Recent content by gsteemso

You said it fits physically, but is it both recognized and functional from a software perspective?

Not to mention that, IIRC, OS 9.2 maxes out at 1.5 GiB (max. 1 GiB per app). Unless you are doing very serious and heavy work, you would never get near those limits in practice. More than 1 GiB is more or less wasted money on an OS 9 machine.

You accidentally put this in the subforum for desktop G3/G4/G5. Might get more traction if there's a way to move it to the one for PowerBooks.

Ah, OK. I am probably mistaken, then. I have no idea what the hiccup in the procedure might be though.

You may find the internal drive is interfering with your manipulation of the SCSI bus. I do not remember specifics but I seem to recall that SCSI devices do not just ignore the bus until addressed...? Not sure how accurate that is. Still, even if it is safely tri-stated or whatever during...

It’s an Atlona DP-400 dual-link-DVI to mini DisplayPort converter, hanging off of a Dual Core PMG5. I learned about an hour after making that last post that the reason I’ve not been having success with the mDP-to-HDMI conversions is probably that the adapters I’ve been using are not active...

I have acquired a (nominally) much better monitor, and also had a few tries with SwitchResX. Alas, my efforts ended in failure, but I now know that (a) the monitor is not more than a small part of the problem, and (b) no matter what I do in SwitchResX, the picture never makes it through a...

I haven’t bothered to try it with an interposed ADC-DVI adapter (which is indeed just a rewired plug connection and shouldn’t matter), but I can tell you that DVI can indeed do 2560x1440 because mine is right now. It has to be dual-link though – maybe that is the source of your reported...

Yeah, I thought that IDC header was socketed onto pins too. Alas, it appears to be soldered down, though I suppose it could always just have a “resists tools” level of stiffness. Prying it off would break it either way. I had in mind the technically simpler solution of plugging a miniDIN plug...

@jeremywork, those closeups do indeed help! I can only really say much about the squarer one, but it’s the one I have a machine for so that’s fine. :¬) Sadly, I don’t know any way to actually tell what the two tiny ICs do from the markings, but the 14 capacitors can’t have _enormous_ values...

@joevt I think it was cut/stamped in one or at most two operations, no third round of cutting. Anything else would have cost more and it really isn’t that complex of a shape in person. @jeremywork do you still own those? I'd be quite interested in reverse-engineering them, at least to the...

No, no it is not. The process is slow but nothing like what you report.

I'd forgotten you can 3D print in metal. Does it still cost a lot? (Last I heard about the subject was about 15 years ago, so I'm a little blurry on the details.) If it's gotten halfway affordable by now, might be easiest to just print the whole bracket in one go, miniDIN-plate pocket and all...

In the course of attempting to find a local company that, years ago, I'd found still offered custom Nubus slot covers/brackets, I ran across a couple of websites that weren’t that one, but may nevertheless be of minor interest to some people here. First, a company that nowadays mostly sells PCB...

I like the way you think! This looks eminently do-able – the only potential sticking point is in finding some scrap PCI-slot covers. Considering the number of obsolete commodity peecees that pass through the Seattle Retro-Computing Society’s buy-sell-free-trade table over the course of a few...