MOS8_030

Yes, Motorola had their own daughter cards. They used a socket that could accept a BGA part. I have some photos of the card we used with the P58 motherboards on my other computer, I'm out of town right now. Here's a photo of two systems I set up to do accelerated life testing with the 7448. I cranked up the voltage and the temperature and and ran the parts non stop for about three months to induce voltage threshold shifts.

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Good grief, you're right! I had no idea. I found an Entegra, I think, adapter in a box of my cables a while back and thought "I'll never need this." (Of course I'd need drivers that are probably OS9/XP only.) I guess I should hang on to it.

There's about a 100% chance the tiny nylon gear in the eject mechanism has stripped/disintegrated. The good news is you can get a replacement.

32K cache card. They're comparatively inexpensive on ebay.

I fired up my FrankenBook 165/180 a couple of months ago for the first time since ~2000-2001. I was surprised it still worked. I was even more pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of photos that I thought were gone forever! The photos originally were on a drive that failed my PM8500 in ~1999. I didn't know I had put copies on the PowerBook. As far as disposing of HD's, at the High Tech Company where I used to work if the computer was going to be redeployed the drives were just wiped. If the computer was being "surplussed" i.e. scrapped, the drives were removed and destroyed. Sadly, when it came to Mac laptops many of them were just ripped open and the drives removed. (The IT guys were pretty lazy...) Most of the PC laptops were leased so they avoided this treatment.

Ahh, yer right, I didn't look at the photos close enough. Need moar coffee.

The second card with all the VRAM may be a Radius Direct Color 16/24 I found a reference and photo here: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/m_nubus.html

Yes, my stating "OSX 10.x" was probably overly-broad, considering how many versions of "10.x" there are.

Why FAT16? Why not FAT32? And no, I do not believe OSX 10.x will read or write HFS.

Nice score! Worth it for the cases alone if nothing else. I mean, what's aluminum a pound these days?

Great job finding and fixing the problem! Once again, caps are the weakest links in these old devices.

Hmm, it might be that power switch on the back is broken... Hmm... Need to break out the multimeter. More later if something develops...

Well it look like this IIci is dead. I installed a new battery and it does nothing when I try to power it up. (Without any cards installed.) Not really surprised. Probably because of the several leaky caps at the back of the board... I'll mess with it a bit more later but I suspect this system is just parts now, I don't think I want to spend the time recapping it. It does have 32mb of ram I can scavenge for my other systems.

Hmm. Either you need the later version or it could be the earlier Macs don't store the serial number in the firmware. I don't when Apple started doing that.