Recent content by Unknown_K

The IIcx adapter was probably the hardest to find and you needed an early motherboard with a socketed CPU. Granted you might as well just put in a IIci motherboard and save the adapter expense.

It's the most common one made and has the most adapters for other systems that don't have the native IIci PDS. I have adapters for IIcx, Mac II , IIx, and LC2/3. The best is the Sonnet Presto Plus with Ethernet and 32MB of RAM but limited to LC PDS.

So are working 700-900Mhz iBooks worth much?

I think I had problems with the trackpad cable on higher end G3 iBook coming off the board (easy enough to fix). Taking the G3's apart was not much fun. If you want to run OSX get a G4 PowerBook, easier to work on and metal (better video as well), for OS 9 I think theG3 iBook's are cool.

The IBM 5150 64K I have came with a MonteCarlo RAM/Serial card to deal with having only 5 slots. You can tell it is an early card made for the 5150 because it uses the same wide black ISA brackets common on that system.

You seem to forget IBM made the first small portable computer in 1975, the 5100 and it flopped hard.

Internet on vintage anything isn't much fun. I had issues running Internet over 15 years ago on a 386DX/40 because Netscape kept crashing, wasn't much fun on a 68040 before that either. IRC ran ok back then.

I think people overthink why x86 won. IBM made an open system where nobody had to pay money to make hardware upgrades. Large software companies made programming languages for x86 to support office and industry and tons of applications came about because of that. Finally, sales were so great that...

I think both of my SE/30's have ethernet, very useful. AT&T T7720, you mean one of these? https://partsmine.com/all/at-t-t7220pc-integrated-circuit-in-dip-28-package-legacy-network-device/

I love the Beige G3 tower, wish I had more than one.

The rich have had jet packs for a long time. By AI it could just be ebay allowing you to copy another auction "sell one like this"

Out of curiosity did he have other auctions that sold and worked out?

They hold money for new members to make sure its not a scam.

Some people use sniping tools, I never have. Any bid you enter is a max bid and eBay will counter any other bid until your max is reached. About the only thing I do is if I bid $20 I will make it $20.03 or something so that the next bid increment is $20.50 since most people enter whole numbers.

Was the max bid a sniping bid for the last few seconds of the auction or a normal bid? I was under the impression you can't change descriptions after somebody bids.