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Title: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 14, 2016, 08:16:49 AM
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  -afro-
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on October 14, 2016, 08:38:33 AM
Ah... sounds like fun!! Looking forward to the post installation report!;D

The last things I got was the Logitech wireless trackball, a bunch of SSD's, ide adapters and some drive mounts.

I guess the Apogee AD8000 would count too! ;D

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: nanopico on October 14, 2016, 11:14:27 AM
RAM and a video card for the PowerComputing clone that was so kindly provided to me recently by a user here.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FdB on October 14, 2016, 06:32:05 PM
RAM, a USB/Firewire combo card and a small firewire external drive for my DP MDD. Awaiting a SATA pci card from "across the pond".
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: geforceg4 on October 14, 2016, 06:52:02 PM
even tho some older-minded people here have talked about not overstressing pci buss when recording audio i still think that the improved data throughput of the sata pci card (over the built in ATA) combined with a MODERN SSD (being so so much much much faster then the old ATA drives from 2001-2003)  is the best upgrade for mac os period in my opinion


you will love it.

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FdB on October 15, 2016, 06:41:58 AM
"Older-minded" (I am grinning here).

I purchased one of the very first available, 1 Gigabyte external SCSI hard drives & paid $995.00 for it, brand new.

You bet, I'll love the speed and bang-for-buck of SATA drives.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on October 15, 2016, 08:29:47 AM
I got a chuckle out of that too and translate 'older minded' as WISER!! Haha! ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on October 15, 2016, 08:33:31 AM

I purchased one of the very first available, 1 Gigabyte external SCSI hard drives & paid $995.00 for it, brand new.


My first external SCSI drive was 45MB and cost $1095.00!!! :o  Maybe I'm a little 'older minded' than you Fury!! Haha! ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: ziggy29 on October 15, 2016, 12:03:01 PM
Last PPC-related Mac purchase was about 4 weeks ago; I obtained a G4/400 upgrade Sonnet Crescendo card for my souped-up 7600 project.  I'm still looking for 700 MHz+ ideally but not for the prices I'm seeing now.  Since I got a really good deal on the G4/400 I bought it and it represents an upgrade from the G3/300 I had in there before.  And when I finally find a reasonably priced 700+ upgrade, I'll have a spare or I can sell the G4/400 and shouldn't have a problem getting back at least what I paid for it. 

So far it has 1 GB of RAM (the max it can hold), a PCI Sonnet Tempo HD ATA card with attached 120GB "SSD" (actually an mSATA drive in an mSATA to 2.5" IDE adapter), a combo USB 2.0/FW 400 card (obviously limited to USB 1.1 speed in OS 8/9), Radeon 9200 PCI graphics with 128MB of VRAM (actual Mac Edition from NOS) -- and the G4/400 CPU, under the hood of a 7600/132.  A little more work under the hood and I should be about done.  It won't break speed records but it runs Tiger competently.  It is partitioned to run 7 different systems ranging from 7.6.1 to Tiger and it's one of my favorite old school Mac toys (the other being the G4/550 Pismo I'm using now). 
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on October 15, 2016, 01:19:11 PM
even tho some older-minded people here have talked about not overstressing pci buss when recording audio i still think that the improved data throughput of the sata pci card (over the built in ATA) combined with a MODERN SSD (being so so much much much faster then the old ATA drives from 2001-2003)  is the best upgrade for mac os period in my opinion
you will love it.

If you search the Forum I have have outlived specifics in the past of when too many "bus mastering" PCI cards in a G4 can create a problem and cause audio "drop outs" and noise when recording.  With 1 audio card (Recording Interface) and 1 SATA controller, there should be no issues :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 15, 2016, 01:56:19 PM
Just finished installing the GeForce card and the Sonnet MDX. Going to take some bechmarks now and compare it to the old Radeon 9000 64mb/Dual 1.5ghz setup.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: MacOS Plus on October 16, 2016, 10:49:43 AM
@Knezzen:  Would you be able to take a physical length measurement on your Ti card for me?  I want to know how long it is without the extra blank extension part of the PCB.  Supposedly the initial release of that card didn't have the extension and I'm trying to figure out if the 'short' version can be crammed in an Xserve without hitting the CPU heatsink.  I'm still in the market for one even if I have to settle for cutting the 'long' version.  (Obviously I'll still make use of one if it won't fit in the Xserve.)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 16, 2016, 11:25:01 AM
MacOS Plus: Sure, I'll take some mesurements, but they will be in cm and mm. The metric system rules ;)

On another note: The MDD is just as fast (or slow, depending on how you look at it) with the 1.6ghz MDX in place.
The lack of cache is very noticable in benchmarks. The upside is that since the 7447A's on the Sonnet card are much more energy efficient than the 7455's on the original Apple CPU card the machine is a lot cooler, even with the tiny Sonnet heatsink and without the loud Sonnet fan (I removed it).

So if you can find one they are pretty much the same speed as dual 1.25ghz G4's overclocked to 1.5ghz but they run a lot cooler.

I wonder if the stock apple heatsink fits the Sonnet card.... Hum... ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Steve_W on October 17, 2016, 03:56:16 AM
So I was on the verge of selling my lovely Powerbook as I have some old DJ kit that I couldn't get a serial number for, so I kept it.  Sadly, the battery would only hold charge for about 20 minutes.  I was just randomly looking at Gumtree and bizarrely, 45 MINUTES before I started looking, a lady in Scotland posted that she was selling a battery for the exact model I have, brand new boxed!

So I immediately contacted her and struck up a deal.  £22 paid including delivery!  A lovely lady who doesn't trust the internet, so I had to post her a postal order bless her!

I haven't popped it in yet, but that's my latest purchase.

I am always keeping an eye out for FW800 drives though...
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 17, 2016, 12:36:33 PM
Sounds like a sweet deal, Steve_W!

I just couldn't help myself and modified my Sonnet MDX to use the stock aluminium apple heatsink instead of the tiny Sonnet one. Idle temp dropped from 40C to 35C with just switching the heatsink (using the old thermal compound for now).

A really good (and cheap) mod :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: MacOS Plus on October 17, 2016, 04:13:14 PM
MacOS Plus: Sure, I'll take some mesurements, but they will be in cm and mm. The metric system rules ;)

  Fine by me - I'm in Canada afterall!
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: geforceg4 on October 17, 2016, 05:48:36 PM
yes us canadians use metric for many years since the 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 21, 2016, 02:12:40 PM
@Knezzen:  Would you be able to take a physical length measurement on your Ti card for me?  I want to know how long it is without the extra blank extension part of the PCB.

Sorry for the late reply.
Without the extension (end of components): 225mm
Full length of the card: 311mm
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 22, 2016, 11:43:39 AM
This just came in the mail yesterday. Just need a SATA card for the MDD and I'm all set :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: geforceg4 on October 22, 2016, 11:47:57 AM
u bought a normal Sata SSD from Kingspec????
i would buyy the ATA DOM by them, but the SSD?

why???? good price?


personally id prefer a better brand for a normal SSD.
but lets hear the reviews! + the price

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on October 22, 2016, 12:14:12 PM
I payed 39 USD for this 128gb KingSpec SSD including shipping. Can't review it since I don't have SATA card in the MDD yet

I have a KingSpec PATA SSD (not DOM) in my TiBook and it has worked fine for the past year with more or less daily use, so I don't see any reason why this wont do in the MDD.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 22, 2016, 04:47:35 PM
various SATA harddrives, optical drives and raid enclosures.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: MacOS Plus on October 22, 2016, 04:57:54 PM
@Knezzen:  Would you be able to take a physical length measurement on your Ti card for me?  I want to know how long it is without the extra blank extension part of the PCB.

Sorry for the late reply.
Without the extension (end of components): 225mm
Full length of the card: 311mm

  Wow, it's much longer than I expected.  The limit in the Xserve is about 190mm, which is the length of the Radeon X800 in my other Xserve.  Even at that the tail of the card ducks under the air guide and over the edge of the CPU board.

  Thanks for that, though!  It's still good information for future reference.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Mat on October 22, 2016, 08:10:00 PM
The last things I got are an 128GB SSD, which works well inside my 9600 as the G4s. The other important thing for daily usage was my mechanical Cherry keyboard "MX-Board 3.0 Brown". It is a great keyboard, but I am still sad, that I have no possibility to switch the Command and the Alt keys internally (means by software - the matrix).
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: ovalking on November 07, 2016, 12:03:06 PM
Scrooge here hasn't bought anything for at least a couple of years. I'm better at rescuing kit from the skip :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: iRolleder on November 12, 2016, 05:19:47 AM
As you may have seen, my last purchase was a PowerBook G4 Titanium logic board with 867 MHz. It was about 20$ plus 26$ for shipping  :-\

In the Future I may need to buy a SSD drive  ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on November 12, 2016, 06:46:28 AM
In the Future I may need to buy a SSD drive  ;)

I have one in my TiBook. The best investment ever for it. Just a generic KingSpec PATA SSD from eBay. Has worked flawlessly for over a year now. :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: iRolleder on November 28, 2016, 04:39:22 AM
In the Future I may need to buy a SSD drive  ;)

I have one in my TiBook. The best investment ever for it. Just a generic KingSpec PATA SSD from eBay. Has worked flawlessly for over a year now. :)

I replaced my hard drive now. Not with a SSD but with a 7200 RPM HDD (Seagate Momentous 7200.1) for about 50€. Maybe its not as fast as a SSD but its about twice as fast as the old 4600 RPM HDD.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on November 28, 2016, 04:53:19 AM
Forgot that this thread exists...

Ironically the week after I got my new Sil3112 based card from max1zzz I stumbled upon a 64bit FirmTek SeriTek/1v4 on ebay. Got it for 75 euro plus shipping. It got shipped from Italy today, so I hope it arrives before next weekend :)

I wonder if the performance will be improved or if it's more or less the same (because of my slow and cheap SSD).
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on November 28, 2016, 07:40:16 AM
Knez,


Please compare tests and post results after you check out the new card :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on November 28, 2016, 08:39:26 AM
Knez,


Please compare tests and post results after you check out the new card :)

Will do :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on December 08, 2016, 12:15:01 PM
I were waiting for the "summer payout" and I throwed the house thru the windows (spanish refrán for spending out all the sallary.  ;D

I bought another MDD 867 dual for 50 bucks on october. (My 3rd G4 dual)

Years ago I bought (by mistake) an Seritek 2SE4 (for Tiger and up  :-[ ). I just ordered the eSATA to SATA cables to test it.

Also ordered last week 2 ATA to SATA converters. I've run out enough > 40Gig 7200rpm  drives for my G4 farm and my hackintosh is refusing < 1 Tb drives, so some 500 gig drives would go to my PowerPC hardware.

The 4th thing is an Original M-Box (My 4th PowerPC Protools LE system after 2 001 and a AM III) that I got last week on eBay for 15 pounds. It will be shared between my "new" MDD and my GMA950 HackBook with 10.5.8 and 10.6.8.

I plan to use the new MDD with the Sonorus STUDI/O in a Mac OS 9 boot, but really curious about how a M-Box&Leopard with the Seritek 2SE4, Protools 8.0.1 and Logic 9.0.2 performs just because I never had PowerPC DAWs past Panther or PowerPC Protools LE > 6.4
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on December 08, 2016, 12:25:57 PM

I plan to use the new MDD with the Sonorus STUDI/O in a Mac OS 9 boot, but really curious about how a M-Box&Leopard with the Seritek 2SE4, Protools 8.0.1 and Logic 9.0.2 performs just because I never had PowerPC DAWs past Panther or PowerPC Protools LE > 6.4

Never tried Logic > 7 on PowerPC too

The SATA approach will step-up my G4 farm
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on December 09, 2016, 08:12:57 AM

I throwed the house thru the windows

I like that... and I'm quite familiar with the procedure!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: s0s on January 12, 2017, 04:27:28 PM
A 256KB cache module for my 7200/90 Power Mac.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Miro Le Ravi on January 12, 2017, 04:44:15 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
HA HA 
 IT S TRUE   
 that we don't continue to buy things for 
but  isn't it a good thing? 
  a spare pci 324 motu in case of pb   
 have bought  another  g4 in spare  in case  also 
(that works  a little bit every week  to be sure 
and  i m searching  for a second  miditimepiece  in spare  in case also 
and probably if i see motu interface   2408 or 1224  i will continue to buy them  because  they sound better than  the last  motu interface   
sorry to say it 
but it s true
it sounds terrible  the rme  and the motu  1224 and the metric halo  2882  sounds  musical  and natural
i bought also  a dp 9  for the macbook pro  i use just for mastering and sending by internet the job :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: torvan on February 10, 2017, 12:07:52 PM
Hmmm, that would be a Sonnet Serial ATA adapter and two SATA drives (each 500GB).

Pulling out of the case would be a Sonnet SCSI adapter and two SCSI drives. Man that MDD is way more quiet now.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on February 25, 2017, 02:53:08 PM
...and probably if i see motu interface   2408 or 1224  i will continue to buy them  because  they sound better than  the last  motu interface, sorry to say it, but it s true

As I have also stated Here
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,671.msg2010.html#msg2010

The converters in the 1224 are unique and very musical and warm compared to other older Motu units;  My 2004 "Live Rack" consisted on a QS G4 with (3) 1224 since I got slightly better Bass response and fatter drums than using the 24i (which is my 2nd favorite sounding)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: MusicWorks on February 26, 2017, 12:22:57 AM
An A-HARD 66 pci card for my Yikes! G4

By the way, I love this thread :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: TheDailyBuzzherd on March 20, 2017, 02:57:46 PM
Kinda funny our computers are better made than our cars and are disposable far more quickly.

Just bought a 250mg Zip Drive ( yeah, I know ) to replace the 100megger that burned out his capacitor.

Two years ago me bought a 3T FW Fantom for backup/creation.

Yesterday gave me another 1T from Fantom to backup the 3T. I know; sounds backwards. "Forward, into The Past".

Not smelling smoke yet, so all's well.

 -afro-
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: usrrnaime on March 25, 2017, 09:57:21 PM
Sonnet Crescendo G3 Card.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on May 19, 2017, 12:17:00 AM
44pin KingSpec 16gb PATA DOM drive and a Lucent WaveLAN Gold 802.11b card for my PowerBook G3 Kanga. I absolutely love that machine, but it's in desperate need of more RAM to be really useful (32mb doesn't get you far when using Classilla). It's awesome either way :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: torvan on May 27, 2017, 01:37:17 AM
As of just a few hours ago for my MDD FW800 DP 1.25 Ghz:

1. New Noctua fans for both the power supply and the main case. One quiet machine now!

2. 3 and 4 pin to molex power supply lines for said fans.

3. Apple DVI to HDMI adapter--to run my DVI 23" Cinema Display. Sure, I still have a beautiful 23" ADC display, just not enough room on my desk for both it and the 34" IPS LED monitor.

4. IDE to SATA adapter, so I can use my extra 500GB SSD.

5. Extra Noctua fan to add at some point, which will take a mod of the case to do. Would love to put it above the heat sink given Apple's poor cooling decisions with this MDD--- and have it blow OUT of the case.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FdB on June 06, 2017, 11:32:45 AM
I bought my MDD DP 1.25 a G5 cheese grater "companion" that came with an Apple 20" Cinema Display. The Display has GaryN's previously described herein "impending magenta death" knell, so I utilized the "blades of grass" desktop to visually compensate for the overall 5-10cc magenta hue. (Hell, it's going to be a palette monitor anyway so it isn't color critical.) After sleep, the monitor wakes with the two short flashes and one long flash sequence of the monitors' power light. Shutdown, remove/replace power cord, reboot... and monitor is stable once again. Haven't connected it to MDD yet to see if this might be otherwise. Whatever the case, it'll be here simply until it's not. ;)

G5 wouldn't boot from install discs so I replaced the 104 PB optical drive with a 106 PB and voila, boot-o-rama. Now it's wiped and clean installed with 10.5.8. (Of course, not before I toasted it completely with Norton and had to start from scratch all over again.DO NOT USE NORTON.) Repairing disk permissions via Disk Utility has now become my replacement OCD effort, but I miss that pretty, colorful, organized picture that Norton Speed Disk provided.

And now, instead of the MDD being schizophrenic, it's quadrophrenic with 9.2.2 drive, a 10.3.8 drive and two drives with 10.5.8. It's slated to be the heart at the center of all my networked Macs. (And that, after I tackle a severely clogged nozzle on my Epson 10600 and park the MDD where the old G3 was previously.)

There's been an over-abundance of (sloth-like) Firewire 400 target disk restores 'round here lately.

Who says time travel isn't possible? Considering my absence from Macs and where I left off, I am actually traveling slowly forward in time, from my old Smurf G3. 
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GaryN on June 06, 2017, 03:14:16 PM
(And that, after I tackle a severely clogged nozzle on my Epson 10600 )
OMG You are an absolute glutton for punishment!! After all you just went through with the MDD, now you're just asking for more!
I have 3, count 'em THREE Epson Stylus Photo printers that are about to go to the great printer trashcan in the sky thanks to permanently, irreparably clogged nozzles. I'm not saying it's impossible, but know that if the clog is so bad that the only way to clear it is to disassemble the printhead, the odds of successfully reassembling and re-calibrating the damn thing with the very-hard-to-find-runs-on-Windows-only Epson service software are slim at best.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FdB on June 06, 2017, 04:42:54 PM
As a small child (oh no, not the small child story), I was given all things broken, or items that no longer functioned. These were my “toys”. More often than not, these “toys” were disassembled and reassembled, somehow to be brought back to functioning status once again by that kid with a dirty face. Now currently... having more time than money, this aspect of my “behavioral genetic en-coding” is once again coming to the front.

Of course, while not always successful, I still rather stubbornly chase such dragons / tilt at these windmills and pursue what many may deem merely as lost causes. I have resurrected many of the much smaller varieties of the oft nefarious Epson Stylus printer line (with opti-visored eyes). But, the 10600 is a much larger beast altogether and thusly, perhaps easier to handle in my now not-so-nimble-as-before fingers… and now with my not-so-very-sharp eyes. (Besides, it won’t fit in a normal trashcan anyway, it would require a dumpster and two very stout individuals to lug it up out of my basement cave.)

The MDD project was merely a warm up.

Glutton for punishment? Perhaps. Yet, there are still many that think OS 9 was dead quite a long time ago... and now, this once-dirty face resides behind a full-white beard. Besides, it’s probably just a "dribble" of cyan ink caked on the face of the print head that a Q-tip and isopropyl alcohol will easily remove. (He typed with great hope and intended levity.)

Now, on the other hand there’s an Epson 3000 down there as well, that you’d probably have to force me at gunpoint to even get me to begin thinking about disassembling it. (That Epson 3000 would fit, in a large trashcan.)

Wish me luck. I might indeed need it. (Said the dirty face, now from behind the white beard.)
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Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on June 06, 2017, 08:41:59 PM
Got a new battery for the PowerBook G4 (Alu 17" 1Ghz) and also a Digigram VXpocket 440 Laptop Card VX Pocket 440 Sound Card. ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: MacOS Plus on June 06, 2017, 09:15:55 PM
Got a new battery for the PowerBook G4 (Alu 17" 1Ghz) and also a Digigram VXpocket 440 Laptop Card VX Pocket 440 Sound Card. ;D

  Wow, actual PCMCIA, not CardBus!  I might have to try getting one of these for my Powerbook PDQ (although I already have a Magma PCI expansion chassis for that machine).  Reminds me of the PCMCIA-based Ego-Sys WaMiBox I have for old PCs:

http://www.esi-audio.com/products/wamibox/ (http://www.esi-audio.com/products/wamibox/)

  It never had Mac drivers though.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Philgood on June 07, 2017, 12:09:03 AM
New pram batteries from a company from UK for my PowerBook G4.

Only the cells. I had to solder the new onto the little auxiliary board where it sits.
Actually one of the 3 batteries (rechargeable 3,6V lion) came toast but they send me a replacement.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on June 07, 2017, 02:48:51 AM
New pram batteries from a company from UK for my PowerBook G4.

Only the cells. I had to solder the new onto the little auxiliary board where it sits.
Actually one of the 3 batteries (rechargeable 3,6V lion) came toast but they send me a replacement.

I need to sort the PRAM batteries on my Kanga as well... It's just so aweful to take it apart :P
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on June 07, 2017, 01:27:27 PM
Just bought a big passive cooler for my GeForce 4 Ti4600 inside my MDD. Hope it sorts out my heat and noice problems at the same time.
Also bought some Kingston RAM for the MDD. 2x1GB PC3200 to replace the no name 4x512MB PC2600 modules there now. They work great, but I payed allmost nothing for the Kingston RAM and was allways curious to how well PC3200 RAM worked (and two 1GB modules) inside the MDD. Will run some benchmarks when I get the RAM, but I don't expect any difference what so ever. I might gain some well needed airflow at least :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Knezzen on June 08, 2017, 04:44:57 AM
Got the RAM today and did some benchmarks. Pretty much identical speed wise to the RAM that was there before... Well, it takes up less space in the case at least :P
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on June 11, 2017, 03:23:47 AM
*big suprise* :D ... but glad to hear it at least saves you some space .. lol .. case-space optimisation ...

i once had an external firewire enclosure inside a dual-800 ... connected to the fw 400 port of a PCI card ... space must be used wisely ... reminds me on how some germans pack their car for holidays ... "there is some space left, so we must find something to put there" ...
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on June 11, 2017, 03:24:51 AM
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Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Irisman on June 12, 2017, 10:10:07 AM
A motu 424 PCI card  :D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: MysticCow on July 06, 2017, 09:13:11 AM
Mine was a USB 2 card many many years ago.  My trusty DA G4 (the 733 model) still has Ye Olde GeForce 2 (no MX either) on there.  Surprisingly, it's workable for what little I keep hitting my PPC's for.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GaryN on July 06, 2017, 07:03:16 PM
Picked up a MDD to keep my MDD company. 25 bucks.

I actually bought it for the PSU (since you just can't have too many of those) but i also got a USB2 card, an Airport card, and what I believe is an ATA-100 card inside, plus 2Gb of good RAM.

Such a deal…
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: wilcofan on August 14, 2017, 05:40:57 AM
Picked up a Samplecell II Plus last week.  No idea if it will work or if it will be any use.   :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Irisman on August 24, 2017, 03:43:20 AM

I picked two Jamport to add serial connectivity to my MDD's

I hope to combine USB Unitor8 & AMT8, with two Opcode Studio4, for a total 32 MIDI lines, 512 channels.

 8)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on October 26, 2019, 02:26:16 AM
I bought Logitech LGT-S120 speakers (3 euro in the second hand store) because they use only 2.2 Watt. My previous speakers were from Juster and they used 25 Watt and they took much space on my desk.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 26, 2019, 05:05:30 AM

got a third unit of these today - finally - they are hard to find in good condition.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31X2CuuUZVL._SX355_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31X2CuuUZVL._SX355_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31X2CuuUZVL._SX355_.jpg)

my aim is to find 6 some day. :)

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on October 28, 2019, 12:28:43 PM
What model are those ?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 28, 2019, 04:00:36 PM
ha, just found number 4 - via image search - it was a german ebay ad which just said "HDD Case" :P

there are about 20 different models from various brands with that name. some of them have a black finishing.

mine are the pleiades taurus raid, which are identical to the inxtron branded (i think inxtron is the actual manufacturer)

the later models, called taurus super-S3 or tarus super LCM, had an LCD diplay and restore knobs on the front. they are available in stocks of hundreds and for much less money than the old taurus.

but the later models do not support JBOD, so that you would be limited to 2x1 TB spanning, which would make such a dual enclosure kind of useless under MacOS9 and OSX 10.4.x

i prefer to have 2x 1.5TB everywhere and as you know, 2x 2 would also work.

i also want to have the very same power adapter everywhere because t his stuff sucks so much to find and replace when one breaks & i already got new firewire2SATA optical cases for my "sampling CD" and bluray drive for that purpose.

...

after i am done with finding number 5 and number 6 my total storage space will have raised from 21 to 33 TB.

currently i am looking to find an affordable firewire 400 8-port hub, buspowered (arent they all?), which seems almost impossible to find. atm i have a very nice one with 5-ports (10 euro) but i feel i want to have a replacement in the house for such an important component :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on October 29, 2019, 08:24:12 AM
From the original picture, I thought they were for 2.5" drives, bit I realize now they are for desktop SATA drives, and I am guessing the dip switch model is better for some since it does mirroring; manual
https://www.inxtron.com/files/manual/taurusraid_en.pdf

They look very well built in the manual, so I am sure they are an excellent choice.

For my Newer Mac Pro Video and Audio units, I have standardized on the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MED3ER0GB/

Also uses 3.5", I put a cheap eSata PCIe card in each Mac Pro (about $25) and nothing compares in the speed category.

For OS9, you know I am a fan of the FW400/800 version of the Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini which takes Laptop 2.5" drives
The link below is the NEWER version w/o FW, but case is the same
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEMDC2SSD0.5/

For those new to the forum, we go into a lot of detail about FW400/FW800 external RAID solutions in our "greatest hits" link below:

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,4545

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,774
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 29, 2019, 12:54:08 PM

the OWC stuff is good too, also the G3(?) alu cases mostly look nice. but buying things new from OWC from europe meant + USD 40 shipping in the past. so you didnt do it.

mine have a great controller and they also have models with usb only - and a NAS. one later series already came with esata (quad interface)

i dont use raid modes at all, but i think it is good to have all these features ready.

what is not so good with the taurus series is the power adaptors. i replaced them with unbranded 60 watt adapters, they hopefully last a while.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 29, 2019, 12:54:53 PM
i could use another video card. where could i buy a 9200 or 9500 pci?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on November 01, 2019, 10:20:56 AM
Just bought an Mac Pro 1.1 to have all my PowerPC machines file served and unified
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on November 02, 2019, 07:58:22 AM
Just bought an Mac Pro 1.1 to have all my PowerPC machines file served and unified

So what's the plan?? :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 02, 2019, 09:23:05 AM
it´s for his collection of shopping lists in simpletext format.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on November 03, 2019, 08:17:03 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OminousSilence on November 05, 2019, 02:14:02 AM
Most recent thing I bought was a replacement PCI 10Base-T ethernet card for the PM5500, the GeoPort modem was useless (British Telecom killed dialup almost a decade ago now) and the thought of networking over serial via a Sun Blade100 made me want to gouge out my eyes.

So now the 5500 is plugged into the Pi via ethernet, the Pi is in bridge routing mode, and I have an amazing ~1.4mbps file transfer rate now! I’m not sure whether the Pi or the 5500’s system bus is the data choke point because all my maths says I should get ~54mbps
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 20, 2019, 02:40:28 PM
hdd case #4 arrived.

and those.



Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on November 23, 2019, 02:01:47 AM
I switched my ADB mouse II for a lasermouse. It's the first time I use OS 9 with a lasermouse. It's a Logitech M90. The ADB mouse II was old and the ball slipped constantly. I had to correct myself constantly and I got a painful arm. Now my arm doesn't hurt anymore.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 23, 2019, 01:30:27 PM
damn, the floppy drive does not support external power, so i cant use it in OS9. :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on November 24, 2019, 09:53:40 PM
A lot of stuff seems to be showing up on the porch lately! ;D  Have a 'new' MDD on the way, A dozen or so hard drives (a few spinners and a bunch of SSDs, USB extension cables, even bought some crazy USB wireless extender (probably should ease up on the late night cocktails while on eBay! ::)) and I few other doodads that I've forgotten about already... will be a fun surprise when they show up! ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Irisman on November 26, 2019, 02:28:12 PM
I bought some cheap chinese IDE to SATA, IDE to SD, and SATA to SD to make experiments.
Also received great gifts: Korg Oasys PCI, and Keyspan sxpro PCI card.
Two Motu 2408 mkii.
An USB fujitsu magneto optical drive is on the way.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Philgood on November 27, 2019, 12:16:20 AM
Wow. A KORG OASYS! Let me know what you think of its sound capabilities.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: macStuff on November 28, 2019, 12:23:49 AM
nice score irisman
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on December 01, 2019, 02:45:23 PM
My 'new' MDD(1.25) single showed up... Had 2 hard drives installed but NO DRIVE CAGE!!!! Somehow it managed to survive the trip from the west coast to New York without any damage and both drives still work.  :o

Also had a nice condition 1ghz 15" TiBook show up... No OS9 in sight though so I'll have to fix that!!!  ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OminousSilence on December 12, 2019, 05:59:46 AM
a nice condition 1ghz 15" TiBook show up

I'm amazed that it's okay! TiBooks dent as soon as you even think of postage stamps, let alone shipping them :P


The MDD will be a nice machine for pootling around on, are you going to split it with OS X on one drive and MacOS on the other?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FdB on December 12, 2019, 07:04:37 AM
NO DRIVE CAGE!!!!

Still need a drive cage (or two)? LMK
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on December 12, 2019, 08:00:37 AM
NO DRIVE CAGE!!!!

Still need a drive cage (or two)? LMK

I second that... cages for anyone that needs them :)

Please read Diehard "you pay the shipping only" disclaimer
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on December 12, 2019, 08:36:16 PM
Haha.... I could use a pair! ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on December 12, 2019, 08:40:56 PM
a nice condition 1ghz 15" TiBook show up

I'm amazed that it's okay! TiBooks dent as soon as you even think of postage stamps, let alone shipping them :P


The MDD will be a nice machine for pootling around on, are you going to split it with OS X on one drive and MacOS on the other?

TiBook was shipped in a oem box and survived no prob

No OSX on the MDD... Won't need that!  ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on February 05, 2020, 07:40:24 AM
Picked up another MDD... 1.25DP. It was loaded up pretty good with 4 hard drives, 2GB memory, 2 optical drives and 2 Digidesign Mix cards, which was a nice bonus! ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: robertson on February 05, 2020, 07:41:56 PM
I recently got a Lexar FireWire 400 CompactFlash Card Reader off of eBay.

I am also waiting for delivery of the Lexar Professional FireWire 400 CompactFlash Card Reader in hopes that it will boot OS 9 (the one named above does not).

A while ago I got an M-Audio FireWire 1814 audio interface.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on February 06, 2020, 08:02:58 AM
bought big 16 cardboard boxes yesterday for all the music and computer cables i dont really need, to free up some space in their current location.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Bolkonskij on February 06, 2020, 12:25:13 PM
Found a nice early 90s Gravis ADB Mac Gamepad (anyone remember these?). It was the first time I've come across one here in Europe, no idea if they are rare or not. But it still works fine and really adds to the fun when playing Power Pete :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GorfTheChosen on February 09, 2020, 07:02:16 AM
A pair of PATA ---> SATA bridge boards and two 2.5 ---> 3.5 drive mounting brackets to go along with them.

Destined for the Quicksilver Dual 800 and the Gigabit Dual 450 (assuming I can get the latter running ...  ::))
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on February 11, 2020, 07:06:55 AM
I bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 in a second hand store for 10 euro, battery charger included.

When it was off, the lens was extended. When I switched it on, the lens was retracted and then extended. After a few seconds it said: "please turn camera off and then on again". When I switched it off, the lens remained extended.

The error repeated endlessly.

Then I grabbed the lens and switched it on and stopped it from retracting. It extended to maximum. Then I tapped it twice on the palm of my hand. When I switched it off, the lens was retracted. It was fixed.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: torvan on February 22, 2020, 12:36:24 PM
Added 3 SATA SSDs, one to my Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 using a IDE to SATA adapter, two to the MDD 1.25Ghz 2003 using a Sonnet Tempo SATA controller.

Installing OS9 and 10.5.8 as we speak in fact!
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on February 22, 2020, 06:44:19 PM
bought big 16 cardboard boxes yesterday for all the music and computer cables i dont really need, to free up some space in their current location.

16 boxes??!! Wow, that’s a LOT of cables!! ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on February 22, 2020, 06:47:39 PM

I grabbed the lens and switched it on and stopped it from retracting. It extended to maximum. Then I tapped it twice on the palm of my hand. When I switched it off, the lens was retracted. It was fixed.

I guess you showed it who was the boss!! >:(
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on February 22, 2020, 06:48:33 PM
6 of them are full now. think of how much space microphone cables or multicores can use.

since i am broke i have far more cables than music gear. :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on February 22, 2020, 06:49:16 PM
Added 3 SATA SSDs, one to my Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 using a IDE to SATA adapter, two to the MDD 1.25Ghz 2003 using a Sonnet Tempo SATA controller.

Installing OS9 and 10.5.8 as we speak in fact!

Nice torvan!
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on February 22, 2020, 06:52:18 PM
6 of them are full now. think of how much space microphone cables or multicores can use.

since i am broke and have far more cables than music gear. :)

Yes I know the feeling!!! ;D

Spent the day rewiring a lot of my junk!!
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FdB on February 22, 2020, 07:25:20 PM
bought big 16 cardboard boxes yesterday for all the music and computer cables i dont really need,
to free up some space in their current location.

I'm thinking about using a multi-peg free-standing hat/coat rack for just the cables I have upstairs.
Should fill up fairly quick.

Downstairs, there are cables hanging everywhere in the office and in the storage area.
Where DO they all come from? ::)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Europa on March 03, 2020, 09:14:45 AM
A buddy! I won an auction for an iBook G3 last night so now my G4 DA will have a friend :D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mrhappy on March 03, 2020, 10:01:15 AM
A buddy! I won an auction for an iBook G3 last night so now my G4 DA will have a friend :D

Well, you can't have a lonely DA now can you! ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Europa on March 03, 2020, 11:10:25 AM
Well, you can't have a lonely DA now can you! ;D

Percisely! :D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Odi458 on March 03, 2020, 01:49:16 PM
Dvd r and cds to install macos9lives on my new to me g4 ibook  :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on March 05, 2020, 07:07:32 AM
Rollei Sunglasses Cam 100

https://www.nikktech.com/main/articles/gadgets/action-cams/3268-rollei-sunglasses-cam-100-review?showall=1
Title: Re: Last thing you bought for your PPC Macs?
Post by: FBz on March 05, 2020, 03:58:22 PM
(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3508.0;attach=7293;image)

Finally after many years of being a complete and utter tightwad…
a Hakko FX-888D soldering station came home with me today.
(Several PSU’s, many flat panel TV’s & numerous guitar amps
are now effectively on notice here.) :o

Also picked up replacement capacitors for Quicksilver’s PSU
($9.24 total) including caps for the QS PSU sub-board.
They're NTE caps… and while not the ACME of caps...
still better than the leaky TEAPO’s.

[Project(s) backlog compelled me.]
Will post list of caps later / one wrong.

*Cheaped-out (again) & didn't buy ESR70 meter.
                                                         Maybe later? ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Europa on March 16, 2020, 03:08:33 AM
I just bought a DVD burner for my Power Mac. Now I can finally get back to reading software CDs instead of downloading disc images of software I own  :P
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GorfTheChosen on March 27, 2020, 05:19:21 AM
Das 4 Professional mechanical keyboard for Mac ... with Cherry MX Blue switches.

Limited time on it so far, probably take a while getting used it ... not sure if I'm going to like it as much as the old mechanical microCONNECTORS keyboard.

And a new LCD for the MacBook (Intel) due in today.

Folks be safe out there.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Philgood on March 27, 2020, 08:37:43 AM
New thermal paste and a sheet of thermal pad to "rebuild"
my Geforce4 Ti 4600.

It has an aftermarket heatsink and 2 fans on it.
I could swear that they hacked another 2pin header on the circuit board
where are holes indeed but the circuit (transistor,diode,resistors...) isn't there (populated).
I was wondering why the 2nd fan never was spinning.

I guess that's the reason?

Maybe someone can take a look at that and maybe compare it with another GF4 to 4600?

Cheers.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on March 27, 2020, 09:31:42 AM

got a third unit of these today - finally - they are hard to find in good condition.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31X2CuuUZVL._SX355_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31X2CuuUZVL._SX355_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31X2CuuUZVL._SX355_.jpg)

my aim is to find 6 some day. :)

i have 6 now. looks great in a 19".

now i am waiting for a proper 19" 6-switch powerstrip to be available, it is ordered but "unknown delay".
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Europa on March 28, 2020, 03:15:13 PM
Memory and a battery for my iBook! The memory maxed the system and it works great, the battery I returned because it wasn't a genuine battery even though that's what was advertised.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Bolkonskij on April 14, 2020, 07:21:53 AM
Just got a LaCie StudioDrive (external DVD-RW drive). Works via USB 2.0 AND firewire 400. This will be really useful whenever the optical drive of one of my Macs decides to die. (I've been spared so far)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GorfTheChosen on April 14, 2020, 09:06:58 PM
Recently picked up an open box OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB 3.1 Get 1/eSATA for $10 off the regular price ... unit looked good, and all the pieces/parts were with it.

Still trying to figure out SATA cards for the G4's but I test drove it set up with a pair of 2TB BarraCuda drives set to RAID 0 via USB 3.0 on the Mac Mini and was impressed by the speed.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Front 424 on April 15, 2020, 12:09:43 AM
128 gb ssd with IDE/SATA connector, plus a USB 2/Firewire PCI card.

OS 9 on the SSD.  Boots fantastically quick and honest, though it should properly be Master.
 I was in a hurry after already spending so much time getting everything else going, and for whatever reason, my first config didn't want to work, so the older drive is still the master boot for the time being.  Made things easier.  Forget which pin config the SSD is currently..  I know there has been some talk about M/S/CS confusions on this forum lately.   ??? :P 

If I'm not mistaken, after selecting startup disk and booting from that, it seems to default back to the Master drive upon restart, does it not?  Then again I've been alternating lately between 9 and X, and they both seem to like doing their own things.
I just am in the habit (as of now till I find something different!) of holding down Option when I start up, I also have recently reinstated OSX.4 on a 500g multi-partition SSD via Firewire.  Only way to properly use the USB 2.0.  Unfortunately the Firewire port on that same card seems to not like booting from anything connected to it, but other than that it works fine?!? 
It was an Adaptec something or other card!  All ports seem to work fine, but it just hangs in a gray screen if I try to boot the OSX from the Firewire port, so  I reconnected it to the built in firewire ports. 
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FBz on April 15, 2020, 12:44:46 AM
Hey Front 424, what G4 you talkin'  bout with SSD & an older drive?

*I just bought 2 of the StarTech IDE/SATA bridge adapters from NewEgg
-to test in both a Quicksilver and an MDD. Should arrive before Saturday.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Front 424 on April 15, 2020, 01:44:21 AM
Hey Front 424, what G4 you talkin'  bout with SSD & an older drive?

*I just bought 2 of the StarTech IDE/SATA bridge adapters from NewEgg
-to test in both a Quicksilver and an MDD. Should arrive before Saturday.

Quicksilver 933 I've had for a while since joining the forum! 
Everything works as good as it can for now, but I will probably be switching things around eventually.  Like getting another bridge for the OSX drive that is currently in a Firewire housing, and hopefully figure out the best internal configuration for that alongside the OS 9 drive.

Best luck with those bridges.  Seems to be mixed results with some of those.  I will probably be reading how they turn out shortly! 
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Europa on April 15, 2020, 04:16:42 AM
*I just bought 2 of the StarTech IDE/SATA bridge adapters from NewEgg
-to test in both a Quicksilver and an MDD. Should arrive before Saturday.
The StarTech bridges work well, I have one in my DA and it has never failed me (just make sure they have the red PCB) :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GorfTheChosen on April 15, 2020, 07:41:09 AM
*I just bought 2 of the StarTech IDE/SATA bridge adapters from NewEgg
-to test in both a Quicksilver and an MDD. Should arrive before Saturday.
The StarTech bridges work well, I have one in my DA and it has never failed me (just make sure they have the red PCB) :)
Yes ... I've got three in use here (Quicksilver, Gigabit, and the 9600) with OWC SSD's (plus another two in inventory) ... no issues with any of them as far as I can tell.

On a side note, really starting to love the Das keyboard.  ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Europa on April 15, 2020, 12:15:26 PM
I forgot to mention - I bought a different battery for my iBook and I got what was advertised! :)

It actually lasts longer than the battery in my MacBook :P

Yes ... I've got three in use here (Quicksilver, Gigabit, and the 9600) with OWC SSD's (plus another two in inventory) ... no issues with any of them as far as I can tell.
I intend to buy more when I need them for desktop machines, as my iBook is showing me why it's good to have an SSD upgrade whenever possible (I intend to upgrade my iBook to an SSD too eventually).
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on April 15, 2020, 02:27:22 PM
Hey Front 424, what G4 you talkin'  bout with SSD & an older drive?

*I just bought 2 of the StarTech IDE/SATA bridge adapters from NewEgg
-to test in both a Quicksilver and an MDD. Should arrive before Saturday.

while you are on it... please also test what happens when you use one startech, set to CS, and one cheap green adapter.

!!

the difference between 4 and 17 euro is 13 euro.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GorfTheChosen on April 16, 2020, 01:19:01 PM
Firewire 800/USB 2.0 PCI card ...
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on August 25, 2020, 03:36:05 AM

i have 9 now, arranged in chains of 3x3. (one is broken)

should i stop?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on August 25, 2020, 10:05:57 AM
A matrix of 12 would be better :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Philgood on August 25, 2020, 01:08:40 PM
So you're on Facebook IIO  ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on August 19, 2021, 05:22:00 PM
hdd case #4 arrived.

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

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: lepidotos on August 19, 2021, 06:57:13 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on August 20, 2021, 03:15:34 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FBz on August 21, 2021, 06:11:40 AM
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.

(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3508.0;attach=8944;image)

(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3508.0;attach=8946;image)

BIG LaCie has a massive 60! GB drive inside. (That’ll change.) ::)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on August 21, 2021, 09:44:38 AM
back in the days when giga was a synonym for exa. now giga is the new nano.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: ovalking on August 21, 2021, 12:16:13 PM
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!
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: re4mat on August 22, 2021, 02:44:00 AM
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.  :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: lepidotos on August 24, 2021, 09:35:44 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on September 05, 2021, 02:04:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on September 05, 2021, 02:07:13 PM
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"
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: refinery on September 06, 2021, 03:48:39 AM
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....
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: eastone on September 07, 2021, 03:24:30 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: refinery on September 07, 2021, 10:18:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: eastone on September 09, 2021, 03:21:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on September 09, 2021, 09:45:26 AM
Wacom tablet.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Bolkonskij on September 11, 2021, 07:46:16 AM
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 :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FBz on September 14, 2021, 10:45:38 PM
Just in case I haven’t shown off my ESR70 meter here before…
but really to illustrate the polarity marking on many capacitors.
(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3508.0;attach=9053;image)

(For a friend.) ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on September 15, 2021, 11:48:51 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Rosetta on October 04, 2021, 10:00:50 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: bkellytech on October 06, 2021, 12:17:57 PM
Cinema HD Display
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on October 07, 2021, 12:12:11 PM
D-Link USB extension cable base, 1 euro in the second hand store. It doesn’t have to be always a new SSD.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: lepidotos on October 16, 2021, 12:37:25 AM
Not exactly Mac, but I just got the ball rolling on my RCS Blackbird build (which... is close enough to a G5, right? It's PPC64...) by throwing money at the most critical element: a Compaq MV920 19" CRT. I know I ought to have waited, but my eyes absolutely detest any refresh rates lower than 75 Hz, and it can do 1600x1200 at that rate. Flat panel or CRT, doesn't matter, I can see car headlights strobe. Plus, infinite color depth, so I can make use of the new fancy 10-bit-per-channel color output of the new graphics cards once I get around to getting them, and go onto 12-bit once that's available.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 17, 2021, 01:39:51 AM
hdd case #4 arrived.

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

i could not resist and added another one - but this time the NAS version.

now it is 3x3, 8x firewire and 1x ethernet, and i promised myself to stop.

two functioning and one broken in reserve.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: teroyk on October 20, 2021, 04:25:42 AM
damn, the floppy drive does not support external power, so i cant use it in OS9. :)

I have used two USB-Floppy drives  that does not use externat power in OS9 and they works fine.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Bolkonskij on October 20, 2021, 04:29:46 AM
In a way, I bought some caps :-)  just got my MDD PSU and Sonnet upgrade card back from a recap service here in Germany. Both work fine from a quick test and I'm just very excited at the prospect of getting another 15 years of use out of the "wicked fast" OS9 machine I'm typing this on :-)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 20, 2021, 02:51:44 PM
I have used two USB-Floppy drives  that does not use externat power in OS9 and they works fine.

mine said it consumes 3 watts, and while the quicksilver should theoretically allow that for 0,5 seconds, it starts to beep as soon as the drive spins a disk. i had to use a powered usb hub finally.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on November 03, 2021, 11:15:58 AM
Trust Zoid design speaker set, 4 euro. The cable has 2 connectors, USB and 3,5 mm and you have to use them both because the USB is for power only. I had to replace the internal speaker, and I found a replacement, but the Zoids are a better choice because they are stereo. They write everywhere that this is a 14 W system, but the information on the speaker says 5 V, 500 mA. How could this be 14 W?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DrNo7 on November 03, 2021, 10:35:01 PM
They write everywhere that this is a 14 W system, but the information on the speaker says 5 V, 500 mA. How could this be 14 W?
Despite the main usage of Watt for electrical consumption (W = V × I × cos Phi), it can be used more generally used to quantify power/efficiency (see examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt#Examples).

However, I cannot tell how to exactly measures/explain Watts in audio, but usually the more, le louder it can become :p
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: robespierre on November 04, 2021, 10:30:01 AM
They write everywhere that this is a 14 W system, but the information on the speaker says 5 V, 500 mA. How could this be 14 W?
Performance figures for hifi products have been a pack of lies forever... in this particular case, the manufacturers have a shoddy concept called "peak maximum power" that represents the instantaneous power level during a loud transient (like a bass drum hit). There is energy storage in a powered speaker (capacitors) that can supply greater power for a short time. It's common to quote 8-10x the continuous power rating for peak power, just because it looks better on paper. So the true (continuous) power rating of a "14W" speaker is closer to 1.4W.
The actual sound amplitude is not measured in watts, but dB SPL, another thing entirely, because loudspeakers are not 100% efficient in transforming electrical energy into sound. A system with lower power output, but higher efficiency, can be louder. And human hearing does not have a uniform response to sound amplitude (the famous Fletcher-Munson curve), so different frequencies will not sound equally loud, another source of confusion.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 04, 2021, 11:02:45 AM
the lie already begins with the idea that more power consumption would be something good, because a good quality loudspeaker is distinguished by a high efficiency. (naively put: pressure per watts @ frequency range of n to m)

i guess it is the same for vacuum cleaners, but there it is only interesting in order to save energy. :)

the average earth inhabitant probably still thinks that electric machines would produce power. "that speaker makes 1000 watts!" no bud, it eats them up. often for nothing.

this small $350 set "has" 1000 watts, if you believe their advertising.
i can assure you that you can destroy it by feedign it more than 250 watts after only 10 minutes.

this bigger set of stereo speakers, which were around $3500, is the one i use in my living room. they are roughly around 300 watts per speaker, and at full power they literally blow your mind in a small room... between 10 and 30,000 Hz, btw., while that "hi fi" kind of "cinema" nonsense kind of only gives you mids. :)

and this is not even professional high end gear - not at all. (unfortunately they are very noisy, whatever the good power2pressure ratio they might have.)

if my non-musican friends ask me if they should buy some super hifi nonsense from braun or rather from teufel, for listeing in the same sitting position, i point them to a pair of yamaha NS-10 from 1980, which cost 50 euros and are at least as good.

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 04, 2021, 11:21:40 AM
btw, i have recently destroyed the speaker of my quicksilver for the second time.

they seem to be quite sensitive when it comes to DC offset or high gain in general.

while i have external speakers for the mac, too, i hesitate to use them because of the requried external PSU.

does nobody offer replacements for the internal system? ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on November 05, 2021, 08:34:16 AM

if my non-musican friends ask me if they should buy some super hifi nonsense from braun or rather from teufel, for listeing in the same sitting position, i point them to a pair of yamaha NS-10 from 1980, which cost 50 euros and are at least as good.

I´ll send you 100 Euros for a pair of NS-10...  ;D ;D ;D ;D

More likely they cost 500 Euros, but give me a tip if a NS-10 single unit shows at less than 100.

They cost more today than 20 years ago. Not less.

https://www.thomann.de/es/avantone_cla_10a.htm (https://www.thomann.de/es/avantone_cla_10a.htm)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on November 05, 2021, 08:47:26 AM
btw, i have recently destroyed the speaker of my quicksilver for the second time.


Check volts on PSU.


while i have external speakers for the mac, too, i hesitate to use them because of the requried external PSU.

does nobody offer replacements for the internal system? ;)

I have seen listening to mixes thru a PM G4 to see how it translates to small speakers. That is not the listening environment any more. Or you try classics Auratones

https://www.thomann.de/es/auratone_5c_super_sound_cube_classic.htm (https://www.thomann.de/es/auratone_5c_super_sound_cube_classic.htm)

Or you use a Smartphone as the worst playing stage.

Probably today worth buying an iMac M1 as another listening environment to test mixes.

I see at 2nd hand shop unopened 5.1 setups at 20 €... It do not worth replacing the internal just to hear the bong... IMHO

And if you want to hear with detail you avoid using shity speakers.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on November 05, 2021, 11:02:13 AM
Quote
Probably today worth buying an iMac M1 as another listening environment to test mixes.

Yeah, the only problem is Apple is up to the same old bullshit, the stock iMac has 8GB Unified RAM and a stock 256GB SSD, and of course the RAM is NOT Upgrade-able after purchase... so add 8GB more... ? sure, price at time of purchase $200 (Give me a fuci*ng break, probable costs them $10) get at least a 1 TB SSD, sure
... add $400 (WFT!!!!)... so $400 for 3/4 of a TB more than the stock 256GB.

Now the price $2099 for iMac M1 with... 24" Flat LED, 16GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD... Don't get me wrong, I really would love to get an M1, for audio the tests on youtube (even in Rosetta 2) are off the hook, and Waves is finally M1 native; so it really seems tempting; but for now... I still recommend...

Twelve Core Mac Pro w/32 GB... $600 to $700
https://www.ebay.com/itm/353472116743?hash=item524c947807:g:nWgAAOSw20xghvdR

1 TB NVMe M.2 (2400Mb/s Read/write) $99
PCIe card $25

Dual 24 Inch Business LCDs, about $250

So for about $1000 you get a monster and can still burn DVDs
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 05, 2021, 02:00:16 PM
Or you try classics Auratones
https://www.thomann.de/es/auratone_5c_super_sound_cube_classic.htm (https://www.thomann.de/es/auratone_5c_super_sound_cube_classic.htm)

i dont think those would fit into a quicksilver. :D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GaryN on November 05, 2021, 11:37:19 PM
this bigger set of stereo speakers, which were around $3500, is the one i use in my living room. they are roughly around 300 watts per speaker, and at full power they literally blow your mind in a small room... between 10 and 30,000 Hz, btw., while that "hi fi" kind of "cinema" nonsense kind of only gives you mids. :)

and this is not even professional high end gear - not at all. (unfortunately they are very noisy, whatever the good power2pressure ratio they might have.)

From the original TOA 380SE brochure:

"The TOA 380-SE is a 3-way loudspeaker system specifically developed for the reproduction of electronic music. Analog and digital keyboard synthesizers, drum machines, and guitar synths require a speaker system with a wide frequency response, high power capacity and the ability to handle the extreme dynamic range these instruments produce."

I have owned those 2 separate times for SR use. It is very true that although intended for that purpose, the damn things are surprisingly accurate if properly adjusted, will literally put a live rock concert in your living room when supplied with sufficient (300w/ch min.) power but sound like a good pair of studio monitors at reasonable levels. They were clearly competing with TAD.

I bought my first pair in the late 80's as mains for a sequencer / live band we had then. With a sub, they handled every club we played with ease. This was very radical then… the DX7 was the new hot thing and hardly anyone even knew what MIDI was yet, let alone a sequencer. One of the times in my life I was a legit pioneer at something…

I wish I still had a pair although I downsized and I still do have a pair of 300SD's, a tricky design to get a lot of output from a smaller box.
I will now go and hook them up to my MDD and yank this thread back from the ozone.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 06, 2021, 05:27:31 AM
i never understood this SD design. are they smaller or of the same size? oh nevermind, you already answered that.^^

the general problem with the SE is that when used as monitors, living room studios are simply not big enough to place them, the hotspot is somewhere around 3 meters. frequency good, stereo bad.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GaryN on November 06, 2021, 01:56:46 PM
i never understood this SD design.
Nor does anyone else…
I suspect the idea was to load both sides of the driver with the slot thereby creating a quasi-bandpass box but still open enough to get up to the low mids… I can testify that they do work fairly well…especially after I replaced the woofer with an EVM-12L.
the general problem with the SE is that when used as monitors, living room studios are simply not big enough to place them, the hotspot is somewhere around 3 meters. frequency good, stereo bad.
True… but you gotta admit the red racing stripes make up for that.  ::)

CORRECTION: After looking closely at the pic, I realized mine are model 30-SD. Same concept but with a protruding mid horn.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 07, 2021, 07:34:30 PM
it´s not wrong to put the high in the middle, but i am a studio guy and if i see a speaker which is not symetric i am already like "wtf".
plus is somehow looks funny that the bass speaker is mostly covered with something. sure, for 30 Hz that is not an issue, but for 300?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: GaryN on November 07, 2021, 10:14:57 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on December 22, 2021, 06:57:56 AM
WD My Book Elite 2 TB. Brush to clean my keyboard. Square power strip for 4 adapters.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: OS923 on March 26, 2022, 12:26:19 PM
Glyph GT 050Q.
Pioneer network receiver X-HM71-S.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: rvense on March 26, 2022, 12:46:23 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on March 26, 2022, 04:52:45 PM
got another of these HD cases. i cant help, i am addicted to this stuff.

but this time it is a brand new one^^
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on March 26, 2022, 04:52:56 PM
...
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: mopar300m on March 27, 2022, 10:33:39 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: teroyk on May 16, 2022, 11:42:54 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on May 16, 2022, 02:21:27 PM
dont break your mac. :)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: teroyk on May 17, 2022, 03:43:14 AM
dont break your mac. :)

Do you think it takes too much current? Should I use powered USB-hub between Mac and USB-floppydrive?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on May 17, 2022, 04:27:53 AM
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(?)
Title: Re: USB Floppy Drive
Post by: FBz on May 17, 2022, 08:33:12 AM
There were several aftermarket USB floppy drives offered
for G3’s & the original iMacs.

(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3508.0;attach=10034;image)

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.  ;)
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: smilesdavis on July 31, 2022, 10:27:15 AM
does anyone know if this would run somehow on a G5 quad?
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: keithiepoo on September 08, 2022, 10:41:20 PM
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  -afro-

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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: smilesdavis on September 12, 2022, 10:26:42 AM
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
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: smilesdavis on October 30, 2022, 12:45:13 AM
- 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
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on November 01, 2022, 09:31:20 AM
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


Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Oni on November 17, 2022, 06:52:22 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: smilesdavis on November 18, 2022, 08:50:26 AM
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
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on November 18, 2022, 09:36:33 AM
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  :o
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: smilesdavis on November 18, 2022, 10:42:02 AM
the only way id mess with a 96 is if i find a marathon 9600 chassis, its the last one i wasnt able to track down yet
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FBz on September 30, 2023, 10:01:46 AM
As if I needed yet another Firewire drive.  ::)

Simply could not pass up this retro-kewl era OWC FW 400 enclosure.
(The old style, winged OWC Mercury FW logo… was simply irresistible.)

(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3508.0;attach=12721;image)
Another forum member here (a secret) may be offering others, for sale here soon.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on September 30, 2023, 01:23:15 PM
ha! that one was the first fw case i ever bought.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on September 30, 2023, 03:28:14 PM
I am assuming you bought one from here (if not, that is an amazing coincidence)

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,6861.msg52552/topicseen.html#new
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: FBz on September 30, 2023, 08:55:55 PM
Yes DH, I got mine from mustagcoupe about a week or so ago.
(One of the very first ones that he had cleaned and prepped.)
And I can personally vouch both for him and the enclosures.

I had wanted to post about it last week but he asked that I wait
until they were all ready… I didn’t know that he was posting today. ::)

He and I often share ideas & info back and forth about G3 B&Ws
as well as possible (other) mod-i-fi-ca-tions. Recently we’ve discussed
building “alternative” cases for some loose B&W mobos.

Some here might also be interested in his “Plywood G5 Build”.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/plywood-g5-build.2333413/

I’ve a couple of G5 Cheese Graters that were bounced around too
much & have always considered building different cases for them.
Lately, with a score of some white, eighth-inch thick Corian® here
(similar to plexiglas)… who knows where this all might eventually lead?

But yes, if anyone’s interested in the OWC Firewire retro enclosures…
do contact mustagcoupe ASAP. 8)

(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6861.0;attach=12723;image)

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,6861.msg52552.html#msg52552
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: IIO on October 02, 2023, 02:10:28 AM
mine looked like the yellow one and was labelled icybox. if it wouldnt have that annoying 120 gb limit i would probably still use it. you can easily pile a dozen of them to a platci tower, it is a really good case.
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: DieHard on October 02, 2023, 09:14:19 AM
From FBz

Quote
Some here might also be interested in his “Plywood G5 Build”.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/plywood-g5-build.2333413/

In the spirit on going off-topic (pretty much every post, lol) I would just add...

This only makes sense, we are now going full circle :)

1) Make furniture out of G5 cases

2) Make G5s out of furiture
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on October 03, 2023, 12:26:16 PM
Just recieved 2 Y cables for my MIX CORE TDM rig
Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: rvense on October 24, 2023, 11:03:42 AM
I bought an old USB Wacom tablet last year for my G4, size full A4 because I thought it would be nice to have a large one (I don't know a lot about them). Turns out, it's not. This smaller, almost-appropriately-coloured one has been up for sale locally for a bit and in the end I couldn't resist.

Title: Re: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?
Post by: robespierre on October 24, 2023, 01:19:37 PM
The Graphire are not just smaller, but also less capable when used in paint or CAD applications. They were made for a more casual sketch market.