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    Unknown_K replied to the thread PowerMac G4!.
    Older vests were made of Kevlar (aramid fibers), newer ones are made of Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) plus...
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    I have a whole bunch of Supermac Thunder/24 Nubus cards that has 3MB RAM (some with DSP and most with Gworld RAM) and they are fine at...
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread PowerMac G4!.
    I rarely had issues with second hand hard disks (I test them when I get them). One guy shipped me a whole bunch of SCSI HDs with no...
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    The one thing people forget is those high end video cards are optimized for 24 bit video. https://lowendmac.com/video/thunder2gx.html...
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread PowerMac G4!.
    I must be the only one using newer and somewhat faster than OEM IDE drives in my G4 towers. OS9 runs fast enough on IDE and OSX 10.4.x...
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    RAM chip issues probably. Check if any of the VRAM chip pins are mangled or disconnected or shorting with another pin or if any chips...
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes.
    Could be, there are more than one way these things die.
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes.
    No, it did happen but mostly on motherboard capacitors. Those SMT capacitors on video cards (before they switched to solid polymer) were...
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes.
    Probably got baked from the heat.
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    Very nice configuration.
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread IIGS high speed scsi.
    I have the normal Apple SCSI card in one of my IIgs systems and I like the ability to use external drives. SCSI + extra RAM +...
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    It's under the palm rest from what I remember so you have to take the top off.
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread small ide HD.
    I think my old Dauphin DTR1's have kittyhawks. The USB device I was thinking about was probably a microdrive from IBM/Hitachi.
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    Unknown_K replied to the thread small ide HD.
    I have a couple USB drives that have that HD inside. Think they are in the basement will look later.
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    The old benchmarking software would probably all fit in 2MB of cache making the machine seem much faster than it should be. I think I...
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