Recent content by resx

Years ago I remember seeing a tech who carried around a couple installers on a Jaz disk. There was one partition with a System 7 install, and a number of disk images that could be mounted for different Macintosh install media. Maybe something like that could work?

Looks awesome! Hard to judge with the lighting in the pic but the paint match looks to be spot on compared to the monitor. The LED diffuser looks sharp as well, very professional looking. Nicely done.

I can't speak for the electrical eccentricities of NuBus, but I have found that PCI Express does not like long (unshielded) ribbon cables. Anything over approximately 8 inches tended to cause issues for me. I do see that this exists: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=14915 However, I don't see any sort...

I have actually used these in a few low-power noiseless builds I have done for people and they are excellent. If I ever get around to building a MiniITX Macintosh Classic, this would be my only choice. Just be sure to spring for the 192w 4-pin power supply version, even if you only plan on...

Wow, this is truly an excellent idea for those with dying or dead hard disks. How is it mounted internally?

Nice adjustable feets.

I think I would be more wary of hacking into anything between the 128k and SE/30 era. The Classics were the Mac Mini of their day, ubiquitous, cheap (relatively), and not very fast.

If you plan to use it a lot, or see yourself using it often into the future, make it easy to upgrade and a non-reversible hack. Classics aren't exactly rare, and the front bezel is just asking to be widened to easily accept a slot-load BD drive. It will look a lot cleaner without a myriad of...

Although I love my G4 sawtooth-cased Mac "clone", I would really love to pack a powerful MiniITX hackintosh into an older 68k case, like a Q700 or IICX/CI. That would be quite a sleeper.

But isn't the change in width marginal, Only about 5mm on each side?

I might still have my 6150/66 WGS sitting around somewhere for a mod. Always loved that wide-pizzabox form factor. Too bad I cut a ton of holes in the top of the case as a kid to keep it from randomly rebooting due to overheating.

Yes. Although not really designed with an EMP in mind, it was designed to stop people from using Van Eck phreaking to "eavesdrop" on the business of others via the electromagnetic emissions.

Would you happen to have a modem available for use on both ends? I was going to attempt what you are trying until I read about building a simple "phone line simulator" to bring up the proper voltages to the modem, allowing an old 33.6 Global Village Teleport to talk to a generic Windows...

Ditto. My father actually has a nice set of hand saws that I've neglected to use opting instead to go the Dremel route. Good for quickly cutting ventilation holes into overheating cases, but not so neat for the work I plan to do in the future. Back on topic, how do you intend to hold the...

It would be very interesting to see a HAL-eye on the front of a IIci or Q700, maybe have the strobing controlled by hard disk activity or audio output. Somewhere I remember seeing/having an old screensaver that replicated the control panels from the movie under OS 8, but I could be wrong. ;)