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I managed to speed bump my PM4400/200 to 240MHz. Turns out the answer was written on the silkscreen of the Motorola StarMax! You can set the speed to anything between 80MHz and 240MHz (in mostly 20MHz steps). I got an 11% improvement in Norton System Info's CPU benchmark overall (from Norton...

I bought a NOS Zip Drive on Facebook Market Place - one of the old shape ones that is translucent and USB (to match the early iMacs). I was pretty excited because it was still sealed and so were the provided 3 disks and the manual / drivers. It arrived a short while ago, I opened it and plugged...

Last couple of days I've been messing with a 9751 Lego serial interface from about 1994 on my LC 475. Lots of fun. I don't have many official sensors to go with it, but I've made a couple of my own. Yesterday I got it working after working out that the TX and RX were backwards as if it was a...

Made some good progress last night. I plugged in a Data Harvest FlowGo I'd picked up a while back. It didn't have any software with it and I hadn't done anything with it. I enjoy playing with old educational interface boxes - it was a big thing here in the UK in the 80s and 90s for teaching...

When uploading photos from my phone, they're usually high res, 6MB files. While I sometimes want and need this, this is usually excessive and the only reason I haven't reduced the quality is because the process is convoluted on my phone. Is optional down sampling at upload feasable? There are...

I picked up a Centris 650 a few weeks back and have been making a few upgrades. So far I have done the following : Upgraded the RAM to 104MB Added an AudioMedia II sound card Added the missing Reset / Interrupt buttons Added a Stage II Rocket Fitted a tray loading CD bezel Fitted a 600i CD...