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Perhaps I've underestimated the difficulty..... Still, it's theoretically possible, and there's plenty of very talented people around here who could probably do at least some of it. So, how come not? Is it that hard? How did they ever do it when this stuff was new?! c

Then somebody ought to get FW800 working at native speeds on OS9! With all manner of logic board recreations, new software, and innumerable other goodies, why can't anyone tackle the comparatively simple task of writing native OS9 drivers for USB 2.0, FW800 or newer 802.11g/n/ac/ax/whatever...

What are you going to do with all those 68000s? Schools seem to have some rather neat little remnants lurking around in their storage closets and such. Just gotta be in the right place at the right time and know the right people when they decide to clean it out. Speaking of... when the...

Are any of the TCP/IP parameters (MTU, timeouts, caches, buffers, whatever?) somehow adjustable or hack-able in either MacTCP or OT? I ask because the networking stacks of Windows 9x offer similarly mediocre performance out of the box, but given some careful adjustments to the various settings...

This is interesting! Regarding the brightness pot, why not use it to control the brightness of the LCD's backlighting? Is there a reason not to? c

The discontinuation of analog TV has been kind of sad for me, as it renders impossible neat ricks like this. Another thing is that analog signals fade gracefully, so a weak, noisy signal can still be watchable (none of the so-called "cliff effect"). c

Indeed! It also serves as a good indicator to distinguish otherwise stock production boards which were USB-modified from genuine prototypes whose USB circuits were populated from the beginning, thus hopefully protecting at least most of the latter's collectible value and also guarding against...

Re: power button issues, my understanding is that there is a foam gasket that couples the indent on the case to the actual sensor switch, and weird behavior like this can happen when that foam gasket deteriorates, which is inevitable given its age. The definitive fix, therefore, is to somehow...

That card looks familiar! c

Yes, I think something like that must've happened. No worries, though! I haven't really needed it anyway. Just wanted to remind you to whom it belongs :) By all means! I had lent it to Bolle in the first place because he wanted to try something similar, but didn't have lots of time to sort...

Hey! I happen to have a NuPowr upgrade (a 167 MHz part, in case you were wondering; less common than the 117 MHz part, but not rare like the 183 MHz model I've heard about) that I lent to @Bolle (who is in Germany, if I'm not mistaken, so Europe) like, maybe 6 years ago for some experimentation...

Between COVID and two big moves, I never found the time to try, unfortunately. c

I think striving for absolute silence isn't reasonable in many cases, especially when running a system, that produces any kind of heat output. Instead, I like to use fans that aren't annoying when they push lots of air around. That said, I can deal with almost any fan, as long as the bearings...

My understanding is that Rodime drives weren't super great, but were generally of average quality with okay reliability. It was the MiniScribe drives that were infamously unreliable, even when new, and very few fully working examples still exist. c

Well, technically there is one iMac model (for sure the Rev. A and B tray loaders, maybe C and D too; the slot loaders for sure don't, as they're an all new design) that seems to have something that looks – and presumably functions – very much like a serial port feeding the IrDA transceiver...

This is fun! I remember there was an Aladdin Systems product that did something similar back in the 90s. I can't remember what it was called, though. Perhaps this can be a good proof of concept, and then in the future it can be re-implemented using a more resource-efficient language (doing so...

Ha! If the Amiga community is really as toxic as I've heard, that's probably a good thing, as you suggest! The extreme prices, of course, are probably a symptom of the problem. My impression is that they all think they're this exclusive little club of ultra geeks, so snobbery and belittlement...

That article is very apt to this BlueSCSI vs. Everyone Else nonsense. Yeah. To see a glimpse of how ugly it could be, look at the Amiga community. Compared to that, things don't look so bad here, even at their worst. c

The Mac Pro. Mine was a 2009, so a bit older, but technically more or less the same as 2010-2012, so it commanded pretty mcuh th same price at the time. Only problem is that the 2009s require delidded CPUs (lidded ones work, but fitment is a pain, and I actually had to replace the CPU tray...

I paid $1,500 for mine back in 2015. They've gotten cheaper! c