However, this weekend I did manage to pick up a couple goodies, and for FREE! I was driving through Burbank on my way to the Media City Mall and happened to notice a large, red sign proclaiming "FREE STUFF" in the parking lot of a production company on Victory and Olive or so. I made a U-Turn and pulled into the parking lot to find about a dozen people scrambling around loading various lawn-sale-worthy junk into their vehicles.

The first stuff I grabbed was pretty innocuous, a gallon of paint, a giant box of envelopes, some salad tongs, but then I found some neat stuff. In one box there was a 25' or so cat-5 ethernet cable, not bad! Next I found two mouse pads, one standard size and emblazed with the Edit Point logo, which is the post-production company where I got all this stuff, and another that was double the size of a normal mouse pad and green.

Next I found a copy of "Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies!", which has been a fun read so far and has some really funny quotables in it (I'll have to start another thread with some of them). Then I found some really good stuff. First was an interesting PCI card, that was still in the anti-static blister pack and had obviously never been used. Made by Digital Origin in 1999, the card turned out to be a firewire card!

Now, before you get too excited, it isn't a normal PCI Firewire card. Instead of 2 or 3 6-pin firewire ports, it has just a single, 4-pin firewire port, the kind that's found only on DV cams. So, the card isn't made for connecting firewire drives, but only for capturing video from a DV cam (I'm also guessing that it provides very little power). I did some googling but didn't turn up much. Digital Origin made "normal" firewire PCI cards for Macs, but none of them appear to have been like this one.

Digital Origin was bought out by Discreet, who seems to have purged any reference to Digital Origin or its products from their site, so that was no help. I tried putting the card in my 7500, but it doesn't show up at all in System Profiler. I haven't tried TattleTech yet, but either way I'm guessing that the card isn't Mac-compatible. I may try it in one of my project PC's to see if Windows can play with it...though since it's made for video capture only there would really be no point.

Finallly, the last big find from the giveaway was an Avid MediaShare HVD network box. What thhe heck is it? Well, it's a 5"x8"x9.25" (H x W x D) beige metal box that has two fans with an open exhaust chute and seven high-density, 50-pin SCSI ports on the back. All but two of these seven ports are HVD (High-Voltage Differential) and the other two are Single-Ended, just like the normal SCSI used onboard in Macs. HVD SCSI isn't any faster than SE SCSI, however, it's advantage is that it can have a much longer cable between it and the host machine andd still function without data-loss.

The Avid MediaShare boxie takes advantage of this fact by letting you network up to five HVD SCSI devices scattered hither and yon inside an office/studio/whatver and share them with one or two (or more?) host Macs, but at much faster transfer rates than ethernet, and therefore capable of sustaining video/audio production essentials. It's a pretty cool box, and since I got it for free I'm obligated to try to get some use out of it!

I just need to scan ebay for some old 50-pin differential SCSI drives and then find the MediaShare software that runs the whole show!

666th poster and 666th thread-creator
Mod of the Mac II series Forums
Total 68K Macs liberated: 7
My Site: http://cine.sytes.net
My Hotline Server: 840av.sytes.net

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The first stuff I grabbed was pretty innocuous, a gallon of paint, a giant box of envelopes, some salad
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Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1
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Nope, no new G4 yet...maybe next weekend!

However, this weekend I did manage to pick up a couple goodies, and for FREE! I was driving through Burbank on my way to the Media City Mall and happened to notice a large, red sign proclaiming "FREE STUFF" in the parking lot of a production company on Victory and Olive or so. I made a U-Turn and pulled into the parking lot to find about a dozen people scrambling around loading various lawn-sale-worthy junk into their vehicles.

The first stuff I grabbed was pretty innocuous, a gallon of paint, a giant box of envelopes, some salad tongs, but then I found some neat stuff. In one box there was a 25' or so cat-5 ethernet cable, not bad! Next I found two mouse pads, one standard size and emblazed with the Edit Point logo, which is the post-production company where I got all this stuff, and another that was double the size of a normal mouse pad and green.

Next I found a copy of "Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies!", which has been a fun read so far and has some really funny quotables in it (I'll have to start another thread with some of them). Then I found some really good stuff. First was an interesting PCI card, that was still in the anti-static blister pack and had obviously never been used. Made by Digital Origin in 1999, the card turned out to be a firewire card!

Now, before you get too excited, it isn't a normal PCI Firewire card. Instead of 2 or 3 6-pin firewire ports, it has just a single, 4-pin firewire port, the kind that's found only on DV cams. So, the card isn't made for connecting firewire drives, but only for capturing video from a DV cam (I'm also guessing that it provides very little power). I did some googling but didn't turn up much. Digital Origin made "normal" firewire PCI cards for Macs, but none of them appear to have been like this one.

Digital Origin was bought out by Discreet, who seems to have purged any reference to Digital Origin or its products from their site, so that was no help. I tried putting the card in my 7500, but it doesn't show up at all in System Profiler. I haven't tried TattleTech yet, but either way I'm guessing that the card isn't Mac-compatible. I may try it in one of my project PC's to see if Windows can play with it...though since it's made for video capture only there would really be no point.

Finallly, the last big find from the giveaway was an Avid MediaShare HVD network box. What thhe heck is it? Well, it's a 5"x8"x9.25" (H x W x D) beige metal box that has two fans with an open exhaust chute and seven high-density, 50-pin SCSI ports on the back. All but two of these seven ports are HVD (High-Voltage Differential) and the other two are Single-Ended, just like the normal SCSI used onboard in Macs. HVD SCSI isn't any faster than SE SCSI, however, it's advantage is that it can have a much longer cable between it and the host machine andd still function without data-loss.

The Avid MediaShare boxie takes advantage of this fact by letting you network up to five HVD SCSI devices scattered hither and yon inside an office/studio/whatver and share them with one or two (or more?) host Macs, but at much faster transfer rates than ethernet, and therefore capable of sustaining video/audio production essentials. It's a pretty cool box, and since I got it for free I'm obligated to try to get some use out of it!

I just need to scan ebay for some old 50-pin differential SCSI drives and then find the MediaShare software that runs the whole show!

666th poster and 666th thread-creator
Mod of the Mac II series Forums
Total 68K Macs liberated: 7
My Site: http://cine.sytes.net
My Hotline Server: 840av.sytes.net

Edited by - cinemafia on 28 Oct 2002 08:53:33

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ewww germ ridden salad tongs?

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Heh heh! Nothing a little bleach didn't cure. Besides, who says I'll use 'em for salad? They might come in handy for poking around inside of compacts!

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THNXNX
"work! WORK I SAY!"

666th poster and 666th thread-creator
Mod of the Mac II series Forums
Total 68K Macs liberated: 7
My Site: http://cine.sytes.net
My Hotline Server: 840av.sytes.net

Are you still looking for 4 bay SCSI boxes? There is a store near me that has a bunch of them. They are a little beat up with old caddy load CD-ROM drives in them. Don't know the prices - can check for you.

Kami

THnx
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