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Sonnet Tango 2.0, used the OS's built in drivers (had to do a reinstall with the card installed). I haven't actually needed to use firewire ports on the machine, but I remember seeing it show up in the System Profiler. I mostly use the USB ports so that I can use my mouse/keyboard. I've tried...

If it had arrived seriously damaged, I would've made a stink, but I bought them super cheap. It was an auction and bidding ended low. Shipping was not cheap, but I'd still be surprised if the seller (the original owner and not a professional ebay seller) broke even. I love the G4s, a dual...

Same, it's why the headline was "Small Miracle". I'm still amazed at how little damage the CRT took, the box itself was shredded. I might want to go buy myself a lotto ticket 😄 Overall I've been lucky. Over the past few years I've purchased and had to get shipped four CRT displays, all...

All original packaging materials kept the tower safe during shipping. One noticeable blemish, not bad for nearly 22 years old. The wrong power cable came with it, but I still had mine from my original G4. Looks much better with the correct power cable Removed the death cylinder...

Took the risk on buying a PowerMac G4 DP 500 with its original Studio Display, it would need to travel halfway across the US and the seller was using USPS, it was a risky purchase, but at least the G4 itself was being shipped in its original box. All I really wanted was the Dual G4-500, but if...

I say lee-doh. Grew up going to a Lido's Italian restaurant, never heard any other pronunciation.

I ran a Rage 128 in my 4400 in '99/00 and in my current 4400. I usually run MacOS 8.6/9 on my system, but the rage 128 is supposed to support System 7.5.x and up and I've had it working in 8.1 (before I broke my 8.1 install playing around with my VooDoo 1). I'm assuming that you used the ATI...

The Brainstorm upgrade also replaces the TSM chip on the motherboard. Currently the details evade me, but I believe the custom TSM chip handles timing and is what allows the Mac hardware and software to work with the 16MHz 68000.

Yes, a universal System 7.1 install should install any required extensions or control panels. From my research System 7.0.1 and up should work on the 145b, but it originally came with 7.1.

The 145b came with a single boot/recovery disk that had the Recovery and Backup apps on it. Patrick is remembering correctly, the user was expected to make their own system disks from the pre-installed System 7.1 on the PowerBook. This was common with Apple's lower end systems.

My copy arrived today, larger than I expected, extremely well packaged. I already started reading the pdf copy, but the hardback is beautiful 😄

I also use the Kester Rosin Core 63/37, but I still have some spools of Radio Shack 60/40 in various sizes that I pull out on occasion. For rosin flux and wicks I tend to use whatever my local stores carry. Currently using a big bottle of MG Chemicals Rosin Flux to refill my small rosin...

I've been using a G3-266 DT as my primary bridge machine. Added a USB/Firewire PCI card to it, running 8.6 and 9.2, I have other machines running OS X. The G3 is connected to both my ethernet and localtalk networks. The onboard ethernet is slow, it's common to add a 10/100 card to these...

Those voltage numbers look healthy. A chip could be overheating, when I'm diagnosing a system with weird issues I often check ICs with my fingers, some use an IR thermometer. I was in the same boat a few years ago and had to shelve projects that were above my level. I resumed work on some of...

Yes, through the floppy port is one of the safest ways to check voltages. I always check DC and look for AC leakage, then I'll monitor startup voltages, verify they don't spike too high, then watch it while using the system. The only time I've seen any of my Plusses restart is when there are...

The little I played with it I didn't notice the sound issues, but my hearing isn't great, I'm sure they were there. I am using SCSI2SD, v5.1 I believe. I installed it into an old external SCSI case and power it from a power brick. In the config I set Enable Unit Attention to off, SCSI...

I have a fairly sizable holy grail list, usually machines I have experience with but never got to tinker with or really learn how to use. Apple Lisa/Mac XL - I remember reading about the Lisa not long after getting online in 1997 and have wanted one ever since. Amiga 2000 - Used one during my...

I had some extra time during lunch so I pulled out my System 7.1 boot drive and hooked it up. It booted without complaint. I updated my firmware from 2.0 to 2.5 and continued testing. I installed TattleTech and Speedometer 4.02. TattleTech still reports a 8MHz 68000, but the benchmarks proved it...

I only picked it up last week and I think I've only tested it with System 6. This gives me a good excuse to pull out my System 7 Mac Plus boot drive. I'll see about testing it today or tomorrow and let you know my results.

This is really close to my restoration philosophy also. If the case has no or minimal damage, I clean them up and enjoy them as is, yellowed or not. I avoid irreversible mods/changes, unless it's already damaged or super common. I love period aftermarket upgrades, especially ones for the early...