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  1. Kai Robinson

    Using HFS disk directly on a modern computer

    This is some excellent content, and i'm stickying this to make sure it remains visible!
  2. Kai Robinson

    Power Macintosh G4 - 733

    Excuse the sink full of washing up! This arrived a week ago but I've not even had a chance to unbox it! I'd like to get a dual cpu upgrade for this, or should I install my Sonnet Encore ST/1800 that I scored off @Bolle a few months ago? I do also have a Radeon 9600XT from a G5, and a Geforce...
  3. Kai Robinson

    Finally, a nice Quadra 840AV

    Check the startup circuit in order: RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, BLUE, DARK GREEN, LUMINOUS GREEN have you got continuity and the correct resistances? BTW U12 looks suspect to me. The full part number is 343S0120 - it's a 5v Regulator IC made by Sony. Available from Exshine and UTSource.
  4. Kai Robinson

    Sonnet Crescendo G4-400MHz

    Bought for a bargain, from US eBay - sold as not working - seller stated it wouldn't boot into the OS, or froze. I have an inkling that it's either the correct extension not being loaded, or there's an issue with the cache. The cache sits on the rear of the card and it looks like a QFP that's...
  5. Kai Robinson

    Soldering temperature

    Depends on the solder and the gauge of it - i use Kester 0.4mm 63/37 and 350 to 360 degrees is fine, although if a chunky ground plane is involved, then i just set the station to YES.
  6. Kai Robinson

    Unstable Mac SE

    @Branchus had an issue that turned out to be faulty ADB - that might cover some of the symptoms you're experiencing.
  7. Kai Robinson

    Best table wine value you've found recently?

    I don't usually drink wine at all. Despite spending 12 years living in France, I couldn't stand the stuff. Even now, I find it hard to drink, only on very special occasions and I have to be in the right mood. However, on a spur of the moment, while I was about to start making Jordanian sumac...
  8. Kai Robinson

    Period-accurate benchmarking tools?

    I would definitely recommend Macbench 4.0, as this was the last version to support 68K, but also supports PPC. Link on Macintosh Garden: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macbench-40
  9. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh connector part numbers

    For the x100 PDS slot - this really does look like it'd work: https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/587-302-182-520-900 Have a look at the datasheet: https://www.mouser.co.uk/datasheet/2/123/3/English_302_Ordering_Guide-2301523.pdf pinout is identical.
  10. Kai Robinson

    Sonnet Tango 2.0 - BNIB

    A TENNER?! :o
  11. Kai Robinson

    Sonnet Tango 2.0 - BNIB

    Look what I found! Brand new, boxed! Hoping that my Power Macintosh 9600 will work with this...
  12. Kai Robinson

    53C80 Experiment

    I actually have some of these :)
  13. Kai Robinson

    What are your vintage grail items?

    I know Rob Taylor had begun work on reverse engineering a board, but if anyone has a dead one they want to strip and scan, send it my way to replicate it ;)
  14. Kai Robinson

    Community project? NuBus-to-SPI interface... aiming toward ESP32-based WiFi card

    One thing i thought of throwing out there was this: https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/LAN9218-MT?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduh7GoBaJaS3j52JXXhN34TMMTgkdc1u3tA%3D & https://www.mouser.co.uk/datasheet/2/268/MCHP_S_A0003010310_1-2520859.pdf Generic 32-bit interface (not for PCI), and...
  15. Kai Robinson

    My PowerMac 7100/80 AV Recap Project

    I just got a 7100/66 board in the post - each and every electrolytic cap has leaked and leaked into the ground plane surrounding them! :o
  16. Kai Robinson

    What are your vintage grail items?

    For me, it's an Acorn 3010 or 3020 — hard to find one for a decent price these days, that's not been destroyed by the power of Varta battery explosion.
  17. Kai Robinson

    Voodoo 3 / 3000 AGP… BX chipset?

    Funny you should ask, our school had RM Pentium 3 PC’s based on the AOpen (remember them?) 440BX boards and most had a 3dfx Voodoo 3 AGP in them (a few had Riva TNT2’s) and there never seemed to be any issues, on Windows 98SE.
  18. Kai Robinson

    Using TOS 1.04 from a Gotek

    Would you share the sussage with us? :p
  19. Kai Robinson

    Logic Board - Macintosh Classic RAM Expansion

    Sprint will generate the data with the export function, you just need to redo the formatting.