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    PowerBook Pismo MIDI synthesizer

    Tiger itself runs okay (not well, but okay) on a G3, given enough RAM. TenFourFox was lethargic on my 500MHz Pismo when I was still using Tiger on it, but other stuff seemed to run pretty well. PPC-era VSTs usually have pretty detailed system-requirements information in the readme, anyway. Ah...
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    PowerBook Pismo MIDI synthesizer

    It's also worth noting that you may have a music store or two in your area that deals in used equipment - I frequent my local Music-Go-Round and I've gotten some great gear for quite cheap there. This has the added benefit that you can go in and do a hands-on demo to see if you like the sounds...
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    PowerBook Pismo MIDI synthesizer

    Hmm. Most synthesizers have decent electric-piano tones, and cheesy '60s transistor organs like the Vox are also common, so you should be good on those fronts with just about anything. Really good acoustic-piano sounds are less common, but if you just want it for practice maybe it's not so big a...
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    PowerBook Pismo MIDI synthesizer

    I haven't used the Keystation, but in general M-Audio's driver support for Mac OS is excellent - both my Midisport 1x1 and the Radium 49 I used to have worked fine even on OS9. However, unless you're going to use VSTs, you'd be stuck with Apple's built-in MIDI soundfont, which isn't very good...
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    The special screwdriver for opening compact Macs...

    The cheapest one I could find back when I first needed one had a 24" shank. So I now have a handy makeshift barbecue skewer as well as a useful tool :D
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    How to make an installer disk

    You can't make an 800k Mac disk from a PC drive, as (like the 400k disks) they use a different encoding format that PC floppy controllers don't support. (Same goes for every USB floppy drive that I know of; the other problem with USB floppies is that some - most? All? - of them only support...
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    NuBus and drivers...?

    I sense I've touched a nerve :lol: In fairness, 800x600x24 ain't nothing to sneeze at, and 1024x768x16 is at least usable for web browsing (though you really want 24-bit color for Photoshop,) but as I said, I'll give both a shot and see how they stack up.
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    Macintosh II - Do you remember what it was like?

    It's an interesting system - from that period where new computers were branching out into this GUI thing, but before everything became either Windows or Unix derivatives. You can get a basic A500/A2000 setup pretty cheap, should you ever want to give it a shot.
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    Macintosh II - Do you remember what it was like?

    The Amiga would like a word with you.
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    NuBus and drivers...?

    Does the SpigotPower AV improve anything besides video capture/playback? That really isn't important to me (I got the 840AV on account of its being the fastest 68k Mac, and if I use the DSP at all it'll be for Photoshop and possibly some audio work.)
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    NuBus and drivers...?

    Hmm. I actually have a Radius PrecisionColor 24XP en route, but I'd gathered NuBus cards tend to be slower than the 840AV's onboard video? Then again, it is QuickDraw-accelerated...I'll experiment and see what works best, I guess. So, video card, faster SCSI...anything else worth looking into?
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    NuBus and drivers...?

    Hmm. Are there any particularly interesting Nubus cards aside from DSPs (which the 840AV already has?)
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    NuBus and drivers...?

    So I'm putting together a Quadra 840AV basically out of parts (got a motherboard + RAM en route, need to find a housing for it.) But I'm trying to expand it a little, too; specifically, I plan on getting a NIC, since NuBus Ethernet cards go for about as much as AAUI-to-RJ45 adapters or less. But...
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    Using Modern Hard Drives on Old Macs?

    Heh...reminds me of the Apple IIgs I used to have, with a CMS SCSI card that did its own controller-side partitioning of drives into 32MB volumes...I used an 800MB drive at first, until I got tired of it having to check and display 25 volumes every time I booted the thing! Put an 80MB in and it...
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    733 G4 Digital Audio, still in use!

    You might be surprised. Kids can take a lot more interest in things than some grown-ups.
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    I said no more computers!!

    Holy cow. I'll take it, I'll even give you your full money back! ;P
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    733 G4 Digital Audio, still in use!

    Ahh, that's great :D
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    Gee Five!

    You know, I don't mind the cheese-grater look - what I hate about the G5's case is the sharp freaking edges on the aluminum. Trying to carry one any significant distance is agony.
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    Couple of troubled Powerbooks, won't power on...

    Hmm, well, turns out the known-good power adapter isn't so known-good after all. Cheap Radio Shack POS...I tried it with a different adapter and the 180 is now working. No luck with the 170, though...
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    Couple of troubled Powerbooks, won't power on...

    Well, I followed the PMU-reset procedure for both, and no luck. No smell of burning or anything, just nothing...
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