- I have a physical copy of this, and it's one of the better rants turned into a book.
- My first Linux-first setup was a Pentium Pro 200 on a Tyan Titan ATX motherboard, which I bought sometime in 1997. At the time and with the 16-bit perf issues and the Pentium II coming out, the prices had dropped like a rock, but for 32-bit only Linux it was great.
Over time added more memory, a second CPU, and so on, and it was a workhorse through all of college. Held onto it well into the P4 era, as most of the upgrade options would have been a departure from SMP, which felt like a miss.
- eeproks 197 days agoI had a similar experience. I shelled out for a dual CPU Intel 440fx setup with SCSI disks which was my desktop well into the P3 era, and got migrated to home server where it served for many more years. I think the PPro had the longest useful life of any processor I used.
- This looks like a cool site, but do they not have an RSS feed?
(related: are RSS feeds suitably retro?)
- I wonder how many of these were inspired by the Haro ball from Gundam.
- There is another cable made back in the day by Dr Bott that does ADC to VGA, which was also useful. I think I have two of these around here somewhere.
- This is a pretty great project - if you have an interlaced video the motion adaptive deinterlacing is better than anything at the price point.
I need to make a case for mine (still a bare circuit board).
- The picture is crazy responsive and clear with the Amiga 1000 I'm using. Something I didn't have with the stock firmware. The only tricky part is soldering the clock generator to one of the pins of the SMD video chip, nothing that a bit of flux and patience won't solve. Another tip is to make sure the ESP wifi antenna is not close to the video chip, the frequencies can interfere.
- I've been using the "twist off" method for a while.
The way the leads on this capacitor type mount, the joints have the least strength if pulling straight up (will want to separate the pads from the board, but have the most strength if you pull horizontally along the length of the solder joint.
If you twist the top of the can off above the plastic base, the majority of force is along the horizontal (guided by the plastic base) and either the pins break off in the metal can, or right at the edge of the pads - either case is easy to clean up with flux and braid. Haven't had a lifted pad failure with this method ever.
That said,I haven't worked with boards in as bad a condition as was shown in the video. In those cases hot air would seem better, but I'm not sure if you'd be left with good pads/traces in any case.
- Does anyone have a good example for fixing/cleaning Mac style floppy drives? I have one that read fine, but can't complete an eject (disk lifts, but doesn't eject)
- Wasn't there also a Mac environment for SGI systems (under IRIX)? But it wasn't first party from Apple like this is.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20020223140623/http://freeware.s... maybe thinking of B2?
- There was Ardi‘s Executor, but I don’t think there was an IRIX port. You could port Executor yourself now, it was open sourced some years ago: https://github.com/ctm/executor
In addition, there is a port of the Basilisk II emulator (this requires a copy of the original Mac ROMs, Executor reimplements the ROM parts of the Mac System, MAE includes a copy of the ROM as it was an official Apple product): https://forums.irixnet.org/printthread.php?tid=977
- Did any of these processors ever leave the lab, or make it into a shipping product?
Or are they the white whales of the PowerPC lineage?
- Apparently it does exist: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10266283...
- Love how they went through all of the effort to open the case and take photos just to not include a photo of the CPU card :p
I wonder how much of it was specific to that 9500 itself or if that was the test bed just because it was the highest-end Apple-made machine at the time. I also wish it showed a clear photo of the 9500's ROM SIMM slot to see if it still had the Apple ROM or a custom one.
Commercial CPU upgrades were broadly compatible across the main PCI Power Mac line (even the clones) as seen in the compatibility list for the Sonnet G4/500 I had in my 7300 back in The Day, so who knows? https://web.archive.org/web/20020605082714/http://www.sonnet...