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

[GaryN]

I'm a studio guy too but these are for sound reinforcement. As I said, they wanted to make the box as small as possible - symmetry be damned.
The woofer is essentially an acoustic low-pass filter. Crossovers are at 1k and 10k. Having owned both, I can say the SD-30's are not as accurate as the 380SE's but they do a great job onstage in a club and will fit in a car.

[OS923]

WD My Book Elite 2 TB. Brush to clean my keyboard. Square power strip for 4 adapters.

[OS923]

Glyph GT 050Q.
Pioneer network receiver X-HM71-S.

[rvense]

Waiting for a PCI SampleCell in the post. The guy posted it locally for 200 EUR six or nine months months ago, claiming that they sell on eBay for 350 (LOL), and has marked it down a few times since. My only  connected PCI Mac, a Sawtooth, is currently USB'd to an Akai S6000, so it's not like I need a hardware sampler... but when he finally dropped the price to fifteen euros I couldn't resist.

Might have to get a Mix Core to go with it, though I'm actually quite happy with the RME that's in the G4.

[IIO]

got another of these HD cases. i cant help, i am addicted to this stuff.

but this time it is a brand new one^^

[IIO]

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[mopar300m]

I bought a pair of the proprietary Apple Pro speakers (M6531) with grilles and the matching Harman/Kardon iSub 2000.  I got them back in December but I'm just now getting around to extending the speaker cables and recapping the subwoofer.

I also bought a barely used 640 GB Western Digital hard drive for my Quicksilver for next to nothing.

[teroyk]

damn, the floppy drive does not support external power, so i cant use it in OS9.

I have external floppydrive without external power and it works.

[IIO]

dont break your mac.

[teroyk]

dont break your mac.

Do you think it takes too much current? Should I use powered USB-hub between Mac and USB-floppydrive?

[IIO]

according to the specs it takesagbout 5-8 times more than USB 1.1. offers (though part of the USB specs is that you may exceed that limit for like 100% for 3 seconds or something like that - plus you can count on apple or dell to offer even more headroom in their machines.

but when i connected small harddrives or a floppy drive to my quicksilver, it mostly doesnt work and the mac starts beeping. and you should really listen to her when she tells you that.

SSD is no problem, 2 controllers via keybord is no problem, a huge midi interface via the keyboard cen get already difficult.

a powerd hub should always work in the sense that you wont break the computer (unless you forget to turn its PSU on), however i am not sure myself if it always offers USB 2.0 current on all ports(?)

[FBz]

There were several aftermarket USB floppy drives offered
for G3’s & the original iMacs.



There’s a VST here that works quite well without a hub.
(Even with G4’s - when it’s rarely ever used.)
But never have had any ill-effects from using it.

*Connected and working with a 2011 iMac right now.
Had connected / working with a G3 iBook (OS 9.2) just before.
It doesn’t like 800k discs - but 1.44 mb discs… all day long. 

[smilesdavis]

does anyone know if this would run somehow on a G5 quad?

[keithiepoo]

I just got two packages delivered today. One had an Apple branded GeForce 4 Ti (4600) 128mb with ADC and the other a Sonnet Encore/MDX Duet 1.6ghz! Which means I have a great weekend ahed of me 

Hmm... that was back around 2009 or so. 2010 I bought an i7-based MacBook Pro. Sooo...

I think I had Maya 6.5 installed on a Mac Mini -- believe it or not. I think it was a G4-based machine. It powered a Dell LCD that I had for years afterwards for my MacBook Pro. If memory serves, I also had Illustrator and Photoshop installed. I still use those licenses on systems running older OSes.

So hard to remember. That was around 15 years ago.

[smilesdavis]

Marathon Powerrack G4 3,3 with sonnet upgrade coming this week wooohoo
was looking for one for ages

powerrack 9600 still looking for if anyone knows

edit: shes here 😍
https://web.archive.org/web/20011218003520/http://www.marathoncomputer.com/prgseries.html

[smilesdavis]

- Apple Power Macintosh G4 400 (AGP) w/Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.467 AGP/133 (5-1214Q)
- Marathon G-rack with G4 500 (AGP) Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz
- 2x Power Macintosh G4 933 (QS2002)
- 3x Apple Power Macintosh G4 1.25 (MDD 2003)
- 1x Apple PowerBook G4 500 (Original - Ti)
- 2x Apple Mac mini G4/1.42
- 1x Apple Mac mini G4/1.5

[IIO]

maybe it is time for a roundup.

list of things i have bought for my OS9 PPCs since 1993:

 - software for over 20k euro/dollars (and that is only the legit stuff...)

 - 19 external HD enclosures with 31 HDs (25 still in use)

 - 9 internal HDs and 4 internal SSDs (only main G4, not counting stuff for the various incidental computers, currently only 2+2 in use)

 - 14 audio interfaces (8 are still in use, among them 7 motu mkII)

 - 8 Monitors (4 still work, 3 of them are in use)

 - 2x powercore pci, 1x UAD-1 and 1x UAD-2

 - about 50 cables, half of them of them are bad buys

 - about 50 adapters, half of them of them are bad buys

 - various routers and managed switches

 - 4 extra GPUs

 - 2 USB switches (in use) and 8 USB hubs (1 sometimes in use)

 - 2 firewire hubs

 - 5 midi interfaces (1-2 still in use)

 - at least 10 mice (i break them regulary)

 - 2 doepfer poecket control and 2 drumpad controllers (i see them as extension to the mac - and they are actually used not only for music apps), 2 wacom tablets, 2 scanners, 2 printers,

 - 2 SATA cards and 2 IDE card

 - 1 processor upgrade

 - 15 DVD drives, a BD burner (yes sure, not in OS9), 4 or 5 exernal optical cases, a floppy drive, an SD card reader, a bluetooth USB stick, about 10 data USB sticks, a WLAN antenna USB stick, 15 SATA adapters, various RAM sticks

 - tools, a soldering kit, screws, replacement fans, paste, rubber feet, mini speakers (1 euro)

 - 3 replacement PSUs for the quicksilver

 - not sure if it counts: 2x capybara-320

 - 8 carton boxes for all the unused and reserve crap

 - about 100 floppies, 2000 CD-R, 300 DVD-R, 80 BD-R, 5 DVD-RAM

[Oni]

list of things i have bought for my OS9 PPCs since 1993

That's going to take me a while to compile, but it will definitely be fun to do.

Most recent purchase was a couple of plain FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 cables. Glad I could get 'em.

[smilesdavis]

this week

8100/80 w/pt iii nubus expansion chassis 3x io 9x dspfarm, newer g3 300mhz pds
8100/80av w/pt project nubus, digi expansion chassis w 3 io, 4x scii, 8-26 gc gfx
7100/66av
about 20 ext scsi chassis d2 lacie etc

[DieHard]

this week

8100/80 w/pt iii nubus expansion chassis 3x io 9x dspfarm, newer g3 300mhz pds
8100/80av w/pt project nubus, digi expansion chassis w 3 io, 4x scii, 8-26 gc gfx
7100/66av
about 20 ext scsi chassis d2 lacie etc

These are the types of setups that we have to document here for historical reference

So please post some detailed stuff about it's setup as you get it going.

Syntho's famous 9600 Guide (has over 59 Thousand Views):
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,2656.msg43554.html#msg43554

I think he is responsible for making the 9600 go up in price on eBay