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Fizzbinn

Fizzbinn

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  • Fizzbinn
    Got a beautiful Power Macintosh G3 Blue and White for a good deal on eBay!

    Me: "Hi, can you make sure to ship with enough immobilizing/buffering packing material so that the vintage Mac arrives in the condition pictured. It's my understanding that the corners are pretty fragile and need lots of bubble wrap. Thanks in advance!"

    Seller: "No problem."

    Narrator: "It would definitely be a problem."

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    I learned I will drive half way across the country to pick it up, rather than trust a seller to ship it. I have gone from Minnesota to Idaho to pickup a purchase.
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    I think you have it right if you want to be absolutely sure. I guess my luck ran out after getting some other machines (PM 6500/300, PM 8500/300, SuperMac C600/200 and a PowerCenter Pro 240) in the past ~year which were shipped with awesome packing jobs with similar notes to the seller.

    The seller did provide a full refund and said to dispose of it as I wanted, so I guess I might have some salvageable parts, will need to see if the internals survived after I pry the thing open. Definitely some things bouncing around in there...
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    Bought a "daystar digital 105013-109 33 Mhz Card 01-FC040-001" off eBay, this is a 68040 PDS L2 cache, right?

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    Ron's Computer Videos
    On your recent Power Macintosh cache article, I had a couple of links I wanted to share with you.

    The MicroMac upgrade page for 1st generation Power Macintosh cache upgrades is still active: https://www.micromac.com/products/l2ca256k-6100.html

    I have literally looked everywhere trying to find anything bigger than a 256k module, and have had zero luck doing so. SUPPOSEDLY, the only way these days to actually find a module larger than 256k is to rob one out of a WGS 9150/120 (which shipped with the 1MB module).

    My understanding is that the main benefit of having the 1MB cache module is that the machine will move its VRAM use from DRAM over to the much faster cache module... thus increasing video performance by several times without having to sacrifice your PDS slot to a video card.

    Thanks!

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    Thanks, I've updated the Resource article with this info!
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