...is mine, all mine...

You guys should check out the seller's store, under "Motorola" and "IBM"

Except the seller is in China...

Let us know when/if you get your card. Sometimes too good to be true really is too good to be true.

Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!

But shipping from China for a CPU is trivial. And mine arrived safely and they have lots of good feedback.

Now that it's arrived, I'm not sure it is a PCI. Might be an L2.

Five days! That was much faster than I expected!

Sounds pretty good. Maybe I'll give it another look...

Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!

I picked up the PowerBook 1400 G3 CPU that they had listed. Stay tuned. I hope that in five days I'll be writing back with good info...

Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!

I know that a lot of computer equipment is shipped to Asia to be either re-used or recycled. I'd almost lay money down that one of the companies receiving stuff has someone (or several) that goes through the fresh stock and looks for something that would bring a nice profit if it were resold on eBay and such. Fro things I know about the recycling market it wouldn't surprise me a bit if these were either once sold as scrap or were part of a large lot of cheap used electronics.

That's not to say there's anything wrong with buying cool parts from (seemingly legit) Chinese sellers. If they can make a profit by selling hard to source items to international buyers, kick patooter!

EDIT: How come s.c.r.a.p. tripped the content filter? Must be because ot the last four letters, and if so, the filter is a bit too sensitive.

You are right. The filter was overly sensitive. I have fixed that. There are three profanities (in the American vernacular, anyway) that are filtered, and there are seven slurs or otherwise derogatory words that I have also filtered. Under no circumstances will I allow the use of the latter seven words or derivatives thereof. I also will not discuss them in public. If you wish to know which words are censored, you may PM me.

Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!

Just out of curiosity, has "Matsushita" been filtered?
(This is kind of a test)

Also, congrats on that 366 upgrade. Have you determined exactly what machine it will work in? Good luck with that!
_________________
[Insert Cool Signature here!]

Hey 68060s! Too bad they aren't fully '040 compatible. There's a thread over at 68Kmla (I think) on upgrading a Mac with one. Won't work though.

Yeah, that thread has been on every incarnation of the 68kMLA, more than one time, each incarnation.

It's a novel, and noble cause, but it just won't work, unfortunately, at least not with what most of us has handy.

I've heard you could build a board with extra circuirtry on it, or something, but at that point we may as well build an SBC with a fancy Intel microprocessor on it, emulating a really fast 040 with loads of cache.

Hmm....
_________________
[Insert Cool Signature here!]

Hmmm indeed ...

Anyone here an Xscale/x86 assembly guru?

Mind you, they run Linux

Huh, that looks like it would be a cool solution. We'd just have to figure out how to interface it with the '040 processor slot. I wonder what kind of 040 performance it would be able to emulate?
_________________
[Insert Cool Signature here!]

Well I gather the XScale is a descendant of StrongARM technology, so it's pretty efficient. And those ones are available at up to 600MHz, run ucLinux and have up to 204 pins of I/O (not sure if any of those are doubled up). So it should do the trick nicely

Running an assembly language emulator directly on the CPU would of course be the fastest, but the hardest to write. Perhaps easier would be running a stripped down ucLinux and an open-source emulator, with fresh code to do the pin I/O trickery.

In the Lost Pages of the MLA, the Gumstix came up in a thread about adding wireless to a Duo. (See their accessories page), but it never occurred to me to use them as a CPU upgrade as well.

Ideally you'd make the emu as modular and portable as possible, so people could emulate whatever old CPU they want

Well, this is one: PB 1400/166 CPU

Alas, it is not a G3.

Here is a G3: PB 1400 NewerTech G3/233.

My G3 was supposed to arrive today, but the US Postal Service didn't leave it at the door. Crummy $11 package, and they wouldn't leave it. Go figure that they'll leave $110 packages on the doorstep, but not an $11 package. Now I have to go down to the post office during work hours to pick it up...

Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!

Hmm... the other issue would be interfacing the gumstix with the '040 socket, and in certain small systems, having enough room.

How many pins are socketed '040s anyway?
_________________
[Insert Cool Signature here!]

FWIW, the Vimage G3/233 I bought does work. I picked it up at the post office two days ago.

Man, installing software on a Mac lacking ethernet and a CD-ROM is definitely a challenge. But after much trials and tribulations, I got 9.1 installed along with the ORiNCO 7.2 drivers giving me a fairly quick system. Having 64 MB of RAM definitely helps.

There appears to be some video artifacts on the 1400cs display, though. I haven't tracked down whether or not they are caused by the G3 or by something else...

Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!

Do they disappear when you squeeze the sides of the bezel at different spots? ie thumb and fingers on the back and front bezel besides the LCD, squeeze, artifact disappears? That's an indicator of a loose connection to the LCD, a common problem on 1400s. A friend "fixed" his with a judicious application of gaffa tape, but perhaps some cardboard wedges inside would be more aesthetic.

In the Apple Service Source manuals (I think) was a reference to an Apple service part, a shim, for this repair. The repair could probably be achieved with a shaped piece of anything, cut from PE milk bottle or sheet builders membrane or some such, that could be used to chock and immobilize the offending ribbon cable.

de
_________________
(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8

I've moved it. Intelligent discussion has resulted

I find this sonnet really interesting and was wondering if anyone had any insight on the the

Which seller was it? IC-China? I bought a bunch of ZIF G3 and G4 CPU's from him once.