Mac OS 9 Lives

Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: FdB on January 29, 2018, 07:54:38 PM

Title: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: FdB on January 29, 2018, 07:54:38 PM: Which of these might match a Sawtooth? (No comments on photo quality, thank you.) ;)
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: nanopico on January 30, 2018, 05:59:18 AM: The last one.
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: mrhappy on January 30, 2018, 08:34:53 AM: You'd think they'd put a little saw blade or a sharks tooth dangling on the back to differentiate these... although I DO think all of those Apple nicknames are kind of cute! ;D

Maybe we need one of those for OS 9??? My first thought is 'Resurrection' ... Anybody else have a good name?? ;D
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: FdB on January 30, 2018, 09:55:28 AM: Agreed Mr. Happy. Here, still stuck on “Lives” or “lives”. But, I do like the old German U-boat logo for the Sawtooth. ;)

And thanks Nano. Sawtooth port plate (riveted in place), slated to be removed to replace a B&W G3 port plate (screwed in place)… for a Sawtooth MOBO placed in a G3 chassis.

Also, found this interesting…

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-do-some-mac-users-still-rely-on-16-year-old-software/?comments=1&start=200.

BTW, where is IIO?
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: ovalking on January 30, 2018, 11:05:41 AM: B is like my Sawtooth.
C is a B&W G3
A is a Quicksilver
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: macStuff on January 30, 2018, 11:09:42 AM: sawtooth is B ;D
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: dr bu on January 30, 2018, 04:27:39 PM: Quote from: Fury deBongo link=topic=4193.msg28865#msg28865

BTW, [u
where[/u] is IIO?

not on cycling since 12 oct :(
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: nanopico on January 31, 2018, 07:17:50 AM: Looks like my guess was wrong.
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: macStuff on January 31, 2018, 10:48:53 AM: Quote from: nanopico on January 31, 2018, 07:17:50 AM
Looks like my guess was wrong.

i didnt guess! i had to cheat + check my sawtooth so dont feel bad :D
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: nanopico on January 31, 2018, 11:42:50 AM: Quote from: macStuff on January 31, 2018, 10:48:53 AM
Quote from: nanopico on January 31, 2018, 07:17:50 AM
Looks like my guess was wrong.

i didnt guess! i had to cheat + check my sawtooth so dont feel bad :D

I really wanted to be a smart ass and say that c was it though.
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: MacTron on February 01, 2018, 07:04:08 AM: (https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/HT3082/58418_2.jpg)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3082
Title: Re: Rear port plates / Sawtooth
Post by: FdB on February 01, 2018, 02:02:13 PM: Thanks MacTron… and all other respondents.

Original query was in regard to a Sawtooth-to-B&W-G3 “Hybrid”… where the screwed-in-place
G3 port plate (HH 805-2070-B), was removed to accomodate the different port configuration of
the Sawtooth’s AGP motherboard. The newer, Sawtooth port plate (HH 805-2233-B)
no longer featured the simple, screwed-in port plate design…
as Apple replaced it with a single stamped-metal construct.

While some purists may consider such a Hybrid an “abomination”… I’m now considering a similar
effort, installing a 533 MHz DA motherboard into a B&W G3 chassis… producing yet another
possible "G4 wolf" in "sheep’s G3 clothing” Hybrid.

[Of course, that DA’s port plate assembly will also need to make the transition to the G3
(which now has the problematic Rev. 1 MOBO - 350 MHz). But that’s a simple matter of
drilling out and then replacing the 14 rivets. Theoretical and of course... all perhaps
elementary to some.]

G3’s top firewire ‘pod’ removed from G3MB.jpg image below.