What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?

[Philgood]

So you're on Facebook IIO 

[IIO]

hdd case #4 arrived.

so, i have 12 now, but still only 7 of them are currently in use.

[lepidotos]

I was about to say "a charger for $14," but that's not the case anymore. All in one purchase, I bought 512MB of RAM, a #00 screwdriver, and a 512GB USB stick for semi-regular backups. All three only cost me $30, but I never got the flash drive. I think my grandma might not have seen it when giving me my mail.
I did get the RAM just fine though, and now have it installed in my laptop, bringing it to its total potential of 640M. It doesn't feel insanely better, but that's due to my benchmark being the seemingly atrocious version of The Sims, despite that game being originally programmed on Mac OS. At least while downloading files, my total free RAM is 230M, not 3M.

[IIO]

i need a proper screwdriver for the quicksilver motherboards and modems. i have tons of tools but mostly crap and never the right size or quality of something.

[FBz]

What seemed pretty scarce only a year ago / now in great abundance on eBay - if you accept new higher shipping fees.

Picked up these 3 Firewire drives (locally) for less than the cost of most single USB flash drives. [VST 20 GB was worth the price alone - there’s a similar 10 GB workhorse here I’ve had for years.] Cleaned off marker notes and all now look NOS.





BIG LaCie has a massive 60! GB drive inside. (That’ll change.)

[IIO]

back in the days when giga was a synonym for exa. now giga is the new nano.

[ovalking]

50>68 pin SCSI adapter.
£10 seemed a bit pricy for a simple thing, but worth it if I could make use of the IBM 10K HDD I aquired...
But nothing. Drive seemed lifeless. No utility could detect it was there.
hmf!

[re4mat]

I think the most recent thing I bought for my iMac G4 was the processor card from a PowerMac G4 so that I could pull the L3 cache SRAMs off of it. $20 I think? Not a bad deal if you ask me. 

[lepidotos]

I just bought a cheap, crappy USB keyboard for my new Power Macintosh G4. I had a PS/2 keyboard on hand but... I'm certain you can figure the problem out. I was instructed not to get anything shipped, so cheap Wal-Mart brand keyboard it is since I doubt any store in the vicinity is going to have had any PS/2 to USB adapters for the last 10-15 years. We all know it's gonna get recycled by the end of the year when I pull out my mechanical USB keyboard I think is incredibly ugly, but I got for free as a hand-me-down.
Update: I also just bought a 120GB 7200RPM Maxtor drive, at least for the stretch of time before I get a SATA card and install some SSDs into it. It arrives by the 31st. I wish it would have arrived today.

[IIO]

so, i have upgraded my recording corner from 2 to 4 motus now.

while in PT and cubase it never was a problem, i have yet to try recording 32 channels at once with max/msp, hopefully with SSDs it will work better now as back in the days with HDs.

[IIO]

50>68 pin SCSI adapter

i remember trying this around 1997. didnt wwork, and i have been told that it only works with scsi-2 but not with "scsi-2 fast"

[refinery]

picked up a syba SATA II card for my PCIe G5 to see if I can flash it to the seritek firmware and get bootable sata II on the G5. With a new ROM chip soldered on of course.
already did this with an older IBM-branded Marvell card that had a socketed ROM and it worked fine. I wanted this one though for a potential Frankenstein project....

[eastone]

picked up a syba SATA II card for my PCIe G5 to see if I can flash it to the seritek firmware and get bootable sata II on the G5.

I have flashed many of different brands but no luck with booting. All of them are flashable, some need to replace to bigger eeprom chip, some have it already. Unfortunately all those card I flashed are reported in Linux as Raid SATA cards, Seritek is recognized as Mass Storage Controller, probably thaths the point.

Ps
Last my purchase was Tascam-US122 (mint condition for 15€ with shipping and 2x Noctua 60x60x to my noisy PSU in MDD.

[refinery]

I have flashed many of different brands but no luck with booting. All of them are flashable, some need to replace to bigger eeprom chip, some have it already. Unfortunately all those card I flashed are reported in Linux as Raid SATA cards, Seritek is recognized as Mass Storage Controller, probably thaths the point.

Yeah so far that's what I'm getting with this one, only recognized as a mass storage scsi controller. I wasnt sure if I had done an insufficient job of soldering on the new ROM chip or what.
The previous card I tried this with however worked perfectly fine and is now seen as a Seritek 2ME4-E by my G5, and works fine for booting with single disks. Its a really weird and obscure IBM card with the Marvell 7042 controller.

[eastone]

Sorry, I misunderstood you I didn't know before that there were Syba sata cards with a marvel chip. My experience is with sil3132 cards.

[OS923]

Wacom tablet.

[Bolkonskij]

Just got a parcel with a copper heatsink for my MDD from a valued forum member. Finally I can swap out the old aluminum one that spiked whenever I exported some videos for Cornica ... excited

[FBz]

Just in case I haven’t shown off my ESR70 meter here before…
but really to illustrate the polarity marking on many capacitors.


(For a friend.)

[OS923]

Sony VCT-870RM remote control tripod.

Medion clock radio MD 80035. This can be used as an external speaker for Macintosh and Palm computers. This works also as BlueTooth speaker and charger for one device.

[Rosetta]

Found a new, sealed copy of this at Micro Center for $7. Requires at least Win 98 + Pentium II 400 or OS 9.2 + G3 300. Certainly among the last Classic Mac OS compatible pieces of software still to be found in a store...

https://www.masque.com/game/2457/arcade-puzzle-games

Most of the games are glorified Flash games. Cool novelty nonetheless. I'm a sucker for these cheapo shovelware game compilations no matter the platform.