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  1. ArmorAlley

    PM G4 motherboards

    It didn't work, oddly enough. I seem to remember reading on a post that the processors in the DAs & QSs were interchangeable. So, aside from third-party cards (such as the Sonnet Encore), can I only use processor cards that came from other DAs to power up this DA?
  2. ArmorAlley

    PM G4 motherboards

    Now I need some help. I have moved a Giga designs processor from a DA to my QS und put the 733MHz CPU from the QS [820-1282-A] into the DA. The QS boots up (and takes an age to do so) but not the DA. On pressing the power button of the DA, the big fan at the side spins up, the red light on the...
  3. ArmorAlley

    People back in 1955 were probably very surprised that you collected vintage Macintoshes. They...

    People back in 1955 were probably very surprised that you collected vintage Macintoshes. They are nice coats and all but does one really need more than one?
  4. ArmorAlley

    Got a Macintosh! Now What?

    Well done sir! This is great. I was thinking about the service manual while I was writing my post but I had too many thoughts in my head at once and ended up omitting it.
  5. ArmorAlley

    Got a Macintosh! Now What?

    Congratulations! The SE is, in my opinion, the best compact mac to get. It's not the most powerful but it is powerful enough to run most, if not all, software designed to run on a B&W mac. Don't open up you mac unless you have a good reason to do so. If it ain't broke, you don't need to tempt...
  6. ArmorAlley

    PM G4 motherboards

    I feel as if I have asked this question before and apologies if I have. I'm setting up a Black & White G4 (that is, a PM G4 with the white case plastics from a Blue & White G3) as a gaming machine for turn-of-the-millennium games (and a bit beyond that too). I have 3 G4s * that I can use: 1x...
  7. ArmorAlley

    ADB Optical mouse by Kensington

    Is it just me or does anyone else notice a mismatch between the ADB cable and the mouse? Can it be that an ADB cable was stuck into a laser mouse? Platinum grey was most definitely out of fashion in the late 1990s. This mouse would have had a white or translucent USB cable. Here is a picture...
  8. ArmorAlley

    HD SCSI for PowerMac 7600

    Max is @max1zzz on these fora. Send him a private message (PM) and ask him.
  9. ArmorAlley

    HD SCSI for PowerMac 7600

    Ah, I did not know this. This explains trouble I have had in the past. Thanks for this.
  10. ArmorAlley

    HD SCSI for PowerMac 7600

    Try max. His adapters are good. If he doesn't have any, I'll have a look for one of mine. If I find one that works with an 80-pin drive (and terminates it too), you are welcome to it. I prefer the SD-card based drives (ZuluSCSI, SCSI2SD and so on) anyway. I live in Switzerland.
  11. ArmorAlley

    HD SCSI for PowerMac 7600

    There are pins for TPR (upper left) on the adapter in the link. And even if it didn't, some HDs allow termination on the disk itself. One could also use a 50-pin SCSI cable with several plugs and terminate the last port.
  12. ArmorAlley

    HD SCSI for PowerMac 7600

    It should do. I used to run an 80-pin U320 SCSI server drive in my Performa 475 so I'm fairly sure that it'll run in your PM 7600. Make sure that the server drive support SE (Single-ended) mode. It will usually have SE/LVD (or maybe LVD/SE) written on the label. The power draw from these drives...
  13. ArmorAlley

    9" Compact Completists?

    Her name is Lila and I thought about ideally cat-shaped compact Macs are.
  14. ArmorAlley

    Does this sound like a reasonable price?

    You have a point. The equivalent of €50 for a Mac SE is optimistic and probably happens quite rarely. The Bay Area may very well have inflated prices in comparison to the rest of the world. From the market perspective in Switzerland-Germany-Austria (and possibly even England too), prices seem...
  15. ArmorAlley

    Does this sound like a reasonable price?

    What does the seller mean by restored if no re-capping has been done? A broken hard drive was replaced by one that is working and ditto with the floppy? Hardly a reason to double the price. Depending on the amount of yellowing and the availability of keyboard, mouse, manuals and so, I would...
  16. ArmorAlley

    Quietest SCSI Hard drive

    I find that some of the later server drives (U320 with the 80-pin SCA socket) are relatively quiet. They have a quite hefty power draw though. Many of them are LVD/SE and you should be able to run them from a 50-pin SCSI port. I had one in my Performa 475 for some years until the PSU went.
  17. ArmorAlley

    It's MO time ☺

    I can recommend them. Mr. Jobs has started having them installed into his company's NeXT boxes too. They are also all the rage in Japan too which is a great place both the disks and the drives.
  18. ArmorAlley

    Packt Publishing: free eBook Mastering macOS Programming on 2023-11-22

    The English/Indian publishing house Packt make one of their eBooks freeky available every weekday. Today (Wednesday, Nov. 22) there is a book on Mastering macOS Programming from 2017 available. It can't be downloaded (unless you actually buy it) but once you register on the site, you can put the...
  19. ArmorAlley

    Various questions involving PowerMac 7100, 8100 and Pro Tools

    I had in an AudioMedia II in there for a while but I never got around to using it, so I took it out. Once I had a choice to make about the Sonnet Crescendo card, I decided to keep it in and turn the 8100/400 into my file server.
  20. ArmorAlley

    Various questions involving PowerMac 7100, 8100 and Pro Tools

    I'm not at all a Pro Tools user. Concerning floppies, have you looked into using BMoW's Floppy Emu [1]. I try to avoid floppies now when I can. True, it is not all 1995 but it does save a lot of floppy swapping. Many floppies are now too old to be usable and many of us should grease our floppy...
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