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You folks are really having problems with Youtube? Three years ago I was watching it on my 600MHz G4 B&W at my mother-in-law's house and never had any problems with it - I think my son still uses it when he is there in the afternoon. Has Flash suddenly gotten a lot worse when I wasn't paying...

I just realized that I gave myself away here, PCI slot indicates that this is not a real Mac. I have many real Macs but this box is a placeholder for an intel Mac I cannot (even close to) afford yet. But the question still stands. I hear very little about serial cards for Mac, but sifting...

I never had a PSU just fail without being fairly loaded, Were the Mac II known for this? Also it starts fine with the regular cache and the SampleCell. Can you tell me what level of cross-compatibility there is with PSUs of this era? I would like to know that I can run a few NuBus cards without...

Good advice. The situation is the same with the extensions off. Freezes anywhere from instantly to a minute later. Arg! If the PowerCache is broken, and I look into tweaking it - anybody know what was different between the 33MHz and 50 MHz versions? Is it as simple as replacing the crystal...

Can anybody recommend one? Not USB, nor serial ATA... but a regular serial card. RS232 or RS422. If it works in 10.6 and Vista is a big plus. Can be PCI or PCIe. I am finding a glut of Windoze serial cards, but when I search for Mac serial I get random nonsense. Thanks!

I am liking my new IIci. Problem is that I had the Daystar PowerCache 33 MHz first, and bought the IIci to go with it. The IIci starts and runs fine with the regular cache card installed, but with the PowerCache it freezes within a minute or so of startup. Happens every time. Is there anything...

Well, as I recall they said they *did* have lots of trouble doing it. Not impossible, but lots of trouble. This is not to say that I don't share your enthusiasm! I would love an 060 Mac, I just can't afford to pay much for one. I don't even have an 040 yet. I would love to see new development...

Try using it to erase your UV-erasable EPROMs. If they erase, it works.

I hope this will allow me to run A/UX under OpenSolaris.

I don't have any reference links handy, but I have read comments from people who were developing 68060 accelerators that it was costing more than expected, and was more difficult to put into practice than hoped. It was deemed possible but not really worth bringing to market. Look at Czuba-tech's...

Yeah, these are cool. They don't turn up often, and are often obscenely expensive when they do. What do I mean by "obscene"? There is an Xpanse PN200 on ebay now for $800 or so... for that price I could buy a pile of NuBus AND PCI Macs, with accelerators, accessories, etc. Some liquidator of...

I need to agree with Byrd here, pushing 500 MHz in a 9600 is not going to be worth the trouble. I have a 500 MHz Sonnet G3 in my 8600. It runs nice, but the bus and RAM are a bottleneck it can't overcome. Beige G3s make a more versatile old-world box, and a Rev.2 B&W would be ideal. My 600...

My dad was just asking me the same question this evening. If you have a fair amount of PPC software, or predict that you will - then go for it! If the G5 is in good condition, this is an excellent price. In my dad's case, he has no Mac software, would hope for Snow Leopard and be looking for...

My fave is the one called "Power Macintosh G4" Depends on what you want to do, but I recommend MDD models. If you are doing any live video work, or encoding - the processor and bus speed helps. If you plan on using X instead of 9 then G4 minis and aluminum powerbooks are the fastest G4...

Yes, there are indeed cheap and plentiful adaptors for these media. Also you can find IDE form factor solid state drives. Do a web search and you should find a glut of them. Too bad that there's not much out there for flash SCSI...

Ohhh yes. My wife hopes that no cheap Shiners ever appear near my house! I mean I AM a bit of a computer nerd, but in my wife's mind I am even worse, because she doesn't really understand what I like about the old gear I have. To test her out, once we got our fairly spacious place here - I told...

Well, whatever you do, don't leave them alone together - or you will soon have more than two of them about the house.

Thanks for the link, Proto. Unfortunately it doesn't help me because for 1.2.8 they disabled the ability to play MPEG2 files off of the hard drive, making the card useful only for playing actual DVDs. What I am using it for is monitoring video capture to an MPEG file, so I am trying to hold out...

I did start doing some encoding with the included MediaPress card. Mixed results so far. After about 30 minutes encoding stops with an error about my system being too slow... I seriously doubt that, it wasn't even straining. As for the encode quality? When I played back on the television it...

I made my 1400 from two mostly complete units. This gave me the maximum RAM (IIRC 64MB),a G3 processor, and active TFT screen, as well as various extra accessories. Only other things I bought were a 20GB hard drive and a Focus ethernet adaptor. And all of my batteries were dead, just like most...