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What on earth are you even doing to wear out an XT-IDE??? Did you wake up this morning and choose violence???

Got a budget on that?

BuMP. Ed's long since closed and gone. He did have at least one of the boards I needed but he ended up ghosting both my emails and my phonecalls. It's been five years. Anything new? anyone????

Double-check that because this is really important. Back when an AirPort card was expensive it was an easy hack to reflash a WaveLAN card as an AirPort card and use that in a Powerbook but once flashed you cannot flash them back to a normal card and I'm already drowning in AirPort cards.

You able to get me a rough shipping estimate to my neck of the woods I'll bite. I remember when a WaveLAN card with the gold firmware flashed to it was an easy $25 but now you have to supply a separate 802.11b WAP anywhere you go because for obvious security reasons most people leave it off by...

I do not have photos of the missing I/O interface boards. The best thing that has been sourced was board schematics and layout diagrams (they are on Bitsavers), which add a bit more gloom because they are dominated by more Four-Phase ASIC's to which have no documentation. I have...

I bought it in 2009 with two binders of technical docs for $150 + shipping. Right at the end of when this stuff was still obscure junk. At the time I had it setup with AutoCAD (I have the AME kit which was the full 3D modelling package but I have never gotten past the lack of a product...

Try this. No idea how imgur will handle it though.

We're allowed to make changes, alterations or use portions of it for our own ideas but legally, we are not allowed to distribute them. Apple straight-up made sure this was a "look, but don't touch" event. I still respect you though for doing this.

I call it unintended copy protection. Back in those days the cost for an intelligent drive was so high and it was so rare to swap drives between machines that it was just assumed the average person would never run into this problem.

It would fail because unless it's a very rare case the two controllers would always be different firmware and part revisions, which would in their own ways alter the unique way each controller reads and writes to a drive. It might position the head on the right tracks but the interleave might be...

Years ago when PS/2 hardware was not yet climbing up in value (it must of been 7 or 8 years ago) I built an MCA system out of an 8595 that was XGA + IrisVision, 32mb ram, 2gb hard disk, CD-rom, networking but no sound because cheap(er) sound solutions did not yet exist. The system ran for a week...

I'm hearing murmurings from the arcade crowd that a few of the larger shops are willing to commit to one last monolithic order in the hopes they can keep stock for another 20 years. If they don't eat the last batch I'm sure people will be starving for more chips for a while.

What's the stance on a static display? I have an idea for a quick-to-assemble table but the computer itself is currently non-functional.

The jumpers set the interrupt and BIOS address. That's it. Everything else is built-into the chip.

Pretty sure Future Domain had an 8-bit SCSI card where it was one VLSI chip, a few jumpers and a 50 pin header.

I'm swimming in weird ISA cards. Among them is a Gilbarco multi-channel gas pump controller, at least two ISA-based tuner cards (one requiring the VESA Feature Connector, a PCMCIA to ISA bridge board both in single and dual slot and the VIP card for my Forte VFX1 which if you ignore the VR...

I picked this machine and its dock up (and again, it's missing the monitor hat...) from VCF East as "not working" and it turned out to be the AC adapter needed a recap. The machine runs aside from a missing hard drive and the usually floppy drive issues and it's actually very complete, the...

Last I looked they were several hundred dollars, though that was before more modern USB based disk tools began to appear on the market.

What part of the Pacific Northwest are you located in?