They do but there isn't much in it speedwise over PIO3. Something like 13MB/s v 11MB/s transfer speed. Either way, they are very slow by today's standards.
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Wallstreet / PDQ installation operation
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@weckart — They were a stop-gap solution because high-capacity flash drives were prohibitively expensive at the time. Still, I find hard drives the size of a postage stamp fascinating. 
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I dug up this thread, which seems to imply that any form of cardbus booting will not work with OS X, no matter the settings.
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Unfortunately I tried PCHUB and their remaining stock was false, so it looks like I have no way to acquire the caddy adapter just now.It's PCHUB and their shipping times are dire but in the absence of anyone else, they actually have the part you need at a reasonable price.
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3 233-12 HDD Caddy / Adapter 820-1009-A, IDE Connector
IDE Connector 820-1009-A Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3 233-12 HDD Caddy / Adapterpchub.com
Alternative is the PowerBookMedic in the US but OOS at the moment.
Powerbook G3 Wallstreet Hard Drive Connector - 922-3354
This is a hard drive connector for the Wallstreet. Mac Parts and send in Mac Repair service for your Apple Macbook, Macbook Pro, iMac, iPhone or iPad.www.powerbookmedic.com
Ditto the Bookyard in the UK
PowerBook G3 Hard Drive Connection Board (Wallstreet, PDQ) 922-3354 820-1009
www.thebookyard.com
The PBM also has quite a few spare parts, including an optical drive. You will have to do the maths as to what is the most economic route for you. My guess is getting a dead Wallstreet/PDQ locally if you can and scavenging what you can from that.
There are no 'dead' local Wallstreets (or alive ones) in Australia right now, and buying a working one to steal its caddy would obviously be counter-productive.
So I'm currently a bit stuck at the moment.
Ok, I managed to pick up a Wallstreet Caddy, so I now have an mSATA SSD connected direct to the hard drive connection, rather than PCMCIA.
Again, I am able to boot OS 9, but for the life of me I can't get OS X to boot. I tried both Jaguar 10.2 and 10.4 through Xpostfacto, neither worked. Xpostfacto at leave gave the OS X Apple logo, but no matter the settings I changed, it would not boot.
As for Jaguar 10.2, this should be supported without hacks on the Wallstreet, and yet I just cannot get it to boot. Strangely, I just get the "looking for floppy disk" sign when I try.
Anyone got any ideas?
Again, I have partitioned the first 7GB. And I know this SSD works with OS 9 and X, because I borrowed it from my Lombard.
Again, I am able to boot OS 9, but for the life of me I can't get OS X to boot. I tried both Jaguar 10.2 and 10.4 through Xpostfacto, neither worked. Xpostfacto at leave gave the OS X Apple logo, but no matter the settings I changed, it would not boot.
As for Jaguar 10.2, this should be supported without hacks on the Wallstreet, and yet I just cannot get it to boot. Strangely, I just get the "looking for floppy disk" sign when I try.
Anyone got any ideas?
Again, I have partitioned the first 7GB. And I know this SSD works with OS 9 and X, because I borrowed it from my Lombard.
I found an XPostFacto thread on 68kMLA that contains a paragraph that might provide some leads:
It also links to an Apple article with further troubleshooting info that's now broken but here's a Wayback Machine capture.
Seems Apple is systematically destroying older apple articles from PowerPC. Shame, but at least thanks to Wayback Machine we can read these things again.
Why do you think that Apple would quash comments about antiquated hardware they haven't made in decades? Wayback saves defunct websites. The PowerPC machines are ancient history. My purchase history from Apple shows I once owned a G5 mac. I honestly don't remember it, because it all blended in to the continuity of the OS.
I feel the same way about kettles....I'm going to join a Vintage Household Appliance forum and tell them all about it...
PREACH!!!
I went to a kettle museum, and a tuba museum, and a sex toy museum. It's what lab rats do on vacation I suppose.
Some of the kettles were mind blowing. Really creative and intricate stuff.
Toasters are where it's at - some real crazy contraptions when mechanical automation was the future....
Hmm.. still use my PowerPC macs all the time, well one such as the Titanium 1ghz PowerBook. I have others and they all work and do what I want them to do. Not obsolete to me, to Apple yes, but playing games and programming on them - That doesn't mean they are obsolete. Computer is obsolete if it does no longer what you want.
Some nuance is important here.
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PowerPC Macs are technically obsolete because whilst they obviously continue to be used and cherished by us, they're no longer produced by Apple and they're out of date in many areas when compared to their Intel successors. However, despite what the intermittent trolls who visit this forum would have us believe, they are certainly not useless because, to paraphrase your own words, no computer is useless if it continues to fulfil the tasks that you require of it.
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You are so right, and I really never took full advantage of PowerPC to really say it stops what I want it to do. WickNix's tenfivetube is an example. I can get youtube to play good, maybe not at 1080p or higher, but it does allow me to use Quicktime and the movies all play rather well. I can still do light video editing on the machine, though my 5,1 Mac Pro I use more of.Some nuance is important here.
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PowerPC Macs are technically obsolete because whilst they obviously continue to be used and cherished by us, they're no longer produced by Apple and they're out of date in many areas when compared to their Intel successors. However, despite what the intermittent trolls who visit this forum would have us believe, they are certainly not useless because, to paraphrase your own words, no computer is useless if it continues to fulfil the tasks that you require of it.
Very soon intel macs will be ancient history, sadly.
Which one are you using for video editing, is it the Titanium PB? Are you editing in 720p?
In my opinion the PM G5 is a feat of engineering which never really saw its potential fully explored by Apple - especially the later models which were eclipsed by the MacPro's arrival.
Obsolescence waits for all technology but the upside is that very soon, many bargains will be on offer as people jump ship for the M1 Macs. They'll continue to be usable, just as the PPC Macs continue to be for us.