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With my mod hat on, please feel free to post folklore.org style stories here! Not sure if you'd get more readership in model forums or in the Lounge (as @adespoton suggests), where more of the storytelling stuff and history chat seems to happen, though. This site isn't intended to be...

I think they have a volatile liquid in it to assist with heat transfer but it is pushing it a bit to call it liquid cooling, it's just a way of conducting heat a bit better.

this is pretty close to what Acorn did in similar circumstances

If you have time and feel like it, it'd be interesting to hear more about how you're using the PB, perhaps in its own thread - we don't get many people (but more than zero!) who are still using these machines for "real" work, and I know several of us are always interested when someone is. If...

Welcome to the forum! Agreed, personally I'd look at polymer caps these days first. Tants are not so nice for several reasons. Unfortunately most of us that I know of in the UK don't do it as a service. @croissantking has been known to in the past though (he has done several laptops for me)...

that's very interesting and odd; did they just not think that anyone would try the restore CD in anything else? This is confirmation that @Snial has been sent to us from the future to guide our path.

Oh, this was a Ph.D procrastination project? The level of required effort makes a lot more sense now :-D (I say this with empathy, not judgily...)

ah, yes, that short-lived fad for sepiascale

Not only are they still in business, they still sell MacDraft! Though I would imagine it has basically zero of the original code left. But they're obviously proud of their history, so they might have a copy somewhere (or be willing to send you one)

Aha. I missed this project somehow! I was looking for something like this a while back, tried to build my own and couldn't get it working properly. Next time I do anything on that project I'll try yours out instead, it looks much better.

Oh, brilliant. I'm happy for you - enjoy it!

ahhh fun with classful addressing. Also, ew.

Congratulations! That's really good. Good luck with the third part - I'm sure it's anxiety-inducing but pretty sure you will get it.

I'm honestly still impressed that you managed to make the SE/30 cases you did vaguely economically viable, let alone anything bigger and less common. It all reminds me a little of the Acorn A4, which was the first ARM laptop. The process of getting a laptop enclosure made was so expensive that...

Did you replace the safety caps? How bad did the smoke smell?

My memory is saying the same thing. Certainly other cards for other buses called ProColorServer 24 are not accelerated.

Given the Test Manager's propensity to write test results to PRAM, I was wondering idly if that could be hijacked, but that unfortunately gets rather platform specific rather quickly and ends up relying on one having a working Egret in later machines. So that route is probably not one worth...

Ah yeah, this is a good idea. Bloody Tantalums.

I wonder if it might be a good thing to revisit the blanket advice to use tantalums - solid polymer capacitors are more available now than they used to be and they have the profound advantage of not catching fire if you install them wrong, along with not containing conflict minerals

at that point I might recommend using a tiny portable ntpdate type implementation rather than a full ntpd, to be honest: most hobbyist uses don't really need anything more than "set time once at startup". There's a number of these. This is mine (or perhaps I should say it's David Lettier's...