I purchased some MS office software this way through an old employer for like $20 bucks. At the time it was the only way I could afford MS office for my 08 macbook. Still have it of course. :)
@2112st congrats on your M3 MBP. I really am enjoying my M2 16" MBP quite a bit. My wife thinks it's...
The first case I had where the housing didn’t come off in a big bent “U” shape was an Antec Dragon mid case. The one I had was space gray and also was the first PC case I got with a window & I particularly loved how the drive bays were all hidden behind a sleek door. That was the first build...
Great job. These beige box rebuilds bring back late 90s/TOTC gaming nostalgia feelies for me. I never had a TV tuner card though :)
Makes me want to snag one and stick it in one of my win boxes.
This is my garage/workshop cMP 1,1. It still crushes it. At some point I figure I'll throw linux on here but El Cap still runs great on this machine so there's little incentive. I guess if I ever run out of things to do LOL. The GPU I'm using is a NVIDIA 240 GT that I've had for ages. No boot...
This is the 7000 pci card that I flashed and lives in my B&W.
There’s another pci 7000 that looks almost identical but under the hood is a Radeon mobility and doesn’t flash worth a darn … or at least I wasn’t able to get it to work lol.
This reminds me of my ext 1tb backup for my 08 a1048 mb. The case died a horrible drop death fracture but the guts survived - just the pcb and the hdd sitting as a book end on one of my book shelves connected to the mb via a long usb cable. lol jank I guess but it works for me. :)
If you want FW800, you can readily source a fw800 pci card on eBay. I saw a couple for $20 & is how I got fw800 into my quicksilver. Max thruput is 800mbits. Crushes USB2 at 480 but I suppose you need to have a FW800 device for that to make much sense.
If that adapter doesn't fit in the maxtor case (hopefully it will), I would look at an external hdd case that has a broad I/o choice like USB1/2 & FW 400/800. Something like this mini g-drive would do the trick & is pretty cheap (not my auction/no relation). IIRC they fit a 2.5" formfactor/SSD...
One thing that really bugs me is that for the life of me I cannot see the print on the chipset. Even with my magnifying glass I cant make it out. In my defense the chipset on this particular adapter is absolutely teeny-tiny.
Gettin' old! :D
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Ok, took the magnifyer off my helping hands and...
To drill down on the green adapters that DO work in some of my powerPC macs. I have three of these green pata/sata adapters marked RXD-629A7-7 that DO work - one in a revb bondi and another in my QS and a third in my win2k Dell Dimensions xps r450. Not going to pull apart the g3 lol but here’s...
For my Powermacs, I look for PCI USB2 cards that have a NEC or TI chipset. I have several usb2 & usb2/fw400 combo cards with VIA chipset that are flaky and inconsistent in OSX. My NEC/TI cards are rock solid. VIA are typically cheaper yes but I dont recommend them in PPC boxes. Common brands...
Very nice repair. That aluminum bent really well around that pipe. It makes me wonder if you could have made a replacement leg outright of the aluminum vs salvaging the plastics.