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Some back-of-the-envelope math says this statement is literally true. At current mining rates, that “20H/s 8 MHz 68000” would take about 1 trillion years to mine a single bitcoin. Mining rates aren’t static - the computing power needed to mine one bitcoin increases as more bitcoin are mined...

And now, "all integer inch size screens", 8-17: (Yeah, have to truncate sizes, not round, to get that.) (The 14" is powered off because it's my work laptop and I'm off work this week.) Kind of interesting that the 13" MacBook Air is in the center of the picture, when it's also exactly at the...

Well, I just tried my PowerBook 180, which I know worked perfectly, and it showed zero signs of life, too. So I thought maybe it was the power brick. Tried another power brick, and both power on! The PB100 is nonfunctional, though. The screen powers on, but shows absolutely nothing, and the...

Not sure. It worked when I last put it in storage, and all batteries were removed (then fresh PRAM put in before trying to power on.) So probably caps. It just shows zero signs of life.

Finally added a 2400c to my collection. Arrived nonfunctional, was sold as functional. Plugged in to get the dreaded "GLOD". Thought maybe the PRAM battery had exploded or leaked in shipping, so disassembled to find the PRAM battery was actually absolutely pristine, with zero indication there...

Thread necromancy! Just got a 2400c off ePay, same exact symptoms. Was afraid it was the PRAM battery leaking, opened it up, someone had obviously already been in it - a few screws missing - and the PRAM battery not only looks fine, it looks RECENT. But… It had been packed badly, and reading...

Now get me an SSH-tunneling-working copy of MacX. 😂

Works with SSH keys‽ That's it, I'm bringing my PowerBook 540C into work next week and doing sysadmin work from it.

Add me to the list for four, please! Now to find a mini-DIN-8 to DB-9 to connect one to my Mac 512k, and to 3D print some cases to match the machines they'll be connected to... (And rig up some ultra-short serial-and-ADB cords for PowerBook use.)

Also, for a CD300 (or any old double speed or slower CD-ROM drive,) you'll want to make sure you burn the CD-R at the slowest speed your CD burner allows.

Interesting, I haven't had any problems writing files to an 800k disk in 9.2 and making it unbeatable...

You absolutely have to authorize the computer to download still, but when you redownload, it should download 256kbps "Purchased Music" .m4a files instead of 128kbps "Protected Music" .m4p files. Any previously downloaded protected tracks will still be protected, you would need to redownload to...

Hey, right there on the web page!  

Apple advertised as 32 MHz because they went 'cheap' and used a 16 MHz chip to generate the clock for the CPU, doubled to 32 MHz on that model; even though the CPU itself was rated for 33 MHz.

Yeah, I sent it off to Battery Refill, they opened it up and replaced the cells.  Sadly, I don't have the email receipt any more. It took them like four months, though.  I had them do two at once (and got a slight discount for it,) and got about 10 hours between the two batteries when they were...

Because there is some confusion - some Macs can make a bootable RAM disk (although it loses its contents if you shut it all the way off,) some Macs can't.  I don't know for sure about the Q840av, I know that most of the Power Macs aren't bootable from a RAM disk.  (Some systems save the RAM disk...

As others have said, you can command the CD drive to play the audio CD, but the classic Mac OS doesn't do "digital transfer" of the audio over the SCSI connection. Macs with an internal CD drive have (as unity said) an extra cable to send the analog audio to the logic board.  External CD drives...

Two options: 1. Format the floppies as "Mac" on the SE/30, then use them in OS X via a USB floppy drive (yes, they will work - you can't format HFS/Mac format on OS X, but you can read/write just fine.) 2. If you have PC File Exchange installed on the SE/30, just use the disks in...

I really want one of those mini CD drives from Independence Day, but I have a feeling that was a mockup, not a real thing.

I've acquired three over the years.  Only one was fully working, even though all three power up, have the light turn on, and the drive platters spin. One of the broken ones appears to have dead drive electronics - while the platters do spin up, it doesn't identify to the system AT ALL. And yes...