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I have an Apple Disk II interface card where Drive 2 connection does not work. Interface card is in an Apple IIe. I have two Disk II floppy drives. Connecting either one to Drive 1 connection and the drive functions fine. Connecting either one to Drive 2 and it will not function. Obviously...

Holy Heck! That’s quite a solid collection! Nice to see the SE as part of the crew.

For these older Macs I have the staff at my local FedEx Office Ship center pack everything using their system. I have put the Mac in a clear poly bag, and I ALWAYS clarify that I want them to use expanding foam packets (known by Instapak and other brand names). We will then choose the...

Thanks for the reply. My biggest question is the last pic in my post – with the three instead of four jumper pads (resistor marked "471"). It's called out in the XLR8YourMac post graphic, but nothing is mentioned about what, if anything, to do with it. But otherwise, yes, I was going to clear...

Bumping in hopes anyone has insight on this before I throw caution to the wind... 🤞😬

Regarding the PRAM battery, there are options for retrofitting them with coin cell style batteries instead of the 1/2 AA: https://www.tindie.com/products/siliconinsider/macbatt-cr2032-pram-apple-macintosh-battery/ And a SCSI-to-SD solution like BlueSCSI makes file transfers and local installs...

I need help figuring out which jumpers / resistors to adjust for overclocking the G4 Gigabit DP processor card. I am slowly chugging along with my G4 Gigabit Budget Upgrade project. I want to overclock its G4 500MHz DP card to 600MHz. From this post on XLR8YourMac, there are two, or maybe...

Nice preservation work!

For sure. After reading a little about the PSU repair on this machine, it looks like there’s a decent amount of SMD to be dealt with. Not particularly adept at that kind of soldering.

Posted a little about the Media 100 system above (didn't see your reply until after). But they had a breakout box that connected via the port. From what I understand, it was both connecting to source devices like video cameras, and also for storing data in RAID or other configurations. And...

IX Micro Twin Turbo 128 card. Hadn't see one of these since the PowerMac 8600/9600/Mac Clone days. I believe that these cards have some early 3D support. QUESTION: The header marked "VSA" above the Twin Turbo ROM... Is that a display header? If so, I was thinking about putting this into my...

Here are shots of the massive (12-1/4" long) Media 100 Vincent 601 video editing cards: Media 100 Vincent 601 front Media 100 Vincent 601 back From the small amount of research I've done, the Media 100 Vincent system were used in non-linear video editing, and was a combo of the above...

Next step was testing these units to see what their current status is. As I said, I knew going into these that the Quicksilver and AGP units were reported to have dead power supplies, but otherwise fully functional. I started out with the G4 DP 1.0GHz MDD. Connected my 40Gb IDE testing hard...

And last stop on the "freshly acquired G4 towers" section of our tour is... PowerMac G4 400MHz AGP tower: The secrets it held inside: 2Gb Ram ATI plain old boring Rage 128 (not even pro brah) Belkin 3-port Firewire 400 PCI card Another Media 100 Vincent 601 video processing card A...

Thanks! I'll give that hair dryer trick a try. I have a heat gun, so I'll carefully use that and see if it can get at least *one* of them to work. 🤞 Next up... PowerMac G4 867MHz Quicksilver What I found inside: 1.5Gb Ram 128gb SSD and IDE to SSD adapter Nvidia GeForce2 MX 32mb ADC / VGA...

Thanks. The MDD really are a gem if you're looking for top-tier OS 9 performance. I don't have a real-world need, or nostalgic desire for that level of performance. For me even my mid-tier G4 DP Gigabit handles all PPC MacOS & OS X installs, games, and product application demoing with more than...

Went through and did a thorough testing of the G4 towers. Back story I got from the guy I traded with is that these were from a video production studio in Southern California. I'll do some posts with a rundown of each tower PowerMac G4 Dual Processor 1.0Ghz MDD Specs as shipped: What I...

Well we're about even. I spent $200 on my IIe with 2x Disk II and Apple mono monitor, plus whatever cards were installed. I did spend on gas (Nor Cal to Eugene) but I also spent a couple days visiting with my son and a friend on the way there and back, so it the gas only partially counts. That's...

$100 US American dollars?! That's quite a deal. Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the shipping, considering.

Thanks. Yeah just a generic early-2000's(?) PC tower. I had thought about going the Hackintosh route as well, as its a weird mix of Apple-esque aluminum and late '90s Dell vibes. It's actually quite large and amazingly lite. Could be some sort of server. Or a sleeper system.