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This is cool but I wish that it supported 75Hz refresh rates. My real dream for retro Mac endeavors is a drop-in black and white OLED panel for compact Macs.

My 4600 Ti warped a significant amount with the previous owner. It's fairly miraculous that it still works... One of these days I'll find the energy to drill some new air holes in the underside of the Quicksilver. It's rather shameful that Apple ever sold that card in such a toasty system. I...

The others are correct, you have to apply 12V to the fourth standoff on the Quicksilver cards to get them to work in a DA. The pre-QS cards have three standoffs but the QS cards have four. Is your QS displaying the correct amount of RAM once booted? The RAM and expansion slots on the QS are a...

I stitched these magazine pages together for a project I'm working on - here's some PowerPC-era goodness. Filling in missing imagery is not something I've ever attempted in a photo editor before. The original two pages were missing the inside edges so I had to re-fabricate the edges of the...

Looks like you have space on there for a second CPU. You should consider sending it to Trag so he can work his magic and you can claim the ultimate bragging rights crown. Great score! I have a dual 1GHz and I am still quite envious indeed.

Logic analysers are different to oscilloscopes. They're sort of two sides of the same coin. Logic analysers decode digital signals (ones and zeroes displayed as "high" and "low" on a graph), whereas oscilloscopes capture an analogue signal and display a waveform that represents its amplitude...

Hi there! That's a cheapo logic analyser plugged into my trusty unibody MacBook. The analyser uses the Salae Logic program. The oscilloscope is a mighty old HP system. It's actually a very early sampling scope - with a 68000 inside, no less! With a 200MHz range it is still more than capable...

You can upgrade both the CPU and graphics cards in iMacs of this age (if you're feeling brave). You might not see much of a performance difference upgrading from the X7900 but the newer chips run a lot cooler IIRC.

Great work and write-up as usual. It's always a pleasure to read your posts. Fingers crossed that that awful soldering job was the only thing the previous owner messed with on that machine. I find it so interesting that the II can be upgraded so heavily at a logic board level - were these...

You'll find plenty of skepticism regarding the blueSCSI on this site, trust me. I really don't care for them either. The v2 is supposedly "a lot better" but the v1 is so bad that that's hardly a high benchmark to reach. IIRC you can run the ZuluSCSI firmware on certain v2 blueSCSIs, which...

For larger fans it depends entirely on which type of fan you buy. Noctua sells a variety of fans that are all designed with different use cases in mind. Last time I checked they sold four or five types of 120mm fans alone, with speeds ranging from under 1000rpm to 3000rpm. The 60mm Noctua that...

The eMac is just a weird beast. I believe it is based on the iMac G4's logic board with analogue circuitry by Hitachi (? maybe LG or other). It was specifically designed to be able to withstand the wear and tear of a school environment, resulting in a construction that is fairly bulletproof but...

Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the disc drive, out of sight. What immortal Mac of i could tame thy instability? What update could stabilise Unix system's fourth reprise? You will find yourself in heaven (Once you upgrade to dot eleven)

Probably just the Pismo and the TiBook to begin with as those are all I have on hand. I'm not sure what the last PowerBook to have a native serial port was. AFAIK there were basically only three variants of the same modem card on new world G3s and the G4s so the majority of the work to be done...

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If your Pismo has a working battery: does the issue still present itself when it is battery powered? I ask because oftentimes trackpads become unresponsive due to a bad ground connection. From your description of flexing the top case making a difference it sure sounds like that could be your...