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Those prices are crazy and justified only for data recovery - as a matter fact, I had to recover data from a crashed HD and the recovery service asked me if I wanted to purchase the clone drive from which they would “harvest” the heads or they would buy it themselves. The cost involved was 120$...

I have a 630 with two 64 mb simms in it. Be advised that the second slot only takes single sided memory simms, so you’re limited to 64mb in the second slot and 128 in the first. I did not try 64+128 as I don’t have a 72pin simm in this size, however the two single sided 64 i have work great in...

Hmm 40mb, to reach that it is possible you have a two simm version logic board - one 32mb, plus a 4mb and the soldered 4….

Would it work from the Rominator SIMM? It could be a nice addition if it’s not too big.

There were some pretty wild cards in the 90s, I have an Intergraph Intense 3d Pro, these cards used a very high quality IBM ramdac and circuitry to basically compete with low end SGI graphic workstations. My card came in a dual Pentium Pro IBM Intellistation machine. image quality was amazing on...

Maybe it is power related, but on the card itself - very dry input electrolytics on the rails? Possibly a regulator IC? I'd check the power on the board itself.

I stand corrected, I found a couple other locked threads where you went after specific members of this forum, that also appear in this one.

I’m not here, after having survived a close shave with death due to first time Covid infection to watch you two do this. However; while Cheesestraws has always, and I mean it, contributed with hundreds of interesting and helpful posts, I have only seen you, Tarantula, ask a few random questions...

I totally agree on paper, in practice while this is almost always the case for motion video TV (you know, with all the "bleed in" "motion blur" etc and all those effects that made us believe or perceive a higher resolution of moving images was displayed on screen), it is definitely not always...

I seem to recall that this Trinitron tube was originally built as a monitor for Sony broadcast cameras (the big things in studios and sports events of the era) and medical equipment; it is rated - stil if I am not mistaken - for NTSC and PAL /Secam video. Visible lines are respectively 480 and...

@Powerbase, yeah! I had even replied to that, really really fascinating. I wish I had a larger preheater than the 853A, I'd love to try this.... it seems from re reading that thread that it is indeed possible to use the L2 cache that the 603e came with on the board, and that it does some good...

Hey Daniael, hows the performance without L2 cache? Does it work with the cache stick? Compared to a standard 6500 with the same speed is there noticeable difference? also, how to set speed of the CPU (could be useful to overclock a bit the stock board)?

I think that having real spinning drives is not a bad thing. it just depends which drives. case in point, the OP mentioned NOS Quantum drives - those are the least reliable drives of the era. Granted, it was 4y ago but… Why no Seagate Medalists? Or the IBM DCHS? Or the Quantum's XP3xxxx? These...

Hello @Siliconinsider, did you ever manage to solve the problem? I’m quite interested

Would a 750GX work on a measly 233 Zif board? My idea is remove the 233 cpu, remove both L2 cache chips and reball the GX on it. As the original 233 does not have any pll multipliers on it it would make for the most interesting Beige G3 upgrade ever

Very interesting, can anyone confirm the "343S0161" vs "343S1135" thing?

Argh I didn’t know that!

That’s actually excellent advice - I second that. I remember having the extensions in the “must have” disc with the rest of the tools

If it’s the silver grey external Yamaha drive it’s a bitch to make it work… i gave up years and years ago. it had proprietary drivers and I believe was primarily made for pc. Also it was used in the music industry so who knows…. I remember ditching it for one of the Plextors

Where did you get that heatsink? All I find is smaller, 486 sized parts…