Silicone insider sounds like a genius... Dude just reverse engineers computer parts and makes amazing art as hobbies on top of being a paleontologist? Crazy.
6:15 - There should actually be a single screw there holding the floppy/disk mount in. It's a single screw at the bottom of that rounded section on the left that holds it in place to the motherboard. It's the only screw holding the motherboard and such in.
Seeing your classic Mac videos reminds me of a PowerMac 7600 I got from a school that was getting rid of computers, it as in pretty pristine condition. I had it upgraded with a, if I recall, a Radius or the like QT/Photoshop accelerator card, with 256MB of ram, a pretty sizeable full height Seagate scsi HDD, a standard network card, a USB card, and an upgraded G4 processor card. That thing taught me about digital art and what not, what a fun time.
I worked on a few 7600's in my day. That's cool that you grabbed their garbage, upgraded and used it. And it WAS a fun time back then. Everything was new... none of it taken for granted back then.
I remember upgrading my employer’s (at the time) Quadra 700 to a PowerPC 601-100Mhz. Damn, instant Plotter Server that rendered in 3 minutes what took over 30 mins on the 68040 chip!
Actually the IIcx and ci had removable rubber feet and you stand them on end by putting the feet on the sides, but of course the printing was still horizontal on front.
"Can you imagine that on an Apple machine today" 5:41 I also couldn't imagine a computer nerd with tattooed arms demonstrating this, back then. My life is divided between "before tattoos were generally popular" and "after". I suppose that makes me a dinosaur too!
great vid! my problem with these older macs is the plastic quality. i always feel uneasy when i see a metallic plastic in these macs, iv seen alot the clips and plastic crumble.
@@Koeniwoeni is was on the assumption that all plastics degrade, especially those exposed to sun long term. retro bright (harsh peroxide) returns there colors like a bleaching effect but does not increase there integrity, actually id think it would make it worse would it not?
He's not the first to use Adobe Illustrator for PCB Design. After Steve Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, the designers of the motherboards there were also required to use Illustrator in order to produce "beautiful" circuit boards.
There were also other computer , sorry workstations, in Jurassic Park: The SGI Crimson and the SGI Indigo. The Crimson was even a 64 bit system. The Indigo was also available as an 64 bit system, if it has an R4000 and not the R3000. And I love these maschines. And Maschines from Sun and DEC. Currently I'm looking in to getting a SGI Indy.
@@Kyle-xv5kv I am not sure if I saw it in the past but as we watched the film a while ago I directly realized the colorful old Apple logo in the first place. Good old movie, good old machines and so cool to see them still alive after such a long time.
there were 'thinking machines cm-5's in the background. i fell in love with those large lightfields where every lamp stands for one of their 32.000 processores(!)
@@michaelheinrich44 Oh yes, the cm-5. It was just very likely only one. All the cabinets are normaley connected together to be one. And the cm-5 used Sparc CPUs (the ones you can find in old Sun-workstations)
Remember when a system used 4 MB RAM like this one? And you could do serious work on these machines. I have a constant nostalgy to the classic MacOS that I learned graphic design on from 1995-1997.
I was but a few years ahead of you. Got a Quadra 700 as a grad present from art school (late 92'). Still have it tucked away... a time capsule that will likely still boot up. Started my first Graphic Design employment/job in May of 93'. Worked on 700's and 950's at that location. And other than my personal, never saw another tower quadra in use (in other offices since that date). And yes, I remember... I did have mine upgraded to 20mb and some VRAM (millions colors)... and you COULD actually use Photoshop and Illustrator and Quark. Those were the good old days... all things Adobe, Hellcats, Hornet, Spectre... good times. Simpler times.
Would be interesting to try use the Processor Direct Slot with a raspberry pi emulating a faster chip and ram. I have been watching a number of Amigas been upgraded this way, it’s likely going to need a few tweaks but the are all from the Motorola 68000 family
I regret selling my Quadra 700 last year SO DAMN MUCH Also I didn't know you were based out of the Philly/NJ area. I'd love to meet ya some day! Wish I was able to go to VCF East, but I'll be busy this year :(
Awesome video! I'm an Apple A/UX enthusiast, and mod at /r/Apple_AUX. We're working on clean install images for A/UX. Love to have you try out some of our test images to help verify them.
Not to take anything away from the fantastic design of those custom RAM modules, but... what is it that could not be done in typical CAD software? Most packages will let you import graphics for the silkscreen layer. The translucent effects with detail on the inner layers is possible, too, by drawing polygons. Sounds to me like somebody just knows Illustrator better than CAD. :-) Nothing inherently wrong with that. It certainly works, but I wouldn't recommend it for the average Joe, since that means you need to maintain all the layout constraints manually, and then you need to go through some extra steps to export the result as something a fab house can use.
Dear Action Retro. Love your videos but pleeease keep your fingers off all the pins/edge connectors of the RAM, ROMS etc. One bad static zap or a smearing of acidic sweat and another piece of irreplaceable vintage hardware is gone… 🙁💕
I have an old power book G3 that looks to resemble a Pismo. In recent years it's been in storage, but I have played solitaire on it and written a couple of text documents within the past 6 years. My OS 9 image seems to have died. Anyone got a link to an operating system?
I’ve made a sleeper out of one of these, with an i7 and a watercooled 2080ti. The cool thing was you could peek through the floppy drive to see this sacrilege 👹
2:04 They also had some Radius SuperMac 20" monitors as well, which would weigh a TON to lift from one place into another. I'm glad I was young and fit when I used to move these around and sell them. I would certainly struggle these days. Also, I wouldn't have thought old RAM and VRAM was possible to produce, but siliconinsider has proved me wrong! I'm impressed!
I remember the Radius monitors... and the NEC 21" boat anchors. They were.... .... boat anchors. Like you, I would now have trouble messing with those digital cinder blocks.
That application shown in the Movie existed, it was called FSN (Fusion) and apparently it was used at ILM where the CGI work for the movie was done, they included it in the movie because they already had it on hand. There's an open source version of it for Linux called FSV.
i also prefer somewhat beat up machines, anything too "nice" i usually try to rehome to someone else. I need stuff i can play with without worrying too much.
Those 90s Quadras are so difficult to find nowadays. Glad I'm not the only one who takes in machines that aren't "museum" quality. After all, chicks dig scars.
I bought a Quadra at a garage sale for a song. Wasn’t as nice as this one but similar to OP I always wanted a high end Mac as a kid. The classic macs have their downsides but they’re still great for vector graphics and there’s no more pleasant system for typing or writing. They are also built like old trucks and have stayed operational forever without much maintenance. I wish I’d gotten a PC instead of a Mac as a child just for the software catalog and command line/coding education or that I’d been an amiga nerd like my friends for the hipster cred. you can’t deny the strengths of the classic macs though. They are elegant machines with beauty and style as opposed to the merely functional Best Buy laptops and tacky light up gaming towers we have today.
Amen. And I had (and still have it) a Quadra 700 from late 92' (a grad present from art school). It amazes me how resilient these classic Macs were/are.
you should try to get an sb16 ported over to this ma and a video card or network card. i say a sb16 because they are still common, and because of the waetable header, would be neat to see something like that ported over to the mac with drivers :)
What an epic episode. As a cash-challenged teenager in the late 90s/early 2000s, a 25MHz '040 in a Quadra 660AV had me surfin' the net. But definitely not on any Flash-based websites... but I guess the web has come full circle on Flash after all.
Great video 👍 I always appreciate your clean, fun, straight to it formula. For what it’s worth I consider the IIci and the Quadra 700 to be without a doubt, in the top 5 of the 680x0 machines. Simple, upgradeable, powerful and amongst the most compatible with 680x0 Mac OS versions and games/software.
Sexy as always. On an unrelated note, I wish there were an open source clone of classic Mac OS. You know, maybe one could be reverse engineered using decompilation and dynamic analysis and machine learning. I mean, you can get Classic Mac OS to run in an emulator, how hard can it be? And to those that say "whats the point?": 1. there's tons of USEFUL legacy software. 2. It's a small and elegant OS (no bloat) that also is fairly fully featured (because it was ahead of its time). 3. because it would be cool and useable and would make a viable alternate OS for the desktop. Like I said, there's tons of software out there, and it would get new life on faster machines (for example Adobe After Effects). And it would certainly be more secure since a tiny codebase would be more amenable to analysis and security audits. It would be easy to understand like a 1 megabyte windowing system than it is to understand and audit x11, for example. Light weight almost always means fewer bugs and more secure.
Wow dude! I've been watching your show for years and I didn't know you're from Philly. I'm from SJ used to live in Philly for years tho and I became obsessed with ancient Mac's back in the day.
The Amigas were better. Just software developement moved over to Mac. Then Mac lost all developers and thry all moved over to PC's. It wqs crazy. How people just jump ships. Thst was the down fall of both Amiga and Mac was software developers moving over the PC and Microsoft mainly cause of licencsing issues that Steve Jobs created a unhealthy enviornment. Then the same thing happened to Microsoft they made the licensing so bad thst everyone started going back to Apple and Android.
A big reason AU/X was cancelled is that Apple ported it's unixy development tools to the 68k Mac OS as the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop. I lusted after the MPW but it was like $475 when I was dead broke. and of course 68k linux was far behind x86 and even fell behind PowerPC linux ports, when Mac moved to that platform. Cool as an idea, and to get running, AU/X is underwhelming in every other sense.
Your missing a screw. The one one that holds the drive bracket to the mainboard. You can see the screw how onboard with the metal screw stand off. Most Mac folks never put the screw back in when the take out. And you have 69,632MB of RAM installed officially (68 x 1024).
I just hooked up my Quatra 800 and it loads my games faster then my LC475. I'm hoping to put an SCSISD card in it. With a dual HD system hope I can transfer my files from HD to SD card in the SCSISD card.
I did something similar to my powermac 98, and it has a built in tuner card. 798mb ram, 500gig hard drive, It,s Rocks, I have a nice little laptop with s-video-, that runs youtube well. Then i capture my favorite youtuube playlists to it. And ...yep, youtube on power mac.....
17:10 Iomega doesn't exist for over a decade anymore. Iomega was acquired by EMC, who later became LenovoEMC, which was eventually be sold to Dell and is now operating as Dell EMC - Dells server and enterprise storage solutions.
The starring computers in Jurassic Park were actually Silicon Graphics, including the monitors and IRIX visible on screen. The Mac ones seems to be unconnected or used to fill space. By the way SGIs were several orders of magnitude more powerful than macs, expensive as hell, but macs too despite its paperweight nature. A 486 dx was faster than a Quadra. Even an Amiga 3000 with an “Emplant” bios/rom card enabler ran macos faster than original ones.
I am a bit of a Jurassic park fanboy (understatement) and my name is Rex John Hammond so I have two quadra 700 and a bunch of other stuff from Nedrys desk. Spared no experience 😄 Oh and great channel really enjoy all the crazy builds
Were these 68k Macs officially only to be upgraded via the PDS slot? I once lifted the CPU from one of these that was being scrapped and tried it in an LC475 for a free Math co-processor upgrade - it worked just fine, but needed a small heatsink added.
It should be possible to 3D reprint the plastics on many of these machines. I am investigating that for my Q800 which like yours has rapidly degrading yellow plastic.
68040 Mac would be the only retro Mac that would want but won't be shelling out the money for what they go for. emulation will have to suffice, looks like - need a PiStorm solution for 040 Macs
sorry, watching video as i comment, speaking of video ram, yea, mine had 8mg stock(computer sold 98-99). also i ended up putting a solid state drive in it, and spent some time searching for a converter that was small enough to fit into the case. also i found a usb 1.0 card in a molar mac i had that i ended up using. That is a life saver because os9.1 will totally recognize my 1tb hard drive. When it comes to drivers os9lives universal install 2015 is your best bet it comes with drivers.
IIcx minitower: as a former owner of a IIcx I can confirm that the feet provided for the IIcx could actually be mounted so that it stands on its side. So not even this idea was new. Actually, they only rotated the branding... Oh, and one more thing: the case top seems to have actually three little notches for nubus-cards to stay fixed. Either someone swapped the case top or they even did not bother to remove the third notch. The IIcx and IIci have three card slots...
6:18 There's a single phillips screw which you're apparently missing at this point. Can see the hole for it for a couple split seconds as you're holding the assembly, and what it lines up with on the board. II series (cx, etc.) is the same way.
It will run video in osx mode in avi format, and core player. It also has installed os9.2 and os8.5. I keep those because there heavily modded, vaporwave style interface.
This time im building a motorola computer in software, and running a machine fully created with hardware. Giving the computer specs beyond what can be done on that mother board. Basically recreating it with much higher system specs. Kinda like what happened to the appleII
Found this one that you bought in the eBay auctions (the chip in the corner helps identify it). Ouch. Paying that much deserves at least a like on this video!
speaking of zip drives...yep got that too...i just don't take the time to document it because im to busy overachieving it then modd it so heavily that it crashes and start over again.
The ad agency I worked at in the 90s had a nice collection of Quadra 700s, 650s, and a couple of Centris 650s. I wish I could've gotten my hands on them when they swapped them out for the newer PPC machines in the late 90s.
Silicone insider sounds like a genius... Dude just reverse engineers computer parts and makes amazing art as hobbies on top of being a paleontologist? Crazy.
Silicone Insider is in The Biz... North Hollywood biz.
"Not a single screw.. could you imagine that on an Apple today?"
Yeah, they just use glue a lot instead now lol 😅😓
6:15 - There should actually be a single screw there holding the floppy/disk mount in. It's a single screw at the bottom of that rounded section on the left that holds it in place to the motherboard. It's the only screw holding the motherboard and such in.
There was also originally a screw in the rear fastening the lid to the back of the power supply.
Action Retro is the Mad Scientist of old computers, and I love it, I love seeing old machines eek out as much performance as they possibly can
my fave techtuber so glad i found this channel
It's almost silly, seeing beat up and neglected computers come out on top and even beat the museum quality computers.
It's almost poetic in a way
My favorite chassis style of Macintosh - love it!
It would be cool if Apple made some modern Macs with a retro limited edition Snow White design language case.
Seeing your classic Mac videos reminds me of a PowerMac 7600 I got from a school that was getting rid of computers, it as in pretty pristine condition. I had it upgraded with a, if I recall, a Radius or the like QT/Photoshop accelerator card, with 256MB of ram, a pretty sizeable full height Seagate scsi HDD, a standard network card, a USB card, and an upgraded G4 processor card. That thing taught me about digital art and what not, what a fun time.
I worked on a few 7600's in my day. That's cool that you grabbed their garbage, upgraded and used it.
And it WAS a fun time back then. Everything was new... none of it taken for granted back then.
I remember upgrading my employer’s (at the time) Quadra 700 to a PowerPC 601-100Mhz. Damn, instant Plotter Server that rendered in 3 minutes what took over 30 mins on the 68040 chip!
I remember those 601 cards. Eyed them for years, always intending to upgrade my 700. Alas, I still have a bone stock classic 700 in my closet.
Actually the IIcx and ci had removable rubber feet and you stand them on end by putting the feet on the sides, but of course the printing was still horizontal on front.
I actually was about to throw out a zip drive and 4 disks. If you'd like it as a spare send me a message and I'll mail it to you.
Thanks Ash! Mind sending me an email? actionretro@pm.me
@@ActionRetro Email sent!
"Can you imagine that on an Apple machine today" 5:41 I also couldn't imagine a computer nerd with tattooed arms demonstrating this, back then. My life is divided between "before tattoos were generally popular" and "after". I suppose that makes me a dinosaur too!
This is a really cool story. Good to know you’re also from the Philadelphia area!
Wow!!! Amazing!!!
the modern apple hardware is almost same, it just does NOT get apart without screws.
Also check out RedRock Technologies’ SCSI SSDs.
Absolutely get where you're coming from :)
6:48 Why, hello there.
Bromance!? Damn! Now I gotta find a Quadra!
great vid!
my problem with these older macs is the plastic quality. i always feel uneasy when i see a metallic plastic in these macs, iv seen alot the clips and plastic crumble.
The quality of the plastics on the IIcx, IIci and Quadra 700 is very good. It’s the later beige models that break easily.
@@Koeniwoeni is was on the assumption that all plastics degrade, especially those exposed to sun long term.
retro bright (harsh peroxide) returns there colors like a bleaching effect but does not increase there integrity, actually id think it would make it worse would it not?
I love the @Mac84 cameo!
Lmao that description of how engineers work is pretty accurate
Are you going to retr0bright the tower case?
I have a Quadra 800 running AUX 3.1.1
He's not the first to use Adobe Illustrator for PCB Design. After Steve Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, the designers of the motherboards there were also required to use Illustrator in order to produce "beautiful" circuit boards.
The hand thing on screen doesn't work. Sorry but I can't do it. Change that and I may come back but I'm only 1 guy so probably doesn't matter.
Please say that the new build is a terminal or trs-80
why the hand?
Take it easy with the hand gestures before you hurt yourself.
Newman...
I spot an AMD Logo
Hi🤔
someone please port simple cc and musl to AUX, gcc and glibc are paaaaaaain
Me?
is it only me? I found hand gesture annoying.
I find it to be positively adding to the video.
This video would be a lot better without the waving hand. Otherwise great content.
People often forget the fact the Apple did indeed make some good products during the Non-Jobs era as well
Job was just a marketing man though, did he every actually create anything himself?
There were also other computer , sorry workstations, in Jurassic Park: The SGI Crimson and the SGI Indigo. The Crimson was even a 64 bit system. The Indigo was also available as an 64 bit system, if it has an R4000 and not the R3000. And I love these maschines. And Maschines from Sun and DEC. Currently I'm looking in to getting a SGI Indy.
computers*
Those SGI machines were the bomb, I didn't even notice the mac until now, I was too distracted by the other machines.
@@Kyle-xv5kv I am not sure if I saw it in the past but as we watched the film a while ago I directly realized the colorful old Apple logo in the first place. Good old movie, good old machines and so cool to see them still alive after such a long time.
there were 'thinking machines cm-5's in the background. i fell in love with those large lightfields where every lamp stands for one of their 32.000 processores(!)
@@michaelheinrich44 Oh yes, the cm-5. It was just very likely only one. All the cabinets are normaley connected together to be one. And the cm-5 used Sparc CPUs (the ones you can find in old Sun-workstations)
'Soldered to the motherboard'
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
-Louis Rossman
Can please you do a video on Basilisk II for people who cant shell out new computer money but want some nostalgia or to live out childhood fantasies?
Macintosh Garden.
"I'm not gonna even bother searching for a PowerPC upgrade LIKE THIS ONE"
I fucking love this man.
Remember when a system used 4 MB RAM like this one? And you could do serious work on these machines. I have a constant nostalgy to the classic MacOS that I learned graphic design on from 1995-1997.
I was but a few years ahead of you. Got a Quadra 700 as a grad present from art school (late 92'). Still have it tucked away... a time capsule that will likely still boot up. Started my first Graphic Design employment/job in May of 93'. Worked on 700's and 950's at that location. And other than my personal, never saw another tower quadra in use (in other offices since that date). And yes, I remember... I did have mine upgraded to 20mb and some VRAM (millions colors)... and you COULD actually use Photoshop and Illustrator and Quark. Those were the good old days... all things Adobe, Hellcats, Hornet, Spectre... good times. Simpler times.
Would be interesting to try use the Processor Direct Slot with a raspberry pi emulating a faster chip and ram. I have been watching a number of Amigas been upgraded this way, it’s likely going to need a few tweaks but the are all from the Motorola 68000 family
Have you ever engineered something like that?
@@alexthemorgan search for pistorm
@@flekkzo I know what it is. I'm asking mark if he's ever done something like that. Thanks for playing.
I regret selling my Quadra 700 last year SO DAMN MUCH
Also I didn't know you were based out of the Philly/NJ area. I'd love to meet ya some day! Wish I was able to go to VCF East, but I'll be busy this year :(
Awesome video! I'm an Apple A/UX enthusiast, and mod at /r/Apple_AUX. We're working on clean install images for A/UX. Love to have you try out some of our test images to help verify them.
Not to take anything away from the fantastic design of those custom RAM modules, but... what is it that could not be done in typical CAD software? Most packages will let you import graphics for the silkscreen layer. The translucent effects with detail on the inner layers is possible, too, by drawing polygons.
Sounds to me like somebody just knows Illustrator better than CAD. :-) Nothing inherently wrong with that. It certainly works, but I wouldn't recommend it for the average Joe, since that means you need to maintain all the layout constraints manually, and then you need to go through some extra steps to export the result as something a fab house can use.
Dear Action Retro. Love your videos but pleeease keep your fingers off all the pins/edge connectors of the RAM, ROMS etc. One bad static zap or a smearing of acidic sweat and another piece of irreplaceable vintage hardware is gone… 🙁💕
I have an old power book G3 that looks to resemble a Pismo. In recent years it's been in storage, but I have played solitaire on it and written a couple of text documents within the past 6 years. My OS 9 image seems to have died. Anyone got a link to an operating system?
I’ve made a sleeper out of one of these, with an i7 and a watercooled 2080ti. The cool thing was you could peek through the floppy drive to see this sacrilege 👹
MacOS 7.6 for me where the most stable classic version, no doubt
2:04 They also had some Radius SuperMac 20" monitors as well, which would weigh a TON to lift from one place into another. I'm glad I was young and fit when I used to move these around and sell them. I would certainly struggle these days.
Also, I wouldn't have thought old RAM and VRAM was possible to produce, but siliconinsider has proved me wrong! I'm impressed!
I remember the Radius monitors... and the NEC 21" boat anchors. They were.... .... boat anchors. Like you, I would now have trouble messing with those digital cinder blocks.
That application shown in the Movie existed, it was called FSN (Fusion) and apparently it was used at ILM where the CGI work for the movie was done, they included it in the movie because they already had it on hand.
There's an open source version of it for Linux called FSV.
i also prefer somewhat beat up machines, anything too "nice" i usually try to rehome to someone else. I need stuff i can play with without worrying too much.
Those 90s Quadras are so difficult to find nowadays. Glad I'm not the only one who takes in machines that aren't "museum" quality. After all, chicks dig scars.
Am I the only one who thinks this man needs a puppet on that hand? I just bet he would get way more views.
I bought a Quadra at a garage sale for a song. Wasn’t as nice as this one but similar to OP I always wanted a high end Mac as a kid. The classic macs have their downsides but they’re still great for vector graphics and there’s no more pleasant system for typing or writing. They are also built like old trucks and have stayed operational forever without much maintenance. I wish I’d gotten a PC instead of a Mac as a child just for the software catalog and command line/coding education or that I’d been an amiga nerd like my friends for the hipster cred. you can’t deny the strengths of the classic macs though. They are elegant machines with beauty and style as opposed to the merely functional Best Buy laptops and tacky light up gaming towers we have today.
Amen.
And I had (and still have it) a Quadra 700 from late 92' (a grad present from art school). It amazes me how resilient these classic Macs were/are.
Damn. That custom upgrade guy is a monster... He deserves to get grossly rich in his business! Genius.
STILL kicking myself for letting one of these go in the mid 2000's.
aren't we all!
you should try to get an sb16 ported over to this ma and a video card or network card. i say a sb16 because they are still common, and because of the waetable header, would be neat to see something like that ported over to the mac with drivers :)
What an epic episode. As a cash-challenged teenager in the late 90s/early 2000s, a 25MHz '040 in a Quadra 660AV had me surfin' the net. But definitely not on any Flash-based websites... but I guess the web has come full circle on Flash after all.
why the hand talks everything
Great video 👍 I always appreciate your clean, fun, straight to it formula. For what it’s worth I consider the IIci and the Quadra 700 to be without a doubt, in the top 5 of the 680x0 machines. Simple, upgradeable, powerful and amongst the most compatible with 680x0 Mac OS versions and games/software.
Get this man to 1 mil, he deserves it
Sexy as always. On an unrelated note, I wish there were an open source clone of classic Mac OS. You know, maybe one could be reverse engineered using decompilation and dynamic analysis and machine learning. I mean, you can get Classic Mac OS to run in an emulator, how hard can it be? And to those that say "whats the point?": 1. there's tons of USEFUL legacy software. 2. It's a small and elegant OS (no bloat) that also is fairly fully featured (because it was ahead of its time). 3. because it would be cool and useable and would make a viable alternate OS for the desktop. Like I said, there's tons of software out there, and it would get new life on faster machines (for example Adobe After Effects). And it would certainly be more secure since a tiny codebase would be more amenable to analysis and security audits. It would be easy to understand like a 1 megabyte windowing system than it is to understand and audit x11, for example. Light weight almost always means fewer bugs and more secure.
Silicone Insider must be paid well, he's got the most interesting job set I've seen before.
Wow dude! I've been watching your show for years and I didn't know you're from Philly. I'm from SJ used to live in Philly for years tho and I became obsessed with ancient Mac's back in the day.
I want to throw money at Silicon Insider and have these 1MB VRAM sticks (provided they're compatible with my LC475 and my IIvx)!
The Amigas were better. Just software developement moved over to Mac. Then Mac lost all developers and thry all moved over to PC's. It wqs crazy. How people just jump ships. Thst was the down fall of both Amiga and Mac was software developers moving over the PC and Microsoft mainly cause of licencsing issues that Steve Jobs created a unhealthy enviornment. Then the same thing happened to Microsoft they made the licensing so bad thst everyone started going back to Apple and Android.
A big reason AU/X was cancelled is that Apple ported it's unixy development tools to the 68k Mac OS as the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop. I lusted after the MPW but it was like $475 when I was dead broke. and of course 68k linux was far behind x86 and even fell behind PowerPC linux ports, when Mac moved to that platform. Cool as an idea, and to get running, AU/X is underwhelming in every other sense.
70656 / 1024 = 69. It's not saying "70 megs of RAM". Remember that on almost all RISC machines, 1000 = 1024 ;)
Your missing a screw. The one one that holds the drive bracket to the mainboard. You can see the screw how onboard with the metal screw stand off. Most Mac folks never put the screw back in when the take out. And you have 69,632MB of RAM installed officially (68 x 1024).
I just hooked up my Quatra 800 and it loads my games faster then my LC475. I'm hoping to put an SCSISD card in it. With a dual HD system hope I can transfer my files from HD to SD card in the SCSISD card.
No dummy, it also shared the “line up” with a Quadra 840 and 840av, I owned the latter, it was amazing. Do your f homework.
I did something similar to my powermac 98, and it has a built in tuner card. 798mb ram, 500gig hard drive, It,s Rocks, I have a nice little laptop with s-video-, that runs youtube well. Then i capture my favorite youtuube playlists to it. And ...yep, youtube on power mac.....
17:10 Iomega doesn't exist for over a decade anymore. Iomega was acquired by EMC, who later became LenovoEMC, which was eventually be sold to Dell and is now operating as Dell EMC - Dells server and enterprise storage solutions.
The starring computers in Jurassic Park were actually Silicon Graphics, including the monitors and IRIX visible on screen. The Mac ones seems to be unconnected or used to fill space. By the way SGIs were several orders of magnitude more powerful than macs, expensive as hell, but macs too despite its paperweight nature. A 486 dx was faster than a Quadra. Even an Amiga 3000 with an “Emplant” bios/rom card enabler ran macos faster than original ones.
I am a bit of a Jurassic park fanboy (understatement) and my name is Rex John Hammond so I have two quadra 700 and a bunch of other stuff from Nedrys desk. Spared no experience 😄
Oh and great channel really enjoy all the crazy builds
CircleMUD running on a mac server? Invite me to play!!!
I have this computer, and had A/UX on it at one point in time. It is my all time favorite computer of all time.
Were these 68k Macs officially only to be upgraded via the PDS slot?
I once lifted the CPU from one of these that was being scrapped and tried it in an LC475 for a free Math co-processor upgrade - it worked just fine, but needed a small heatsink added.
News! I found a Quadra 700 and I'm buying it. Now, apart from loading up the memory what else should I put into it?
Why are so many of your videos half just gesturing hands and then the other half of them gesturing hands digging around in vintage Macs?
It should be possible to 3D reprint the plastics on many of these machines. I am investigating that for my Q800 which like yours has rapidly degrading yellow plastic.
I wonder if Silicon Insider has plans for SE/30 RAM in the 16MB range. Those are almost impossible to find anymore.
68040 Mac would be the only retro Mac that would want but won't be shelling out the money for what they go for. emulation will have to suffice, looks like - need a PiStorm solution for 040 Macs
sorry, watching video as i comment, speaking of video ram, yea, mine had 8mg stock(computer sold 98-99). also i ended up putting a solid state drive in it, and spent some time searching for a converter that was small enough to fit into the case. also i found a usb 1.0 card in a molar mac i had that i ended up using. That is a life saver because os9.1 will totally recognize my 1tb hard drive. When it comes to drivers os9lives universal install 2015 is your best bet it comes with drivers.
IIcx minitower: as a former owner of a IIcx I can confirm that the feet provided for the IIcx could actually be mounted so that it stands on its side. So not even this idea was new. Actually, they only rotated the branding...
Oh, and one more thing: the case top seems to have actually three little notches for nubus-cards to stay fixed. Either someone swapped the case top or they even did not bother to remove the third notch. The IIcx and IIci have three card slots...
6:18 There's a single phillips screw which you're apparently missing at this point. Can see the hole for it for a couple split seconds as you're holding the assembly, and what it lines up with on the board. II series (cx, etc.) is the same way.
I still have my Quadra 700, 950 & the later (!?) 840av, reminds me I need to swap out the batteries!
It will run video in osx mode in avi format, and core player. It also has installed os9.2 and os8.5. I keep those because there heavily modded, vaporwave style interface.
This time im building a motorola computer in software, and running a machine fully created with hardware. Giving the computer specs beyond what can be done on that mother board.
Basically recreating it with much higher system specs. Kinda like what happened to the appleII
6:47 - hi there : )
at 5:12 only because the GLUE used has degraded, they well be saying that at the todays Ipad/phones, in 40+ years also! :-)
My first computer, which was a Mac, had that exact same Kensington mouse. I actually use a modern version of that mouse today on my work computer.
Silicon Insider sounds like he'd get along famously with the likes of Da Vinci, a real Renaissance Man.
ah, memories. I had a loaded Q700 back in the day that I used as workstation. Now I wish I hadn't sold it back when.
To be fair modern apple machines don't use screws either... They just use tons of glue.
Sonnet is glaring at your purple circuit boards from across the Internet. hmmmmm
Retro bright episode coming and super glue with baking soda to fill missing plastic.
Found this one that you bought in the eBay auctions (the chip in the corner helps identify it). Ouch. Paying that much deserves at least a like on this video!
MUD, there's a term I haven't heard in probably 15 years. Right up there with a MUSH...
speaking of zip drives...yep got that too...i just don't take the time to document it because im to busy overachieving it then modd it so heavily that it crashes and start over again.
The ad agency I worked at in the 90s had a nice collection of Quadra 700s, 650s, and a couple of Centris 650s. I wish I could've gotten my hands on them when they swapped them out for the newer PPC machines in the late 90s.