Recent content by luminescentsimian

Sorry, I thought I'd have to dig the Mac out and open it up, but I had another picture showing the more interesting half of the SCSI board with the chips. The RAM expansion might have a couple of logic chips under the white grand-daughter PCB, I couldn't get a decent look between the two boards

I found this fancy box at a local electronics surplus. It's got a dial AND dip switches!

I picked up a load of parts from around the time of the m68k->PPC transition off Facebook marketplace. It was a bit more than I expected. It ended up being 27 logic boards of various slot-in-a-card-edge connection type, 35 CDROM drives many with slide in SCSI & power adapters, 31 floppy drives...

Wouldn't hurt to check your ADC power source is giving you a steady 24V

I picked up a Mac 512k with a Rodime external hard drive. Initial fire up hooked hopeful; it made a happy beep but the screen didn't turn on unless I smacked it on the side. Cracked solder joints, easy-peasy, so I ordered the recap kit and long torx bit from Console 5. Once those parts came in I...

All of my computers are named Something-Bob, because long-long ago in the before times I saw the Trekkies card from the illuminati card game. The Trekkies card has a nerd with a cheap prosthetic Klingon forehead and a paper name tag that says "Hi, my name is: K'Bob". The stupid gag stuck with...

sbp_target on Linux exists and seems to mostly work. I can share images from a fresh Debian Linux install (kernel 6.12) to a PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11 and even boot from them. Installing Tiger to a FW hard drive image fails most of the way through the installation, but it does successfully...

OMG, a "Blue1394" could be really useful for PPC era Macs. Linux looks like is has the support in the kernel to do it but the config interface isn't there. Time to dive into the PiSCSI rabbit hole....

Loading them up into a 50-disc cassette for CD library Bonus 3D printer noises and dog barking

A generic USB-IDE adapter will probably work, but you'll be stuck at horrible USB1.1 speeds. A better bet would be to commandeer a firewire to IDE board from another external drive. I'd bet that most boards from a dead external hard drive would also work with a CD burner. An example from Amazon...

I've mocked up a fork of jrouter to make it an AURP access concentrator to see if it would be possible to simplify the setup and maintenance of a GlobalTalk type setup. Instead of every user needing to know and configure every other user's IP address, they only need to configure a single cloud...

DS was very useful back in the day. I miss it. "Modern" MDM management can't match the consistency and repeatability, and is much more hassle some times.

I also have a python-based ImageWriter emulator that can export PNGs or TIFFs (for proper CMYK prints). This year I'm trying to synthesize the sounds of printing based individual impacts. I'll rig it up as a shared ImageWriter on GlobalTalk and maybe have a web page to view/hear the results.

I just verified these measurements on a working, not recapped, 7100/66. I get <1 Ohm between the grounds (5,6,7) and ~13.5 Ohm between a ground and the +5V pins (2,3,4). The other pins (1,8,9,10), are open

Yeah, the Pico W, and Pi 0w when doing the same thing with a PiSCSI, only support 2.4GHz WiFi.