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  1. Kai Robinson

    More Magneto Optical fun! This time, a Panasonic LF-3000E...

    This is part of a haul that included a Macintosh 8100/100AV and a 15" Sony Trinitron Monitor. It came with 5 x 128MB Cartridges, a cleaning cartridge and the manual and original SCSI cable. It's sooooo quiet compared to a ZIP drive, but about the same or slightly slower speed - 33MB took...
  2. Kai Robinson

    USB Zip 250

    Except this seems to have trouble with disks....I can copy so much to a disk then it just seeks constantly and does nothing. Take the disk out, use in either of my other drives and it's fine... :/
  3. Kai Robinson

    USB Zip 250

    From eBay, as a buy it now, with no less than 22 assorted zip disks, some even still sealed! Not bad for £45! Finally I can use my PC to transfer stuff!
  4. Kai Robinson

    Logic Board - Macintosh Classic RAM Expansion

    So you've bought a dead mac classic. The logic board is bombed, and there's no expansion board inside. Or there was, and it, too, has incurred the wrath of Maxell. Well, you now know you can get a Macintosh Classic Reloaded board, at least, but what about the RAM expansion? Well - between...
  5. Kai Robinson

    Power Macintosh 9600/300

    And the Radeon 7000 is now working in it! Huzzah! Just needed to do a CUDA reset and it worked first time - that was really confusing though, i'd forgotten that particular piece of arcane knowledge...
  6. Kai Robinson

    Pismo display mod

    Not easily - for the Pismo, there were two manufacturers - Samsung or Chi Mei. Both have different cable configs. Samsung: LT141X7-124 5mm Thick LT141X5-126 LT141X7-124-P2 Chi Mei: N141X20 Here's a NoS Samsung panel...
  7. Kai Robinson

    Pismo display mod

    Jay, what model is your panel?
  8. Kai Robinson

    Power Macintosh 9600/300

    Managed to score one of these a few months ago, but I've been slowly gathering the parts needed to turn this into a monster. It's stock as far as CPU goes (300MHz 604ev), although I do have a few G3 cards I might try. I even have a 400MHz Formac ZIF carrier card, but no heatsink I can use. If...
  9. Kai Robinson

    BETA TEST PARTICIPANTS - PLEASE READ!

    Well, we want to be guided by the userbase - we're not going to summarily dismiss a suggestion out of hand, constructive criticism is not just welcomed, it's desired! We're undoubtedly going to make slip-ups or implement something that will upset a minority, but we'll always TRY HARD to do the...
  10. Kai Robinson

    Resource Categories

    Resources is i believe, a placeholder, until the content is added. Iirc, @Mac84 was going to add a buying guide for vintage macs at some point.
  11. Kai Robinson

    Resource Categories

    The way i'd suggest, is post in the relevant subforum for your guides here: https://tinkerdifferent.com/forums/powerpc-g3-g4-g5-new-world-rom.48/ So rather than a single category for the topic, people can navigate to the system and find the guide there. When you want to post - you can do so...
  12. Kai Robinson

    Fix Mark's Stuff!

    WOW. We did it. The retro community, in less than 24 hours, has managed to raise £20,000 - the limit that paypal imposes! o_O:D
  13. Kai Robinson

    Resource Categories

    Personally i would have added overclocking as a sticky thread in the category of the machine you're overclocking - but if you can give an example of how you mean, we can look at it :)
  14. Kai Robinson

    Reverse Engineering the Macintosh LC Logicboard

    I gotta say, although purple looks good - matte black with ENIG Gold finish is.... :chefskiss: ;)
  15. Kai Robinson

    Fix Mark's Stuff!

    Hey everyone - one of our very own, @Mark Fixes Stuff has had a horrible tragedy happen, in the form of a house fire. We can only imagine how devastated both he and his family are at this time - Mark, if there's anything we here at TinkerDifferent can do to help, let us know. There's a...
  16. Kai Robinson

    Upgrading from a $40 858D to the $4,000 Metcal HCT-1000 & PCT-1000 hot air rework system

    Yikes! Overkill is the best kind of kill, I guess!
  17. Kai Robinson

    Q & A Time!

    In anticipation of our go-live date of October 31st, all of us on the Admin team would like to reach out to you all and invite you to field some questions for us to answer! Our plan is to collate these questions and answer them on a Youtube livestream, on our go-live date. Add your questions...
  18. Kai Robinson

    VCF East this weekend in Wall, NJ

    Any pics of the event?
  19. Kai Robinson

    *Battery Gore Thread* NSFMacs

    *BLAM!*
  20. Kai Robinson

    VCF East this weekend in Wall, NJ

    I would imagine @Mac84 would be!