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January 25 2025 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Justin (jdmcs), Bruce (Branchus), Jacob (Androda), Jeff (trag) Note that Kai and Bruce are no longer members of the Board, they attended to assist in knowledge transfer as stated in the Board Governance...

Given that there were only two nominations (trag and jdmcs) and three open Board positions, voting wasn't necessary in this case. To @trag we extend a welcome to the Board, and we welcome back @jdmcs to the Board for his second term. We will be reaching out to figure out scheduling for the...

Echoes of "ELNA Long Life Capacitors" perhaps

With help from Greiman of course. He provided a generic RP2040 SDIO implementation which made a lot more sense than what was already in use. My main contribution was cutting down the number of PIO instructions it required and hooking it into the existing framework.

November 30 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Eric, Justin (jdmcs), Bruce (Branchus), Jacob (Androda) Absent: Josh (Drake), fogWraith (Christian) Agenda: Item 1: Holiday Gaming Sessions / Game Server Notes: Last year's gaming sessions were fun, so...

These are the 5300 model number, so I would presume they don't work in the 190. The back of the box shows that the 190 model has a different part number, so it's probably something like the onboard ROM is different between the two.

Another "New Old Stock" product has been added to my store, the Focus Enhancements LapisColor MV16-EN for PowerBook 5300. That's quite a mouthful. This expansion card gives you both an external display output *and* ethernet on the same card - pretty cool if you ask me. A version of this card...

Generally speaking, you always want to replace the SMD and through-hole capacitors on a Portable motherboard. They are one of the largest sources of trouble because they basically always leak. So that's priority #1. The non-backlit doesn't like to turn on from just the power adapter - it's...

Here's the wiki article about resolving that issue on early-production Powerbook boards: https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/wiki/Hardware#hardware-tweaks--fixes

If you do plan to replace the Pico with a Pico 2, my two cents is that you should not be desoldering from the bottom of the BlueSCSI PCB. If your board has pin headers holding the Pico in place, then desolder the Pico from the top only. As Eric mentions, it's very easy to damage the BlueSCSI...

This is the first I've heard about the 840AV showing CRC errors. Thanks for reporting that the updated build resolved your problem.

September 14 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Eric, Justin (jdmcs), Bruce, Jacob (Androda) Absent: Josh (Drake), fogWraith (Christian) Agenda: Item 1: Discussing the creation of an Administrative Group Notes: The Director of IT/Ops and Treasurer...

I don't really know, but the chip appears in the 6500 datasheet.

It looks like you have the 6500 schematic, the comm slot is on the same page as the PCI slot in there. Comm Slot II cards appear to have one interrupt pin instead of several like PCI slots. And on the 6500 the CS II interrupt goes to pin 64 of the OHARE chip.

Pico 2 uses a new chip, the RP2350A. It has twice the working RAM as its predecessor, and also twice the program storage (this is on an external chip, but 2x is 2x). Overall it will allow for more features, some of which will have to be Pico2-only due to RAM and storage restrictions on the...

It's possible, but I don't really know. Tried some random MAC addresses during testing and not all of them worked. That's part of the reason there are three: those ones worked properly. Yeah it's pretty funky stuff. Doesn't print amazingly well, but still "good enough."

I'm also very curious to see what your results show - should be quite interesting.

The listing is live on my site now: https://androda.work/product/comm-slot-ii-10-100-ethernet-cards/

The production order has arrived, so I'll be testing and listing the cards as fast as my spare time permits. Note that I am away all of next week, hence the blue popup on my site saying that shipping will be delayed.

I mean, if you want a Gigabit Ethernet Comm Slot II card just let me know. I definitely didn't find some Gigabit Ethernet PCI chips which are compatible with OS 9. (though honestly that would be minimal to no benefit over 10/100 due to Mac OS bottlenecks and OS compatibility limitations)