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luRaichu
Anyone know anything about that company called Mirror? AFAIK they made the Powervision, a mod for video-out-less PBs like the 170 to display on an external monitor, they also made CRTs.
luRaichu
luRaichu
There's no information on this company yielded by a cursory Google search since they're probably out of buisness and their name is really generic (just like "Meta"). The reason I want to know more about Mirror is that I'd really like to reverse-engineer the Powervision and thought aout contacting former Mirror employees.
Iesca
Iesca
Assuming it's the same Mirror, they also made the Magnum 800k External Floppy Drive and some external hard drives. Their full name is Mirror Technologies.
ClassicGuyPhilly
Why does eBay have to have such cool stuff? And why am I so weak-willed?

In my defense, I brought home over a half dozen of these posters from the Macworld Expo, guess I should have kept one!
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Another PB100 recapped and working again! They just somehow keep showing at my doorstep... 🤔
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cheesestraws
Oh, nice :) my wife is a mediæval historian and sometimes I get to join in with some of the detective work in documents
Phipli
Phipli
@cheesestraws : helping transcoding from BCDIC to unicode and the like?
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few people know that 7-bit bytes, as assumed by ASCII, emerged first in the early 1200s, replacing the 6-bit byte system that had previously been used, the extra character places being needed for more control signals when telegraphy moved from fire-beacons to more nuanced systems with higher throughput...
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ClassicGuyPhilly
I nominate the following as best quote of the day. Well done @Phipli !

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Snial
I remember when the PPC Macs first came out - the massive section in Personal Computer World (April 1994?). It felt like a totally new era, a whole new ball game where Macs might actually out-perform PCs. And shortly afterwards I bought the Inside Macintosh PowerPC Architecture book (still have it) and was blown away by the cleverness of it all. I didn't have a PPC Mac then, I just wanted to know.
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Snial
Yes, I think I've seen the picture of it, with the lid off!
Phipli
Phipli
@Snial - I don't think I've seen than.
CircuitBored
After a very long hiatus I am pleased to report that the Pulsar lives again.
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Phipli
Phipli
What base logicboard does it have? What is the closest Apple machine?
joshc
joshc
A 9500 IIRC.
CircuitBored
CircuitBored
@Phipli The LB is essentially a 9500 with a PCI bridge providing four of the six PCI slots instead of doing it properly. Besides that and the second CPU socket (only usable with official SuperMac P-series CPUs, which are stupidly rare) there are only a handful of minor differences. PCI cards with bridge chips do not work in the lower slots, which I am currently trying to hack my way around.
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