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I don't have the safety-engineering chops to speak with authority on this subject. I do have the experience to speak as a total hack, though. I put a snap-in 4xAA battery tray in my eMate instead of repacking the pack. It works great, seems to charge / discharge fine, and all that. I'm not...

check out my website, the 7.5.5 install page has links to all the stuff for the built-in LPR printing. I dont' remember what version I recommend there, but it's the version I was running for years on my SE/30 and printing by LPR protocol.

I gave up on the 7.1.1 + SCSI Manager 4.3.1 + Sync-only U320 drive test. I'd overwritten my boot floppy with an 8.1 boot floppy and didn't want to re-overwrite it. I put a different 10K drive in the Mystic just to get this project closer to completion. I can confirm that the SCSI Manager 4.3.1...

These quiet ones are Hitachi HUS103073FL3800. I got them a few years ago from Compuvest and ran them in a RAID 1 pair in an old workstation. I had a big, undocumented pile of code and mirrored 10K SCSI made my grep -r wicked fast.

Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop board came in both a PCI and a NuBus version. I've never seen either one of them in person, but have read reports from folks who claimed to own them. So, I don't think they were entirely vaporware. In modern terms, I think you'd call it a card with 4 16-core DSP...

Yeah, I got suckered into it because the local computer wrecking yard had (some time back) a SCSI drive shelf full of MAXTOR IDE drives with fancy sleds that (reportedly) had IDE-SCSI bridges in them. So, I thought these were the same thing. Ah, well. :'(

Here are some results from my attempts to connect a Hitachi U320 10K drive to my Mystic: 1) The U320 drive won't work at all with my SCA -> 50pin adaptor. The adaptor works fine with other SCA drives. The U320 drive works fine with a SCA -> 68pin adaptor, both attached to a JackHammer...

MacPing actually *does* let one specify the payload of ICMP ping packets. Sounds like we might have a winner! Anybody want to try it?

OK, sad news everybody. The "IDE->SCSI" adaptor I bought on eBay is actually an "IDE -> IDE + Power on an SCA80 connector" board. No active components. I gave it to my kid to play with; there's $15 out the window. Don't really feel like putting the $75+ into a proper IDE->SCSI adaptor...

I could swear that about 10 years ago I had a MacOS program that sent WoL magic packets. I didn't write it myself, it was freeware or something like the same. Wish I remembered what it was called.

The VideoVision boardset is pretty sweet if you have at least the Studio compression daughtercard; the Telecast rackmount box is even nicer. If it's just a base VideoVision then you should totally upgrade! I only have experience with the VVS myself, but the NuBus Media100 system is the one I...

I don't actually know what SCSI spec the SCSI/IDE adaptor is supposed to be compliant with. It's not one of the well-known ones, but is actually a board taken out of a Maxtor drive caddy for filling a SCSI drive shelf with IDE drives. When it arrives I'll hopefully know more from reading the...

I know there's a ton of threads about CompactFlash, but here's yet another. Who's actually put together a long chain of adaptors to put CompactFlash in their 68k? I'm now waiting on arrival of the following: CF->40Pin IDE IDE -> SCA SCSI SCA -> 50Pin SCSI I'm excited to see if it...

Yes, you can do 800x600 with the Color Classic CRT and a modified LC575 analog board. That's how my Takky was set up. You need to do the "VGA Mod" instead of the "Hi-Res Mod" so that the CRT syncs to 640x480@60Hz instead of 640x480@66Hz. Then you can instead choose 800x600@56Hz. 800x600 is...

The caddies are only for 2.6GB/side DVD-RAM disks. Usually, the 2.6GB/side DVD-RAM disks are in permanent caddies, much like MO disks. If you look inside the maw of the thing when it's open, you'll see a little slot on each side. It accepts CD- and DVD-ROMs naked.

I was speculating pretty strongly that the RAMDACs would be the same across all the card versions, because switching RAMDACs would require more engineering work... but it looks like several of these versions are maybe using different speed-ratings of a similar RAMDAC? Since the overdrawing is...

Thanks for setting the record straight, Trash80toHP_Mini; I'm embarrassed that I hadn't refreshed myself on the forum rules after being gone so long. Also, I just found your post about this same ROM spelunking project over in the Hacks forum. It looks like you've gotten some interesting results...

I really like DVD-RAM on 68k Macs. 2.6GB per side (5.2GB per disk) of "mounts on the desktop" removable storage and it doubles as a CDROM drive. I keep a spare SCSI DVD-RAM drive, because I worry about what I'd do if the drive died and I couldn't read any of my disks. Zip has the advantage in...

I have a Radius PrecisionColor Pro 24XP NuBus video card. It won't do any resolution bigger than 832x624 at any color depth, even though it can do 832x624 @ 24BPP. I suspected that this limitation was just cooked into the ROM, and swapping in the ROM from one of the other cards would allow...

Try OpenVMS on the Multia! Linux runs on PCs, might as well run it there IMO. If you get the Multia running, be careful with it. Google "multia heat death".