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  1. dankcomputing

    Are SCA80-IDC50 SCSI adapters with high-byte termination still available anywhere?

    This is really impressive. I'll be giving it a try. Thank you so much for this!
  2. dankcomputing

    Are SCA80-IDC50 SCSI adapters with high-byte termination still available anywhere?

    I have checked all over the net. All that's left are cheapo ones that do not have high byte termination, which means they work with next to no drives. For that matter I can't seem to find 68-50 adapters with high byte termination either.
  3. dankcomputing

    Trip Report: Yansen 2.5 PATA SSD in Wallstreet

    Tried the 128GB version of this guy, having high hopes. Doesn't boot. It shipped with the ID already jumpered, but if you remove that jumper it apparently IDs as Slave, which is the reverse of how all actual 2.5 hard drives behave. The Wallstreet's connector extends into the jumper area, so...
  4. dankcomputing

    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    I get away with using 32GB CFs in the IDE bay all the time. What brand/adapter are you using? I've had good luck with SanDisk Extreme 32GB cards, and bigger cards up to 128GB should work.
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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    What info about the connected hard drive can it see (try system profiler) and does that info look corrupted? could be a hardware/cable issue
  6. dankcomputing

    NEC BK168 USB Cardbus

    It works!
  7. dankcomputing

    PowerBook G3 PRAM Battery—i moved it

    Could you post a Gerber version of the Wallstreet PCB file? I've been waiting years to be able to rebuild these batteries and this is just the thing to make it as painless as possible.
  8. dankcomputing

    eBay 400MHz Wallstreet II?

    I'm seeing this too. I swapped a 300 mhz CPU card into a 266 and Apple System Profiler reports it as 450 mhz. Any idea where this is coming from? It's not PRAM because none of the PRAM batteries in these work anymore. I did a PMU reset and there was no change. Maybe something in OpenFirmware?
  9. dankcomputing

    Powerbook 170 internal video cables and connectors

    That looks like it could be the part. Thanks for finding it! I don't want to do a direct wire-up because the LCD has tunneling anyway and I'm hoping to get it baked or replaced at some point.
  10. dankcomputing

    Powerbook 170 internal video cables and connectors

    Does anyone know the make/model/part number of the ribbon cable connector on the PB170 LCD? This would be part of the Hosiden HLR1014 and not in any Apple service manual. I have one here that won't make proper contact even though it's been cleaned and reflowed. Pics for reference(source)...
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    CCFL backlight in PB 145 / 160 /165 = CCFL backlight in PB 180?

    I'm looking for a replacement CCFL for a Powerbook 160. It was never a separate part number and never sold separately; back in the day the entire LCD assembly, backlight and all, was treated as a whole unit. It is possible today to buy CCFL tubes of the appropriate sizes, so maybe the thing to...
  12. dankcomputing

    CCFL backlight in PB 145 / 160 /165 = CCFL backlight in PB 180?

    Every panel appears to have a different size CCFL.
  13. dankcomputing

    PowerBook 140, 145, 145B, 160, 165 LCD Displays

    I tried the Rev A (LM64P51) in a Powerbook 160 and I got a usable picture, at least for about 30 seconds. After that the bottom half disappeared, but I think that's a problem with the screen as it came from a very broken machine. The picture was still greyscale and there was no change in the...
  14. dankcomputing

    NEC BK168 USB Cardbus

    This Reddit thread and this Chinese blog post suggests that they can work.
  15. dankcomputing

    NEC BK168 USB Cardbus

    These cards are everywhere, are cheap, don't stick out of the slot, and don't need dongles. Has anyone tried getting one running under 9.2.2? It's also possible to transplant the 9.2.2 USB drives into 9.1 and they'll still work, BTW.
  16. dankcomputing

    Checkmate Retro LCD Monitor

    The Checkmate Amiga/ATX cases make some sense because new horizontal beige desktop ATX cases basically don't exist. Unfortunately they're a bit too costly, but there's no other options. This monitor doesn't make nearly as much sense, there's plenty of other monitors out there that do what this...
  17. dankcomputing

    Building an internal grayscale card for the SE/30

    It's not just 1-bit either - tons of very important games also rely on 4-bit color being available. I wish I could help fix this, sounds like a weird hardware design choice.
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    Building an internal grayscale card for the SE/30

    There was a pile of iisi PDS Pivot video cards on eBay for peanuts about 10 years ago. Everyone bought one and they're long gone.
  19. dankcomputing

    Announcing ZuluSCSI - A file-based SCSI device emulator

    Oh the 4GB (brand is Team) is working fine. I also tried an 8GB (Kingston) and that works too. The problem cards were all 2GB. Brands were Kingston (have 4 of the exact same model here) and one PNY. I also have a Toshiba card that simply locks up both versions of the ZuluSCSI (doesn't even give...
  20. dankcomputing

    Announcing ZuluSCSI - A file-based SCSI device emulator

    Just bought a ZuluSCSI RP2040 and immediately ran into a bug that's not present on the older hardware version - SD cards smaller than 4GB won't work. I tried a whole bunch of 2GB cards that I knew worked on the old hardware and got the 5-blink error message every time. Tried a 4 and 16GB card...
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