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I just went to message someone at MacGurus and found a nice "We're closed" web page, but no way of contacting anyone. I wanted to contact them about the possibility of TinkerDifferent hosting their old forum in read only format. Anyone have a contact?

Hello, my name is Jeff Walther and I would like to volunteer to participate on the Board if you are short of candidates. I guess that is not a ringing shout of enthusiasm, but it is a quiet acknowledgement of responsibility. I enjoy using the forums, though I am not currently as active as I...

IIRC, the heat sink has the same four clip holes surrounding the CPU chip as is found on the Apple PPC601 logic boards. It won't be as gigantic, but I would grab one of those little square, cage-like heat sinks that Apple used on the X100 series and 7200s. I used to have a bunch of them, but...

Right you are. I hope I was posting late at night and not just having that much brain disfunction naturally.... Good luck after installing the switch block. Keep us posted. It's great to read about your progress.

Good luck. Looking forward to the report. The switch is just a 2 gang DIP switch. Ought to be easy to get from Mouser or similar, but shipping will be four times as much as the switch.

IIRC, they had some kind of software control for setting the RAID mode on the PC card so that the switches were not needed.

Guessing and assuming Kay has the correct information, which seems likely, it looks like you would want to do the following: For ACARD chip Remove: R71 Replace: 102 on R16 and R19 Afterwards, follow Kay's flashing instructions above, **but** if you want to end up with a 6880M and not a...

Ah, you probably have an 'A' version of one and a 'B' version of the other. Although Kay's posting above suggests there were already 2 versions before the 'B' came out, so there may have been 3.

There used to be a web page on how to do, but it's long since down. It boils down to, set a 6880M next to a 6880 and then anywhere you see a difference in the resistors, change the 6880 to match the 6880M. Then program/flash the 6880 with the 6880M firmware. There may have been one more bit...

My first LAN parties were a bunch of us bringing over our Macs and playing Spaceward Ho. Some us were even able to run the color version. But folks kept get kicked off the game seemingly at random. Later I figured out that File Sharing only supports 8 users, so every time we hooked up the...

I believe it. I think you've been in Japan ever since we've been communicating and I think that goes back to sometime close to 2000.

You are correct. Two years later, I realize I did not read carefully enough. You were writing about converting from RAID card for Mac to non-RAID card for Mac. I was confused and thinking of card for PC to card for Mac.

My guess is that they are capacitors. Perhaps they're driving the ROMs a little too fast and the capacitors provide that extra little bit of current when the ROMs draw extra power. Totally guessing and could be totally wrong, but a component without continuity which is nevertheless needed...

Should the above have read: "Then you can set the MOR byte at 0x1F00 (if it's anything different to 0x00), BTW, excellent posting. Thank you for the wonderful work.

Was the thread that covered their creation on 68Kmla.org lost? The details were covered extensively there. Techknight posted as he developed/troubleshot the cards. Edit: Okay, this point in the 68KMLA thread seems to be where the wire starts getting discussed. I'd read the whole...

The tricky part in finding the part is finding a '705 with enough RAM. The e1 has 368 bytes of RAM. Most of the other variants have 176 or similarly small amounts.

What affect will this software have on a machine which has had the 33 MHz resistor move modification? Do the resistors need to go back to their original positions? Edit: Never mind. Found the answer here...

Ten years ago, my efforts to reproduce. Unfortunately, the thread where Wally reported the inductance range is long gone. I want to say 0 - 44 uH, but I don't think that's right. https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/anyone-have-a-dead-l2-adjustable-inductor.27941/#post-294686

Yep, that's the one I have. I just really love having the stripper conveniently stored in the handle...

Wire wrap may be alive an well, but my favored tool came from Radio Shack, and they're long gone -- I think. Haven't checked for a lingering on-line presence in a while.