Speaking from personal experience? Sounds like a blast! If I can't get my hands on a mac soon, I'll just hold onto it until I can find some room because this sounds like it could be one rabbit hole.
I love the expansion capability of a Tower style mac (I dream of owning a Q900/950). It's quite frustrating when space becomes the issue. Those are some nice towers you got there @Phipli!
Hello everyone!
If anyone has seen the trading post, I'm looking at purchasing a G3 accelerator for the 604/G3 series. I'm not well versed with these machines and I was wondering if anyone could help steer me in the right direction.
I'd like a Mac that could actually utilize this card, but...
Wow, that’s quite an offer. I’ll PM you then. I truly hope you can get it to work. First computers like that are hard to part with or see broken. You’ll have to promise me you show me the results of your testing with it though!
I should be able to, though I need to get a new chip programmer as mine bit the dust. When I do get a new one @Jamieson, I’ll let you know and hopefully get that bin file for you.
If you really want it then I’d be willing to do a trade. At least for me, I’d send you the whole upper case since trying to carefully send just the screen probably would not go well with our post office. (Tend to not be the kindest on boxes)
For me, this second 520 is just taking up space...
Fellow Spectrum/24 III owner here, I can't seem to find the v1.1 rom for you online but I do have the rom in mine. It may take me some time but I may be able to dump it. Does the 1.0 rom limit anything that you know of?
Bringing this post back from the dead now that I’ve actually done what I said I would do. I swapped the display once again in my working 520c with its working cable and the same thing happened. I may crack it open to check for leaky capacitors but the fact that color is showing for that brief...
Interesting @AEChadwick. I haven’t tested anything yet but I’ll keep that in mind when I go to test it. Hopefully since I lost today, I can respond thoughtfully tomorrow.
So I’ve built a 520c from parts that are known working except the display. I have never had this display work but it seems to have some life in it. It briefly shows colors before going all black so I’m wondering if it’s something with the inverter board or the cables. Any help is appreciated.
Emmy
Hi everyone!
After having success with nabbing a PowerBook 520c for cheap, I wanted to push its limits and see what I could make it do.
Its little 25 MHz 040 wasn’t enough for me and after acquiring a 33 MHz 040, I craved something more of this machine. I had heard that PPC accelerators were...
So I’ve made some progress.
The drive was not working due to the head being REAL stuck from the grease. Moving it a little caused the head to seek and spin the drive. Now I’m at the next issue, it can read any drives. It detects a floppy is present but can’t read anything on it. I suspect the...
How would you recommend getting this software onto my PowerBook? I have an Ethernet adapter but I have no idea how to configure it for something like a file server.
I’m continuing off of this one as it doesn’t seem to make sense creating another one on the same machine.
Ok! I just got the cable for my PowerBook 520c and after plugging in the cable and trying a disk, no spinning noises or it being ejected. It will only come out if force eject it out. I’ll...