I went to the Goodwill thrift shop in Columbus, NE when seeing a friend I made at Anime Nebraskon, and my wife and I found several things we wanted. I got several games including Oddworld (PS1 game), and several PC games, but I got a perfect in box (maybe installed once?) Diablo II BattleChest...
Yup. it's fully terminated. The termination is built into the cable which is a 16-bit SCSI cable (68-pins). So that's not the issue. I looked up the drive and it does not specify SCSI-2 as a standard is supposed. It's either Ultra160 or Ultra320 and that's all that is listed. So it's most...
So a bit of an update, and I will post pics tonight.
I cannot get the 36GB 15k RPM HDD working because it is a fully 16-bit SCSI drive. Which means it will not down-convert to an 8- bit bus like the onboard SCSI bus is. The only work-around would be to get a SCSI card. With resources a bit...
Bit of some disappointing news. I got the CPU in but I had to go on an emergency trip for a family member that went into the hospital (they are ok now thankfully) but last night I put the system together. The results are as follows:
The CPU they sent me was NOT 366Mhz, it was 266!! I have...
So... All the parts finally arrived. I will try to get the computer assembled over the weekend or maybe even tonight and take pictures along the way. I found a friend willing to let me have his copy of Warcraft II to install. This is going to be a heck of a lot of fun. I can't wait to start...
So, the vintage bug has bit me once again, so I decided to do some old-skool mac gaming with Mac OS 9 as the host.
The setup:
PowerMac Beige G3 Rev.2 board with Revision C ROM. Desktop Form-factor
366Mhz G3 CPU with 512KB L2 Cache
3x 256MB Low-Density, Low-Profile RAM (768MB Total)
Radeon...
Is that a tamagotchi?
Wow, I haven't seen one of those since the early to mid 1990's I remember when furbies were new. Anyone heard about the furby convention which resulted in 5000+ fried furbies when they simultaneously fried their circuits due to a bug? I thought that was hilarious and...
Totally loving it. I haven't had too much chance to play with it, you know with being social (now) and having a job. I am spending more time with my girlfriend than computers (beats computers) so it will get put through more paces when Anime Nebraskon comes up and I do a bunch of photography...
Got my new laptop. Wow, it's extremely well built. The initial impression of just taking out of a refurb box made me have the impression that even second best is considered first place. I have never had a refurb product packed with such care and even packaging that made me think it was being...
The laptop will be coming on thursday through UPS. I have asked my dad to be at my mom's to sign for it since I will be at work probably when it comes. I have a date tonight with a really cute girl that I worked up my courage to ask out. I also have other things to do the next few days to keep...
I only got a small amount of time to mess with the retina display, but was really impressed by the display quality. I am spoiled by having 1080 displays like the 17.3" LED 1920x1080 display on my Asus, so it's hard to go down to something like 1440x900 like normal on the 15" MacBook Pros. I...
I dropped the money a few days ago on a Refurbished MacBook Pro with the following specs:
2.6Ghz Quad-Core Core i7
15" Retina-Class Display
16GB DDR3 RAM
512GB Solid-State drive
The cost? $2,400 with tax (ouch!) but I have been looking at one of these for 6 months and wanted to make sure I...
On MS site you can get trial versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Google "Digital River Windows 7" and you will find the images. MS makes them available for trial ware with no keys. You can install Windows without a key for 30 days, and since it's a core2duo, it will run Windows 7 easily...
Ah, ok didn't understand that right. Ok thanks! I will be sure to let you know when I get back home that all is well... Do you have the locations I am supposed to solder these at? is there like a guide i can follow?
I need to install the CPU with the oscillator. It's not pre-installed. There's just a 68LC040 in it. but the sender also sent a full 040 for my to install (i need to solder in the oscillator, easy peasy for me though.
So I got a Centris 610 motherboard coming in the mail with a full 040 and a spare oscillator (for the proper speed) and I was thinking instead of mounting in a Centris 610/Quadra 605 desktop unit, I would mount it in an old ATX tower and the magical use of a dremel and some sheet metal, I can...
I know it's an old thread, but once I get my LC III up (converting an LC II to LC III) I am going to try to re-package these files in .sit. I will have to track down an old form of Stuffit somewhere (possibly eBay) or use a trial version or something if it exists. I will package it as old as I...
Is it really that hard to carry a brick with you? I mean, for the unique factor it might be nice, but I hardly say it's probably worth the small fortune it would've commanded in the day. The best thing about some external bricks is that they can have really long cords making an unbelievable...