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  1. Volvo242GT

    Massive (filthy) find in South Carolina

    Only took about 14 months to forget, right? ;-) They're about the size of a home theatre receiver...
  2. Volvo242GT

    Massive (filthy) find in South Carolina

    And both of the ones I've had.
  3. Volvo242GT

    When you know your 3 y/o son was in your office

    Heh, that sometimes doesn't work. By the time I was 2, I'd done that already myself. Kinda backfired. I started doing the electrical work on our house 9 years later. lol
  4. Volvo242GT

    Massive (filthy) find in South Carolina

    Cool that it works... That should be a nice system once you're done. Re: the shielding, I think some people have done that. I'm not sure if that'll cause your monitor to start looking like it has an internal earthquake going on, or if it'll cause radio interference, but, worth a shot...
  5. Volvo242GT

    Massive (filthy) find in South Carolina

    Yes, in one of the SE/30 machines I picked up during my big conquest in 2012. (edit, I see that @3lectr1c beat me to it...lol) A more blurry image showing what it looked like when I lifted the battery off the board, trying to pull the battery out of the holder... @wottle You can take one of...
  6. Volvo242GT

    When you know your 3 y/o son was in your office

    My niece, when she was four, put a piece of a snickers bar on top of the airflow sensor plate that my old Volvo wagon's fuel injection system had. I cleaned it off when I saw it, but when I reassembled the car and got it running the next time, it smelled like a snickers bar out the exhaust.
  7. Volvo242GT

    Massive Haul in Calgary, Alberta

    Nice. Getting flashbacks to the three Volvo wagon loads of machines that I did in 2012.
  8. Volvo242GT

    OS X 10.7 or 10.8 preferred on a Macbook 4,1?

    Sure, not a problem. 👍
  9. Volvo242GT

    Welcome to our newest board member

    @This Does Not Compute Congrats, Colin...
  10. Volvo242GT

    OS X 10.7 or 10.8 preferred on a Macbook 4,1?

    Here you go, courtesy of the Macintosh Garden... http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/apps/MAC_OS_X_10-6-3_SNOW_LEOPARD.ISO Burn that to a DVD, or Mount it using Disk Utility, and you can install it.
  11. Volvo242GT

    OS X 10.7 or 10.8 preferred on a Macbook 4,1?

    10.7.5 is the latest version that Intel machines with the Intel Crestline (GMA X3100) onboard graphics chip, like yours, can run. I would personally downgrade to 10.6.8 on it. Mainly because it makes a decent machine that can run both Intel and PPC programs. I used to have exactly the same...
  12. Volvo242GT

    What I've received as of late...

    Swapped out the 466MHz G4 DA for a 667MHz machine. Also picked up a PB180 that needs help (typical tunnel vision, needs floppy service, and a hard drive) from a client as partial payment for some data recovery I did for him on said machine's external hard drive, which I also wound up getting...
  13. Volvo242GT

    Fun with Three Early MacPro models: 1,1 2,1 3,1

    My daily for a few years was a similarly equipped 3,1. Difference was that I had only 6GB installed, and my video card was a Radeon 5770. Worked quite well. Did have an issue when I decided to move the video card to a different slot. Turns out, that doesn't work very well. Pulled one of the...
  14. Volvo242GT

    Oddest thing I ever say in a decade using an SE30

    Almost does sound like a virus. Might be worth running Disinfectant on the hard drive and whatever floppies you have. I do remember that my original Plus, and all of its floppies got infected with the nVIR virus after I'd picked up a copy of Super Tetris at a computer store in 1993. Anyway...
  15. Volvo242GT

    Hi from Minnesota

    Welcome to the asylum. A friend of mine from one of the other forums I frequent (a Volvo car forum) lives in Saint Paul as well. Anyway, decent Mac arsenal.
  16. Volvo242GT

    ChatGPT-4o Mac fail

    Well, you did ask Microsoft's AI bot... lol But, yeah, that's a Q700...
  17. Volvo242GT

    May 2024 finds

    If the firmware on that iMac hasn't been updated, you could add a floppy drive to it. Logic board does have the solder pads for the 20-pin connector. If I remember correctly, it's the only post-Steve Jobs return desktop computer that can use a non-USB floppy drive.
  18. Volvo242GT

    Best OS for Portable 5120?

    ^Ah, ok. Maybe a Mac that can use 7.5 or 7.6 without being too slow would work as a bridge for AirTalk, allowing your Portable and other 68000 Macs to connect via LocalTalk. Open Transport seems to be a bit more reliable for networking purposes than the older MacTCP technology.
  19. Volvo242GT

    Best OS for Portable 5120?

    On a 68000-based machine, System 6 is the way to go. 7 is just too pokey, even on those machines with the 16 MHz 68000 chip (Portable series, and PB100). I actually downgraded my previous SE from 7.1 to 6.0.8. Yes, 7.1 did run under 2.5MB of RAM, even though, on a 68000 machine, Apple...
  20. Volvo242GT

    New Toy: Dell Latitude D630 (Windows 7 Pro)

    Sure. One of the D830s we have is running a 320GB SATA spinner.