From Amazon I decided to get a stack of books on networking old Macs:
Managing AppleShare & Workgroup Severs
Designing AppleTalk Network Architectures
AppleTalk Network Services
(these are all with CDs and written by Network Frontiers: Dorian Cougias, Tom Dell, E.L. Heiberger, and friends)
TOPS - The IBM/Macintosh Connection, by Stephen Cobb and Marty Jost
Despite the large learning curve I am trying to learn more about networking. One very cool thing is that books on obsolete computer stuff go for dirt cheap.
ATTO UL3D Ultra3 SCSI PCI card - supposedly shipped with later MDD servers and used in Avid/ProTools systems. Going to try to make my next MDD a SCSI one for comparison.
1GB of RAMBUS memory, to max out a PIII system I salvaged from work for running Win98SE/DOS software
Descent - Levels of the World
Gravis Firebird2 ADB joystick
These go together. I always thought that Descent looked fun, but I never managed to map the controls in a way I was happy with. A flight-controller style joystick with hat switch should do nicely. The disc is a mission pack add-on for the original Mac version of Descent. Anybody know if there are Mac versions of the extra missions for D2 and D3?
Korg 1212 audio interface, 880 D/A rack
These are part of Korg's mid-to-late 90s "Soundlink DRS" system. They can handle digital mixing over ADAT "lightpipes" or SPDIF. The 1212 offers sophisticated audio routing and a little DSP, running a version of Deck. My other DRS card is my beloved OasysPCI, so the 1212 can be used with it to pipe 8 channels of digital audio between two OS 9 Macs, or send both to a digital mixer, or integrating gear which has digital i/o. Surprisingly these Korgs have been diffifcult to find.
Back to the tinkering!
Managing AppleShare & Workgroup Severs
Designing AppleTalk Network Architectures
AppleTalk Network Services
(these are all with CDs and written by Network Frontiers: Dorian Cougias, Tom Dell, E.L. Heiberger, and friends)
TOPS - The IBM/Macintosh Connection, by Stephen Cobb and Marty Jost
Despite the large learning curve I am trying to learn more about networking. One very cool thing is that books on obsolete computer stuff go for dirt cheap.
ATTO UL3D Ultra3 SCSI PCI card - supposedly shipped with later MDD servers and used in Avid/ProTools systems. Going to try to make my next MDD a SCSI one for comparison.
1GB of RAMBUS memory, to max out a PIII system I salvaged from work for running Win98SE/DOS software
Descent - Levels of the World
Gravis Firebird2 ADB joystick
These go together. I always thought that Descent looked fun, but I never managed to map the controls in a way I was happy with. A flight-controller style joystick with hat switch should do nicely. The disc is a mission pack add-on for the original Mac version of Descent. Anybody know if there are Mac versions of the extra missions for D2 and D3?
Korg 1212 audio interface, 880 D/A rack
These are part of Korg's mid-to-late 90s "Soundlink DRS" system. They can handle digital mixing over ADAT "lightpipes" or SPDIF. The 1212 offers sophisticated audio routing and a little DSP, running a version of Deck. My other DRS card is my beloved OasysPCI, so the 1212 can be used with it to pipe 8 channels of digital audio between two OS 9 Macs, or send both to a digital mixer, or integrating gear which has digital i/o. Surprisingly these Korgs have been diffifcult to find.
Back to the tinkering!
