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Snial
Snial
Sigh. I once had a PowerBook 100. Bought it for ≈£320 in spring/summer 1996. Loved it. I had an external FD for it. The 40MB HD did start to die after a few years, but I was able to repartition it as a 29MB drive.
obsolete
obsolete
Take it to a coffee shop and bask in the envy of all who witness you
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Let me know if you want to get online :ROFLMAO:
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JT737
JT737
@ClassicGuyPhilly -How about one of these??! I actually used one of these back in the day for my first online experience. AOL_20disk.jpg

But seriously, I miss the time when we had more choices for our internet providers.....even if the speed was limited to 9600 (14400 by the time I got online). Now it is mostly a crappy monopoly......

Anyways, I like the fact that you have the total package from Prodigy...right down to the dial-up number guide! It's a cool time capsule.
ClassicGuyPhilly
ClassicGuyPhilly
@JT737 haha thanks! I actually worked for a regional ISP 96-98, we always had a lot of user churn with people switching between providers. Love the AOL disk!
JT737
JT737
@ClassicGuyPhilly -Did you ever hear of a local ISP called "Galaxy Internet Service"? I had them from about 2000 until 2013 when they, unfortunately, when out of business....pushed out by crappy and completely enshitified ISP's such as ComCa$t.
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Preparing this guy to go out for a recap including taking two jumbo antistatic bags and combining into an uberantistaticbag!
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Boctor
Boctor
Look at how much elbow room all those PLCCs have... That's one nice PCB layout.
luRaichu
luRaichu
@Boctor a real man lays out for through hole PLCC sockets
Boctor
Boctor
@luRaichu The Plus/SE era machines with the big traces and pre-SMT designs are beautiful. Especially how all the traces are tinned and silvery looking in the SE, or at least on mine. That accelerator you routed makes me want a Plus, if I ever get the space for one.
Loving the Mac Prodigy 040/060 conversation thread. I have enough familiarity with the topic to follow along, but little to no practical experience beyond being a PC builder, Apple ][ software hacker, and just currently an end user and consumer.

As such, my Centris 650 and I would love to be a part of the process. If that means waiting until things are all done and commercially available, then so be it.
If a tech minded consumer beta tester has any value to the process, kindly put my name on that list.

Thanks - it looks like it's going to be a fun ride and a cool piece of hardware!

Phil
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Oliver_A
Thanks for the warm welcome, as soon as the card starts working on my LC475, I would be considering to give out cards to betatesters such as you. Thanks for the offer! :)
Thrilled to share my IIfx is finally fully operational and already being put to important use! ;)
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brb going to start using "orange" as my default for-loop variable

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My SE/30 logic board (my only LB not washed/recapped solely by me) is riddled with residual corrosion. I can smell it when reflowing. It's my fault for believing the person who sold it was a professional in the first place, but this was ~10 years ago, when I would've made all these same errors. Should I dare trying to lift every single SMT component with hot air? Go for a Reloaded PCB?
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Phipli
Phipli
If that doesn't fix the voltage sag, it might need the PSU recapping if it hasn't been already.
Boctor
Boctor
I have the fancy aftermarket Meanwell PSU, I had no idea about the trimpots in the stock ones. This is for sure a LB issue, I found smelly gunk under multiple ICs. The last person likely didn't clean at all before recap. Since I can't guarantee the integrity of the inner layers or vias, I'm strongly leaning towards attempting a Reloaded PCB. I know it's normally uncalled for at this point, but I have the itch.
Phipli
Phipli
OK, but as long as the loaded voltage on the new PSU is above 4.95V on the 5v Rail, higher if possible.
During my systems check this holiday, my Powerbase has been found... wanting. No video out, either built-in or my Radeon. Sigh. Cuda reset and different power supply tested. Gonna reseat everything and then start removing stuff till it boots. I was wanting to play some Powermac-era stuff too.
Powerbase
Powerbase
Well, I had to replace the motherboard with a spare one I had, gets reliable video now but its hard drive is funky now (aka doesnt work). I guess twenty years of service was good enough for that ole "Magnetic Data Tech" drive.
Disappointingly, it seems like flashing a Dell-branded OEM Rage 128 Ultra with the PowerMac Rage 128 Pro VBIOS does not automagically work. I didn't expect it to, but it was at least worth finding out.
obsolete
obsolete
Oh my, this is an AGP card? Are you doing it just for the challenge? Otherwise, I would send you a Radeon 7000 for free. I have extras.
obsolete
obsolete
The first issue I see is that this PC card has two 32-bit SDRAM chips (64-bit bus) for 16MB, and the Mac cards have eight 16-bit SDRAM chips (128-bit bus) for 32MB. Some later ATI cards still work despite this (and just report the wrong memory size), but maybe this is a showstopping problem for the Rage 128. Not many people have experience flashing them because they're the lowest-end AGP Mac video card.
Boctor
Boctor
I was doing it purely for challenge, yeah. I could have sworn some of the Mac R128 cards had 16M and the same "R128P" GPU, but the bus would probably be a showstopper. I ended up putting back the stock GeForce2 MX and fixing my cheap SiL3112 card instead, which turned out better. (It was the typical out-of-spec 3.3V VRM issue. If I recall, you had also posted the name of the replacement part, so thanks!)
I think I booted my ANS of an SSD.

Somehow I had the compatible hardware for this?! Where did the Murphy’s law go?
please please please please review my MicroMac Performer derivative design k thx bye
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