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My Power Macintosh 9600/300 build is finally complete!


I've replaced the CPU with a Sonnet Crescendo G4 @ 400MHz with 1MB L2 cache, replaced the stock ixMicro Twin Turbo with a Sapphire Radeon 7000 with the full Mac ROM (swapped ROM chip) and the March 2002 Radeon driver. On top of that, i've managed to scrape together 512MB of the MOST ridiculously hard to find, and most insanely priced RAM ever - 8 x 64MB 168-pin 5v EDO DIMM's.

I have a Sonnet Tango 2.0 to go in it next, and i want to try and flash the Adaptec 2940 U2W I have to get some native 68-pin SCSI action going on in there. Then - I think I need a DEC-21140 based PCI NIC to add to it because the onboard 10Mbit is just painfully slow at transferring ISO's and .toast files over.

My original setup in 1995 at college. I scraped together as much cash as I could, sold my Centris 650 (that machine was the true OG for me, where it all began) and got my girlfriend to charge the rest for me. It was a discounted 6100/66 from the school's bookstore. It was a real workhorse and I upgraded just about everything I could on it. Hope it's still out there.

TIL: A fast 68030 CAN play MP3 files, but will not smoothy play through anything higher than 32kbps, so they don't sound too good!

This product has been sold out. The next batch will arrive at the end of this month. Thank you!

No School Like The Old School (Literally), Enjoying the Bell and Howell!

In 48 hours, planning begins for Christmas food...

If interested my primary work is IshikiAI.com.

Just finished My Classic Reloaded...

This Laser 128k was so well used the "apple" keycap is completely deformed.
I've never identified more with an inanimate object in my life!

I fought through my PB 540’s tunnel vision and got a high score of 142 on Flappy Mac! Can anyone here score higher?
@gruz

Satanic Mac Club!

Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated...!

Today, I swapped this old clunker out of my PowerBook 180c, replacing it with a BlueSCSI. The 180c is a lot faster now!

Visited my best friend a few weeks ago. "I have a few old Macs if you want them". Me:
After a dusty trip into his attic I have a nice haul. More details on the others coming . . .but:
My first find was a Power Mac G4 MDD Dual 1ghz with a matching Apple Studio Display

Completed: (Updated)

• Power supply was dead so I sent it off to acxelectronics on eBay for an excellent and fast repair. (OK I was lazy on this one)
• Replaced the old noisy CPU fan with a new quiet, but powerful Silenx IXP-76-18 - 120x38mm 18dBA 90CFM hooked to 12V Power Supply connector
• Maxed out RAM to 2GB
• Replaced static and distorted heat damaged speaker with the OEM part found on eBay
• Replaced spinning drive with a Samsung SSD via an IDE to SATA adapter.
• Installed 10.4.11 Tiger.
• Added 2nd SSD for Carbon Copy Cloner system backup: (Due the limitation of the PATA to SATA adapter board this did not work on the 100 MHz bus as a second drive, so I put the second SSD on the 66Mhz bus)
• Period correct keyboard and mouse
• Swapped out dual G4 1GHZ processor daughterboard for dual 1.25Ghz card (modest upgrade)

To Do:

• Upgrade video card (Current ATI Radeon 9000 is OK, but @Action Retro inspired me to go faster

My *Zip* IIGS is running
fast and cool

Finally got a working PB G4 DLSD it *almost* fast enough to browse the internet! (posting this from it)

Let me know!