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One last message about the Orange Converter, the good news is that it works in OS9, although it's a bit fiddly (must be plugged in *after* booting the Mac up and with the SCSI device already on), unfortunately no dice under 10.4. (instead I get a nice "Unknown Device" in the device profiler)

I also tried Linux on my A1225, it's not even detected.

Right now it's chugging away connected to a Zip100 drive, I couldn't be happier with this purchase, just what I needed on the iBook.

Though, they're very limited (one device), fiddly and rare... For that, if you really need a PPC laptop with SCSI, you're far better off getting a Powerbook G3 Lombard (the Pismo lacks SCSI entirely) or one of the other G3 PBooks that have SCSI.
 

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Alexis Trinquet said:
One last message about the Orange Converter, the good news is that it works in OS9, although it's a bit fiddly (must be plugged in *after* booting the Mac up and with the SCSI device already on), unfortunately no dice under 10.4. (instead I get a nice "Unknown Device" in the device profiler)

I also tried Linux on my A1225, it's not even detected.

Right now it's chugging away connected to a Zip100 drive, I couldn't be happier with this purchase, just what I needed on the iBook.

Though, they're very limited (one device), fiddly and rare... For that, if you really need a PPC laptop with SCSI, you're far better off getting a Powerbook G3 Lombard (the Pismo lacks SCSI entirely) or one of the other G3 PBooks that have SCSI.
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You gave your 466 the gift of high-speed SCSI. That‘s amazing.
 
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Just riding the high of finding and grabbing an ASUS GeForce4 Ti 4200 with a golden PCB for $40.44 shipped ($20 base price). It's going in my Athlon build no matter how impractical that makes it for running old Linux, nVidia still has old Linux drivers that supports Linux 2.4 which is as old as I was going to go anyway.
Additionally, $10.97 for a pretty decent San Ace SECC cooler and $9.23 for 3.5 grams of Arctic Silver 5.​
 
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The Toshiba Satellite 4005CDS arrived yesterday. It was purchased to make disk images for my PowerBook 5300ce mentioned here and here. The boot issue turned out to be nothing more than the BIOS stating the configuration settings had changed (likely due to being powered off for so long) and to press the F1 key to enter setup. Seller had the brightness up too high and the text was barely discernible.

It's nicely equipped with 96MB of RAM and a 4GB HD. I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP and it's all ready for me to install OmniFlopp (thanks for the headsup on this @TheShortTimer).

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m1maverick said:
I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP and it's all ready for me to install OmniFlopp
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If you're using it solely for making disk images you might want to squeeze out every last drop of efficiency by following (some of) these tips:
www.nexle.dk

Installing Windows 2000 and Windows XP on old computers

Making Windows 2000 run (rather well) on only 32MB RAM – By Daniel Iversen, 16 July 2005 There are times when it can and should (sometimes) be done… installing Windows 2000 on very old…
www.nexle.dk
 
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m1maverick said:
The Toshiba Satellite 4005CDS arrived yesterday. It was purchased to make disk images for my PowerBook 5300ce mentioned here and here. The boot issue turned out to be nothing more than the BIOS stating the configuration settings had changed (likely due to being powered off for so long) and to press the F1 key to enter setup. Seller had the brightness up too high and the text was barely discernible.

It's nicely equipped with 96MB of RAM and a 4GB HD. I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP and it's all ready for me to install OmniFlopp (thanks for the headsup on this @TheShortTimer).

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You're very welcome and it's great to see that you found a suitable machine.

Let us know how you get on with the imaging. :)

Dronecatcher said:
If you're using it solely for making disk images you might want to squeeze out every last drop of efficiency by following (some of) these tips:
www.nexle.dk

Installing Windows 2000 and Windows XP on old computers

Making Windows 2000 run (rather well) on only 32MB RAM – By Daniel Iversen, 16 July 2005 There are times when it can and should (sometimes) be done… installing Windows 2000 on very old…
www.nexle.dk
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Good call, I was going to suggest a similar tweak guide. Even on a high spec PC, I trimmed as much bloat as possible from XP. @m1maverick is already onto a good start by ditching the "Fisher Price" GUI and using the classic look instead because it saves so much RAM and CPU cycles.
 
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Dronecatcher said:
If you're using it solely for making disk images you might want to squeeze out every last drop of efficiency by following (some of) these tips:
www.nexle.dk

Installing Windows 2000 and Windows XP on old computers

Making Windows 2000 run (rather well) on only 32MB RAM – By Daniel Iversen, 16 July 2005 There are times when it can and should (sometimes) be done… installing Windows 2000 on very old…
www.nexle.dk
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Thank you for this. Since the system has 96MB it is possible to use Windows XP in its default configuration without issue. Tweaking may result in it being slightly more responsive but I find the current performance acceptable. I may buy a 128MB module given they can be had for so little ($14).
 
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Few thingies like these.
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The pre-production Canon 1:1.0L (date code two month before the lens was announced) is not very common.
It's the earliest Canon 1:1.0L known to the date.

The rest is not bad either, but some were bought from "alternative" sources locally.
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Than we have this one...

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OK, not a big deal, right? CZJ 200mm 1:2.8.

But wait... this is the serial number:

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It's the fourth lens they ever made.

Got it for way under $200. And did not notice (like with the Canon) the date / SN until it arrived.
 
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Few thingies like these.
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The pre-production Canon 1:1.0L (date code two month before the lens was announced) is not very common.
It's the earliest Canon 1:1.0L known to the date.

The rest is not bad either, but some were bought from "alternative" sources locally.View attachment 2199816
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There’s nothing “bargain” about a Nikkor F/1.2 50mm prime (says the woman who‘s wanted to afford one for decades…)
 
B S Magnet said:
There’s nothing “bargain” about a Nikkor F/1.2 50mm prime (says the woman who‘s wanted to afford one for decades…)
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I actually got two "Nocts", the earlier with seven blades was relatively a bargain.

So was the "Aspherical" early Canon FD 1:1.2

These had problems with the diaphragm and were fixed in Hungary.

I often look for fungus and/or diaphragm problem.
There used to be 1-2 repair guys in former East Germany, but I can't find them anymore.
However, there is one in Kiev who got excellent reviews. Unfortunately (guess, why) I did not test him yet.

But this gentleman is one of the best:

hispan.hu

hispan's photoblog

Azért vagyunk itt, hogy közösen megtaláljuk és kihozzuk belőled és kortalan felszereléseidből a legjobbat. Fénnyel varázsolunk, letűnt időket idéző technikákat kapcsolunk a jelenhez, mindezt a tudás és az alkotás szabadságának jegyében.
hispan.hu hispan.hu

So far I do not remember a fungus he did not remove for me.

One of his articles is about a job I gave to him: to make an adapter for Kodak Retina IIIc / Retina Reflex system to digital (Leica M). He made it. The camera you see on the picture had numerous issues, it was sacrificed.

hispan.hu

Kodak Retina ″félobjektíves″ univerzális adapter | hispan's photoblog

Újabb speciális vintage rendszer házasodik össze digitális gépeddel.
hispan.hu hispan.hu
 
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Yah, the 58mm Noct is just… I’ve never even made eye contact with one, much less held one or thrown one for a spin on my F4…
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There are two versions. Most of the time you will see a Noct with nine blades, for AI-S.
Few thousands were made (apparently very few) with AI only. These have seven blades.

I did not test these, just (like the Canon 55mm FD 1:1.2 Aspherical) grabbed one defective (fungus, blade oil).
A $30 "later" they were fixed. Fungus "infection" was light and easy, the blade oil gone. The Canon had only blade oil.

The Canon lens is like this, except of course the price, which is crazy o_O

www.ebay.com

Canon FD 55mm f1.2 SSC ASPHERICAL Lens #39755 | eBay

This listing is for a.
www.ebay.com

The $3500 is insane, that is the third (and most common) version of that lens, like mine.
The domestic shipment ($51) is insane as well.

I paid way less, than a half (about 1500 Euro) - and about 30 Euro to fix it.
 
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Purchased 10 x 1 ohm, 1 watt resistors. Kinda boring but decided to post it as one of them is going into a bad Apple II power supply.
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And here three (in)famous regulators arrived today. To fix one 3114, one single-chip Adaptec with 3112 and one extra if I decide to get something else, with 3112 / 3512 / 3114 from fee-Bay or computer junkyard.
 
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Yesterday evening I made images of all 24 floppies. Now to get them off the laptop. I may make a few floppies from them to see if it worked. Anyone with a 5300 interested in testing them?
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I'm giving up on this effort. I was attempting to make DiskCopy 4.2 images from the 24 floppies I created earlier and was having too many issues:
  • PowerBook randomly shutting down. Sometimes I could create a single image while other times I might be able to create two or three.
  • Floppies will not eject from the drive necessitating the use of tweezers to remove the floppy (the manual eject hole is ridiculously tiny and essentially useless).
  • Cannot read some of the disks previously created.
  • Worst of all...I created about fourteen images and when I checked the target folder only two were present. What happened to the others?
I have concluded that the PowerBook 5300 series is one of the worst laptops Apple has ever made. I am currently using my "new" Toshbia 4005CDS to reformat all the 24 floppies back to DOS format and setting this aside. I'll probably be looking to find a new home for the 5300 or pulling its hard drive to use in my PowerBook 180. What a rotten laptop the 5300 is, or at least mine.
 
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Sorry for your troubles @m1maverick. Maybe the 68kmla and Tinker Different communities can help with these issues?
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I'll probably revisit it at some point in the near future. Just frustrated as the entire reason for buying it was to use it to make floppy disks for older Macintosh systems. The fact I can't even use it to create its own re-installation media without all these problems is frustrating. The final straw was the fact the drive is jammed again thus I'll have to disassemble it to fix it. I had thought about buying a replacement but with the sudden powering off I'm unsure I want to invest any more money into it. Especially when I have the PowerBook 180 (though it needs a hard drive).
 
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