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I managed to get R5 installed on mine no issues. I believe the usual issue is there's an R5 .iso floating around that isn't multisession, so parts go missing. the .ccd/.img image works fine.

Somehow I have insane luck, because I've picked up another Quad CPU Daystar. This one's a Quad 132! Here's a link to the first one: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/the-holy-grail-of-pci-macs-daystar-millennium-quad-604.31811/ This machine is a Daystar Genesis MP. It's a Quad CPU...

Not just his Risc PC, I also ended up with his Iyonix. The RPC itself is actually really nice though, it came with a Kinetic upgrade and an eesox graphic equalizer in the top slice. Not sure where the equalizer came from no one else has seen them before.

I've actually got an RPC 700 here. It's a pretty fun machine, with a 233 MHz Strong ARM via a Kinetic CPU upgrade and a graphic equalizer in the top slice. I need to get a network card for it next and make the sound work at some point. Runs Doom really well, though! I drug it out to VCF West...

A bit of an unusual one, a quad LC PDS adapter. I found it shoved in with a bunch of VME-style cards scrapped from some sort of audio setup, along with a Radius Color Pivot IIsi interface. Quite a big card, sadly I did not find the case it would've gone with. Just bare board in a gaylord. Oh well.

I've actually got mAcTX II boards kicking around here, as well as all the components. The LC one's files are online but I still have the IIc stuff. They were kind of two separate projects under one name. I really need to get around to assembling boards and/or kits. Unfortunately my job hit me...

ATTO Cards (UL series, most commonly), Adaptec PowerDomain and OrangeMicro Grappler SCSI cards were the three most common. 

I'll see if I can dig up testing I did as part of my project later. I did some tests as part of current draw/voltage drop across my board by making a harness to go between the motherboard and PSU with breaks in the voltage lines. Hooked up my bench PSU as the power source to get a fairly...

In a similar way, I've just straight up soldered CR2032 holders in place of the originals. Both Keystone #1058 and unknown SMT 2032 holders from Excess Solutions fit fine with the tabs directly over the original through holes. Flood through holes, glue holder in place, heat tabs. Works great. 

Basically any Toshiba or Plextor can. XM-5401B, PX-40TSe, etc, etc. I know Sanyo can not for sure (used in some LaCie drives). The CR504/CD600i iirc is jumperable too, using the 2nd from the far right jumper to enable 512 byte sector support. The 300i might also support that, but I don't...

Does the CD emulation support 512 byte sector reads? It's an issue with real CD drives on Unix machines and not dealing with real CDs on those would be great.

Sure!

New Machine: Outbound 125. Got this from that ebay auction that ended last week! Not sure if it works or not yet - I need to get batteries for the keyboard. 

A few months ago I picked up a Mac IIci and a Mac IIsi for $40 off Craigslist. Tonight I got around to mostly finishing the IIsi :)  . All things considered, the IIsi wasn't in the worst shape I've seen them. Some leakage, but not extreme.  Power supply certainly wasn't pretty though. But...

Came with what was once NeXTSTEP 0.9 and 1.0, but since overwritten. + one generic NeXT branded blank disk and one random third party disk. (Late post, how'd I save it instead of posting?) What's currently on them? Great question! I'm going to try and image them in a SCSI MO drive to see if...

Came with what was once NeXTSTEP 0.9 and 1.0, but since overwritten. + one generic NeXT branded blank disk and one random third party disk. What's currently on them? Great question! I'm going to try and image them in a SCSI MO drive to see if I can pull something off them. Unfortunately I...

Check on these two chips specifically, the 74ALS240 s. I've had three boards where I had to replace themme to make nubus work again. They're the bus drivers for the slots, so they're reasonably important for the functionality of the slot. The bottom one usually goes first.

I get enough junk I figured I should start a thread for the odds and ends I get. I'll start with today's pickup: A NeXT Cube. A friend sent me a link to one on Facebook Marketplace last night for $200, and by some miracle it was still available!  It's a little beat up but shoot, the price...

Relevant to the thread, so I'll crosspost it here :)    

Alright so use this as constructive feedback and *not* criticism of the board - I want to help avoid the mistakes I did with the mAcTX board :).  So one of the first things I notice is you have the connector for the PicoPSU and the Mac harness on the same side of the board. I'd swap that Mac...