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And since you mention the BMOW ROM on an SE/30: Did you patch your OS as needed? https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-se30-with-upgraded-rom/

Oh wow! Love these writeups of things that could very well have been lost to history. This opens up a whole new world of retro shenanigans as well!

Yep, pretty much obligatory. See https://recapamac.com.au/macintosh-se-30/ for guidance, and https://console5.com/store/computer-cap-kits/mac-68k-cap-kits/se-30.html for ready-made kits with what you need These are pretty rare and expensive. I'd ask why you feel you need one? What are you going...

Yes. I am: https://bitbang.social/@bakkus

These PDS accelerators are a bit more involved than the 7x00-series, since here we're not actually replacing the CPU - we're adding an additional one. That requires special software trickery to make the OS switch to that CPU during boot.

Had another go at the Wayback Machine, and was able to find a copy version 1.2.4 which works! I've uploaded it to the Garden along with some information. Documenting here too, so that others might struggle less than I did.

Greetings all! Buried in a 7100 I ran across this thing: After some research, it turns out this is a Sonnet 604e processor upgrade for the x100 series PDS slot. I now have it mounted in my 8100, and it didn't blow up! Unfortunately it's not working either. I might be mistaken, but from what...

I believe these from Silicon Insider should work - at least according to the table: https://www.tindie.com/products/siliconinsider/purpleram-256kb-68-pin-vram-simm-macintosh/

Since I don't know all that much about PPC past 601 a question popped up while rummaging through parts bins: What's the best way to identify what "generation" G4 CPU daughtercard one has? Hopefully this thread can be turned into a valuable resource for anyone with the same question. And what...

The colored background is really glaring and makes things hard to read. Find a suitable contrast color instead.

There's also the route of @dosdude1 making new IDE SSDs. You can hit him up for pricing/orders.

Welcome, Garrett! I found your blog about a year ago, and I've found it extremely helpful. Thanks!

Yes, please

Just noting that I love that you went back to this idea. And that I'm following it very closely as I have a 6100, a NuBus G3 upgrade, and a HPV card looking for the exact treatment down the road, so it'll be interesting to see how you do.

Fantastic work! I know you all have been working really hard on this. Thank you very much for this service to the community.

We discussed those resistor packs briefly on the Discord the other day. The issue is that they have been replaced by RoHS-compliant equivalents. https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products/detail/bourns-inc/4816P-T01-220LF/1089291 as an example. The footprint is supposedly the same. Bolle was also...

So this means we can start printing bezels that don't look entirely out of place?

Since we live in a post-spinning disk time where hard disk space isn't really a factor anymore, and we can easily swap drive images/SD cards I've put together my own collection of "standard" images. I am of course standing on the shoulders of giants, so they are all based on various guides...

Greetings all. I recently got a Q700 case with the motherboard and the PSU from a Quadra 650. The caps in the PSU looked really toasted from a hard life with a million hours in at least soft-power-"on". I couldn't find a parts list for the caps in this specific one, so I thought I'd do the...

I know you mentioned this briefly on Discord, but this was much sooner than I expected. Thank you so much! My G4 DA now has an additional purpose!