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My ancient (wetware) memory says that when the NuBus G3 upgrades came out, the SEIV was the only SCSI card compatible with them. NewerTech was the only seller for a long while. Later they got it working with the JackHammer as well. If my memory is accurate, then you shouldn't be having the...

The details are lost to memory, but there was a specific NEC USB chip and a specific TI (?) chip recommended for Firewire in PCI PowerMacs, way back in the day. I'm sure it's posted about somewhere in the annals of Mac discussion... I think NEC D720101GJ was the recommended USB chip back when...

I haven't looked in probably a couple of years, but the last time I visited, the local Goodwill Computer Store had several 1st Gen. AppleTVs for about $10 - $15.

I liked Pathways more. There's more of Marathon, but I just gave up on one level where one had to do some kind of grenade jump out of lava to progress in the game. I liked the puzzles in Pathways. But for multiplayer, of course, one needs Marathon. We used to have annual Marathon LAN...

Try washing the board thoroughly, probably with 91%+ isopropyl alcohol. The caps may have leaked enough goo to cause a short somewhere or may have eaten a trace. If the former, while the caps still need replacing, washing the board may get you to a workable state for testing. If the latter...

IIRC, the VHDL text book my class used way back when contained the VHDL code for a 6502 in the back as an appendix. Of course, that would be for FPGAs, but thought I'd mention it. Later Edit: 6805, not 6502. So completely irrelevant. Sorry.

It looks to me like a short occurred internally in the chip and melted the plastic from hte inside. One of those discolored leads goes to what is almost certainly a bypass capacitor, so that's probably a power pin and one of the other pins is on an extremely short lead and looks like it may be...

Am I correct in observing that it no longer is available from Amazon? Or the manufacturer either, I guess. I guess I should have acted two years ago, but I wouldn't have used it yet, so kind of a silly purchase, until it turns out that was the one opportunity in time to get some...

Well, when you partition the drive, you could create an extra one for OSX...

For even more fun, OSX on the D630... https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8081-full-chameleonenoch-packs-for-d620d630-snow-leopard-lion-mountain-lion-mavericks-yosemite-el-capitan-sierra-high-sierra/

I love the optional modifications. Very thoughtful and sensible.

I don't remember what the machine uses and am too lazy to look it up, but... If it uses a 2.5" SATA drive you should certainly be able to replace it with a SATA SSD. If it uses a PATA drive, you can get a PATA => MSATA adapter for about $15 and install a somewhat more expensive MSATA SSD...

Thank you. Yes, on my E6410 they were also socketed. But on the D430 which is a family relation to the D630, the CPU is soldered. Probably because the D430 was very compact for its day. I feel like the D series was a high point for the Latitudes. Not the pinnacle, because Latitude has...

We're the CPUs socketed on those laptops?

Bottom port is for D series docking stations. The docking stations were great if you needed to move your laptop often between stations with local monitors and keyboards. It can also provide serial and parallel ports, which can be handy if you want to drive an old chip programmer, for...

Yes, changing those 8 pin serial Flash chips isn't too difficult and it greatly simplifies the conversion process. I'm happy to read that it worked for you.

I quite liked the moment at 30:30. Also appreciated his commentary on the dropship. It had been a couple of years since I got my Aerospace Eng. degree when Aliens came out and the dropship thrusting in the direction of orbital motion and dropping to the planet has always bugged the heck out...

This is usually a pretty trouble free process. I've done dozens of these, although most were 20 years ago... The only thing I can think of is maybe the brand of chip on the cards isn't supported? That seems a little farfetched, but what kind of Flash chip is on the cards, make and model...

In addition to the glaring plot hole premise for the film, part of my dislike was a personal preference kind of thing. Other than "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" I abhor prison films. And I pretty much had to be dragged to those two, but enjoyed them after I was there...