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Picked up a 2009 2.66 quad core Mac Pro for parts for $50. No RAM, HD or video card. Installed those and it booted right up. Have to run it a bit to make sure it’s stable and maybe do a firmware update to 5,1

I believe you need the power supply

I only know of 2 ways to get into Target disk mode Using a keyboard at startup Using a mouse to select it in System preferences/startup disk

2 blocks per kb

The intel macs running up to 10.6.8 will run PPC software. I'm using a 2010 Mac Pro to run PPC versions of Adobe apps

There's the Geethree PS/2 to adb adapters. I've added a USB adapter to that and used a USB optical mouse. Not all optical mice do work with it

Depending on which G5, I'd say 1.5 to 2x. The G5 iMacs do have a reputation for bad caps in the power supply For even more speed you might also consider a 2006 or 7 intel iMac. Those will run 10.4. And if you want hugely hugely more speed, there's the 2007 8 core Mac Pro but any 2007 or...

It should work but you'd be better off getting a G3 card instead

It's very very rare to have a floppy controller with 20 pin connectors and adapters to 19 pin. In virtually all IIe with a 19 pin connector the cable is permanently attached to the card. Best choice is to either find another floppy controller or a physical disk of a copy program.

I got the SATA extension, had to modify it a little so it would fit. Tried it out with an external power supply and the drive showed up right away. It was late and I thought I’d think about the next step the following day. At 6am I wake up with a question. I’d tried a couple of different...

Picked up a bunch of  what were supposed to be 2.66 1,1 Mac Pros for what worked out to $50 each. In amongst them were 3 later machines. A couple of 2008 8 core 2.8 and a 2010 quad core 2.8 with 2 Radeon 5770s. All the machines are working fine except the 2010 which has an issue. None of the 4...

Looking for an opinion or maybe someone's tried this. If I transfer the cache chips from a 466 DA CPU card to a card from a tray loading iMac, will it show up as 1mb, 512k or not at all

Isn't the CD bootable?

Bypass the daisy-chain board and it'll work on a Mac. The issue was that GSOS would keep polling the drive so the drive access light would keep flashing.

This site is a pretty good resource http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/All_Things_PPC.html

Hard drives are pretty much airtight so there is room for hope. This week I tried out a 5 and a 10mb Profile hard drive. Both worked

It’s got II Plus ROMs. The dates I see on the chips seem to indicate 1982 as a likely production time. Which would means it predated ProDOS. It’d be interesting to get the hard drive going.  I’m wondering if it’ll be CP/M.

For things like voltages I like digital For checking continuity like checking traces or doing a pinout on a cable I prefer analog

Long time ago I had the idea that when I replaced a RAM chip, I'd put in a socket. Then I started having problems with some socketed RAM being to high

I've used Samsung SSDs under OS9 without problems. I believe it was 120gb 840 evo with a Sonnet SATA card. Worked in a 8600 and a MDD. I'd tried a 120gb Intel and while it initially worked, I soon had directory problems. Moved the drive to a MacBook where it worked fine