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SiliconClassics
From New York
Who joined April 11, 2004, 5:07 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 2, 2017, 11:24 a.m...

Just bought this boxed set of MicroStation 5 from eBay. I remember tinkering with it on a family friend's computer as a kid (he was an architect) and thinking the interface looked much cooler than AutoCAD. Also had a pretty nice renderer.

Also that LaserJet 4 Plus in the background was a $5 thrift store purchase. Came with the JetDirect network card and a multipurpose paper tray. Needed a new drive gear assembly, $20 part on eBay and now it's good to go. It's at half a million pages and counting...

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Trippynet
Donor
From Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Who joined Aug. 15, 2013, 6:22 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 4, 2017, 9:41 a.m...

commodorejohn wrote: 1280x1024 is as high as anyone actually needs outside of medical imaging anyway.

I have to disagree. When I started at my current company, I had two 19" screens running at 1280x1024 and quickly stuffed a 24" 1920x1200 one in the middle. Over the next few months I found a couple of 20" 4:3 screens (1600x1200) and the difference it makes when you have spreadsheets open is very noticeable. I find 1280x1024 a bit too constricting for my work.

Systems in use:
:Indigo2IMP:

- Nitrogen : R10000 195MHz CPU, 384MB RAM, SolidIMPACT Graphics, 36GB 15k HDD & 300GB 10k HDD, 100Mb/s NIC, New/quiet fans, IRIX 6.5.22
:Fuel:

- Lithium : R14000 600MHz CPU, 4GB RAM, V10 Graphics, 72GB 15k HDD & 300GB 10k HDD, 1Gb/s NIC, New/quiet fans, IRIX 6.5.30
Other system in storage: :O2:

R5000 200MHz, 224MB RAM, 72GB 15k HDD, PSU fan mod, IRIX 6.5.30

computron
From france
Who joined April 18, 2013, 4:08 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 5, 2017, 10:14 a.m...

commodorejohn wrote: hofner.jpg
Newest member of the family: a Hofner violin bass. (Not sure exactly which model, but it's one of the fully hollow-body ones, not the one with a sustain block inside.) Picked it up because I've been wanting to try one and a guy on Craigslist was offering a good deal since he's in a Beatles cover band and already has two others. It's a bit scuffed up, but overall in good shape, and it sounds sweet as hell Pure bass on the lower strings with a nice woody pluck on the upper ones, plays beautifully, and sounds good even without an amp hooked up

Nice one !!!!

Cheers

Eve

commodorejohn
Who joined Oct. 2, 2012, 1:22 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 5, 2017, 10:38 a.m...

Thanks

It's been all kinds of fun so far.

Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/SH-09/HS-80/MT-32/D-50, Yamaha DX7-II/V50/TX7/TG33/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini/ARP Odyssey/DW-8000/M1, Ensoniq SQ-80, E-mu Emax HD/Proteus-2, Casio CZ-5000, Moog Satellite, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600

Raion-Fox
Donor
From near King George, Virginia
Who joined Jan. 30, 2014, 5:01 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 5, 2017, 6:21 p.m...

A used 2001 Miata front bumper, two 2001 Miata door cards and a 3 spoke Nardi wheel and airbag for a Miata.

R16000 700MHz 8GB RAM kanna
:Octane:

R12000 300MHz SI 896MB RAM yuuka
:Octane2:

R12000A 400MHz V6 2.5GB RAM
:Indy:

(Acclaim) R4600 133MHz XL Graphics 32MB RAM
:Indy:

(Challenge S) R4600 133MHz (MIPS III Build Server)
Thinkpad W530 i7 3940XM 3GHz, 32GB, K1000M Windows 8.1 Embedded rin
Thinkpad R40 Pentium M 1.5GHz 2GB RAM kasha

ClassicHasClass
Donor
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 5, 2017, 11:24 p.m...

Crapload of Apple Developer CDs, up to even 2005.

smit happens.

:Fuel:

bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy:

indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP:

purplehaze , 175MHz R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from

bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * RDI PrecisionBook * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

SiliconClassics
From New York
Who joined April 11, 2004, 5:07 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 6, 2017, 9:07 a.m...

Picked up this lot of 1990s Softimage demo reels from an eBay seller in Quebec. Now I need to get a good VCR so I can digitize them.

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commodorejohn
Who joined Oct. 2, 2012, 1:22 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 6, 2017, 9:27 a.m...

Oh, do share when you've got them recorded

Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/SH-09/HS-80/MT-32/D-50, Yamaha DX7-II/V50/TX7/TG33/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini/ARP Odyssey/DW-8000/M1, Ensoniq SQ-80, E-mu Emax HD/Proteus-2, Casio CZ-5000, Moog Satellite, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600

SiliconClassics
From New York
Who joined April 11, 2004, 5:07 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 6, 2017, 10:59 a.m...

Yep, these will go straight to YouTube

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ItsMeOnly
From Warszawa, Poland
Who joined Aug. 18, 2006, 12:56 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 8, 2017, 4:20 p.m...

Sun IPX, Mac 630, G4 Digital Audio, Amiga 1200T, HP Envizex a, A180, B132L.

yetanother**ixuser
Donor
From Flynn's Arcade
Who joined May 21, 2004, 4:47 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2017, 6:14 a.m...

snagged a nice powerbook g4 12" from a local fleamarket. its fully loaded and in near mint condition. useless but beautyfull *g*

no plan

SiliconClassics
From New York
Who joined April 11, 2004, 5:07 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2017, 6:34 a.m...

Beautiful PowerBook G4, been wanting a 12" model for years but finding one in good condition is difficult - most of them have bent cases and missing parts. I think it's one of the nicest laptops Apple ever produced.

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josehill
Moderator
From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2017, 7:04 a.m...

yetanother**ixuser wrote: snagged a nice powerbook g4 12" from a local fleamarket. its fully loaded and in near mint condition. useless but beautyfull

That is one of the top five Macs that Apple ever made, IMHO. Congrats on finding one in such great shape! The soft aluminum case on that model attracts dents, scratches, and other signs of wear and tear. I used mine on the road for several years, and it looks like it was used in battle.

I still have mine (also 1.5 GhZ/1.25 GB but with an upgraded HD), though I don't fire it up very often any more. I kept it around mainly to run older versions of TurboTax in case I was audited, but it has been long enough that the audit window has closed on those tax years. It's still a nice writing machine, and Adobe CS2 runs very well on it. Perhaps its best use these days is for running older Mac software using the Mac OS 9 Classic environment under Tiger. Aside from running on a G5 Mac, it's pretty much the fastest "Apple supported" Classic experience you can get. (The 1.67 GHz Powerbooks should run Classic faster, but they don't feel like they do, at least to me. Perhaps that's because they have to push more pixels around their larger screens.)

Y888099
Who joined July 11, 2016, 11 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2017, 8:19 a.m...

May be the nicest machine which can carry MorphOS with you when you travel

SiliconClassics wrote: one of the nicest laptops Apple ever produced

but, N'-ah, the keyboard's connector is to high-density, an hell if you want to hack it, as well as the LCD's connector, and the frame is made by aluminium which is difficult to be modified as you neither paint it nor glue it.

From this point of view it's not nice. As far as I have experimented, the best ever is the last PowerBookG3! Made of plastic, with friendlier connectors. Not a piece of cake, but at least your reaction to hacking's resistance (and of course its resistance is futile) doesn't range from wild enthusiasm to outright belligerence

(yup, I am running a super secret project)

Head Full of Snow. Lemon Scented You

Dodoid
From Ottawa, Canada
Who joined July 4, 2016, 1:36 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2017, 10:13 a.m...

I recently got a late model 17" G4 from a garage sale. $25! It's in my latest video, nice machine.

and a small army of

ClassicHasClass
Donor
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2017, 11:38 p.m...

Perhaps its best use these days is for running older Mac software using the Mac OS 9 Classic environment under Tiger.

I agree. Even though qemu is getting better at it, there is still no substitute for Classic, and Classic is probably the best single reason to keep a Power Mac around.

My iBook G4 also gets heavy use as a portable DVD player. With a hack to enable separate displays, it happily plays DVDs to any hotel display we connect it to. If I want to display it on an internal screen, though, I use a 17" DLSD G4, especially since I found firmware to make it region-free.

smit happens.

:Fuel:

bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy:

indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP:

purplehaze , 175MHz R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from

bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * RDI PrecisionBook * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

josehill
Moderator
From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 10, 2017, 12:10 a.m...

Y888099 wrote: May be the nicest machine which can carry MorphOS with you when you travel

Is that true? I was interested in trying MorphOS on that hardware a while ago, but the last time I looked, MorphOS didn't support the NVIDIA GeForce graphics in the 12" G4 models.

Y888099
Who joined July 11, 2016, 11 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 10, 2017, 3:20 a.m...

MorphOS supported graphics cards:

With 3d hardware acceleration:
ATI Radeon 8500 LE (R200)
ATI Radeon 8500 (R200)
ATI Radeon 9000 (RV250)
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro (RV250)
ATI Radeon 9100 (R200)
ATI Radeon 9100 LE (R200)
ATI Radeon 9200 SE (RV280)
ATI Radeon 9200 (RV280)
ATI Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)
ATI Radeon 9250 (RV280)
ATI Radeon 9550 Mobility (no W3D)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (no W3D)
ATI Radeon 9650 (no W3D)
ATI Radeon 9600 XT (no W3D)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (no W3D)
ATI Radeon 9800 (no W3D)
ATI Radeon 9800 XT (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X600 XT (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X800 XT / Pro (R420) (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1300 (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1550 (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1600 (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1800 (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1900 GT (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1950 XT (no W3D)
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro (no W3D)
ATI FireGL X3 (R420) (no W3D)

With limited 3d hardware acceleration (W3D legacy software only):
3DFX Voodoo3 2000 (Avenger)
3DFX Voodoo3 3000 (Avenger)
3DFX Voodoo3 3500 (Avenger)
3DFX Voodoo4 4500 (Napalm)
3DFX Voodoo5 5500 (Napalm)
ATI Radeon 7000VE (RV100)
ATI Radeon 7200 (R100)
ATI Radeon 7500 (RV200)

Without 3d hardware acceleration:
AMD Radeon HD 2400
AMD Radeon HD 3450
AMD Radeon HD 4350
AMD Radeon HD 4550
AMD Radeon HD 4650
AMD Radeon HD 5450
AMD Radeon HD 6450
AMD Radeon HD 6570
AMD Radeon HD 7570
ATI Rage128 Pro
3D Labs / Texas Instruments Permedia2
3D Labs / Texas Instruments Permedia2v
Silicon Motion SM502
SiS 300 / 305
SiS 315
SiS 6326
XGI Volari V3XT
XGI Volari V5
XGI Volari V5XT
XGI Volari V8 (Ultra)

Apple PowerBook G4 @ 867Mhz, 12 inch, features NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go graphics with 32 MB of VRAM: noGo
Apple PowerBook G4 @ 1Ghz, 12 inch, features NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 graphics with 32 MB of VRAM: noGo
Apple PowerBook G4 @ 1.33Ghz, 12 inch, features NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 graphics with 64MB of VRAM: noGo
Apple PowerBook G4 @ 1.67Ghz, 15 inch , features ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics with 128 MB of VRAM: BinGo!

Nvidia still unsupported. Hope it will be one day.

Head Full of Snow. Lemon Scented You

tingo
Donor
From Oslo, Norway
Who joined June 26, 2010, 5:40 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 10, 2017, 3:23 p.m...

I prefer Mini vMac for running classic Mac OS software: http://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/
PowerPC? Too new :-P

Torfinn

itsvince725
From Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA
Who joined Nov. 6, 2016, 2:03 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 10, 2017, 7:45 p.m...

A Sega Saturn!

I'm hoping I can mod it for JP games and homebrew and stuff.

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