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How were blogs superior to newsgroups? Newsgroups were the forums of the early days. And they had the advantage of not being at the whims of their creator for how long they persisted. In theory, everything ever posted in Newsgroups should still be available. Of course, once they lost...

Is the fan management not proper under OS9? Otherwise, how are you liking 9 on the Mini? I have a few G4 Minis and I vastly prefer OS9 to OSX, but there are always compromises with the mods needed to run OS9 on unsupported machines...

Hard to read tone in writing... I'm pretty sure you're having me on, but the tubes were between the back rooms and the front mission control area. So after we made a burrito run we'd send the camera-ready people their burritos through the tubes. Access to the main room was heavily...

I don't remember (probably didn't) seeing such discussion. It seems to me that each bank of four SIMM sockets on the SE/30 could be replaced with a single 64 MB 72-pin SIMM (or one bank of a 128 MB SIMM). I don't know if that would cause any current loading issues. You'd be loading the...

It's more than okay with me. I'm glad to see it preserved. MacGurus might have a copyright depending on the terms of their forums, but I doubt they'll notice and they probably wouldn't mind anyway.

Been using this handle since the 90s...

Heh, I wrote that posting at MacGurus. I was a moderator there a long time ago. I actually still had moderator privileges on their forums until they took them down. There was so much excellent information in those forums.... Sigh. I'm glad that posting was preserved at least. You...

<NITPICK> If you count the host controller (the computer) then the SCSI chain support 8 devices. IDs 0 -7 are available, but 7 is (almost) always occupied by the host controller. <\NITPICK>

Well, I like @JDW 's answer better. It really wasn't very exciting, unfortunately. NASA has never been what it was in the 60s since then. I worked there from 84 to 87 in Space Shuttle Payload Integration. Which sounds kind of cool. Get the payloads connected and ready, right? Except...

I don't really have time to sort out the whole diagram, but hopefully clarification/confirmation will be in the following details. First of all, on a 72-pin SIMM, 32 bits/4bytes are addressed at a time. So each address provides 32bit or 4 bytes of storage capacity. Address lines are...

Never mind. It turns out the Dataman 48Pro2C will do the trick and we have one at my work. Some days I get lucky.

The big issue is that the HC05 doesn't seem to be available with the necessary 368 bytes of RAM. One could substitute the 9S08 (HC08 successor) because the HC08 was backward compatible with the HC05, thus simplifying the software port. But the 9S08 has a very different pinout from the HC05...

When I worked at NASA we had a ~1" thick acronym dictionary which was pretty much a necessity in order to function well. And it was out of print... You had to wait for someone to retire and then hope you could steal theirs.

If you remember my old tantalum capacitor thread on 68kmla, going back to 2007, I added the Bourns filters in 2012. I still have a bunch of them. But shipping a few at a time to folks who don't need anything else is barely worth the effort at this point. Of course, the original purpose was...

Anyone have a chip programmer that will program the Cypress CY2292F Clock Generator? I checked the device list for the two I have and it's not on there. Needham EMP-30. XGecu IL866II Plus. According to the datasheet you need a Cypress CY3670 with CY3095 adapter, but those items appear to...

Thank you. Work heated up again. Plus various aspects of life. I'm dead in the water on extraneous projects again. Just mentioning in case anyone was anticipating me ever actually finishing the project. I hope to pick things up again, but not any time soon.

Been away/busy for several months. There is/was a 64MB composite SIMM by HP, 72 pin, that could be useful. It won't get you to 80, but would be a simple way to provide 64 + 4 and only modify the LCIII to the extent of running the RAS lines. This HP SIMM has 4 banks of 16 on board but uses...

Been away for a while but this item seems to still be available. Thank you. However it's about 2200 dollars. I don't want it that much. At least not this year. Maybe later...

Unfortunately not. The SWIM chip is an actual logic chip, not a memory or storage chip. It is not the kind of thing that can be copied and programmed into another blank chip. That said, if someone does a lot of hard work and figures out the logic going on inside the SWIM, it might be...

And when soldering while using magnification keep in mind that your depth perception may be hosed, unless you like the sound of your nose grease sizzling. Just call me Stripes.