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I tried doing scans again with adjustments for height, light, etc but no luck. So I decided to install this stuff and test it out. The inside of my SE was easier to manage than i expected. The Quesse 030 upgrade easily fits on the logic board. The Lapis DPD though, is impossible. The...

Thanks all for filling in some of the missing details! I guess people didn't run with these chips for long. Looks like I have a Kansas ROM - $77D.34F5. I always thought that Kansas was the 9600 board, looks like this is just the shorter version. It was a 300 MHz when I inherited it and I swapped...

I was surprised clicking on the link that the end was only 30 seconds away! Within the last 15 seconds it jumped from $245 to $310, and in the last two seconds to $799. Too much for me to pay, but probably one of the cheapest new 950s there has been.

I haven't done any assembly, but I did just see this during my MIDI travels: http://www.hinton-instruments.co.uk/archive/macide.html

I doubt if it would be an additional processor, but perhaps an alternate one? I would like to compare the pins to a 68020, maybe it can use either. I would guess that the board would be much busier if it could handle two CPUs simultaneously.

I agree that there is something about the ceramic and gold of old ICs which screams "QUALITY!". A cheap computer-routed PCD with a few BGAs, or worse - blob chips - is hardly inspiring. I especially love funky VLSIs, like on my DECtalk card here. But my electric bill does mostly prefer the newer...

Well, there was some improvement. Now I get a startup chime every time, and it doesn't hesitate to boot. Previously I was getting equal thirds of boot, no boot, or simasimac patterns. What has yet to improve is the SCSI. Some drives it will not detect, others it will detect but fail to...

I am still looking for the 300 MHz card from my 8600, which I packed away somewhere ages ago. I figure that especially with all of the G3 upgraded PowerMacs out there, there would be quite a lot of these 604s available. But the reality is that I hardly ever find any. I think the fastest I have...

I figured out how to remove the board, pulled the SIMMs, gave it a bath. Re-capping this thing was no joke! I have done a fair amount of customization of computers and audio gear, so have done quite a bit of desoldering. I guessed that because they were surface mount, that they would heat and...

I couldn't resist. While I am building my first SE with upgrades, I found a guy selling his SE/30. Bought for cheapish with bag and ADB accessories. This way once my accelerated SE is running, I have an official 030 version to compare it to. And it can probably handle more RAM, as well as A/UX...

Since I bought an accelerator and it came with an extra SE logic board with a DPD card, I have been trying to figure out what to do with this whole setup. Since this is nearly a complete system and uses an external monitor, perhaps I am better off not squeezing it into my SE? It is not really so...

Not an encoder, but Astarte CD-Copy is good for secure rips, not unlike EAC. Also handy for other data retrieval tasks. (Has anybody seen Sam Lowry?)

No, I can't say as that I have noticed this. What I would do is scan the label of choice and clean it up in Illustrator, vectorize the lines, do fills, fix contrast and color. This sort of thing usually doesn't take long to do. For printing I am sure there must be templates out there for floppy...

There is probably built-in OS X support for many Adaptec products, and companies are not usually interested in supporting the older systems. Worse still is that more companies have been neglecting their FTP servers, but an FTP which sees such wide use is sure to be mirrored somewhere...

It has been difficult to get any decent pictures of this nice pile of boards. The chips and connectors made them not flat enough for my scanner. Then I finally found my crappy old digital camera - but either it or its batteries are borked. So I photographed the stuff with my phone, and the...

I have always wanted one of these myself, so I can enthusiastically wish you the best of luck with it! It must be exciting.

ARG!!! Why can't I just let it die in peace? It worked for about three days, and now it is dead again! I was setting it up for work this weekend and had no problems. Next time I tried to start it to actually do something useful and it froze. Now it hangs early in the boot process, about five...

Here is an annoying situation: I was intending to encode video tapes with Matrox RT Mac, which is a bit of G4 hardware I have for the purpose. Now that my MDD is fixed I thought I would install it. The OS 9 version runs under Adobe Premiere 6.1 or later. The only later version for 9 is Premiere...

I guess I am a sort-of-new guy. I tend to go crazy with Mac projects for a couple months of the year, but then the rest of my life swamps me. Also I was on the old list more regularly before it vanished and didn't re-connect for a while. If circumstances let me I would play with my Macs - and...

Circlips? I didn't see them. Which probably explains why I was't able to remove it. I will look for them. IMO it is well designed, but it is my hassle now. It is a nice case so I should use it for something.