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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...

This. My default way to install an OS on a SCSI2SD drive was first to format the card using an application such as Lido 7, and then simply treat the drive like a regular hard drive and install an OS from either a CD-ROM or the install files from another hard drive (all of this is done using...

Looks good here:

@SophieRose -Congratulations! And it looks like you have the same Wacom tablet that I use. @bigmessowires -I'll raise you my Sym I ...although I have to admit I haven't gotten it to work yet!

I use one of @Bolle's adapters in conjunction with a GL-AR300M shadow router and the Mac WIFI extension on my SE/30. Works pretty well.....at least, as well as it can with a 68030 based Mac. I basically used the same procedure that someone used here...

@volvo242gt @bibilit -This was the first test of the monitor, with it's original IIci and cable. Somewhere in my mess I have another cable that I can test it with, and of course, I can always hook it up to my SE/30 to see what it does as well. @KC13 -Sorry to hear about your IIci! If you...

So I recently won a IIci from Buyee...which in and of itself, isn't a big deal. But it had a Daystar Powercache 68030 card in it as well as a network card! The card is the 40Mhz version and doesn't have a 68882, but for the price that I got it all for, I think I did pretty good. However...

@bigmessowires -Those seem like a great deal! I'll have to order a few and try my luck.

I shouldn't make a difference. The voltage is just what is powering the printer, and the printer's operations should be the same with either 240 or 120 volts.

@Phipli -Thanks! I think that I bought these ribbons 5 years ago or so....I can't remember. I got this one with a few color ribbons, which best I can tell have suffered the same fate. Other than the rollers everything seems good. Of course, I think that the design idea of using a foam...

I have a few ImageWriter II's and I finally decided to get around to getting one of them up and running for a project I'm working on. The ImageWriter itself is in good shape, but of course, the cartridge that was in it didn't seem to be working. So I decided to swap it out for a new old stock...

@cheesestraws @Aeroform -Later when I get home, I'll try a couple of key combinations at start-up and see what I get.

@bigmessowires -Yea, the 68040 accelerators were definitely a bit steep! And very expensive in today's dollars if you do a time/value of money calculation on them. However, I think that the 68030 25Mhz accelerator wasn't too obscenely priced for the day....especially when a new 68030 based...

I found this old ad from 1992 wedged into one of the manuals for a Daystar accelerator I recently acquired. I wonder just how many forgotten Mac Classics are still sitting on someone's shelves like in this ad......

I actually have a GrandVimage 24-16s in my collection-man does that card have a bunch of video resolution options! Alas, the driver that works for that card does not work for any of the VDR-2x cards, including this one.

Well, I've tried several operating systems with this, including O.S. 7.5.3....and I still cannot get this card to display in any other resolution other than 640x480. I found a mystery resistor on one of it's multiplexers (74f251ap). I de-soldered it to see if that would affect anything with...

@bigmessowires -Unfortunately no, just VGA and DVI on all of the ones that I have. These monitors came brand new circa the early-to-mid aughts with the Dell computers I used to distribute, so I guess Dell didn't see the need to install composite video on them.