The Mother of All Conquests

[beachycove]

Sorry, no.

 

[Unknown_K]

The parts list sounds good, to be honest that stuff is harder to find then machines these days.

 

[Quadraman]

full '040s

IC-China on ebay?

He hasn't had any for ages

The last time I saw him with any, he had two 40 mhz and I bought both of them. I think he wanted $15 each for them, but that has to be about a year to a year and a half ago.

And I agree about Amiga users ruining the market for cheap parts for us Mac users.

 

[beachycove]

I have posted a number of photos of some of the interesting things on the group's Flickr site.

 

[Bunsen]

Daystar DiskRunner caching SCSI card :O so jealous right now.

Your haul of SE/30 PDS cards makes me want to

:scrambled: xx(

Very nice little treasure trove.

 

[beachycove]

As for the Daystar Diskrunner, I know next to nothing about it.

What machine would a Diskrunner be well paired with? I would have thought that, by the time of the IIci, say, it would have been redundant. Or is there a use for it even in 1990s hardware?

 

[niccyb]

Another thing is the heat as well...not such a problem in Winter, but in the middle of Summer it gets bloody hot in a car boot...my Dad leaves his work laptop in the boot of his car all the time and I'm surprised the heat hasn't damaged it.

Definitely. I left a Dell Optiplex (covered in black plastic) in the back of the car for about 2 days (in the middle of summer, in Melbourne...) and when I went to collect it it was little more than a warped mass of black and grey plastic. Another issue is that with the older macs, moving them from a hot to cold environment constantly causes the plastic to brittle - hence my beige Plus cracking in several places when I went to pry it open! Weather and computers don't mix...

 

[kvanderlaag]

I am a jealous, jealous man right now. Any unwanted goodies among the haul of audio gear?

 

[Bunsen]

As for the Daystar Diskrunner, I know next to nothing about it.

Same here, but I do seem to recall someone else here extolling their virtues. I'll see if I can dig up the thread.

Meanwhile, software here - maybe it has a readme or a manual in the download.

 

[bd1308]

Does the portable even work?

 

[beachycove]

The Portable was not finally included in the lot. But there was a lot in the lot, anyway, if you know what I mean.