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    This came into my life this week

    Nice! Those antediluvian systems can sometimes be the most satisfying to restore.
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    Workgroup Server 9150 Freezes Without Additional Cooling - Can anyone check their WGS VR temps?

    Well, I think my 9150/80 is running into heating issues also (random quits and system errors after a few minutes of uptime). RAM repeatedly tested good. The heat grease had indeed turned into heat not-grease, but a not overly generous application of new compound only made it marginally better. I...
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    What I've received as of late...

    I'm rather fond of the 7100 since I used one to edit the university newspaper as a grad student until I talked the dean of students into buying a brand spanking new Sawtooth G4/450. I managed to get it from surplus and stuck an HPV card, a G3, max RAM and a better CD-ROM in it. Naturally I call...
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    G5 pro. Chime, no display

    Depending on the G5 model, there are also diagnostic LEDs on the logic board towards the front that could be helpful.
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    Blackbird PDS expansion cards?

    Only if you install the PC Card Cage, which was an option. My own 540c doesn't have one.
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    Blackbird PDS expansion cards?

    Seems like just making more of the PCMCIA card cages would be more useful in the long run, I should think.
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    Managing your collections

    What *I* need is something to keep track of all the damn cables and what I actually have in stock.
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    Erics Finds

    Hey, you got the case. That's the hardest part of restoring a Mac TV ...
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    SheepShaver and BasiliskII building for BeOS

    Doom 1.9 is in gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/archive/be-power/games .
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    SheepShaver and BasiliskII building for BeOS

    I was able to build at least portions of this on my BeBox with BeOS 5.0.3, but you can get a full build of SheepShaver and several versions of BasiliskII from gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/be-power - it's in the emu/ folder. If you have a lot of RAM and SheepShaver or BasiliskII...
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    Cleaning up Family Apple "Collection"

    It's a Rage Orion, which is a Mac-specific Rage 128GL. Not a monster video card but not a slouch. I agree with Nycturne: I wonder if something else is going wrong. G4s aren't in general toasty chips. Have you been able to get any sort of temperature reading off it?
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    2025 PowerPC Challenge

    That is a nice reconstruction job!
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    Cleaning up Family Apple "Collection"

    No, heat wasn't a problem (the Sonnets have their own CPU fans and there was decent air flow). This seems to be power budget and the 1GHz card just pushes it over the edge. One of those round tuit things - it did make a noticeable difference in Virtual PC though. As soon as the 3D card got into...
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    Cleaning up Family Apple "Collection"

    Very good. My own 7300 has a Sonnet 800MHz G4, a Rage Orion and an OrangePC 620 (needs tweaking to start up with CPU Director), with two 18GB SCSI drives and a 24x CD-ROM. This is starting to strain the PSU, though, as noted when I tried a Sonnet 1GHz G4 and got random freezes which seem to be...
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    2025 PowerPC Challenge

    Hear, hear. Sir Roger will always be my favourite Bond (though my favourite Bond movie is Diamonds are Forever, purely because it is easily the weirdest one).
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    Cleaning up Family Apple "Collection"

    I've got a 620 in my own 7300.
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    Macintosh IIfx nostalgia

    Yup, Jagubox was the bomb. I still have a Gopher mirror of it: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/archive/jagubox-gsfc-nasa-gov-aux My clock-chipped Q800 is my current A/UX workhorse, though.
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    Need solution for HDI-45 to DB-15 connectors for video out

    So did the 9150 (PDS terminator), though it has a regular DA-15 port for video.
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    Macintosh IIsi, Recapped, quite chime, no display.

    This is well within spec for the IIsi's components, owing to its provenance as a cut-down IIci. It will run fine at the higher speed.
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    Need solution for HDI-45 to DB-15 connectors for video out

    More likely to be PDS. O.G. PCI only dates to around 1992 and Apple had no compatible ecosystem at the time.