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Also, it's been a while so I forgot, it's not pins, but rather "gates" but easy enough to get the idea- just watch out for the tiny springs that sit along the gates!

Ok, so it's on my twitter, but since I don't really want to promote that anymore after having moved over to bluesky, here's a screenshot of it:

let me see if i can find the photos...

I find that re-keying the quadra locks is pretty trivial- at the end of the day, we're not super-worried about security, pull the core and then just find a single pin or two from your starting lock that matches the donor key, and reassemble- you can leave out the other pins.

Ended up coming here looking for info about the MicroMac ZeroSlot board, as I'm planning to rebuild and upgrade a MicroMac I just picked up at VCF East this weekend that was video card-less, and I just noticed that it's your third unit (I cleaned the case last night after getting home)! I also...

I'm trying to figure out how to reinstall my new (problematic-a topic for another thread) ANS500.... It boots fine off the drive that came with it, but it definitely needs a reload. I've setup the structure of my SD card as: Set the keyswitch for service... I've tried IDs 1, and 2 (2 was the...

Closing this thread. Conversation is going in circles, and the overall conversation is rection unrelated to the main focus of this site (vintage MACINTOSH computers and related ephemera) Continued questioning of clear evidence and speculation in the face of proof isn't beneficial to anyone.

...Also IIRC BMOW had a whole lot of 19-pins made a while back and was looking to unload some... MAYBE?

i meant like the board would have to be designed with the male plugs on opposite sides of the board so one can plug into the board and the other one wouldn't be sandwiched in the middle...

Just got my ITXPlus board in today (really excited, but probably won't have time to fire it up for a few weeks as I'm moving)... regarding the SWIM adapter.. any thoughts to making it in a formfactor such that it can just plug over top of the motherboard header and then exposes the floppy plug...

Picked up a 1Ghz G4 ZIF upgrade in a poorly labeled Beige G3 on Ebay. Also came with a nice Adaptec USB2/Firewire card! checked out fine running at 1GHz (not 67mhz as it shows without sonnet extension loaded) after reapplying the OF patch from the Crescendo installer! Not sure why (as you can...

Figure I should make a thread here for hardware and software I collect. Today's (overpriced, but happy to add to my collection) find is the Japanese language port of Pathways Into Darkness (by Bungie, translated by Attain). Archived...

I use 8169's in all my PTP's and am happy with them... I'd have to look if they're sc variant or not, but they're cards i bought probably 15+ years ago.... sure they don't get the speeds of a g4, but that's not the point, they get good speeds on a fun machine in old versions of MacOS.

Applications are closed. Thank you to everyone who applied!

Somehow the battery in mine from System Source seems good- I haven't run a test to try and see what kind of runtime i can get but using an adapter off eBay, I'm getting the adapter warning as well...does seem to charge up fully and hold a charge...When i get back from my out of town work I'll...