So turns out the Daystar Digital Universal Powercache P33 board ONLY works in a Mac IIci. I was looking into why it was shorting out the power supply in the IIsi and it turns out the pinout on the connector is totally different. In Apple's infinite wisdom, the IIci and the PDS equipped Macs use the same exact connector but the pinout is wildly different! It literally shorts the voltage rails to ground plugging the IIci board into the other machines. Here is a post I found (www.jagshouse.com/daystar.html) saying if you plug the IIci upgrade into a PDS Mac, "It WILL fry the upgrade and sometimes the Mac's logicboard." Well in my case, it didn't damage either the Mac or the card. Here is the card working great in my Mac IIci: imgur.com/a/evpl6fX ... If it weren't for the IIsi power supply detecting the short, it might have damaged the PowerCache board -- but the PSU did its job and the board was fine. It appears Daystar made an adapter board that let you plug a IIci processor upgrade card into the other Macs -- probably unobtanium! Also, my mind is kind of blown that they didn't take the tiny amount of effort to just silkscreen on the PowerCache board: "Must use adapter if plugging into any machine other than the Mac IIci" or something like that. LAZY! In other news, I also tested the Mac SE Accelerator and that didn't work. It prevented my SE from booting at all -- I would just get corrupted graphics and no attempt to boot. I inspected and checked for shorts and all looked fine. It's filled with custom PAL chips, so probably something is wrong there and no way to fix those sadly........
That accelerator will work in a IIsi. I have one I pulled out of a IIsi. It has to be used with a Daystar 01-PSIAD-002P adapter. W/o an adapter, that card does only work in a IIci. Hopefully it didn't take any damage being plugged into that Radius adapter. Sadly mine does not have the FPU on the acclerator card. A picture of an adapter can be seen at thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0817/10/daystar-digital-apple-macintosh-pds_1_148c897cb389c2ca6e11d962b079bc2c.jpg. That particular one might only be for the cache cards and not the accelerator. (though I suspect it would work). Mine has no FPU/socket on the adapter (as mine was intended to be used with the accelerator where the FPU is on the accelerator itself).
theres a guy on 68kmla.com forums that has made a file sharing setup image for the raspberypi/bannana pi/ and a VM image that will allow you to setup vintage mac file sharing setup. it works on ethernet equiped macs, no LocalTalk over serial as of yet
I am going to have to upload a few videos to RUclips as I still have a lot of this old kit! My Mac IIfx has 128MB of RAM and those are 64 pin SIMMs (parity checking too!). For what it's worth I networked quite a few LCIIs back in the day and used a software package called DAVE from Thursby software (still available for download from their site!) to share out data across my network back in the day - mainly WAD files for DooM! I hosted a LAN party and everyone brought PCs and was able to copy files across the network from all those Macs! (It was quite funny to see the 80Mb hard drives run out of space - I was sharing out about 8Gb of data across all those Macs!) I still have all the drives, yep defo going to have to start creating content! Video output solutions for the Mac SE don't come any more exotic that a SCSI based monitor, that's gotta be the starting video! Oh that reminds me before the IIfx I had the IIx (well I still do), I had 6 monitors connected to it and I remember playing DooM on it. It was maxed out with 128Mb and I played on a 27" CRT, although I had to use the options to reduce the playable area to about a 3" view to get anything other than a slide show! I don't recall trying to play DooM on the IIfx though - IIRC it was about £30K worth of kit back in the day...
Agreed, English is my third language and his spelling is really easy to understand and the "pace" that he speaks helps a lot, i struggle with people who speak too fast.
Yeah, the Netherlands (where I’m from) has 3 languages as standard in school, I learned 4. Germany also is pretty good English wise, English isn’t hard really. The French though seem to think it is. :)
@@VincentGroenewold I am native to English, speak some German, and Spanish, and understand Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.....the more you learn the easier they all become....
@@VincentGroenewold Hi, I'm french and I can speak English fluently, I don't think it's hard at all. I can also speak some German. I however think you forgot that Dutch, German, Swedish, English, Norwegian and Danish are all part of the germanic languages, thus share a lot more in terms of grammar and such. In the same manner, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are all derived from Latin, and are definitely closer to each other than to English
Here in Germany many people can speak english really well I myself actually prefer English over german Also since you talk very clear I doubt many people have problems understanding you
I'm from Germany too and Adrian made me laugh when he said "I probably talk too fast" because I watch his videos in higher speed (up to double) most of the time and I still understand him clearly even though my English isn't the best.
@@oldguy9051 Hence I'm glad that pitch doesn't change when playing on higher speed on RUclips. The sound just get's a little bit choppy sometimes as if a cell phone has been used for recording.
@@infinitecanadian I don't know why that is, but English sounds to us more 'relaxed' and less 'cringe' or 'forced' German. Even my mom speaks English. I only have one friend who doesn't speaks English well, and I feel kinda bad for him.
Adrian, as you say English is often spoken/understood well in Germany as it's the first foreign language to learn here (a consequence of WW2). But I think the main reasons your channel has many German viewers is your enthusiasm and your *authenticity* - and your *regular* schedule also helps, too ;-) And don't forget that in Germany Commodore was very strong in the 80ies/early 90ies so C64 & Amiga videos will bring you many viewers.
Dead spider (biological) : I will only touch this with my screwdriver. Strange liquid coming out of a 30 to 40 year old power supply : Lets touch this with my bare hands.
Being German myself, I can say that a lot of people I know are almost exclusively consuming English language content. I've been watching tech channels on RUclips since I was 10 years old. English is well taught here and when I got online after 4 years of school, there was practically no language barrier to speak of.
For a load of Mac hardware I have no experience of, and apart from that solid state drive, no particular interest in, you still held my attention for nearly 90 minutes. Credit to you, sir! In less than a year this has become my favourite retro channel. Long may it continue.
Adrian, love from italy! I actually understand you, and even managed to learn even more english than i did in high school. I hope that someday i can send you something from italy!
Hi Adrian. In regards to your statements prior to opening the second package, I'd just like to point out that the majority of Germans speak and comprehend English better than almost every American that I've ever met. They also tend to speak Deutsche better, but that should go without saying. As an American that had spent several months traveling around the German countryside without knowing more than a handful of life-saving phrases in German (Zwei bier, bitte!), it was very refreshing to be able to clearly understand every response after I explained in English that those were about the only German words I knew. Best of luck to you.
You pronounced Kamen and the name Jonas correctly. And fun fact: If a package is sent via Deutsche Post or DHL from Germany, it's exactly the same thing because DHL is part of Deutsche Post (which is why I trust DHL more when they bring my Amazon packages from the US to Costa Rica).
I love you man. With all the partisan stress right now, it's indescribably nice to be able to just sit down and forget about all of it and watch someone work on a good ol' IIsi.
I am Brazilian self taught in English, he is such a good speaker for me, very clear pronunciation, even when he speaks a little faster. I like English so much, took me way longer to learn because I had struggle to understand speech and translate the words I didn't understand to build vocabulary, but a few years later people usually compliment my English despite me thinking I'm an absolute noob.
Hi Adrian from Nottingham UK. I just wanted to thank you for such a total and utter pleasure of watching your amazingly honest videos. It's such an honour during the human malware situation in which we are now forced into another lock down for an undisclosed period of time in the UK. I wanted to let you know that I have a rare working 1977 games console that I'd like to donate to your channel if you would actually be interested in. Let me know my friend & we'll get it sorted. Thank you Adrian for a beautiful escape from the awful situation that we're all going through. Your channel is genuinely a true escape for so many of us.
The way Apple is now is arogant. Users don't get to fix anything. Probably won't change unless forced to by law. A right to repair etc. Being forced to use USB c is a start.
11:12 there are also 3rd party 2-slot adapters from various accelerator companies like Daystar. It allowed you to connect both a PDS card and a NuBUS card.
Just to have it said: As a german viewer i can tell that your voice and language is just perfectly right for easy understanding. Your english sounds absolutely the same i was taught in school :). As i m typing this it is second half of 2022 and when i talk to other administrators here in Germany, seemingly more than every second one knows your channel. All thumbs up!
I'm really enjoying your videos lately, and seeing your reaction to the weird & wonderful things you get sent. I'm quite sure that none of the contributors mind if things take a while (or sometimes aren't shown), they just want to see them go to a good home. Really appreciate how much work you put in to the videos and preserving these rare items!
My IIsi was the most robust, long lived Mac ever. Ran web server for ever on it.... I'm getting all the feels watching. I remember running it off a RAMdisk like it was a supercomputer.
I cry when I watch some of your Videos.. In my college years I was surrounded up the backside with all the machines you fix and play with. I wish when we Scuttled them in the dumpster I took some of the ones that still worked. Back in those days all that old Appletalk and 10B2 Ethernet is what we had throughout campus.
That early solid state drive is fascinating! I was doing warehouse automation stuff around the time that it came to market, but wasn't aware of it even though it would have been perfect for semi-automatic cranes and other warehouse machines. One thing I remember from that job is that touch screens were becoming much more affordable and robust. We even had a US made screen that came with a demonstration video where they shot it with a handgun at close range and it still worked, albeit with lowered sensitivity. Apparently this was a key selling point in the US, where cash machines are often shot up by irate customers.
Yay, nice video! “This will work in the mean time” is why that disk bracket was around the harddrive, which was loose. That’s how many tried to extend life a bit back in the 90’s. :)
I can't imagine why you'd need such a powerful CPU to convert a slow SCSI bus to flash memory, I've seen SCSI adapters with a whole lot less that work fine. Maybe they aren't doing interface conversion, but managing the flash memory directly, which would explain why they need some processing grunt.
@@GGigabiteM I remember getting excited back in circa 2002 that one of the new office laser printers we purchased had a G3 for its CPU... I can't remember which manufacturer it was...
@@TheJeremyHolloway I've seen laser printers with 68000 and 68030 CPUs in them, but never a G3. I can imagine why a laser printer needs a lot of processing power, having to manage large amounts of printing data.
Thank you for saving that Mac IIsi. It was my first "real" computer back in the early 90's. i say "real as before that I had inexpensive $99 computers like the ZX81 (new) and the Sinclair QL (bought in late 80's after it was discontinued). I was so excited to finally get a color Mac (I drank the cool-aide). Of course over 25 years later I appreciate my older computers now whereas in the mid 90's I couldn't wait to upgrade to the Mac. Had it for 8 or so years, wrote my dissertation on it with an accompanying laser printer. I clock-chipped it which you could do by simply replacing the oscillator chip (sold as a kit).
Rasterops video accelarators were award winning in 1993 I remember reading the reviews for them. High resolution, low power consumption and they prided themselves on making single sided boards using crafty zero ohm links and surface mount technology in their later cards with the backside of the card just a solid copper surface. Class leaders in their day , aimed at proffesional workstations.
I'm a native English speaker, but I don't understand electronics at all! I still enjoy your channel immensely. It's fun and relaxing to watch stuff being fixed, and I often have you on while I'm working 😁
I think, the reason, that you have many German viewers is, that the retro computing community is strong here and also, for a non-native speaker, you are pretty well to understand. Better than most other native English speakers.
Greetings from Germany You don't talk to fast and I can understand you easily. Main reason why you have so many viewers from.over here: No one here makes anything comparable to your videos
Every time I watch one of you videos it reminds me to dig out all my Mac kit, I have pretty much 1 of everything up to the the G5. The only ones I know I don't have are the original Macintosh Portable, the Anniversary Mac & the Cube...
This brings back memories. I had forgotten all those names like Radius and Daystar. Some of those cards were thousands back in the day. Same with portrait and two page monitors. It's so funny seeing all these cards today now that the Mac is almost a sealed system. I remember using PhoneNet and then AAUI adapters for 10 base-t.
Love your mail call videos. The reason why I love them? You take the time to go into detail and really show each item instead of just opening them and going "how cool is this" and then on to the next item. Please don't make them shorter at the expense of detail. If I'm not interested in something I skip it using your handy index. Thanks
A German online pal I used to have told me he was taught American English in school, so if that's a common thing, it would make sense to have an easier time telling what Americans are saying
I`m from Germany and I understand you very well. Never had bigger problems in this. And I think with every Video I watch on your channel it seems eaysier for me. Greetings
I tried searching for a video about the small CRT clock that appears in many of your videos, but I couldn't find a video about it, it definitely deserves one.
I really love your videos and how much information you provide below the video. These videos sometimes help me forget about when I am depressed. Thanks again.
That plug on one of the PhoneNet cables is a TAE-plug (Telekommunikations-Anschluss-Einheit, telecommunications connection unit) which is the standard plug for telephone and DSL connections in Germany. Those plugs can also be coded as TAE-F or TAE-N, F standing for Fernsprechen (Telephones) and Nicht Fernsprechen or Nebengerät (Modems and fax machines). The coding became sort of obsolete as most of Germany has now transitioned to VoIP telephone services, so only a router is plugged into the TAE socket.
You can actually upgrade the iisi to 25mhz by just upgrading the crystal because they planned it to be a 25mhz machine, but lowered it to 20 so it wouldn’t compete with a higher end Macintosh ii, but i forget which one it is
Wonderful channel for Retro Computing: i'm a retired engineer and I love big board full of components, of any kind, smt or thru holes... and I do appreciate your magic touch that brings back to a new glorious life , stuff that belongs to an age not so far away. The only trouble: you speak so fast that sometimes I can hardly grab few words of what you're sayng... Unfortunately my mother language is not English...... 😊😊😊😊😁😁😁😁
The focus on the new camera is so clean! You can really tell around 10:09 when you're showing the thumbscrews and putting them on the desk, it focuses lightning quick. Congrats on the brand new piece of kit, I look forward to many videos filmed with it!
The LC released in 1990 along with the IIsi was actually the lowest cost at $1200 and did output color although I remember having to run sim city in greyscale because it didn’t support enough colors. I had a LCII in 1993 same 68030 processor as the one you have. After that we got a performa 6400 in 1996.
As I remember from my past life as a NetWare admin (the late 1990's), "net3" would load the base NetWare client to connect to a NetWare 3.x server (the fd2300xx would be the adapter's own device driver), then it logs to the initial NetWare drive letter and kicks off the login process.
I also wanted to say GREAT video. I had a IIsi, awhile back 99% functional, only thing was system speaker didn’t work. Wish I hadn’t taken it for recycling, I’d still have it. I worked at Apple dealerships from 1988-1997, and worked on a huge variety of Macs and many many other machines. I would love to get into refurbing and resurrecting old machines!
Well, I am from Greece and have no problem whatsoever with your speaking. Everything you say is crystal clear, so don't worry dude. And thanks for the great videos👍
The reason why german viewers are on the third place in your statistics is, that your english language is realy good to understand. And yes, the plug shown in 41:35 is a so called F-Stecker means F-plug for Phone-Use or N-Plug for Modem and Telefax. The metal parts coded it to F or N, Telekom-Standard or Siemens and they are not interchangeable between Siemens and Telekom-Devices.
I watched a RUclips video of Steve Jobs and the software and hardware team. It was a Q&A after the Macintosh launch and someone in the audience asked how video was getting to the big screen / projection on stage. Steve spoke of a video card fitted inside the classic mac sending a signal to the big screen. Lucky you to have one. Hope you get it working in the SE30.
Yes you are right, this is a telephone plug and it is called TAE (Telekommunikation Anschluss Einheit) or in english, telecommunicaton-connection-unit. And by the way, your english is very clear and as an german viewer i can understand you very well.
as a swiss person, i really only watch english speaking content creators as the quality is just waaaaay better than what locals produce or even, what is available in german!
German viewer here. You don't talk to fast. Sometimes, I have to admit, I use your videos to go to sleep, due to your soothing timbre. 😄 ... That's probably not understood as a compliment, though it was meant to be one 😅
These computers are beyond my era (my first was a PIII system I found in the trash heh) but I still enjoy watching all of these. I don't have nostalgia goggles on, I just find the history of it and the knowledge of older hardware/programming fascinating. Glad you released that LED bulb video so many years back haha.
I have been watching your videos since 2018, no problem understanding you at all. Thanks for your interesting videos and your enthusiasm! Greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪
Yes, the IIsi and IIci came out together. Major difference was just that the IIsi had 1 slot for either an 030 direct card or NuBus (purchased separately.) The IIsi initially was designed as a 25mhz machine, but was dropped down to 20mhz at the last minute before release. I wanted the IIci, but it was 2x the cost of the IIsi... decision was made based on that ($3000 vs $6500)
Yup, those IIsi PSU's in particular are notorious for leaking - caps on all of them need to be replaced. It's one of the few PSU's that universally need to be recapped... no surprises here!
Netware - that brings back memories. I recall an upgrade I was tasked with, it was the first version to come on CD and I remember the lack of packaging (previous versions came a shelf worth of manuals and an armful of floppy disks!). This CD based version consisted of 2 disks in a paper wallet - it was a catch 22 situation as the instructions on how to install and configure it where stored on the second CD - you needed to install Netware first in order to read the manual on the second disk (it was a weird format). Anyway a few phone calls later and I had half a trees worth of manuals delivered, which I learnt later was the printed version of the manual on that CD! I'm pretty sure I still have those manuals!
Really interesting to see the SE accelerator at the end of the video! Seeing it takes me back to the SE FDHD I had in university. I used it with Microsoft Word 5.1 for all my word processing at the time, and the stock SE really began to struggle with larger documents. I bought a 68000 16Mhz accelerator with cache from a local seller, and it made a considerable difference. Fond memories of that little Mac!
RasterOps, I recall was used for desktop publishing. When I worked at Ellipse Comics, they were using RasterOps graphics cards and 21 inch displays for designing trading cards and graphic novels, using Quark Express 3.0 and Mac SE30s. It's been a long time. Maybe that's what the Radius was... Two page display, so not RaterOps. Today was everything you said you didn't want to do. Detailed and long.. But none the less, GREAT... Lots of good memories.
You could do an anti-retrobrite where you leave the case out in the sun and try and see how orange you can get the case to turn. Once you’re past the nicotine yellow, the orange looks kinda cool 😂🤣 also the new cam footage looks super crisp, and the autofocus is so good!
NGL, totally obsessed with PDS cards, using the single little slot that they snuck onto the Macs once Jobs left. Such a difference to the open multi-slot architecture of the Apple II and IBM PC & compatibles
Blimey.. in the mid-late 80's and early 90's I was working with all this sort of stuff as a technician in a London HE college. I remember we used those exact same Sonic Systems ethernet cards, and I'm sure I had a Radius TPD at one point, which I used for my network admin station. Very cool and super nostalgic. Thanks !
@8:11 When I worked at Portland State back in the 80's we had a great idea during the summer to wire a couple of DEC terminals out in the courtyard (the old PCAT building) so we could code out in the sunshine. As you could expect those terminals were even more brown than this by the end of the summer. We were afraid they were going to crack when we brought them back indoors.
3 years late but the the Apple Ethernet NB Card uses the m68k to run A/ROSE (Apple Real-time Operating System Environment). It offloads networking communications from the main CPU and talks directly to the drivers (very helpful for 020's/030's). You need to have A/ROSE extensions in order for it to function correctly!
I used to have a IIsi. Never got it working, though. Neat form-factor on those machines! My high school used to have a LocalTalk network (with the DIN connectors rather than the RJ11-style), in its only computer lab, for a fleet of LC II, III, and 475 machines. There were a few Pentium 200 PCs and a couple of G3 AIO "molar" Macs on a 10BaseT Ethernet segment, and they all converged on a Macintosh WorkGroup Server with a printer hanging off of it, which acted as a bridge between the LocalTalk and Ethernet segments. The WGS would crash multiple times daily. After high school, a friend of mine brought me in with him to help them re-purpose all the LCs for the K-5 computer lab, and upgrade them all to System 7.5.5. My IIsi, an LC II, and two LC475s came from doing that job at the school, along with a handful of IBM compatibles, including an Everex 286, a Data General 486DX-33, an early Compaq DeskPro, and an odd 386 machine with a passive backplane and the 386 on a card. I wish our computer lab had gone with phonenet though. Kids kicking the splitters with the DIN connectors and making cords fall out often caused a break that would bring everything down on the Apple side of things, as well as knocking out printing for everyone else.
There is some super-expensive stuff in this delivery. Even now the items would be quite expensive - but back in the day that lot would have cost a fortune. I was surprised when you used a normal VGA monitor on the IIsi through a converter - until you explained later that your LCD monitor is sync-on-green compatible. I battled getting my IIsi to drive my VGA LCD until I realised that it needs sync-on-green. I was given a IIsi a few years ago when I helped set a lady's DTP system up. As payment she allowed me to take her old IIsi system home with me. I'd never owned such an old Mac before so I had a lot to learn about how to get the machine working. I imported the NuBus adapter from an eBay seller and managed to source a NuBus ethernet card as well. I also battled to get it to connect to my 1Gb switch until I used an older 10Mb hub in between. It's a fairly decent machine - I enjoy playing the older MacVenture games on it as well as Fool's Errand. Myst also works surprisingly well from an external SCSI CD-ROM drive. I recently replaced the clock crystal to increase the speed to 25MHz and am looking for a NuBus video card so I can avoid using the Apple CRT monitor that came with it which is failing. Thanks for the video!
Yeah I really lucked out -- I have a few monitors that all support Sync on Green around the lab. I had no idea that was a requirement until someone told me they couldn't get their Mac working at all on their LCD monitor, thinking it was bad... and I looked it up. I have an older 4:3 Acer that also does SOG.
36:49 Farallon invented the Phonenet standard, which made AppleTalk a lot more affordable by using cheap phone cables instead of more expensive serial cables. It also meant that you could network your computers using a building's existing phone cable, which made it exceptionally popular as a low-cost networking alternative to the fledgling ethernet. A friend of mine ran a 150 foot phone cable between his house and his neighbor's, allowing them to play networked games. :D I believe those AppleTalk adapters can also be used on the Macintosh 128k, 512k, and Plus to convert their serial based LocalTalk to PhoneNet AppleTalk for easier networking to newer Macs like your Stealth Classic II and IIci. Coupled with an AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge that supports MacIP (TCP/IP encapsulated AppleTalk packets), you can get all of your Macs online and/or communicating over ethernet with modern computers, printers, and services. :)
Those 15-pin video to "VGA" dongle adapters sometimes work differently on different Macs, depending on what the built-in video hardware can support. I would suggest connecting an Apple 15-pin RGB monitor (or compatible analog RGB monitor) to these Macs and/or the expansion video cards, if you have one of these monitors handy, and see what changing the video settings in software does. That dongle was set to allow/enable 640x480 using the dip switches, and it did at boot -- but then you changed the video settings in software to something different, but the dongle was still permanently locked at what it booted with (unlike a real monitor, which would/could adapt). Someone below commented something similar, but I wanted to reiterate this from my own personal experience.
First of a few posts... The IIsi came immediately after the IIci and intended to be the first of the LC Macs. But it is strange in its set up. You need to research that yourself. Though it has a PDS slot, it is not compatible with the Mac SE\30 or LC PDS slots. In fact, compared to the Mac SE\30, a power and Ground pins were swapped around. Putting that IIsi card into the SE/30 will damage the SE/30, and the reverse is also true - a SE/30 card in the IIsi will damage the IIsi. As in your video text, it is 20MHz, but you can change the 40MHz crystal with a 50MHz crystal to get it to 25MHz. That will get it to be equal in speed to the IIci. Among other things, the FPU will speed up Postscript and TrueType fonts, making the display faster.
M Systems used to make a lot of embedded flash memory systems that were used in military and manufacturing systems. They were eventually bought out by San Disk in the late-mid two thousands.
That black phone jack is indeed a phone jack from Germany. It’s called a TAE Stecker (Plug). It is/was used for analog phone lines before we switched to ISDN (later DSL) resp. Changed the jacks to RJ45 (ISDN, analog, eth) or RJ11 (analog, not really used anymore).for the UAE sockets. You can still find it in many households as the main entry point for the phone company. But nowadays the TAE then connects a digital line into a DSL compatible device (eg router). Before TAE we used VDO that used to fix the wires inside outlet so no user could mess with it. That was back when Telekom was still a public company and there were extremely strict rules for the phone network. BTW your TAE is a type F connector for telephone (TeleFon). Actually this should be a type N for modems and fax machines. It’s the same line technically but for type N it was allowed to switch it before a telephone. So lime -> N -> F. This is important because it was and is strictly forbidden to wire two devices in parallel in Germany (communication privacy laws). Don’t get caught, it’s still expensive!
The STENCIL, HDD Recovery Services uses stencils all the time to re-ball large arrays on SSD, and SD chips. Stencils really up your game with soldering. Also consider a back plate preheater so your hot air gun works faster and keeps the high temps down.
System 7.1 itself does support dynamic resolution switching. The driver is actually in the ROM of the video card. Additional disk-based drivers are usually for adding stuff like QuickDraw acceleration.
no adrian, you don't speak too fast, i'm french (and you know how french people have trouble speaking english) and i love watching your video because when i found your channel i realised how it was easy to understand...
So turns out the Daystar Digital Universal Powercache P33 board ONLY works in a Mac IIci. I was looking into why it was shorting out the power supply in the IIsi and it turns out the pinout on the connector is totally different. In Apple's infinite wisdom, the IIci and the PDS equipped Macs use the same exact connector but the pinout is wildly different! It literally shorts the voltage rails to ground plugging the IIci board into the other machines. Here is a post I found (www.jagshouse.com/daystar.html) saying if you plug the IIci upgrade into a PDS Mac, "It WILL fry the upgrade and sometimes the Mac's logicboard." Well in my case, it didn't damage either the Mac or the card. Here is the card working great in my Mac IIci: imgur.com/a/evpl6fX ... If it weren't for the IIsi power supply detecting the short, it might have damaged the PowerCache board -- but the PSU did its job and the board was fine.
It appears Daystar made an adapter board that let you plug a IIci processor upgrade card into the other Macs -- probably unobtanium! Also, my mind is kind of blown that they didn't take the tiny amount of effort to just silkscreen on the PowerCache board: "Must use adapter if plugging into any machine other than the Mac IIci" or something like that. LAZY!
In other news, I also tested the Mac SE Accelerator and that didn't work. It prevented my SE from booting at all -- I would just get corrupted graphics and no attempt to boot. I inspected and checked for shorts and all looked fine. It's filled with custom PAL chips, so probably something is wrong there and no way to fix those sadly........
You can plug the p33 card into the Macintosh II adaptor, and have a 030.
I had a Turbo 040 in a IIx years ago.
...Now you need a Macintosh II.
The plug at 41:20 is a German phone plug. It is called a TAE Plug (Telekommunikations-Anschluss-Einheit or telecommunications connection unit)
That accelerator will work in a IIsi. I have one I pulled out of a IIsi. It has to be used with a Daystar 01-PSIAD-002P adapter.
W/o an adapter, that card does only work in a IIci. Hopefully it didn't take any damage being plugged into that Radius adapter.
Sadly mine does not have the FPU on the acclerator card. A picture of an adapter can be seen at thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0817/10/daystar-digital-apple-macintosh-pds_1_148c897cb389c2ca6e11d962b079bc2c.jpg. That particular one might only be for the cache cards and not the accelerator. (though I suspect it would work). Mine has no FPU/socket on the adapter (as mine was intended to be used with the accelerator where the FPU is on the accelerator itself).
theres a guy on 68kmla.com forums that has made a file sharing setup image for the raspberypi/bannana pi/ and a VM image that will allow you to setup vintage mac file sharing setup. it works on ethernet equiped macs, no LocalTalk over serial as of yet
I am going to have to upload a few videos to RUclips as I still have a lot of this old kit! My Mac IIfx has 128MB of RAM and those are 64 pin SIMMs (parity checking too!). For what it's worth I networked quite a few LCIIs back in the day and used a software package called DAVE from Thursby software (still available for download from their site!) to share out data across my network back in the day - mainly WAD files for DooM! I hosted a LAN party and everyone brought PCs and was able to copy files across the network from all those Macs! (It was quite funny to see the 80Mb hard drives run out of space - I was sharing out about 8Gb of data across all those Macs!) I still have all the drives, yep defo going to have to start creating content! Video output solutions for the Mac SE don't come any more exotic that a SCSI based monitor, that's gotta be the starting video!
Oh that reminds me before the IIfx I had the IIx (well I still do), I had 6 monitors connected to it and I remember playing DooM on it. It was maxed out with 128Mb and I played on a 27" CRT, although I had to use the options to reduce the playable area to about a 3" view to get anything other than a slide show! I don't recall trying to play DooM on the IIfx though - IIRC it was about £30K worth of kit back in the day...
As a non-native English speaker I can understand your speaking quite easily.
Agreed, English is my third language and his spelling is really easy to understand and the "pace" that he speaks helps a lot, i struggle with people who speak too fast.
@@Roalethiago Adrian's speech is good, none of the "wall street" style that made me tired.
Yeah, the Netherlands (where I’m from) has 3 languages as standard in school, I learned 4. Germany also is pretty good English wise, English isn’t hard really. The French though seem to think it is. :)
@@VincentGroenewold I am native to English, speak some German, and Spanish, and understand Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.....the more you learn the easier they all become....
@@VincentGroenewold Hi, I'm french and I can speak English fluently, I don't think it's hard at all.
I can also speak some German. I however think you forgot that Dutch, German, Swedish, English, Norwegian and Danish are all part of the germanic languages, thus share a lot more in terms of grammar and such.
In the same manner, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are all derived from Latin, and are definitely closer to each other than to English
Here in Germany many people can speak english really well I myself actually prefer English over german
Also since you talk very clear I doubt many people have problems understanding you
I'm from Germany too and Adrian made me laugh when he said "I probably talk too fast" because I watch his videos in higher speed (up to double) most of the time and I still understand him clearly even though my English isn't the best.
@@ChristophKalchreuter So you are used to Dave's pitch, too? ;-)
You prefer English over German?
@@oldguy9051 Hence I'm glad that pitch doesn't change when playing on higher speed on RUclips. The sound just get's a little bit choppy sometimes as if a cell phone has been used for recording.
@@infinitecanadian I don't know why that is, but English sounds to us more 'relaxed' and less 'cringe' or 'forced' German. Even my mom speaks English. I only have one friend who doesn't speaks English well, and I feel kinda bad for him.
I'm from Russia and I can understand your speech quite well. So some people in Russia also watch your videos! ^_^
Adrian, as you say English is often spoken/understood well in Germany as it's the first foreign language to learn here (a consequence of WW2).
But I think the main reasons your channel has many German viewers is your enthusiasm and your *authenticity* - and your *regular* schedule also helps, too ;-)
And don't forget that in Germany Commodore was very strong in the 80ies/early 90ies so C64 & Amiga videos will bring you many viewers.
“The network is down”
“Oh no! Why?”
“Because the network is down”
I'm from Argentina and I understand every word you say.
Me too
Dead spider (biological) : I will only touch this with my screwdriver.
Strange liquid coming out of a 30 to 40 year old power supply : Lets touch this with my bare hands.
Being German myself, I can say that a lot of people I know are almost exclusively consuming English language content.
I've been watching tech channels on RUclips since I was 10 years old. English is well taught here and when I got online after 4 years of school, there was practically no language barrier to speak of.
I like these small/short formats of mid week mini mail calls. ;)
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At this point the "mini" mail calls need the full 'THX' intro and credit runs at the end. :)
For a load of Mac hardware I have no experience of, and apart from that solid state drive, no particular interest in, you still held my attention for nearly 90 minutes. Credit to you, sir!
In less than a year this has become my favourite retro channel. Long may it continue.
Adrian, love from italy! I actually understand you, and even managed to learn even more english than i did in high school. I hope that someday i can send you something from italy!
Hi Adrian. In regards to your statements prior to opening the second package, I'd just like to point out that the majority of Germans speak and comprehend English better than almost every American that I've ever met. They also tend to speak Deutsche better, but that should go without saying. As an American that had spent several months traveling around the German countryside without knowing more than a handful of life-saving phrases in German (Zwei bier, bitte!), it was very refreshing to be able to clearly understand every response after I explained in English that those were about the only German words I knew.
Best of luck to you.
You pronounced Kamen and the name Jonas correctly. And fun fact: If a package is sent via Deutsche Post or DHL from Germany, it's exactly the same thing because DHL is part of Deutsche Post (which is why I trust DHL more when they bring my Amazon packages from the US to Costa Rica).
Are you a viewer from CR, I thought I was the only one!
Schöne Grüße aus Methler :D
For all the english readers and @Adrian's Digital Basement :) Methler is a Townpart of Kamen ;)
Q bueno saber q hay mas gente de cr
That video card has one of the most good looking and pleasant chip layout I've ever seen. Gorgeous.
One HOUR and TWENTY TWO minutes!?!? NOT ENOUGH!!! Thank you, Sir.
I love you man. With all the partisan stress right now, it's indescribably nice to be able to just sit down and forget about all of it and watch someone work on a good ol' IIsi.
I am Brazilian self taught in English, he is such a good speaker for me, very clear pronunciation, even when he speaks a little faster. I like English so much, took me way longer to learn because I had struggle to understand speech and translate the words I didn't understand to build vocabulary, but a few years later people usually compliment my English despite me thinking I'm an absolute noob.
Hi Adrian from Nottingham UK.
I just wanted to thank you for such a total and utter pleasure of watching your amazingly honest videos.
It's such an honour during the human malware situation in which we are now forced into another lock down for an undisclosed period of time in the UK.
I wanted to let you know that I have a rare working 1977 games console that I'd like to donate to your channel if you would actually be interested in.
Let me know my friend & we'll get it sorted.
Thank you Adrian for a beautiful escape from the awful situation that we're all going through.
Your channel is genuinely a true escape for so many of us.
Adrian's Digital Basement opening jingle - the only opening music on YT that I never skip :-D
Amazing how Macs have basically gone from "ease of serviceability" to "stay the fudge out".
Exactly, the serviceability of this machine is amazing.
The way Apple is now is arogant. Users don't get to fix anything. Probably won't change unless forced to by law. A right to repair etc. Being forced to use USB c is a start.
11:12 there are also 3rd party 2-slot adapters from various accelerator companies like Daystar. It allowed you to connect both a PDS card and a NuBUS card.
Japanese viewer here. You have very clear and easy to understand English.
Just to have it said: As a german viewer i can tell that your voice and language is just perfectly right for easy understanding. Your english sounds absolutely the same i was taught in school :). As i m typing this it is second half of 2022 and when i talk to other administrators here in Germany, seemingly more than every second one knows your channel. All thumbs up!
I'm really enjoying your videos lately, and seeing your reaction to the weird & wonderful things you get sent. I'm quite sure that none of the contributors mind if things take a while (or sometimes aren't shown), they just want to see them go to a good home. Really appreciate how much work you put in to the videos and preserving these rare items!
Woooooooooooo!!!!! I look forward to these every week!!
My IIsi was the most robust, long lived Mac ever. Ran web server for ever on it.... I'm getting all the feels watching. I remember running it off a RAMdisk like it was a supercomputer.
I cry when I watch some of your Videos.. In my college years I was surrounded up the backside with all the machines you fix and play with. I wish when we Scuttled them in the dumpster I took some of the ones that still worked. Back in those days all that old Appletalk and 10B2 Ethernet is what we had throughout campus.
That early solid state drive is fascinating! I was doing warehouse automation stuff around the time that it came to market, but wasn't aware of it even though it would have been perfect for semi-automatic cranes and other warehouse machines. One thing I remember from that job is that touch screens were becoming much more affordable and robust. We even had a US made screen that came with a demonstration video where they shot it with a handgun at close range and it still worked, albeit with lowered sensitivity. Apparently this was a key selling point in the US, where cash machines are often shot up by irate customers.
Yay, nice video! “This will work in the mean time” is why that disk bracket was around the harddrive, which was loose. That’s how many tried to extend life a bit back in the 90’s. :)
Hey did you catch that the SSD actually uses a PPC as a main processor on its board? Wild!
Yeah noticed that after the fact during editing! How wild!!
I can't imagine why you'd need such a powerful CPU to convert a slow SCSI bus to flash memory, I've seen SCSI adapters with a whole lot less that work fine. Maybe they aren't doing interface conversion, but managing the flash memory directly, which would explain why they need some processing grunt.
@@GGigabiteM I remember getting excited back in circa 2002 that one of the new office laser printers we purchased had a G3 for its CPU... I can't remember which manufacturer it was...
@@TheJeremyHolloway I've seen laser printers with 68000 and 68030 CPUs in them, but never a G3. I can imagine why a laser printer needs a lot of processing power, having to manage large amounts of printing data.
@@GGigabiteM I also have an old laser printer with a big DIP 68000 in there
Netware Certified Admin here. Should be able to get that card up and running. Pretty sure I got a copy of 3.12 laying around her somewhere...
"That black block" is an impedance converter. Sort of transformer.
It's technical title is "common mode inductor choke" - it's there to suppress electromagnetic interference (EMI).
Thank you for saving that Mac IIsi. It was my first "real" computer back in the early 90's. i say "real as before that I had inexpensive $99 computers like the ZX81 (new) and the Sinclair QL (bought in late 80's after it was discontinued). I was so excited to finally get a color Mac (I drank the cool-aide). Of course over 25 years later I appreciate my older computers now whereas in the mid 90's I couldn't wait to upgrade to the Mac. Had it for 8 or so years, wrote my dissertation on it with an accompanying laser printer. I clock-chipped it which you could do by simply replacing the oscillator chip (sold as a kit).
You speak fluently and correctly. Greatings from Argentina.
@Santa Clause lol
Rasterops video accelarators were award winning in 1993 I remember reading the reviews for them. High resolution, low power consumption and they prided themselves on making single sided boards using crafty zero ohm links and surface mount technology in their later cards with the backside of the card just a solid copper surface. Class leaders in their day , aimed at proffesional workstations.
What an awesome collection of old Mac cards!
I'm a native English speaker, but I don't understand electronics at all! I still enjoy your channel immensely. It's fun and relaxing to watch stuff being fixed, and I often have you on while I'm working 😁
DHL is owned by Deutsche Post btw
I think, the reason, that you have many German viewers is, that the retro computing community is strong here and also, for a non-native speaker, you are pretty well to understand. Better than most other native English speakers.
Greetings from Germany
You don't talk to fast and I can understand you easily.
Main reason why you have so many viewers from.over here: No one here makes anything comparable to your videos
Every time I watch one of you videos it reminds me to dig out all my Mac kit, I have pretty much 1 of everything up to the the G5. The only ones I know I don't have are the original Macintosh Portable, the Anniversary Mac & the Cube...
I'm from the Netherlands, its not to fast or to slow to follow. Keep it up! Love the long vids
This brings back memories. I had forgotten all those names like Radius and Daystar. Some of those cards were thousands back in the day. Same with portrait and two page monitors. It's so funny seeing all these cards today now that the Mac is almost a sealed system. I remember using PhoneNet and then AAUI adapters for 10 base-t.
From experience, you'll absolutely love the solder paste stencil... Smoosh, place, heat and done... you'll never want to go back to hand soldering...
Love your mail call videos. The reason why I love them? You take the time to go into detail and really show each item instead of just opening them and going "how cool is this" and then on to the next item. Please don't make them shorter at the expense of detail. If I'm not interested in something I skip it using your handy index. Thanks
As a german native speaker I understand your pronunciation very well. Way better than most british people.
Oi! 😜
A German online pal I used to have told me he was taught American English in school, so if that's a common thing, it would make sense to have an easier time telling what Americans are saying
I`m from Germany and I understand you very well. Never had bigger problems in this. And I think with every Video I watch on your channel it seems eaysier for me. Greetings
I tried searching for a video about the small CRT clock that appears in many of your videos, but I couldn't find a video about it, it definitely deserves one.
I really love your videos and how much information you provide below the video. These videos sometimes help me forget about when I am depressed. Thanks again.
That plug on one of the PhoneNet cables is a TAE-plug (Telekommunikations-Anschluss-Einheit, telecommunications connection unit) which is the standard plug for telephone and DSL connections in Germany. Those plugs can also be coded as TAE-F or TAE-N, F standing for Fernsprechen (Telephones) and Nicht Fernsprechen or Nebengerät (Modems and fax machines). The coding became sort of obsolete as most of Germany has now transitioned to VoIP telephone services, so only a router is plugged into the TAE socket.
Looks like we were on the same thought... ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE_connector
Camera is working brilliantly. Another great video buddie👍
You can actually upgrade the iisi to 25mhz by just upgrading the crystal because they planned it to be a 25mhz machine, but lowered it to 20 so it wouldn’t compete with a higher end Macintosh ii, but i forget which one it is
They wanted to protect the 25Mhz IIci (which had 3 NuBus slots, but likely as not most of the IIci's target market didn't fully exploit)
That FLASH drive was insane, immediately thought of SUN sytems or DEC or maybe SGI that used whack ultra wide SCSI.
Wonderful channel for Retro Computing: i'm a retired engineer and I love big board full of components, of any kind, smt or thru holes... and I do appreciate your magic touch that brings back to a new glorious life , stuff that belongs to an age not so far away.
The only trouble: you speak so fast that sometimes I can hardly grab few words of what you're sayng...
Unfortunately my mother language is not English......
😊😊😊😊😁😁😁😁
The focus on the new camera is so clean! You can really tell around 10:09 when you're showing the thumbscrews and putting them on the desk, it focuses lightning quick. Congrats on the brand new piece of kit, I look forward to many videos filmed with it!
probably has phase detection for autofocus, even when it's hunting it only does it in a smaller range
Content about 68k Mac stuff is always appreciated! :-)
The LC released in 1990 along with the IIsi was actually the lowest cost at $1200 and did output color although I remember having to run sim city in greyscale because it didn’t support enough colors.
I had a LCII in 1993 same 68030 processor as the one you have. After that we got a performa 6400 in 1996.
As I remember from my past life as a NetWare admin (the late 1990's), "net3" would load the base NetWare client to connect to a NetWare 3.x server (the fd2300xx would be the adapter's own device driver), then it logs to the initial NetWare drive letter and kicks off the login process.
I also wanted to say GREAT video. I had a IIsi, awhile back 99% functional, only thing was system speaker didn’t work. Wish I hadn’t taken it for recycling, I’d still have it. I worked at Apple dealerships from 1988-1997, and worked on a huge variety of Macs and many many other machines. I would love to get into refurbing and resurrecting old machines!
Greetings from Panama!
Well, I am from Greece and have no problem whatsoever with your speaking. Everything you say is crystal clear, so don't worry dude. And thanks for the great videos👍
if you have some more of those 22uF tantalums you could piggyback them and have the correct capacitance that way
The reason why german viewers are on the third place in your statistics is, that your english language is realy good to understand. And yes, the plug shown in 41:35 is a so called F-Stecker means F-plug for Phone-Use or N-Plug for Modem and Telefax. The metal parts coded it to F or N, Telekom-Standard or Siemens and they are not interchangeable between Siemens and Telekom-Devices.
I watched a RUclips video of Steve Jobs and the software and hardware team. It was a Q&A after the Macintosh launch and someone in the audience asked how video was getting to the big screen / projection on stage. Steve spoke of a video card fitted inside the classic mac sending a signal to the big screen. Lucky you to have one. Hope you get it working in the SE30.
Looks like you need you need another mail call day! Love these videos!
Yes you are right, this is a telephone plug and it is called TAE (Telekommunikation Anschluss Einheit) or in english, telecommunicaton-connection-unit. And by the way, your english is very clear and as an german viewer i can understand you very well.
as a swiss person, i really only watch english speaking content creators as the quality is just waaaaay better than what locals produce or even, what is available in german!
German viewer here. You don't talk to fast. Sometimes, I have to admit, I use your videos to go to sleep, due to your soothing timbre. 😄
... That's probably not understood as a compliment, though it was meant to be one 😅
I'm the same way! It's definitely a compliment for me :)
These computers are beyond my era (my first was a PIII system I found in the trash heh) but I still enjoy watching all of these. I don't have nostalgia goggles on, I just find the history of it and the knowledge of older hardware/programming fascinating. Glad you released that LED bulb video so many years back haha.
I have been watching your videos since 2018, no problem understanding you at all. Thanks for your interesting videos and your enthusiasm! Greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪
Yes, the IIsi and IIci came out together. Major difference was just that the IIsi had 1 slot for either an 030 direct card or NuBus (purchased separately.) The IIsi initially was designed as a 25mhz machine, but was dropped down to 20mhz at the last minute before release. I wanted the IIci, but it was 2x the cost of the IIsi... decision was made based on that ($3000 vs $6500)
As a non-native English speaker I can understand your speaking quite easily. Even on 1.8x
Hello from Brazil (Curitiba, Paraná)
Yup, those IIsi PSU's in particular are notorious for leaking - caps on all of them need to be replaced. It's one of the few PSU's that universally need to be recapped... no surprises here!
Netware - that brings back memories. I recall an upgrade I was tasked with, it was the first version to come on CD and I remember the lack of packaging (previous versions came a shelf worth of manuals and an armful of floppy disks!). This CD based version consisted of 2 disks in a paper wallet - it was a catch 22 situation as the instructions on how to install and configure it where stored on the second CD - you needed to install Netware first in order to read the manual on the second disk (it was a weird format). Anyway a few phone calls later and I had half a trees worth of manuals delivered, which I learnt later was the printed version of the manual on that CD! I'm pretty sure I still have those manuals!
1:06:22 Whoever needs 4 colors, how silly is that. (Cries in CGA.)
Really interesting to see the SE accelerator at the end of the video! Seeing it takes me back to the SE FDHD I had in university. I used it with Microsoft Word 5.1 for all my word processing at the time, and the stock SE really began to struggle with larger documents. I bought a 68000 16Mhz accelerator with cache from a local seller, and it made a considerable difference. Fond memories of that little Mac!
Re: backlog. It’s 2020; we’ll take what we can get and be grateful! 🙂
RasterOps, I recall was used for desktop publishing. When I worked at Ellipse Comics, they were using RasterOps graphics cards and 21 inch displays for designing trading cards and graphic novels, using Quark Express 3.0 and Mac SE30s. It's been a long time. Maybe that's what the Radius was... Two page display, so not RaterOps. Today was everything you said you didn't want to do. Detailed and long.. But none the less, GREAT... Lots of good memories.
I enjoy your video's too, Greetings from The Netherlands.
You could do an anti-retrobrite where you leave the case out in the sun and try and see how orange you can get the case to turn. Once you’re past the nicotine yellow, the orange looks kinda cool 😂🤣 also the new cam footage looks super crisp, and the autofocus is so good!
NGL, totally obsessed with PDS cards, using the single little slot that they snuck onto the Macs once Jobs left. Such a difference to the open multi-slot architecture of the Apple II and IBM PC & compatibles
Your excitement is infectious!
Blimey.. in the mid-late 80's and early 90's I was working with all this sort of stuff as a technician in a London HE college. I remember we used those exact same Sonic Systems ethernet cards, and I'm sure I had a Radius TPD at one point, which I used for my network admin station. Very cool and super nostalgic. Thanks !
@8:11 When I worked at Portland State back in the 80's we had a great idea during the summer to wire a couple of DEC terminals out in the courtyard (the old PCAT building) so we could code out in the sunshine. As you could expect those terminals were even more brown than this by the end of the summer. We were afraid they were going to crack when we brought them back indoors.
3 years late but the the Apple Ethernet NB Card uses the m68k to run A/ROSE (Apple Real-time Operating System Environment). It offloads networking communications from the main CPU and talks directly to the drivers (very helpful for 020's/030's). You need to have A/ROSE extensions in order for it to function correctly!
I used to have a IIsi. Never got it working, though. Neat form-factor on those machines!
My high school used to have a LocalTalk network (with the DIN connectors rather than the RJ11-style), in its only computer lab, for a fleet of LC II, III, and 475 machines. There were a few Pentium 200 PCs and a couple of G3 AIO "molar" Macs on a 10BaseT Ethernet segment, and they all converged on a Macintosh WorkGroup Server with a printer hanging off of it, which acted as a bridge between the LocalTalk and Ethernet segments. The WGS would crash multiple times daily. After high school, a friend of mine brought me in with him to help them re-purpose all the LCs for the K-5 computer lab, and upgrade them all to System 7.5.5. My IIsi, an LC II, and two LC475s came from doing that job at the school, along with a handful of IBM compatibles, including an Everex 286, a Data General 486DX-33, an early Compaq DeskPro, and an odd 386 machine with a passive backplane and the 386 on a card.
I wish our computer lab had gone with phonenet though. Kids kicking the splitters with the DIN connectors and making cords fall out often caused a break that would bring everything down on the Apple side of things, as well as knocking out printing for everyone else.
Your repair videos are extremely relaxing to me, at least as trying to fix something myself is frustrating.
There is some super-expensive stuff in this delivery. Even now the items would be quite expensive - but back in the day that lot would have cost a fortune. I was surprised when you used a normal VGA monitor on the IIsi through a converter - until you explained later that your LCD monitor is sync-on-green compatible. I battled getting my IIsi to drive my VGA LCD until I realised that it needs sync-on-green. I was given a IIsi a few years ago when I helped set a lady's DTP system up. As payment she allowed me to take her old IIsi system home with me. I'd never owned such an old Mac before so I had a lot to learn about how to get the machine working. I imported the NuBus adapter from an eBay seller and managed to source a NuBus ethernet card as well. I also battled to get it to connect to my 1Gb switch until I used an older 10Mb hub in between. It's a fairly decent machine - I enjoy playing the older MacVenture games on it as well as Fool's Errand. Myst also works surprisingly well from an external SCSI CD-ROM drive. I recently replaced the clock crystal to increase the speed to 25MHz and am looking for a NuBus video card so I can avoid using the Apple CRT monitor that came with it which is failing. Thanks for the video!
Yeah I really lucked out -- I have a few monitors that all support Sync on Green around the lab. I had no idea that was a requirement until someone told me they couldn't get their Mac working at all on their LCD monitor, thinking it was bad... and I looked it up. I have an older 4:3 Acer that also does SOG.
36:49 Farallon invented the Phonenet standard, which made AppleTalk a lot more affordable by using cheap phone cables instead of more expensive serial cables. It also meant that you could network your computers using a building's existing phone cable, which made it exceptionally popular as a low-cost networking alternative to the fledgling ethernet. A friend of mine ran a 150 foot phone cable between his house and his neighbor's, allowing them to play networked games. :D
I believe those AppleTalk adapters can also be used on the Macintosh 128k, 512k, and Plus to convert their serial based LocalTalk to PhoneNet AppleTalk for easier networking to newer Macs like your Stealth Classic II and IIci. Coupled with an AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge that supports MacIP (TCP/IP encapsulated AppleTalk packets), you can get all of your Macs online and/or communicating over ethernet with modern computers, printers, and services. :)
Wow, what a great compilation of all the hardware you received.
I had one of these IIsi's 'new' in early/mid 93 in the UK, it was a great little computer for the time!
Those 15-pin video to "VGA" dongle adapters sometimes work differently on different Macs, depending on what the built-in video hardware can support. I would suggest connecting an Apple 15-pin RGB monitor (or compatible analog RGB monitor) to these Macs and/or the expansion video cards, if you have one of these monitors handy, and see what changing the video settings in software does. That dongle was set to allow/enable 640x480 using the dip switches, and it did at boot -- but then you changed the video settings in software to something different, but the dongle was still permanently locked at what it booted with (unlike a real monitor, which would/could adapt).
Someone below commented something similar, but I wanted to reiterate this from my own personal experience.
First of a few posts...
The IIsi came immediately after the IIci and intended to be the first of the LC Macs. But it is strange in its set up. You need to research that yourself.
Though it has a PDS slot, it is not compatible with the Mac SE\30 or LC PDS slots. In fact, compared to the Mac SE\30, a power and Ground pins were swapped around. Putting that IIsi card into the SE/30 will damage the SE/30, and the reverse is also true - a SE/30 card in the IIsi will damage the IIsi.
As in your video text, it is 20MHz, but you can change the 40MHz crystal with a 50MHz crystal to get it to 25MHz. That will get it to be equal in speed to the IIci.
Among other things, the FPU will speed up Postscript and TrueType fonts, making the display faster.
M Systems used to make a lot of embedded flash memory systems that were used in military and manufacturing systems. They were eventually bought out by San Disk in the late-mid two thousands.
That black phone jack is indeed a phone jack from Germany. It’s called a TAE Stecker (Plug). It is/was used for analog phone lines before we switched to ISDN (later DSL) resp. Changed the jacks to RJ45 (ISDN, analog, eth) or RJ11 (analog, not really used anymore).for the UAE sockets.
You can still find it in many households as the main entry point for the phone company. But nowadays the TAE then connects a digital line into a DSL compatible device (eg router). Before TAE we used VDO that used to fix the wires inside outlet so no user could mess with it. That was back when Telekom was still a public company and there were extremely strict rules for the phone network.
BTW your TAE is a type F connector for telephone (TeleFon). Actually this should be a type N for modems and fax machines. It’s the same line technically but for type N it was allowed to switch it before a telephone. So lime -> N -> F. This is important because it was and is strictly forbidden to wire two devices in parallel in Germany (communication privacy laws). Don’t get caught, it’s still expensive!
no worries, you don't talk too fast for German viewers. I actually tend to watch your videos sped up to 1.25x or 1.5x. ;)
Actually it's much harder for me to follow British channels. Dave Jones from EEVblog is quite easy to understand for me.
Yep, listening to most channels on 1.25 or 1.5...
Many europeans are quite skilled listeners in Eglish....
@securitycountercheck You are awesome;-)
@securitycountercheck And yet you stay so humble;-)
@securitycountercheck Justin Y.'s brother!
The STENCIL, HDD Recovery Services uses stencils all the time to re-ball large arrays on SSD, and SD chips. Stencils really up your game with soldering. Also consider a back plate preheater so your hot air gun works faster and keeps the high temps down.
System 7.1 itself does support dynamic resolution switching. The driver is actually in the ROM of the video card. Additional disk-based drivers are usually for adding stuff like QuickDraw acceleration.
no adrian, you don't speak too fast, i'm french (and you know how french people have trouble speaking english) and i love watching your video because when i found your channel i realised how it was easy to understand...