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Yep, black adapter on left with cable on right will do the trick. Keep the length short for signal integrity, the cable on the left is far too long for any but special use cases. Apple's setup requires a passthru terminator on the end of its OEM Cables so you will wand one in DB-25 on the black...

I've not seen a Centronics 50 cable or adapter with SCSI Disk Mode capability outside the short Apple Adapter Cable. Why can't you use a DB-15 adapter with the switch setup combined with the standard DB-15 to Centronics 50 cable?

That's exactly what I thought I'd said. Apple "hobbled them with a more compact 2PCI/CSII physical setup." IOW they limited the cubic available, restricting the number of slots so the machines wouldn't rob sales from the high end, their usual strategy. I have a 6400/6500 testbed recased in a...

Lots of great new info developed in this iteration of the topic! Thanks, gang. Tower's more interesting than I'd thought. I picked up a gaggle (9 or 10) of mostly DT and a few MT models a while back. All in pretty good shape. They're a bit stripped, but have different personality cards, bezels...

LOL! That's why I asked! Noggin's shut down for the day. 🤣

Interested in finding one, scraping the info from everymac.com would be a PITA if only to find a definitive breakdown. Very interested in component level info on the boards, eg. video chipset.

Looked into LC NIC to 030 PDS conversion for @maceffects at one point. Electrically/signalwise they're very similar. I'd imagine the real difficulty would be in address space mapping differences for going in either direction.

Always wondered about possible compatibility of 630 PDS with 030 PDS in terns of getting the Radius Color Pivot II/Si up and running? most certainly a hard no on that, but worth a look? I have tre Radius Color Pivot LC with funky VRAM expansion SIMM, but haven't tried it in anything with the...

Dang, mine's not there anymore and can't think of where it might be. It had something plugged in there for power, but damfino at this point?

Thruhole PLCC68 sockets seem to be available. Is this what folks have been saying is unobtanium? https://www.ebay.com/itm/235031138033 There seem to be a few listings for thruhole sockets and plenty for SMT Socket listings. The sockets on Performer boards for the Classic look deeper, is that...

KISS update 2: taking a cue from the ugly Compact Mac interface sans Killy Klip here. Looks possible to leave the Classic's PLCC CPU in place. Soldering .5 inch pitch headers all around simplifies things considerably. Baseline Performer design would be revamped slightly. Only a .5 inch SIP...

KISS update: looks like ringing the Classic's 68000 pads with RA .5 inch pitch headers or sockets for them simplifies a rework of the baseline Performer design. Just rework the standard thruhole/unobtanium socket interface to support the "ringed" .5 inch header/socket interface within its...

Answered one of my questions, silly of me to wonder about it: So development of a DIP adapter board will be required. Breaking the PLCC pads out with a castellated(?) SMT PCB looks the ticket? 1 - might running the 68000 lines to interface with the SE PDS suffice or will be offsetting to SMT...

Haven't got a Macintosh Classic, but the unavailable socket for its 68000 has been bothering me no end since I kicked off the Performer clone project @Bolle pulled off when I shipped my Performer to him. May be a bit ugly, but I think we might be able to pull off this bodge? 1 - methinks the...

If moving the SCSI address block, is it possible to patch the ROM and hijack the calls to support a Slow/Wide SCSI Bus? Don't recall when or where, but someone suggested that Slow/Wide would accomplish the same thing as Fast/Narrow ATTO Silicon Express II NuBus Card I was looking into cloning...

Indeed, RCPII/SI may be a good candidate? Dunno about acceleration, but does that even have anything to do with gaming? From what I've read, acceleration has mostly to do with things like scrolling the desktop in Illustrator et al, basic QuickDraw routines the wouldn't be employed in gaming I'd...

That almost certainly explains the connector on daughtercard setup. DE-9 card would be swapped out for Coaxial connector card for displays having that input, no?

Thanks for clarification, figured as much when first taking a look at that card. 1024x768@8bit was about perfect for spreadsheet, CAD and Illustration programs. GS TPD card and second card for 24bit on a small display was the go to for DTP in the day. Page layout DTP started out on 1bit B&W FPD...

Next year is the 40th Anniversary of the Plus. Maybe someone can get in touch with the Woz? He might be up for releasing IWM for that milestone and new build project in the ITXPlus? He might even create/recreate a new version for old times sake/posterity? Gotta love a guy with the stones to go...

How much VRAM(?) is on the card? Enough to support 214bit color? @Bolle, I'd go in the other direction. LEM is more likely to be wrong on the specs for this card than for it to have been 24bit capable in that era.