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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
 Posted - 23 Jan 2002 : 21:44:56
Hey what happened in here? It's just like the boom-bust state that Quadra/Centris was experiencing a while back.I could have sworn that Macintosh II series (at least II, IIx, IIfx) was the big bad-ass-has-six-nubus-slots-so-it-can-prey-on-unsuspecting-pizza-boxes mac. Lets bring this forum back to life!! *laughs maniacally* --------------------
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2002 : 10:21:10
Fortunately, Captain Video has come along to bring my forum back to life. I feel useful again!666th poster to the
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2002 : 10:58:16
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Fortunately, Captain Video has come along to bring my forum back to life. I feel useful again!
With fickle abandon you back burnered the IIfx for a NEW TOY! And I got side tracked with micro-quadras, I'm ready to come back and play now too!jt
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2002 : 12:34:24
Okay, okay, I admit it. I have been neglecting my IIfx. Unfortunately, it's going to be that way for a while.However, my project IIci, dormant for months now, is coming back to life! I won a 33MHz 040 upgrade for it on eBay. I still haven't decided what I'm going to hack it into, but I'll think of something. 666th poster to the
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2002 : 20:21:30
I suppose hacking an internal 3.5" SyQuest into the IIci would be cool...or you could go all out and hack in a slot-loading CD-RW (i've heard somewhere that you can get ATAPI->SCSI internal converters...but that would be a gigantic bottleneck with the IIci's onboard SCSI)--------------------
FireWire is fast
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beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ Edited by - FireWire is fast on 24 Jan 2002 20:21:53 |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 10:23:53
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, the IIci will also have an ATTO II 10MB/sec SCSI card, which in theory wouldn't present too tight a bottleneck for a slot-loading IDE CD-ROM converted to SCSI. Not as bad as the IIci's 2.3MB/sec onboard SCSI, anyway. Also, there's a ColorClassic on the CCSCC that has a slot-loader and there was no mention of it having an IDE to SCSI converter. Apparently it uses a Pioneer CD-ROM, which must be SCSI. I didn't think such an animal existed??? I can't find any on eBay, but I did find this...which gives me a very spendid idea... I could remove the 6-disk changer from it's case and hack it into the IIci's case (or hack it and the IIci Mobo into a new home if they don't fit) and then burn 6 CD's for it. One would have the OS, one would have games, one would have programs, and so on. It would have no hard drive, just the 6 CD's running it. It would have no writable media, sure, but it could be some kind of multi-media kiosk or web browser or something... Oh wait, I forgot...it probably won't boot because it's not Apple ROM'd!  666th poster to the
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Visit my site! Edited by - cinemafia on 25 Jan 2002 10:39:46 |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 15:18:50
I found a handful of those SCSI-to-IDE converters on eBay and the reserve seems to be pretty high...I don't think it's worth it! Maybe I will try the 6-CD changer. I just remembered that FWB HDT can (should?) make it bootable.666th poster to the
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 16:12:55
Your regular boot drive can't be a CD.Too much writing to the sys folder goes on for that to work. A networked CD server tho... ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 16:18:44
Ah, ok. It was worth a shot! I've got to think of something to cool to hack my IIci with...666th poster to the
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2002 : 14:01:43
Wow! My search for a slot-loading SCSI CD-ROM may be over! Look what I found!Not only is it slot-loading, but it can hold 5 CD's, very much like those newer CD players in Nissans (among others). Best of all, there's one on eBay! Well, I actually found quite a few on eBay but that was the one ending the soonest. 
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2002 : 07:46:11
Well, did you win it?~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2002 : 09:50:21
Nope. What's worse, I found another one that was Pioneer 32x single-disk slot-loader, and I got out-bid by 50 cents because I was away from my computer for the last hour of the auction.  Fortunately there are more of the Nakamichi 5-disk slot-loaders on eBay, though. They just keep going up too high. That other one ended at $30, and there's one going right now for US$62(!!!) with 6 hours left, which after winning a bunch of other goodies I don't have the funds for... 666th poster to the
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Visit my site! Edited by - cinemafia on 01 Feb 2002 09:53:52 |
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