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Syquest also made the Syjet drive (its a 3.5" form factor) at 1.5GB with a SCSI interface. The drives aren't too expensive, but the cartridges are getting harder to find.

The company that I worked for at the time (in Montreal) almost got a production contract for the Hyperion. There were a few of them brought in to analyze for setting up the production process. Interesting footnote is that one of the people in our BIOS group said most of the incompatibilities...

The buss bars/decoupling capacitor parts that we used were yellow coloured, probably because they weren't made by Rogers. They were coloured a mustard yellow, the colour being similar to what you would see on a tantalum bead (through hole) or surface mount capacitor. Ours looked more like they...

The red strips are indeed power bus bars. Specifically, they are for VCC and Ground, and are also low value bypass capacitors of a sort. Internally, there are two buss bars (at least this is the form we used them in on our boards), one connected to VCC (usually +5V) and the other to Ground. You...

I would not need to buy a drive, it is currently sitting on my desk.

I used the install DVD to install OSX 10.4.3 onto the iBook G4, where it is happily working away. Since then, updated to 10.4.11.

Hi, I have a number of Powerbook G3 and ibook G3/G4 machines. The Powerbook G3s are a Pismo and a Lombard, and the iBook G3 is a 600Mhz version, and the iBook G4 is a 1.33GHz version. I am having trouble installing OSX 10.4.3 (later to be upgraded to 10.4.11) on the Pismo and the iBook G3...

When I worked at a PC manufacturer, disk duplication was done with one of those dedicated disk duplicators mentioned above. The copy protection was copied, bit by bit, from the original file (from a floppy read into the hard drive of the duplicator), and written out bit by bit. All the bits were...

i have just recieved a re-celled battery for a Pismo/Lombard from them. I have had nothing happen that would make me question their service or integrity. The battery is going through its second charge/discharge cycle, and everything is as expected. They not only replaced the cells, but seem to...

No, but if it did boot from there, it would give me a pretty good indication that the rest of the motherboard was good. I just put the 256MB SODIMM in the bottom memory slot of the CPU board. No change ( after having a mild heart attack in the process*). While I was in there, I verified that...

This is why I want to eliminate all other possibilities before I conclude the motherboard is at fault. I just don't want to buy/replace the motherboard just to find out that I had done something wrong in the formatting of the SSD, or that there is something else at fault that is pointing me...

The member who sold me the SSD says he tested it in a Pismo before sending it to me. If this was an eBay or Amazon pirchase, I too would be questioning the SSD’s compatibility. I have bought items from him before, and have no reason to doubt his word.

When I got the Pismo, it had no HD, and therfore no OS. I can try putting in the original RAM module (a 64MB + 256MB) configuration. I only have 9.2.1 and OSX 10.4.3 installers.

Sorry about the thread resurrection, but I think I have hit a brick wall, and wouid like to hear ideas of what way to go forward. This is the same Pismo that I am working with. It has one 512MB PC133 SODIMM in the lower CPU slot. I am able to boot the System 9.2.1 Install CD, but not the OSX...

Lombard has a 66MHz system board, Pismo has a 100 MHz system board. I don't know if the Grackle memory controller is the same on both Lombard and Pismo; I suspect not. Others have said 133MHz will work fine on Lombard.