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1 Hardware / 7100 juke box
April 07, 2008, 10:11 		Your server is in the garage?   How are you connecting your 7100 to the server?   Wireless or wire?
2 Software / Apple TV system
April 05, 2008, 23:02 		That is a good use for a 6200.
3 Software / Apple TV system
April 05, 2008, 09:29 		I used to have one of them there gizmos.   If it's the same thing that I'm thinking of, it doesn't plug into any slot.   In my old 5200 it attached via a ribbon cable.

As for the technical details of the device and how it works, I cannot and will not help you.   It's just something that I know nothing about and I have no interest in learning anything about it.  

I can tell you however, that it does work reasonably well.   The picture quality was good on a 5200.   I used my old 5200 pretty much exclusively as a television set until it gave up the ghost.     I thought of it as an old TV set that took two or three minutes (The time it took to boot) to warm up.
4 Hardware / Macintosh soundcard
March 29, 2008, 16:27
Quote from: "wove"
I had an old NuBus Audiomedia Card. I never got around to installing it and eventually sold it. For my purposes the build in sound was sufficient. I used Coaster and pecked away at digitizing all my vinyl.


I'm just playing with SonicWORX Powerbundle.   I have no idea what I'm doing.  lol.   But it's fun.

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If you want to work with more than two tracks, or you wish to explorer the world of effects, especially real time effects, you will want a sound card. If your hardware is 68030 or earlier or a a 68LC040 you will also probably need a card. Machines from the AV Quadras forward are all fast enough to handle two channel recording on their own.


I'm using a beige G3.   I want an Audiomedia III as it appears to be about the cheapest I can find for tinkering with.   I'm in love with all of the meters that SonicWORX PowerBundle offers.   I need to get another cheap mixer so that I can actually hear the realtime tinkering that I do.  lol.

SonicWORX Powerbundle is a really fun piece of software.
5 Software / suggestions for turning 8500 wireless?
March 29, 2008, 08:45
Quote from: "Lichen Software"

3. If the solution to this fellow's problem in purposing his machine precluded System 7, yet it was a solution to his problem or a potential solution, I am certainly not going to withhold that information.  If there had been no other postings, it could have been the only solution and at that point he would have had to make a decision as to System 7 versus his purpose.


That's the most important point.   Sometimes what you want to do just can't be done with System 7.   In that circumstance, you have to decide whether what you want to do is more important than running System 7.   If it is, then you have no choice but to leave System 7 behind.  It's a simple matter of priorities.

Fortunately, for the original poster, there is an option that permits wireless connectivity in System 7.   That doesn't mean however, that a person should be denied knowledge of other non-System 7 options.
6 Hardware / Macintosh soundcard
March 28, 2008, 12:40 		Does anyone here have a soundcard in their old NuBus and/or PCI based beige Macintosh?   I'm thinking about picking up an Audiomedia II or III card.  I'm curious as to the advantages/disadvantages of using one of these versus the Mac's built-in sound hardware.  

Oh yeah, does anyone know if Sonicworx Power Bundle supports the old Audiomedia cards?   I was thinking that maybe this software would perform a little better if it had a DSP sitting in a PCI slot.
7 Software / Recommend a good audio recorder?
March 28, 2008, 12:27 		Sonicworx Power Bundle records sound to disk.   Let's you do realtime effects too.   It's what I'm playing with right now.
8 Software / sonicWORX PowerBundle freeware!!!
March 28, 2008, 12:25 		So is anyone using this?   I downloaded it a while back and just got around to installing it last night.   It looks like something that will be fun to play with for a while.   Looks like quite the laerning curve as well.
9 Hardware / Interex Mac to VGA Monitor Adapter
March 27, 2008, 04:54 		I know that.   But you could put the video data on the SCSI bus before it becomes a video signal.   The monitor at the other end, properly equiped to do so, would then take the digital stream of ones and zeros and process them.   Of course, having a rig like this would preclude the need for "sliders" on the adapter.   There would be nothing to adjust.
10 Hardware / Interex Mac to VGA Monitor Adapter
March 27, 2008, 01:59 		I'm not even sure how you would put a video signal on the SCSI bus.   The only thing I can think of, is to constantly dump the contents of video RAM to the SCSI bus.   That would definitely require software.   And the load it would put on your Macintosh would be considerable in my estimation.

Besides, you'd need a monitor that would be intelligent enough to do something with the data that was being piped over SCSI.   So your monitor, in effect, would have to be a computer in and of itself.  Sort of like a monitor with its own built-in video card -- for lack of a better word.   So you'd essentially be replacing NuBus, PDS, PCI, or what have you, with the SCSI bus.   It would work, but it would be awful.
11 Hardware / Interex Mac to VGA Monitor Adapter
March 26, 2008, 22:06
Quote from: "dpaanlka"

SuperMac must have (confusingly) decided to use this type of port for their VGA stuff... surely to the dismay of regular Mac users who have plugged SCSI stuff into it.  It would be incorrect to continue to call it SCSI.


That's possible.   The parallel port on an old PC is physically identical to a 25 pin SCSI port on a Macintosh as well.   Old Zip and Jazz drives that used the parallel port for connectivity wore labels that read:   Warning!   This is not a SCSI cable.

I wish the original poster would provide some kind of documentation for his monitor.   Just a model number would probably go a long way in clearing up any confusion.
12 Hardware / Interex Mac to VGA Monitor Adapter
March 26, 2008, 21:58
Quote from: "wove"


LowEndMac says, "It's not generally known, but the SE supports color, although not on the internal display. It's only 3-bit color, but it supports output to the ImageWriter II printer's color ribbon, and as least one company made a SCSI video output device that let the SE display 3-bit color on an external color monitor."


3-bit?   That gives you what?    Eight whole colors?

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SCSI is just a bus, it has hardware rather than software control good band width, and low latency. Perhaps not an ideal video port, but the necessary ingredients are present.


I would tend to think that a SCSI port would not be ideal for video under any circumstance.   I'm thinking of the software that would be required to produce and constantly refresh a video image on a SCSI bus.   It would be a nighmare, I would think, if you were wanting to use the SCSI bus for anything else.   As an analogy, it would be like having your Mac constantly writing to a hard drive.   You probably are well aware of how crippled your Mac becomes when it is constantly accessing something on the SCSI bus.   Definitely less than ideal.
13 Off Topic Discussion / Ready to give up on vintage computing?
March 26, 2008, 03:20 		We have a business here in town that accepts and recycles old electronics too.   I don't imagine they'd be in business very long if they had to pay people to get their old junk though.
14 Hardware / Interex Mac to VGA Monitor Adapter
March 26, 2008, 03:16 		I was not aware of anything using a SCSI port for video output.   I know that there were monitors that plugged into the monitor port in addition to other ports for tasks like color calibration.   But video through the SCSI port?
15 Hardware / Interex Mac to VGA Monitor Adapter
March 26, 2008, 00:25 		Are you saying that you have a monitor that plugs into the scsi port of your macintosh computer?   If so, please post pics.   I've never seen one of these before.
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