Recent content by John_A

I have created a workspace in NotebookLM and uploaded all 33 IM reference books in pdf format as the only source. Doesnt seem that its possile to share a link. Any ideas on a question? I will upload the unfiltered answer here. (Edit: wrote this while adestopon asked the copilot.)

Exactly this. The revised IM collection consists of 33 large volumes. Mac Garden had them on a CD image at one point, might still be there. But using a AI "librarian" to do the heavy lifting seems better.

Don´t know if this have been up for discussion. Would be interesting to load the whole Inside Macintosh series of books into something like Googles NotebookLM (or if there is something better around). Then ask questions to find the best solutions on various programming related topics. Anyone...

I’m late to the party and you may have covered this already. But where do you get the components to populate these new mother boards? New? Nos? Salvaged parts? A combination?

Hmm, seems that I might be wrong about mac drivers for BJC-80 and 85.The only drivers I found was to an attachment, Canon is-12, wich replaces the printhead and turn the printer into a scanner.. A bit strange that there are drivers for the accessories but not the printer itself..

Found this in a basement storage.. Parallel printer port, drivers for dos & win95. Found fairly inexpensive cables online, parallel ->usb that works with MacOs 9.x -> osx 10.5. The BJC-80 & 85 should work with MacOS classic.  Whats your experience of connecting vintage...

Thanks! Did a bit of research and found that there are a few different versions, some with “x” in the end of the product name. I suppose those are guaranteed to work with OSX? I need one for  MacOS 9/usb, but I guess they are compatible?

Trying this topic again..  :)

Update 2: So, I tried today to compare some older videos, compressed with h.264 and recompressing the original files with h.265 and push the bitstream to really low levels. Honestly, I cant se much of a difference at 720x576 comparing the results. Original file: DV video  28895Kbit/s  total...

An update: It works! Actually better than I thought it would. The major issue is of course getting the files off the PB, i only have a USB HDD and copying large files are extremely slow. So, I went down to our storage and dug through the piles of electronics, found a HP nx9240 17" with a...

Yes, at the time it was a luxury to connect your camcorder to a computer.. What make me hesitate is the hard disk requirement.. At a closer investigation 13gb / hour is needed. Thats 200Mb / minute. So, compression is a must, but thats not a viable option on an old G3, although it would be...

Yes, you are correct. I thought at a quick glance that DVC was a compression method of DV, but DVC is as you pointed out, a slightly improved format with a wider track pitch when recorded on tape. It's quite a technological djungle actually, I found at least 5 different variations on the DVC...

I guess I need to get the cables and try then. According to the dv-specs it's 720x576 at 24fps (PAL).  25Mbit/s  with the dvc compression, plus the audio.  As I recall, the PB Lombard had a mpeg-2 card besides the graphics card to decode the dvd stream, while the Pismo has that function built...

I got my hands on a Sony miniDV tape viewer/tranfer station recently with a FW output. I guess the PB Pism FireWire implementation is one of the earlier ones. It seems FW400 came in different flavours with transfer speeds ranging from 98 to 393 Mbit/s. The main bottleneck is probably the HDD...

Would be fun to raise a ticket at Apples support site and report this as a software bug  :lol: Interesting to see if there is anyone left with a sense of humour at Apple or if all those guys are retired by now.. Anyway, keep reporting! It's a very interesting and fun read  8-)