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There is also a pass-thru SCSI terminator, for those rare instances when the normal SCSI rules don’t seem to work.

FYI on a 50 pin SCSI ribbon cable, every other wire Is connected to ground to maintain signal integrity Good luck on using the switch with your devices. You may not be so lucky in 3 years at 1:00 am, when you switch with all devices powered up and see a small puff of smoke emerge from your drive…

That swichbox is designed for slower speed Parallel and Serial Devices, not SCSI. If it was me, I would disconnect it from your SCSI devices.

Was the swich box advertised to work with SCSI? Back in the day, I remember seeing a swich box with 3 DB25 connectors, and this was advertised as a RS232 serial switch box.

ortencia, Are you referring to Caymac Vintage https://ko-fi.com/caymacvintage/gallery ?

Have you run any graphics benchmark, ie. MacBench 4 or 5, to determine if there’s any performance hit? I would think a true Mac edition ATI 8500 should be worth some money, even in its current condition.

GDT PrintLink Collection worked great and it supported printers with both serial and parallel interfaces. The manual states it also works on Atari ST computers running Spectre GCR or Magic Sac and Commodore Amiga computers running the Amex emulator. There is also the Eason LQ Printer Software...

Very nice!

The picture of the purple MeowToast was created with plated oval slots at the ends of the board, and during final routing the slots were cut in half. Speaking as a former PCB manufacturing engineer, it’s a good design.

Next to R66 there’s a 6 pin IC with a hole in the middle of the chip - not good.

It looks like an 80 MB, 3.5 inch SCSI drive attached to a bracket. Based on it’s age, there’s a slim chance it may still work In a Mac made in 1986-1999.

I’ve watched a few of Sean Malseed’s video’s (Action Retro on YouTube) and he’s has a pile of IDE to SSD and IDE to CF adapters he tests - some work better than others. He usually has very good results with Dosdude1’s hand assembled IDE to SSD drives, which can be purchased at...

Seems like a good reason to upgrade. OSX 10.4.11 Tiger runs fast on most G4 Macs. 10.5.x was a bit slower.

According to my info, the first Mac Mini had a 1.25 GHz G4 and shipped with 10.3.7. Zip support should be built into the OS

I found this help page on gzip https://ss64.com/osx/gzip.html more examples of gzip https://osxdaily.com/2012/04/05/create-tar-gzip/

gzip is built into OSX 10.2 according to https://www.wap.org/journal/powermacg5/ Scroll down the article to find out how to use gzip

The Turbo Encabulator it’s not cheap, but I’m sure the government…

Run SCSIProbe to confirm your CDROM drives have different ID’s

Nice finds. I bet the CDROM works fine. Don’t know about the external drive, but if it’s not working you can mount a BlueSCSI or a ZuluSCSI in it.

I’m guessing the non-working adapter had liquid damage at some point in the past. New are available on eBay for $15.