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  1. Kai Robinson

    Maxintosh II What is this resistor for?

    As in it uses PAL's for the Nubus logic rather than dedicated ASICs - meaning, it can be potentially reverse engineered ;)
  2. Kai Robinson

    Maxintosh II What is this resistor for?

    Is that a nubus pal board? If so...
  3. Kai Robinson

    Steelseries Rival 310 repair

    That's for hardcore scrolling, yo! 😂
  4. Kai Robinson

    Steelseries Rival 310 repair

    A rather odd thing happened between 2023 and 2024 - before Christmas, the mouse I used at work, a Steelseries Rival 310 worked just fine. After Christmas, in the new year when I came back to work, the mouse had stopped working except for the button click. This was very odd, nothing in the...
  5. Kai Robinson

    Simple garden table refurbishment

    We purchased a 20 year old ex-pub bench from a couple that lived around the corner, shortly after we moved in. Despite being 20 years old, it was in fairly good condition. However, the elements started to take its toll over the last year or so, what with it being the wettest year ever...
  6. Kai Robinson

    It's curious the level of vitriol and hate directed towards TD sometimes - with no clear reason...

    It's curious the level of vitriol and hate directed towards TD sometimes - with no clear reason as to why. We seem to live rent free in some people's heads...
  7. Kai Robinson

    Thoughts On The Global Tech Outage?

    To sum up my day working at an msp: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! *inhales* ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
  8. Kai Robinson

    I Need Advice-What's A Good Temperature Sensor For My M3 MacBook Pro?

    Ideally, this: https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
  9. Kai Robinson

    Dell R520 - The expansion continues...

    I came across a Juniper EX2200 although saw some comments that the CPU was slow, i'll have a look at the range to see what's available...also being that i work for an MSP it's entirely possible thatI might end up finding a suitable switch bound for e-waste. The NAS VM was binned off - getting...
  10. Kai Robinson

    Dell R520 - The expansion continues...

    Update time! I ended up indeed getting some Mellanox ConnectX-3's from eBay - not bad for about £19 each. One in the R520, one in my desktop. A single 5M DAC from FS links the two together. I created a test iSCSI share that ran solely over the Mellanox on the R520 (2TB) using the primary RAID0...
  11. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Quadra 700 Expansion Slot Covers

    The '040 can get a bit toasty as they were the original 800nm mask versions - but still doesn't need a fan at stock speeds - the fan in the PSU keeps a steady, quiet flow of air through it. You're not going to wreck anything by not having anything in the expansion slots, or by not having an...
  12. Kai Robinson

    Mac Plus Radius Accelerator Plus help

    "What size capacitor goes there?" "...YES."
  13. Kai Robinson

    Quadra 950 Chassis

    I have a Quadra 950 case that i can take measurements of - not sure if i can 3D scan anything though, but i can certainly try.
  14. Kai Robinson

    Shouldn't this be easy? Windows 3.1

    No worries - thank the guy that originally wrote the instructions though, i just used my Google-Fu :D
  15. Kai Robinson

    Definitely going to try doing this to my Centris 660AV!

    Definitely going to try doing this to my Centris 660AV!
  16. Kai Robinson

    Horizontal display jitter + bomb on revived Macintosh Plus

    I'd recommend reflowing the flyback transformer - sometimes you just cant see the cracks clearly - fresh solder definitely helps.
  17. Kai Robinson

    Shouldn't this be easy? Windows 3.1

    Copied from http://www.win31.de/etips.htm First of all you should ensure that the new logo is a 4bit RLE file (use e.g. GWS or WinGif to create it) and that it doesn't have more than 16 colors. Otherwise it would become too large to be embedded into the win.com file. There are three different...
  18. Kai Robinson

    Compatible RAM for Macintosh 128k

    You can use the conversion chat here to help you locate some suitable RAM: https://www.ardent-tool.com/memory/Chip_Conversion.html All RAM is going to have to come as used or new old stock from eBay as none of it has been made for probably 25 years at this point.
  19. Kai Robinson

    Schematics for PowerBook Duo model

    Was this the video by @This Does Not Compute ?
  20. Kai Robinson

    SE/30 SIMASIMAC w/ Stock ROM

    The ROM chips themselves may very well just be faulty - ROM's are no different to any other semiconductors - they degrade over time. You could be experiencing bit-rot/fade, where the 0/1's held in a cell may have flipped/faded to nothing. All it takes is a single byte to throw things off. The...