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  1. Trash80toG4

    Anyone have a MacCharlie keyboard unit?

    Way more function than the Apple Keypad I think. Phil Beasley's pic on the linked website above shows the connection from Apple KBD to MacCharlie surround. http://archive.retro.co.za/mirrors/68000/www.vintagemacworld.com/charlie/keyboard.jpg Is the "rewired phone cord" Mac KBD a serial ASCII...
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    SoftRAID 2.2.2, OS9 and ATA-133 drives on a PCI controller card? Other software possible?

    I've got a two channel ATA-133 setup on my TEMPOtrio and would like to set up striped RAID 0 on a pair of DiskOnModules. If SoftRAID won't work with ATA-133 are there other avenues of approach? It's too bad Sonnet didn't set the card up for hardware RAID? 😕 edit: what level of SATA is...
  3. Trash80toG4

    recreating my first PC build

    Not crazy about that over busy lookin' front bezel. The case you found is a very slick. simple design with all controls and blinkiness inline along that prismatic trough. Bottom position of the badge plate is far more elegant. But I will grant you the cool factor of side panel inlet venting...
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    recreating my first PC build

    That's my favorite (stock) PC Case ever! Thrift store find, it's one of only three I haven't brutalized. 😬
  5. Trash80toG4

    TwiSlot PCI Riser and ComSlot2 NIC repro in widened CS riser form factor

    Has anyone got info on doing a 24pin ATX power cable conversion for the Alchemy/Gazelle machines? I'd imagine that reworking the cable lines would be the minimum required. Soft power would be nice, but not necessarily required?
  6. Trash80toG4

    Anyone have a MacCharlie keyboard unit?

    Not the only one, but could be one of only two? I've got both the platinum ADB and beigy phone plug versions of the datadesk MAC-101. Really curious to see an in depth look at the MacCharlie board. It was a surround for Apple's KBD...
  7. Trash80toG4

    Quadra 950 Chassis

    Check out the great work @360alaska did over in the MLA thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/3d-printed-objects.4483/post-335383 @360alaska how about extrapolating a full 950 front bezel to fit an ATX case of some sort/size as I've described?
  8. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Very nice! Almost two(?) decades ago I played with going the other way, a CSII Slot edge card to PCI Slot Riser test setup. Wanted to see if any PCI cards might be hoodwinked into running off CSII. Got one of those on the way as well? :D
  9. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Cool, cannot imagine it wouldn't be simple enough to implement "slots" above and below the traces along with slight notches at top and bottom. Using a hacksaw would make for a clean, straight cut. I "hacked" many a prototype board some thirty-five years ago (half a lifetime! :oops: ) along...
  10. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Wondering if my snappable board suggestion might have merit?
  11. Trash80toG4

    Quadra 950 Chassis

    ISTR a printable model for the CD bezel of the 950 is available. Extrapolating from that should give you a great start. You need only elongate the model at top and bottom implementing the returns for those panels and adding detail. The FDD "stripe" should be simple. Such would simplify your...
  12. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Looks like cable connection? Keyed PCB connector?
  13. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Now thinking that using the split off connector section would be optional. A proper panel mount connector could be hooked up the the same headers on the shortened main board?
  14. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Aha! Glad to hear that. Didn't know about magnetic components, such would explain the ginormous, boxy form factor of the panel mount connectors I've seen. Saw one terminating in a header connector somewhere. That'd be handy. Wondering if making provision for snapping your PCB into two parts to...
  15. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Nice, thought it had to be a lot more than that, but i guess the chip was intended to be routed simply to the PCIe edgecard. ??? Now I'm confused. Wasn't clear at all in my post, I do them in the AM over coffee most of the time.:oops: Thinking further about using your card in the TAM, it might...
  16. Trash80toG4

    TAM - Internal PicoPSU - AUX Power for Expansion Slots

    Lots of activity on the PSU front for 6500 recently and in the far distant past. Some 14 years ago I was looking into 6500 and Beige G3 ATX conversions. Going for an ersatz TAM/FatBack form factor build now that will be powered entirely by the 250w PicoPSU pictured above. In his discontinued...
  17. Trash80toG4

    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    Indeed! Love your work. Thinking you could cram your design into a lower version of TAM/CSII riser's form factor? Looks simple enough in terms of parts count. Pigtailing the board to a panel mount connector for the backplane opening allows all kinds of tomfoolery! 😀 Not to mention opening your...
  18. Trash80toG4

    TwiSlot PCI Riser and ComSlot2 NIC repro in widened CS riser form factor

    Top View of same, 6360 is great, can still use the CSII NIC along with the additional PCI TwinSlot gambit. A USB WiFi Thimamajig attached to a powered hub, fed from the pigtail should be something like 10% better throughput than the CSII 10bT card, no? TAM Tent Template shows the CSII...
  19. Trash80toG4

    TwiSlot PCI Riser and ComSlot2 NIC repro in widened CS riser form factor

    Trying to keep things as simple as possible, I sourced a six inch right angle FW M->F pigtail cable to match to the 12 inch RA USB M-F pigtail cable on hand. Looking at my original TwinSlot Riser setup, I'd figured a setback increase was in order. Experimentation proved that an additional .3"...