Sounds like a real Aryan bonanza there. /s
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Sounds like a real Aryan bonanza there. /s
Why you say that ? Nothing "aryan"... Our women are the best and beauty of the world.
I can read between the lines of your post just fine.
Further, superficial features speak absolutely nothing instructive about who the person in possession of those superficial features actually is.
(I would say the above post with that picture is off-topic misogyny that I didn’t volunteer to see on the PowerPC forum, but I’ll stick with my first remark.)
It was in response to RogerWilco
but, I was trying to make a statement about girls. But, you are right.. off topic. sorry.
It was in response to RogerWilco
Thank you.
Overclocking the PPC970 series isn’t feasible. Possible, but not feasible. You are welcome to thank IBM for that.
Last week I got the best haul ever from Ebay:
A Powermac G4, Compaq DeskPro EP 810, Dell Dimension 2400 and a 17" CRT - all for £0.99!
The auction was just for the G4 and monitor but when I got there, the guy was having a clear out and gave me the others for free (I turned down a couple of printers and a dell CRT.)
Being a local pickup only obviously deterred a lot of buyers but it was only 8 mile from me so no problem.
The G4 is a 450Mhz Sawtooth - it came with a 20Gb HDD, 640Mb RAM, Apple Pro keyboard and is the model that includes a Zip drive.
I wiped the HDD and added an 8Gb Compact Flash card as the boot drive and installed OS9, I also replaced the Rage 128 with a Radeon 9000 Pro (4 times more VRAM.)
Playing The Outer Limits straight from a Zip Disk.....
The Dell Dimension is a 2.6Ghz Celeron with 40Gb HDD and 512Mb RAM - a fairly uninspiring XP business machine from ten years ago but I did discover someone on Youtube has put together a pack of driver patches that allows it to be rolled back to Windows 98SE, which I've now done - it's crazy to see how fast 98 moves at 2.6Ghz!
The Compaq has a 466Mhz Celeron, a 4Gb HDD and 256Mb RAM - it landed with XP and a headache
I removed the PCI graphics and audio cards - they both appeared to have hardware faults and installed Windows 98SE which now drives the integrated graphics/audio.
I also replaced the temperamental optical drive with a CD-RW and swapped the dead 3.5 floppy with a spare working one.
The Beige Monolith....
A Powermac G4, Compaq DeskPro EP 810, Dell Dimension 2400 and a 17" CRT - all for £0.99!
The auction was just for the G4 and monitor but when I got there, the guy was having a clear out and gave me the others for free (I turned down a couple of printers and a dell CRT.)
Being a local pickup only obviously deterred a lot of buyers but it was only 8 mile from me so no problem.
The G4 is a 450Mhz Sawtooth - it came with a 20Gb HDD, 640Mb RAM, Apple Pro keyboard and is the model that includes a Zip drive.
I wiped the HDD and added an 8Gb Compact Flash card as the boot drive and installed OS9, I also replaced the Rage 128 with a Radeon 9000 Pro (4 times more VRAM.)
Playing The Outer Limits straight from a Zip Disk.....
The Dell Dimension is a 2.6Ghz Celeron with 40Gb HDD and 512Mb RAM - a fairly uninspiring XP business machine from ten years ago but I did discover someone on Youtube has put together a pack of driver patches that allows it to be rolled back to Windows 98SE, which I've now done - it's crazy to see how fast 98 moves at 2.6Ghz!
The Compaq has a 466Mhz Celeron, a 4Gb HDD and 256Mb RAM - it landed with XP and a headache
I removed the PCI graphics and audio cards - they both appeared to have hardware faults and installed Windows 98SE which now drives the integrated graphics/audio.
I also replaced the temperamental optical drive with a CD-RW and swapped the dead 3.5 floppy with a spare working one.
The Beige Monolith....
Under a pound? I'm in awe! The Sawtooth looks like it's in immaculate condition.
Collection-only scenarios often yield the best bargains because as you've already mentioned, it deters those who lack the inclination or the ability to travel or arrange to meet the seller.
What's the codec that you're using for that MP4?
I've seen this first-hand - and at even greater clockspeeds - I ran Win98SE on my P4 3.06Ghz for several years and it went like the clappers.
That case would be perfect for a sleeper
Under a pound? I'm in awe! The Sawtooth looks like it's in immaculate condition.
It does have some buffing on the front but nothing horrendous.
The codec on the vid is Apple MPEG4 Compressor - many moons ago I transcoded some box sets of my favourite shows to bite size video for PocketPC/mobile devices so they play even on the lowliest Mac
Get it running on a fast Core 2 Duo (one core will be wasted but who cares!) with an SSD and watch it fly to the moon
Try Windows 95 on there (in a dual-boot with 98se maybe) - should run nicely
Retro awesomeness overload
Try Windows 95 on there (in a dual-boot with 98se maybe) - should run nicely
May well do that on a separate drive - that 4Gb is too cramped.
I'd maybe look into a CF or SD to IDE setup for convenience and easy swapping. If you have many old cards lying around (like I do).
Or... given its compact size, I could use it as a dedicated emulation unit in a similar vein to the set-up that I mentioned in my PPC gaming thread where a Mac fan created an arcade cabinet that's powered by a Mini and a PowerBook. I know someone who used Raspberry Pi's for this purpose but an i5 MBA would easily trounce them in terms of power and options. It's something to consider.
You need a 10.6.8 install. That will boot but in my experience (with an 11" i5) the internal screen will be very glitchy; these glitches disappear as the system is used though. No idea if Thunderbolt works (it's a different controller than in the fully supported 2011 MBP). Still fun nonetheless - and, as expected from Snow Leopard, fast.
I shall give this a try.
That's a great idea.
Nothing wrong with the Pi (by the way, do you know RISC OS? It flies on a Pi!) but nothing can beat a little more grunt and OS/software options. Cool! After reading about the issues people had with Snowy on 2011 MBAs (like no graphics acceleration or the internal LCD being blank) I was sorta surprised it worked a little better for me.I shall give this a try.
RISC OS? Yes! I remember the original range of computers that it was developed for: the Acorn Archimedes and its successors that included the RISC PC. They were far superior to the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga and any equivalently priced IBM compatible. Back in the mid 90s, I was amazed at the sight of an Archimedes playing high quality and full screen FMV footage at a time when the average PC was barely entering the multi-media era.
Unsurprisingly, they're particularly expensive and hard to find nowadays. I found someone on Facebook Marketplace who had one for sale at a grab-it-now price but they didn't respond to me, unfortunately. Ah well.
I used to have a heavily upgraded RiscPC. 233 MHz StrongARM, 133 MHz PC card, SCSI drives, etc. Decided to find a new home for it as I ended up not using it often enough. At least I made a nice profit when selling it.
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(A bit offtop, I'm using more Russia-wide second-hand market - ebay is something with really heavy prices for delivery sometimes )
Got this keyboards. All of them requires clean up & probably some fix - currently connected Apple USB Keyboard (M2452) got 2 buttons sticky, but keyboard usable. My primary mouse (Razer DeathAdder WoT Edition) connected in port of this keyboard & works OK. The seller dropped price (around 83$ for all 3 to 70$ ). No I'm learning blind typing russian (no second layout printed on M2452). DELETE combined with BACKSPACe is a bit not so convenient (in KDE's Dolphin DEL & SHIFT-DEL mapped to file deletion). M.b. I'll try to rebind key.
)Got this keyboards. All of them requires clean up & probably some fix - currently connected Apple USB Keyboard (M2452) got 2 buttons sticky, but keyboard usable. My primary mouse (Razer DeathAdder WoT Edition) connected in port of this keyboard & works OK
. The seller dropped price (around 83$ for all 3 to 70$ ). No I'm learning blind typing russian (no second layout printed on M2452). DELETE combined with BACKSPACe is a bit not so convenient (in KDE's Dolphin DEL & SHIFT-DEL mapped to file deletion). M.b. I'll try to rebind key.Attachments
Do those keyboards support Ukrainian letters ? Where can I find keyboard with Ukrainian letters ?
I suppose, there will be no troubles with Ukrainian LAYOUT. But for letters - try to seek your local second-hand markets.
I proudly present... the most useless digital camera ever made (No idea if the transparent GB Pocket is rare or anything but it sure looks very cool!) Unfortunately I missed an auction for MadCatz' camera link cable which allows downloading the images to a Windows 95/98 machine via the parallel port.
(No idea if the transparent GB Pocket is rare or anything but it sure looks very cool!) Unfortunately I missed an auction for MadCatz' camera link cable which allows downloading the images to a Windows 95/98 machine via the parallel port.
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