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I ended up getting mine for $50 from a guy out of San Francisco. Close enough shipping was only $35 on it.  Got plenty of pics, https://imgur.com/a/yIu5y . The thing is way overbuilt. The front panel is entirely cast metal with the CRT screwed into that. The rest is all secured into a metal...

I've been meaning to buzz it out out of curiosity to know if a Radius FPD card can be made to run off the back. I've got a full FPD setup here, but no Radius accelerator card. Just the Magicbus card. One of these years I'll get around to doing just that. I dream of the day I have a Dual...

oooo if you ever want to part with that card let me know. That card will actually connect to a passthrough on my GCC Hypercharger 020 card in my Mac SE, similar to what Radius cards did on their Accelerator upgrades. Hooks into the "64 pin header" connector on the card. Here's a snippet from an...

No need to wonder who actually made this box any longer, I got one of the $30 ebay ones and cracked it open. That's Dayna alright. I haven't tested software compatibility yet though, maybe if I ever get more than a day off work.

If you do want a Pentium III on a card, you'll need to look a little newer than OrangeMicro and a little bit away from Macs. Sun had the PCi line of compatibility cards and they went all the way to the Athlon XP. I've got a pair of IIpros here based on a 733 MHz S370 Celeron. Fun cards since...

Think of it like replacing the old rubber vacuum lines in a 70s or 80s car. They’re all either failed or failing so they should be replaced as a preventive step. A lot of weird issues are solved by fixing the vacuum lines, same with replacing the 30 year old caps.

So, does the MP part work? Yes!. Need to use Mac OS 8.5 or older for it to properly work. I'll have to try and dig up something other than Powerfrax (the default sample program) to see how much of a different the MP really makes though.

It's not so much that it has 2-4 processors but  the way Daystar implemented them. The old systems weren't native multi processor platforms so they did some trickery to get multiple CPUs working in the one slot. Apple used a different method of running multiple processors which was incompatible...

Yeah, OS X would be a complete nightmare on the system since it won't see more than one processor. A 200 MHz 604e at that so not even all that fast. Even OS 9 broke support for nPower MP as Apple started throwing their own stuff in (think G4 dual processors) and Daystar never updated their...

This particular machine was used for video editing and some 3D stuff related to that. It's got Premiere and After Effects which I know could use the SMP as well as some others like Cinema 4D which maybe were SMP capable.  That's on the to do list. It'd be nice to track down one of the black...

One of those mythical machines you read about is the Daystar Genesis MP. Multiple 604s? How cool is that. rarely do they actually appear for sale though, and when they do often the boring single processor or maybe a dual. Never the Quad. Well, a quad was the machine only in my dreams until...

+1 for this. Smokey odor makes me think of maybe like burning leaves which tends to be something like a RIFA cap on the input filtering of a power supply letting its guts out. Especially if the system remained working throughout this whole endeavour. 

Most likely it's doing the ram test on cold boot. It can take a while particularly if it has a fair amount of ram (think 128MB+) 

So quick note, even with a pinout I have my doubts about an FPD card working with VGA. The native resolution is 640x870 at (usually) 64 or 68 kHz.  Even if you can see something on the screen, it's going to look terrible unless someone made a VGA portrait CRT. While not super useful, if I get a...

I'd personally recommend replacing with ceramic or tantulum if possible. The electeolyrics are very prone to leaking again hence so few people use them in recaps. If you look through the forums you'll find many threads on doing so. As far as tolerance though, as long as it's an equal or higher...

Absolutely repairable. New CPU for sure but the logic board looks pretty good. I don't see any eaten traces or corrosion around other ic pins. It will need a recap though but that's typical of any 68k Mac with the SMD electrolytic caps.

Oh I see. Couldn't tell there were two links on my phone. Ignore me.

When you say replaced with SMD, are they still the silver cans or a small brick? The silver cans are original and would need replaced.

LS120 did get a little love by Dell at least. Various laptops and towers had an LS120 option, such as the Latitude C series or Precision 210 or some Dimension XPSs. Other than that, it was all aftermarket support. The LS120 drives do make pretty nice plain floppy drives though. They write...

A IIcx is an '030 so a socketed '040 adapter wouldn't do much good.