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I've been wanting to pick up a new solder iron, so this gave me a good reason. I picked up a Hakko FX-888d at frys for $70, now to clean off my desk and take it for a spin.

I would be really surprised if the processor had all of the address pins needed to address 4GB of RAM. My guess is that 128MB is the memory limit as that is the limit of the address lines on the motherboard, and I would likely say the 68030 would only have enough addresses pins for that also.

Checked the dial, it was the second thing I tried. (The first was turning it off and back on again). I also tried slapping it, no go.

Well I finally got a chance to look at the 512K. Plugged it in, bong,...... nothing on the display. Looks like I'll need to crack it open and take a look at the analog board and see what's up.

Looks like dual cups. Would be nice if it had the model number.

Holy cow. I'm not at all surprised that Apple built a G5 PowerBook prototype, but seeing as how this is the first glimpse of one they clearly did not get very far with it. Tell you what, in this hobby it is not very often that we get "new" stuff. If I had this I might check with Lloyd of London...

neat idea. I have one laying around as I upgraded my AppleTV a couple of years ago. My on concern about OS X, is I don't think Apple is still patching 10.5. For an internal use server I would be fine with an old version, but on the internet I would want the latest version.

I have to say I'm glad scuzzy stuck. It would be real awkward talking about i sexy at work....

I was doing some reading last night and The Compaq SystemPro, which is considered the first server class PC, had dual 386/486 CPUs. In fact you could mix them, 486 and a 386. It used Asymmetric Multiprocessing Processing. Basically the second CPU was an offload engine, there wasn't much OS...

I've only seen one multi processor Pentium system, and that was a DataGeneral Aviion. It was also NUMA instead of SMP, so that made it rather interesting. I have seen plenty of multi processor Pentium Pro and later systems. Which really makes since as it was not until the PPro that Intel...

On my, we have hipsters now. How funny.

Well now that seems rather silly. I haven't had any time to mess with it yet. Not sure what I am going to do with it. Maybe I'll come up with some ideas once I get it up and running.

So today at the local Goodwill Computerworks I picked up an Amiga A3000 for $20. No idea if it works or what the specs are. Guess I need to track down a keyboard and mouse for it.

Oh I am sure they would be more than happy to exchange them, if they had any left.

I liked the original Klingon better.

If this is all the money you have saved stocks is the wrong place to put it. A FDIC insured savings account would be best. Then once you get a bit saved up start with low risk mutual funds. Individual stocks should be the last place you put your money.

Heck I remember one time I had a set of really cheap dollar stores screw drivers. Took a bastard file to a flat head and it only took about 30 seconds to get something that would fit a T15 torx.

No I haven't been tied up with with other stuff and forgot about this.

Really a computer not deprecating over 30 years is quite the feat in and of its self.

I have a Mac 512K, which has been sitting on my display shelf for the past 5 years. I got busy and forgot about it, and it just sat there. I finally got a set of disks to boot from. I don't want to just plug it in, turn on the power, and stick in a disk. Sitting for so long it might need caps...