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I think it won't work as a simple serial connections between these two boxes - which IMO is stupid - it should. I looked through the tarballs of netatalk version 1 and 2 and there is no mention anywhere or LocalTalk or serial communication. I don't know why, I just don't think they ever...

Neat! I never knew about this, but I hope you can find the software to compliment it.

I originally checked out Arduino on my G4, although I hadn't made much use of it then. Another option to using an Uno to program the bootloader is using a dedicated USB AVR ISP adaptor. If you work with AVRs, it is worth having one around. I bought one of these from SparkFun (no affiliation)...

Yep, this was one problem. I had never checked the battery since I bought this about three years ago, because it looked new. But the battery was in *backwards*! I'm lucky it didn't blow up or something. It didn't solve the problem I was posting about, but thanks for getting me to check something...

Have any of you experienced this with MDDs, or maybe other Macs? When I power them off after use, I cannot get them to start again until momentarily unplugging the power. This was the case with my old MDD, and my newer FW800. I have had lots of other Macs, but never experienced this problem...

Swanky!The WeirdStuff seems like quite the source.

What Byrd said! My experience might be analogous with having switched years ago from running an 8500 as my main machine to an 8600. The X500 cases are far less robust and an utter PITA to work with. My 8500 was dead by about 2002 (case, power, and memory problems) but my 8600 keeps humming along...

Recently I thought I'd take advantage of some extra time to unpack my neglected Macs since their recent move. I started on trying to make a sort of OS 9 server from my old, upgrade B&W G4, but wasted a few days troubleshooting data corruption issues. So I decided to focus my attention on a...

Nice haul indeed!

What OS is running on there? Are you trying to update just the OS, or all of the Apple software? Archives of older Mac software have gotten more difficult to track down, but I'd start with locating a complete update image for my OS version and keep it handy for future use. For example for OS...

I am surprised that I hadn't known of these until now. I have a few PCI serial cards which have their ranges of usefulness. But RS422 and SCSI seem like a great combo for retro use in my G4 towers. If they added ADB also would have been perfect. It has a 50-pin internal SCSI connector and 25-pin...

I am setting up a tower this week with a MDD logic board, and thinking about what to do about drives. It is a server-type tower case and drive access is a pain unless accessed from the front. I could do some kind of PATA or SATA rack or backplane, but it would involve buying stuff I can't afford...

I don't understand what would be obsolete about firewire. I have listened to people knocking it ever since the beginning. Always wondered what the hate was all about. Even in the early-mid 2000s people argued that it was a "failed" interface, and when it was pointed out that it was generally...

Looking at the USB and Firewire combo cards, I was just thinking about something like these. But for my 8600, which often mediates between my new world and 68k boxen. I remember that I tried some USB1.1 cards years ago which were supposed to "just work", but they didn't. Any advice for drivers I...

I was in the same situation a couple of years ago, and bought an original v1 MOTU 828. I didn't strictly need 8 channels, four would have made for a more portable interface but in practice it hasn't been a problem for me. Install of the software was easy and the interface works nicely.

I am looking forward to getting a quad G5. My current fastest macs are my last-generation OS 9 machines - MDD and TiBook DVI. My quad i7 has a MacOS partition which is handy for everyday use, but not for production. This year I am definitely getting a quad G5 for running my last-generation PPC...

Also one can swap MDD and G4 Xserve processors. The heatsinks and mounting hardware differ but the cards are the same.

:drool: :drool: You lucky sod... I was wondering how people used Sound Designer on SE and SE/30s! I can never even find NuBus Audiomedia or Sound Accelerators! I would go gaga over an SE card

My son has navigated my Macs well ever since he was about 5, which was when he was coordinated to use the mouse. I try to expose my son to multimedia apps which aren't too menu-heavy. Stuff like Spongefork, where you can draw squiggles which are rendered as audio. And Pixeltoy, where you can...

Arg! Even as broke as I am now, I am kicking myself for missing those.