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Realistically, it makes a decent 68K Mac into a poor Power Mac. I didn't find the value proposition for them all that compelling even when they were cheaper. I have one for my Q800 which I almost never use because it won't work with A/UX, which is what that machine usually runs - and I have...

Is this the card with a SIMM or standalone? I have an 8MB GGLabs in my ROM 03 and it tops the system off, but there should be no problem with 4MB on any ROM version.

The author's kind of a nerd.

Agreed, not for these. 1280x1024 should be plenty. I use a crappy old ViewSonic 4:3 with mine. For the later VPro systems, though, regular monitors will do (my Fuel's V12 DCD does 1080p no problem, and has a standard DVI port).

Do you mean this ( https://www.amazon.com/CablesOnline-SunMicro-Monitor-Switches-W3-606/dp/B0C2MBSLB1 )? I've seen that cable and it will turn the 13W3 into VGA, and it might be able to put some sort of sync on the right line, but I don't think a passive converter will be able to fully filter...

I'm not very familiar with the original Indigo, but I just restored an Indigo2 very similar to yours: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/09/refurb-weekend-silicon-graphics-indigo.html The Indigo2 is pretty tough. The power supplies do die, but recapping them needs to be done on the high-voltage...

Funny you should mention - I MITMed a number of transactions between my TechStep and various machines here in the shop and have traces of the communication. However, a lot of it is just uploading code to the machine and seeing what the result is, which makes forming a "unified theory" slow...

Possibly. The ITVB worked that way (using a Pepto-Bismol shade of pink for "transparency").

That would do it. But it's interesting you made an AIX boot floppy that way. I'm interested to see what actually got on the floppy disk if you can image it before you restore it.

If it's always halting at "System initialization completed" it doesn't sound like it's executing any of the rc scripts. What does /etc/inittab look like? What rc files are in /etc? (rc.tcpip, rc.local, etc)

Start from the AIX CD. Once you have defined the local console (i.e., the monitor and ADB keyboard), from the Installation and Maintenance menu choose Start maintenance mode for system recovery, Access a Root Volume Group, choose your rootvg (I'm assuming you have only one), choose your file...

I decided to fire up MAE on my RDI PrecisionBook 160, a 160MHz PA-7300LC with 512MB of RAM and HP-UX 11. While I'm not game enough to possibly pollute my kernel with HP-UX 10.x AppleTalk drivers, not only does MAE run, it runs very well. I could even play Wolfenstein 3D on it better than my...

It's just an HD44780-style controller, no dot-addressable graphics. I'm not sure what's going on there, but it acts like there's something that didn't start in your rc scripts. What do they look like (in /etc)? You may have to boot from the AIX CD, mount the rootvg and pull up a shell to see.

When I did animations on the LCD panel for a VCF one year, ISTR I just used a lot of spaces. When CDE is booting, do you see the boot log window in the upper right corner?

I assume you mean 20GB - that looks like 8mm tape. You're the first one I've seen with that option. All of the rest of the ANSes I've encountered have DAT/DDS. What's the keyswitch set to? You could put it to the middle or right position and it should autostart on power-up. Alternatively, just...

No, it's probably fine. Try hooking up a serial connection: for some reason at least some of the SE/30 ROMs do not support the *V command. The TechStep interprets that as a lost connection.

Odd indeed! I wonder if someone had a side business modifying them. The video isn't too insightful about it though - I suspect he may have thought they were factory-original.

Very interesting (I assume you meant Forth, though). I've never seen nor heard of this. They are clearly aftermarket. My best guess is the software had to run locally, since I don't think USE FRONT combinations get transmitted.

Yes, and I said above I have a CS2 Ethernet card in my own 6500 (and TAM, but that's just because it's based on the same architecture). They were still Apple's budget Power Macs regardless. If you wanted on-board Ethernet, Apple wanted you to buy an Outrigger or an 8xxx/9xxx.

Remember that the 6400 and 6500 were Apple's budget Power Macs for home users and Ethernet still wasn't common for home use then. They were the last Performas as well, after all.