Recent content by Trash80toHP_Mini

Yep, but I see no ROM on the accelerator itself? Very strange.

Makes sense, there's no ROM on the accelerator? Mine's for the SE. I recall needing a ROM upgrade for it sometime in the late 1988 timeframe, maybe to support 6.0.8?

If you already have the driver installed for the accelerator, my guess is no need for driver. Is that an early Radius 16?

Welcome to the dawn of desktop publishing where pixels were king, even in single bit/black-n-white. Think of these as the high end GPUs of the day. ;) @trag can you hop in and detail testing for TTL output and then converting it to analog?

Nice! All discrete logic with dump capable PALs I think? So methinks it ought to be easy enough to clone. If someone gets one running it should be easy enough to clone. Wondering if the paired monitor might be a TTL interface? Pretty sure my 19" PanaPro from that era was TTL. Gotta check...

1024x768 from this SE VidCard suddenly sounds very interesting to me. RGBtoHDMI – 6-bit TTL Edition might work nicely if no other solution appears for existing cards. Project is open source or at least based upon the original open source device? Shoehorning a bare bones, single bit HDMI output...

My rug rat was born in '85, so his first experience was on a 512K I had at home for doing graphics in Fontographer. He played MacPaint on 'pooter and was so excited to upgrade to SuperPaint. After I got a PC set up he was just thrilled to play KidPix in color! IOW, he played graphics, never...

Erm, exactly how sure are you of that?;) Nice job, love it.

Indeed, love the Quadra 630 and pretty sure I have all the expansion cards for the AV Slot and the NIC somewhere around here. I bought it on first release at Tekserve as a backup machine for the IIx/Rocket33 graphics machine in the shop. The TV Tuner setup came with the credit size remote, that...

IDE is handled within the SCSI architecture of the Mac, but is IDE as far as the Drive is concerned. 630/190 are natively IDE, sorta kinda.

Exactly, no complaints about the switch to IDE in the Quadra 630/PB190 and up at all. The switch was even earlier. High end BlackBirds, employing an interstitial adapter for higher capacity IDE drives. Exactly what I said "It's an abomination in terms of a somewhat/kinda/sorta sub-standard...

I doubt you will ever get an Optical drive or any device other than a single IDE drive to be addressed on that cable. It's not a simple ROM limitation, much lower level in the hardware. It's an abomination in terms of a somewhat/kinda/sorta sub-standard implementation of the IDE spec. Apple...

Thought about that, but a pithy comment is hard to resist.;) Don't remember if the cable's long enough to stretch that far, FDD offset and all. But a paperback of appropriate thickness under the Optical would work as well.

erm . . . the cooling fan exhausts out the lid.

I wonder what it would cost to have a locksmith probe and fab a key for these locks? They're simple as a small padlock after all. A phone call doesn't cost a cent.