This is the clearest photo of my Ti 4600 that I had to hand. Hopefully it's of some small use. I can at least confirm that there should indeed be another TSOP-5 at U817.
If needed, I can take some better quality macro photos. The image above was taken in 2015 on a contemporary smartphone.
I was just riffing on a rather obscure joke from Apple's early '00s keynotes. Pretty much every time Steve mentioned that something was made of polycarbonate he would mention bullet proof vests. I think the first time he does it is when unveiling the B&W G3 and the last time he does it is at the...
Drat, I guess I still have some more tinkering to do then! I'm looking forward to getting back to this thing in the Easter break (and sending you my pinout to see if it works).
The monitors are actually quite sensibly designed inside but there are a ridiculous amount of screws to be removed just to get access to the PCBs.
Out of curiosity: when you power up your monitor with nothing connected, does the tube charge up and the power LED come on or does it just sit...
I think I have sussed out a majority of the pinout by analysing the pivot card and the monitor itself. Unfortunately my monitor isn't in a functional state so I haven't been able to confirm anything. Annoyingly the notepad I have the pinout written in is currently a hundred miles away so I can't...
I've had a surprise surge of interest in these kits over the past month so I think that I should post an update.
I wrote a horribly long and overly detailed explanation of why this project has moved so slowly but it was totally over the top so I've decided to just boil it down to a more...
The 3500 uses a much faster video controller than the 3400 so I would be surprised if they used the same VRAM. I can't say for sure, though. The 3400 and 3500 are essentially the same architecture constructed with different specification components so there's not as much interchangeability as...
As I understand it, only Power Center cards will work in the Power Center 150. So no multi-processing, sorry.
Multiprocessor cards tend to be limited to whichever system they were designed for. Umax, Daystar, and PowerComputing all came up with their own bespoke MP hardware but they shared the...