so i bought a couple Quadra 700's

[EvilCapitalist]

Continuing the JP related fun, when Lex is rebooting the system if you catch the volume name it's "Nedryland JP" but back in the days before HD a quick glance and you would have thought it was "Nerdyland JP"

It also looks like someone is trying to recreate what was shown in the movie software-wise:

http://www.jurassicpark.sk/?project_nedryland

I figure since people have already made replicas of the YJs and the Explorers it's about time they started on the software!

The "security cam feed" is actually a pre-recorded QuickTime video, since there was no streaming video in 1993. QuickTime had just come out about a year and a half earlier.

I remember looking at that when this first came out and thinking "That looks like they're just playing a video.  A live stream wouldn't have a defined end"

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Also, nice Quadra haul uni!

I kind of want to play "spot the other interesting things in uni's office"...I can see a Portable, what looks like a CCII/Performa 52x/55x board, some PowerComputing stuff, a few IIsi machines, and a mix of pizzabox Macs.

 

[CelGen]

One thing I want to warn you about is that Quadras will breed if left in dark spaces.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

That's why mine are trapped under a shelf surrounding the plotter/entertainment center. Supporting it keeps the Trio separated by at least two feet at all times. But the 32" HDTV only comes off the TelCo Rack center in the bedroom when friends are over for movies  .  .  .

.  .  .  so I have to keep the 30" carpenter's toolbox in its place to keep them in place. :

 

[uniserver]

are your quadra's still sitting there in your home made feets?

 

[MinerAl]

One thing I want to warn you about is that Quadras will breed if left in dark spaces.

Don't get them wet, and don't feed them after midnight!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Yep, adjustable height, shelf leveling, high heeled feets! [] ]'>

 

[markyb86]

Man I wish I had extra funds. A souped up Q700 is really the only other Mac I want.

 

[uniserver]

jt you should share a picture of your q700 high heeled feets, i think they got lost the the forum last year.

 

[uniserver]

Yup to each is own,  but i always liked the quadra 700.

Just a few minor drawbacks are:

it only has (4) 30 pin ram slots. 

pretty much stuck at 25mhz,  you can OC them a little but its not that significant

apparently, a Quadra 650 MB will drop right into a Q700 case

and if one were to solder in a rom simm... 

and image a Rob Braun Image to a Dougg3 simm.

you can achieve 512 megs of ram!!!!!!! sickness.

http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/djmemcrom.html

here is a picture of the quadra 700 mb for visual referance.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

jt you should share a picture of your q700 high heeled feets, i think they got lost the the forum last year.

Nap, they're still hosted on iFrog, that was before I was convinced to upload pics locally to make sure they didn't disappear.

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=12478

 

[trag]

apparently, a Quadra 650 MB will drop right into a Q700 case

and if one were to solder in a rom simm... 

and image a Rob Braun Image to a Dougg3 simm.

you can achieve 512 megs of ram!!!!!!! sickness.

The supply of 64 pin SIMM sockets is exhausted.  The stash that olePigeon found at his local store went to Doug for his ROM programmer boards.    Is there another source out there?

It might be time to start looking for dead IIfx boards.   The SIMM sockets should be usable as ROM sockets....

 

[MinerAl]

Nap, they're still hosted on iFrog, that was before I was convinced to upload pics locally to make sure they didn't disappear.

Ha.

 

[Cory5412]

I understand it's frustrating to browse around the forum and see missing images. SOme of them really are from defunct photo hosting services, and in the early years of the forum, people hosting pictures on their own sites or on external image hosts was actually a pretty big problem. There's a large number of threads from the early days that have a lot of missing content for that reason.

Over the past few years, outboard image hosting services have gotten a little better, but to be honest, I still don't trust them.

That said, we also know that there is some work to do, as explained below the quote.

Nap, they're still hosted on iFrog, that was before I was convinced to upload pics locally to make sure they didn't disappear.

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=12478

The pictures still exist, but we haven't had the time to test and run the script to restore them, or start working on them manually. It's a time and effort-intensive process, and with a few things being a little bit more critical, we've had to prioritize our to-do list a little bit. Between more pressing issues, professional lives, and with my chronic health issues still existing and being chronic and wthww's recent move to the other side of the country, things have been a little busy of late.

Unfortunately, the task isn't something we can sub-contract to somebody who does have the time or wherewithal.

Some other things have also prevented wthww and I from connecting and documenting some processes, so some of the infrastructure and tools needed to do the has but I don't.

You can rest assured that although it's slow going, nothing's lost and it will ultimately happen. The site has now existed longer than MacAddict, the commercial publication whose forum we were born from, has. (or at least longer than it kept that name, which was a little over eleven years.) So, we don't have any plans to go anywhere.

As a sidenote, it's a small miracle iFrog still exists. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startupmost image hosting services don't last long, or survive only by being quite limited.

 

[MinerAl]

I appreciate your effort keeping this fun forum running.

I wish the images from >15 months ago would be a higher priority though. A huge part of what makes this community so valuable is the legacy threads that bring the Google hits, introduce new hobbyists to the forums, and keep the same questions from being asked over and over again. A lot of great info from users who have moved on is still available to us. But if those legacy threads have no illustrations, many of them are rendered, at least, less useful.

The OP of this now several times derailed thread used to have a wealth of threads about recapping a bunch of different logic boards. All of those threads relied on the big awesome photos in the first post. They're fading into the depths of the forums because they aren't useful anymore.

I realize the undertaking of restoring all the images is massive. I love the "new" forum software. Migrating more than the text should've been a problem solved before the switch, not still a looming issue more than a year after.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

<  /irony  >

 

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

Maybe we should compile a list of the more popular/valuable threads and perhaps get them restored before others. It'd be progress in that area without committing a huge chunk of time. 

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

The supply of 64 pin SIMM sockets is exhausted.

Since they're thru-hole components, I'd think re-secting RAM SIMM Sockets as a 2->1 conversion process should be fairly straightforward. IIRC, some Macs have the Sockets, but little use for dougg3's masterpieces? Such could be be a "dework" source in transferring from the real deal from one to Mac to another in a collection.

 

[Cory5412]

<  /irony  >

Yeah, I don't know if I'd call it irony, or just good luck. Whatever it is, it is truly better to host images here on the forum. If iFrog goes down, wthww and I can't get to those pictures. We have the copies, backups, and a testing environment of 68kMLA.org, which is why every time it comes up, I make it a point to reiterate that the images aren't lost.

I appreciate your effort keeping this fun forum running.

I wish the images from >15 months ago would be a higher priority though.

We know, we did actually do test migrations and if I remember correctly, hit an unexpected snag on the real thing, and at the time, getting something running was more important than all of the images, and putting the old thing back in place wasn't practical either, because it was absolutely on its last legs, putting it back up would have been impractical at best, and insecure and unstable for everyone at best.

Of course, another lesson learned for uniserver is that keeping backups of your own files is a good idea. It wouldn't have helped here because we actually have the files, but there have been situations where he could have re-posted the same diagrams.

It's on the docket, but there are a few things higher up, either because they have a bigger impact on the experience today, or because the wiki is down.

 

[uniserver]

Of course, another lesson learned for uniserver is

hey keep me out of it.

I'm in a fair mood.