13 May
2006
13 May
'06
11:26 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
I've got a Leister but I'm not anywhere near motivated enough
to invest the time and effort :> I mainly want to get a feel
for what IRIX is (was?) like...
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 8:28:43 PM, you wrote:
I seem to remember that it is possible to turn an 8-bit board into a
24-bit one if you fancy some surface-mount soldering and have a couple
of surplus 8-bit boards for the chips... A large card ("Newport Graphics"?) but
appears that 4 RAMs (?)
were not populated at initial manufacture (which suggests it
is a lower-end card?)
Newport is XL graphics. If there is free space where memory would fit
then it is 8bit otherwise 24 bit. You could also try and google up the
part number (the 030-xxxx-yyy number). (Pete Turnbull will know more; I believe he's got
a board that he put
together in such a way)
I've seen folks manage to get the (keyed) 4-pin power connector
on a disk drive in "backwards". :-( It's unfortunate that the
pinout wasn't "pwr gnd pwr gnd" instead of "pwr gnd gnd pwr"...
the former would typically cause a power supply to shut itself
down if plugged backwards -- while the latter happily toasts
the load!
The strange connector left of that one (just
before the ISDN port) is for
the IndyCam.
Oh, the shells on those Indycam connectors are pretty flimsy - although
it's a D shape they *will* fit on upside down! Luckily I didn't fry
anything when I made that mistake once, but it took me a while to work
out why a known-good camera wasn't working... :-)