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The code for Bill’s bank account?

No need for hardware modifications. Sleeper and Basic Black are Control Panels that should do what you want. Sleeper has the advantage that it would allow the spindown of a drive as well, though you may be going the solid state route there, I suppose, so that may not matter. Otherwise, Basic...

What astonishes me is that there is a little man somewhere making fake chips for a living. Apparently…. How many people are still buying 68882s?

That is interesting — about the card stock I mean. I must give the heavier stuff a try, I leave mine on 24/7 as well, since the off/on cycle is just so wasteful. You can, however, set the sleep timer to 30 mins, using the web-based utility, so that saves on a good deal of the power usage. In...

I was wondering. I used to have one of those (with scanner), but the print head developed a temperature sensor problem in the cyan tank, I was moving across country during the shutdown, and it got recycled. You no doubt know what a new printhead costs. I’m now using its older sibling, an 8400...

What are you using to print those things?

I was assigned an SE for use in the office in my first academic post (91-2). Macs were used in my field because of WorldScript, mainly. By that time at home, mind, I had been using a cheap PC/XT clone. I much preferred the Mac, though that SE was slow. A colleage had what we thought was a crazy...

Regular Ethernet cabling is all you need, assuming we are talking of the same dongle. Looks like an oversized AAUI transceiver.

One good turn deserves another…. I wrote a Master’s thesis in Canada in 1983, drafting on a typewriter for months and months, but towards the end using the University mainframes via the terminal to write it up, do the edits and get the thing submitted. I seem to recall that the writing was done...

7.1 is very quick on a 68040 and is also very stable. 7.5 is fine on 68k but meh. 7.5.3 will run almost as fast as 7.1 if you turn most of the fluff and bloat off (e.g., QuickDraw GX and the ‘talk me through how to do things’ — the name of which escapes me presently — Extensions/ Control...

Is this relevant? http://myoldmac.net/SELL/Card-MacNUBUS-High-ResolutionVideo.htm

I have read that heat reforming of an old wiper blade is possible, the point being simply to increase tension.

Well that sure is disappointing!

I like your table idea! You must have an interesting life to find bits of supersonic fighter jets falling out of the sky onto your sofa. A question: On the benchmarks, is there a difference in CPU scores running from the SSD versus a spinner? E.g., how does your machine compare with standard...

Thank you for this. It is nice to see the G5 (and one of the humbler versions of it at that) get some love on here. I like mine. What I want to know, though, is what machine you are cooling with that fan on the sofa!

I looked for one of these to no avail on eBay for years several years back, so I’d love to know what I am missing. Keep the benchmarks coming!

Where you have an air-cooled G5 with working logic board, etc, fan problems can mainly be resolved by replacing heatsink compound and (ideally) subsequent recalibration of the fans by means of the available service utility. My dual 2.3 is whisper quiet even under load.

Why would you do that, given how well the stock fans perform?

I think the RasterOps card did well on Photoshop filters and the like, which is what mattered in segments of the graphics industry — this being the primary market for all of these very expensive graphics cards back in the day. I don’t know that anyone was especially interested in frame rates...