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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.

Indeed, but just checked the length of the IDE cable. It can easily reach an optical sitting in front of the HDD bay as can the power cable. Drive may be upside down, but ready for testing with the CD inserted via power cable only hookup before IDE cable is installed. ;)

IDE was a barely just kinda compliant abomination in that series. It supported only a single HDD and I'd be very surprised if it's possible to interface with an Optical Drive.

My old Gerber "SignMaker" had a unitized KBD/MoBo like that. All the keyswitch signals went thru some I/O chip or other on the board. It might be as simple as pulling or desoldering such a chip and replacing it with a board to wedge the keyboard at that source and feed it right into the Pi...

Are you sure about that? The standard neckboard position on the rotated tube would be what keeps the image upright, no? If the neckboard must be rotated due to positioning of the CRT's pins, MacPortrait or the like will be required to rotate the image 180 degrees I'd think.

That's exactly what I was wondering! I imagine it's positioned purposely to make discharging the CRT convenient. It'd be a real problem if flipped upside down. Card stacks are an interesting endeavor. Apple's maximum PDS expansion card spec doesn't come close to the Anode Cap.

Thanks much, any help at all is most appreciated.