Recent content by lobust

Appreciate the insights guys. I see no real reason to recap this one and am somewhat emboldened by your answers! I have two 7100 boards that are real basket cases, built just a year earlier than this 8500...

I just bought an 8500 sold as working, and it does in fact boot up and work perfectly. I have very little experience with macs from this generation. I never owned anything of the 604 generation at the time, and this is the first one I've bought this time around. What surprised me is that when I...

A fan would go a long way just to get some air circulating around it. 650 case is much better for dissipating heat away from the cards compared to any of the towers by simple virtue of the cards being vertical. But also the lid is much better ventilated, and there is more air gap above the...

I don't remember what I was doing at the time, but I had the PPC card installed and I had a Supermac Thunder II GX in the upper slot. I started getting video artifacts and shut it down. I took the cover off and found that the video card was getting cooked from the heat coming off the 601. It...

I tried the ppc upgrade card in mine, and it did work, but beware that it gets very hot in that little case - it's bad enough on a stock 700, but the higher clock of the wombat board and the confined space it's in are a bad combo...

+1 here and no problems with it. Q800 psu has to support up to three drives and three expansion cards. Q700 maxes out at one drive and two expansion cards.

What about SAT - Sprite Animation Toolkit by Ingemar Ragnemalm? https://devnonsense.com/posts/sprite-animation-toolkit/ Used in lots of 2d shareware games in the '90's. It was my first foray into C programming as a teenager - after spending a week or two of late nights downloading a pirate...

They would be a fantastic addition, but on the about page it states that since its move to the Computer History Museum, Folklore.org is read only and all interactive elements have been removed, including the ability to add new articles, which is very sad. https://folklore.org/html/about.html

A ten minute job for someone with a lathe if you wanted a like for like replacement. Similarly quick with a 3d printer. I'd replace it either way, there is potential for the spring pressure to warp the board over time and possibly cause bad connections in the connector...

For clarification, OP was trying to connect to another mac and not a printer:

Unlikely IMO. I have a pretty good amount of experience with serial hardware, but not with macintosh serial hardware, so if I say anything wrong or irrelevant hopefully somebody else will correct me. What I do know is that the 26LS30 is a RS-422 line driver and apple apparently used it is a...

That's a 26LS30 not a 32. It's the line driver for the serial ports. Did you have anything plugged into the modem or printer ports when it happened?

Yes, I forgot about the av machines, but the point stands IMHO - by the time of 7.6 all the Quadras were firmly in apple's rear view mirror... I honestly think apple had the right strategy with wombat - fast 16bit at reasonable resolutions was good enough for everyone who wasn't doing graphics...

I think my 700 does this too in 8.1 but it's been years since I played with it. It's possible that this is just a bug/slight incompatibility. If you think contemporarily, there wouldn't have been many people actually using the onboard video at 24bit - it's slow on the 700 and anyone who truly...

Yes, if you have all the pieces then it can be repaired. You need (I strongly recommend this specifically, not something similar or equivalent): https://www.modelscenerysupplies.co.uk/ema-plastic-weld-cement-plasweld#:~:text=Description,Plasticard%2010/000%200.25mm and something like this, or...