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Yeah, it seems weird that CDs didn‘t just ship in the caddies. Of course they would cost more than a jewel case, but if everyone had done it, the cost would have gone down. The insane amount of over-engineering to stabilise a loose, spinning CD and matching the laser to the wobble…

American phone systems actually supply a lot of power when the phone rings (it had to power a motor that rings a real bell, originally), and trickle power to create the dial tone. International systems use that external adapter because their power supply for ring and tone are different. I had a...

I ran iTunes on my PowerBook 1400 166, so I would say "yes". Versions for classic Mac OS weren't the unwieldy behemoths that it turned into on X. I have both SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI and I prefer BlueSCSI because it's so much easier to set up and manage, but SCSI2SD was designed to work with more...

Herb sells the sliding battery covers for the Duos that are on Type III batteries. I've bought from him in the past, and I was happy in the end. I'm pretty sure he's on the spectrum, so don't expect it to be straightforward.

I have an AudioMedia II that I have my CD-ROM hooked up to, and the audio goes in just fine, but I can't find a way to change it so when playing CDs the input pipes it into the output like it does with internal CD-ROMs.

Yeah, I eventually got a 200MHz 604e card for $60 when everyone was getting G3 upgrades, the market was so flooded with 604s at that time. But it was 2 years before the 8500 came along after the AV Quadra, which was the real successor to the AV machines, and it cost twice as much, and it took...

I had a Centris 660AV as my last 68k Mac before my 7500. I LOVED it. I did a lot of video recording and editing on it after upgrading the SCSI drive to a much faster IBM model. I would hunt down all the plugins that used the DSP on Hotline, and wow, did it deliver in Photoshop! So much...

This is a really cool idea. I've been following RaSCSI, but that doesn't add networking to the Mac, just lets you do networking file transfers with the Pi (right now). My favourite portable is the Duo 280, and I've got so many of them disassembled (to repair my main "Ship of Theseus" 280) that...

Doesn’t “Wish I Were” work on a IIfx?

On the TNT motherboards, the Gestalt changed depending on where you put the power LED. In the front and it’s a 7x00, on the side and it’s an 8x00. Some motherboards, the Gestalt changed depending on just the processor speed or type. It’s voodoo as far as I can tell.

I don't use Mac OS X on PowerPC machines: pointless. There's VERY little PPC-only Mac OS X software. I have a Gigabit G4 Titanium on 9.2.2 and the DVD video stutters if I do anything else besides watch a video, as well as the fan going full-blast after playing videos for a while, so the Radeon...

I think I'm having this problem with my PowerBook Duo 280 and Duo Dock II running Mac OS 8.1. My AAUI transceiver shows network activity, but TCP/IP isn't populated with any information, and every time I try to use Chooser to connect to my NAS (which supports AFP), I get a Type 10 or Type 11...

The Macintosh LC would have been a pretty good computer had Apple not put it on a 16-bit bus.

Will it work in a TiBook G4 to offload the decoding?

If you're a YouTuber, even 2021 Macs need recapped, because that's how you create an hourlong video that basically has no content.

The potentiometers on the back of the display were broken off (save 1) when I got the display, but it seems to work otherwise. Attached are what they look like. Will these form Amazon work as a replacement?

I cannot believe how well ImageWriter II's were made. It's more rare to find one that doesn't work than finding one that does. I've owned 2 or 3 over the years, and while loud and slow, they're so reliable. I'm surprised Apple only revised them once, seeing as they continued to sell tons of...

So your current module also acts as a SCSI2SD replacement along with the Ethernet SCSI?

How does that work? I really don't understand Scuznet, and not sure I understand this card.

That would be easy to do, as the Duo case was designed to have different coverings in that slot, so 3D printing a holder for the ADB port would be easy. You would need the blanking board that came with the Duos without a modem because the reset button is strangely there and not on the logic...