. I check buyee fairly regularly; while there are still some relatively good deal to be had, it has become more like eBay as far as finding some of the great deals that used to be on the site.

@CC_333 - I will probably sell some of the chips here, as I definitely don't need all of them. After that, I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them. I should probably ask @ZaneKaminski if he might be interested in these, now that I think of it. I am one of the beta testers for...

So the school that I work at is in the processes of cleaning the closets out of one of the STEM labs, and they have a mother-load of old DIP chips that they are going to throw out. Including in this lot were two trays of Motorola 68000 CPU's! So of course I had to grab them: I also grabbed a...

@patatas -Unfortunately, I indeed did not think to back up the firmware for the CV card before I sold it :-(

@patatas -Unfortunately, I got rid of the card a few years ago now. Although I might have copied the firmware; I'll check when I get back home.

@Fred1212 -This one isn't for sale. I have a 40mhz daystar that will probably be the one I sell.....after I make sure that it works fine (I bought it in a IIci, but have never tested it yet). @ArmorAlley -I have a few of Bolle's cards, including his wonderful dual PDS adapter/ethernet combo...

Got this off of Buyee a little while back. What caught my eye was the 44Mb Syquest drive and......of course.....the promise of some kind of video goodie on the inside. This sticker peaked my interest (I don't remember seeing it in the auction), but it turned out to be nothing. So, I...

@chiptripper -Unfortunately, I sold my Interware CV-40-40 booster a few years back. Otherwise, I'd be happy to make a copy of the firmware for you!

I know that the Micromac website seems to say that this card is a ThunderCache card, model number TCCC32F (the F at the end means that it has an FPU). https://www.micromac.com/products/thundercache.html

The unfortunate thing with Tantalum caps is that when they fail, they usually fail with a "bang". This is why I don't use them anymore. I prefer polymer capacitors-they are safer (at least from what I've seen) and seem to be much more voltage tolerant than tantalum capacitors.

Unless you happen to have the original 800k install disks...which I do! Or, as I've done in the past, you can use the floppy emu to install an OS on a given machine....it works really well.

@bigmessowires -It seems easy, I just haven't had much luck. I guess it's kind of funny that to me, the older SCSI2SD was easier for me to work with....but then again, I have all of the vintage equipment to do it! What can I say, I like doing things the hard way.....at least, that's the way my...