pulusound
trying to buy a non-booting mac mini g4 ๐Ÿ‘€
May 20 at 5:00pmWeb
Show threadpulusoundMay 20
yisss got it for 30โ‚ฌ
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
behold. the Small Macintosh
Show threadpulusoundMay 22

i cant believe apple invented yet another proprietary power connector

i mean of course i can but COME ON

Show threadpulusoundMay 22

seller: machine doesnt boot, only beeps three times

me, powering on:

Show threadpulusoundMay 22
i havent even done anything yet!
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
i think three beeps is RAM issues so it might be intermittent. or just badly seated even
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
i get into Leopard but the HDD is failing (also known in advance) so everything takes forever
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
oh shit its the fastest model! lets go
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
also theres wifi, which i dont expect to use in OS9, but usually people sell me things lacking an airport card. so thats nice
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
HDD has gone fully uncooperative now. but at least i got the hardware info :)
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
the power plug is Lightning compatible. you will surely not regret plugging this into your USB port
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
oh right, i ran out of IDE SSDs and their prices have exploded
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
i do have a CompactFlash adapter though. and possibly even some cards
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
ok OS9 may be frugal by todays standards but i fear these arent gonna cut it
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
wtf is even on these
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
ah yeah these were the ones grandpa (RIP) used in his camera
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
theres a photo of me at idk, 12-13 years old? it is pretty funny but i will not be posting it ๐Ÿ˜‚
Show threadpulusoundMay 22

50 photos of the same heart-shaped piece of ice melting on a silver color coated piece of cardboard. can you tell he was a graphic designer?

:')

Show threadpulusoundMay 22
wait theres more. inside the ice is a โ˜ฎ shaped piece which is revealed as it melts
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
me, 16, absolutely COMPUTIN
Show threadC.CircoMay 22
@ahihi that's kind of a meta-commentary there - as ICE disappears there is peace.
Show threadwordsmithโ€ฝ โ‚May 22
@ahihi photos at 640x480
Show threadOzzelot May 22
@wordsmith @ahihi or some cisco stuff
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
@ozzelot @wordsmith wrong. its photos at *gasp* 2048x1536
Show threadwordsmithโ€ฝ โ‚May 22
@ahihi that isn't even possible. monitors only go up to 800x600 so what would the point even be?
@ozzelot
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
@wordsmith @ozzelot ive been hearing it is now possible to do cropping and all sorts of editing in this new software called "photography shoppe"
Show threadPixel PurritoMay 23
@ahihi I would be happy to swap some bigger CF card I have around (not sure if it was 4 or 8 GiB, I'm not at home right now to check) for the 256 MiB one. The flashcart I have for the MSX chokes on my big CF card and the Amiga doesn't like it much either... And I suspect the older ones would work well for me 
Show threadpulusoundMay 23
@aperezdc i think 8 is still a bit too small, as i need both an OS9 and OSX partition and also space for a bunch of software. but if you have 16 or 32 GB im interested ๐Ÿ˜
Show threadPixel PurritoMay 23
@ahihi right, I'll check what I have exactly later in the evening. I am sure there's some 4 and 8 GiB CF cards at home because that's what I tried recently in the Amiga; but I might have some larger ones, not sure of unused.
Show threadPixel PurritoMay 24
@ahihi finally got round to checking this... Of my three 16 GiB CF cards, two are already being used; I plugged the third one to erase it and Linux started spewing I/O errors in the kernel log, Haiku didn't even let me try to access it. Sorry that I don't have any spares in the end 
Show threadpulusoundMay 24
@aperezdc thanks for checking! thinking about it some more, i might well find a purpose for an 8GB card in some other project, whereas these two are unlikely to see any use here. so i am still up for swapping if you want
Show threadbazkie ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ป bitplanes ๐ŸŽตMay 22
@ahihi that will make everything lightning fast โšกโšกโšก
Show threadOzzelot May 22
@ahihi finally... firewire
Show threadbazkie ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ป bitplanes ๐ŸŽตMay 22
@ozzelot @ahihi lol
Show threadsayrerMay 22
@ahihi that is hard to get working in OS9, I think I did get it going on one machine, but it was like a plastic iBook or something
Show threadOzzelot May 22
@ahihi Not just one whole gigahertz, a whole half a gigahertz on top! This baby computes like a kitten!
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
@ozzelot thats up to 12.8% more SuperCollider 2 synths than my iBooks can handle
Show threadAndiS ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿท๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บMay 25
Oh yes, the silent upgrade with 1.5 GHz and 64 MB (double) VRAM!
Show threadlinear cannonMay 22
@ahihi correct, that was going to be my suggestion, it probably got bumped back into place
Show threadOzzelot May 22

@linear @ahihi yep, i once fixed a mini by just reseating the ram

(a newer intel one, but ram is ram)

Show threadnina ๐Ÿ”œ gpn๐Ÿ“ž7666May 22
@ahihi the worst issue with these is that once you try to open them about 70% of the plastic clips holding the top cover on the frame will break off due to the plastic becoming super brittle over time

so any effort to put it back together will result in the thing no longer holding together as well as it did
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
@q66 thats fine it will feel right at home with the rest of my half-assembled macs
Show threadnina ๐Ÿ”œ gpn๐Ÿ“ž7666May 22
@ahihi i guess once it needs to be opened you just gotta do what you gotta do anyway

but yeah expect it to very possibly remain half assembled even if you're super careful taking it apart
Show threaddmi ๐Ÿ’ฝ soon --> GPNMay 22
@ahihi USB-C we have at home
Show threadOzzelot May 22
@domi @ahihi i can imagine drunkenly trying to plonk this into a phone, yeah
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
@ozzelot @domi it would be very funny if it fit and allowed you to put 18.5V into whatever. but alas it is bigger than USB-C
Show threadOleksiyMay 22
@ahihi it looks like you could plug lightning into it
Show threadpulusoundMay 22
@oleksiy good idea
Show threadKarl BaronMay 23
@ahihi To be fair, are there ANY standard multivoltage DC plugs? Things like the Xbox power brick, etc all also have to make up connectors. The closest Iโ€™ve seen is like DIN on 8-bit Commodore machine
Show threadpulusoundMay 23
@kalleboo is it multivoltage? that would make more sense. but it only mentions 18.5V on the brick
Show threadKarl BaronMay 24
@ahihi Like an idiot, I just assumed it was since it had so many pins, looking it up, it's really just some insanely overengineered Pointlessly Apple solution!
Show threadMarkMay 22

@ahihi Why do i feel the need to go "oooh ... aaah!!" to this post?

No, this isn't a joke, not one byte. I think the well placed usage of "behold" triggered something in me... send help.

Show threadSimon GreenwoodMay 22
@ahihi
I got one of those new for ยฃ99 when they had been discontinued - PCWorld in the UK would sell end of line models for cheap in the early 2000s. I had a fishbowl iMac and a 12โ€œ Macbook for cheap at different times in the same way.
Show threadVito Sartori (ใƒดใ‚ฃใƒˆ) ๐ŸฆŠMay 23
@ahihi smolcintosh ๐Ÿค๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’›
Show threadOzzelot May 20
@ahihi with the intent to turn it into a booting one?
Show threadpulusoundMay 20
@ozzelot hopefully! i believe these can even be made to run OS9 ๐Ÿฅฐ
Show threadOzzelot May 20
@ahihi I do seem to remember such things from the os9lives forum, yeah