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No stream for me Saturday. Dealing with another “wall missing from my house” situation.

I made a YT short to document the impact of changing the resistors on the bottom of a Kingston TurboChip 486 upgrade CPU. Turns out R10 -> R8 makes a difference to the L1 cache speed! youtube.com/shorts/VB251...

Documenting resistors under the Kingston TurboChip 486 upgrade processor #retrocomputing #vintagepcYouTube video by BigBadBenchyoutube.com

The EPA under this regime does not care about EP.

On Saturday's noon EDT stream, we're going to play with @polpo.org 's latest invention: the PicoIDE (a Raspberry Pi-based IDE emulator). The goal is to add this to my wood / glass /enameled wire single board 486. Let's see how easy / hard it is to set up and use! youtube.com/live/AFylWhS...

Playing around with the PicoIDE to upgrade my "Single-board" wood external enameled wire ISA 486 PCYouTube video by BigBadBenchyoutube.com

I needed one of these last week!

I deleted my post about the NH guy, since I probably misinterpreted a love for AI slop and a confusing sense of humor as MAGA.

Grrr. As if doing a hard drive swap in a G3 iBook isn’t bad enough, there’s a leaky super cap waiting.

Two topics for Saturday's noon EDT stream: 1. compare the performance of PCCHIPS M912 and Asus VL/I-486SV2G 486 motherboards with 1MB of cache 2. try to fix my Orchid Kelvin MPEG (Cirrus Logic 5434) VLB video card youtube.com/live/GnpQYva...

Trying to repair my Orchid Kelvin MPEG & Asus vs. PCCHIPS 1MB cache 486 motherboard comparisonYouTube video by BigBadBenchyoutube.com

At the end of yesterday’s stream, we had a 0000000F / 00000033 Sad Mac. I thought it was the ADB, but after pulling and cleaning the SCSI chip more thoroughly, we’re good to go!

This week has been pretty terrible so far, but there's work to do. So let's work on a crusty Macintosh SE/30 board Wednesday noon EDT. #vintagemac youtube.com/live/S5G70U-...

Working on another leaky capacitor-induced crusty Macintosh SE/30 logic board... will it chime?YouTube video by BigBadBenchyoutube.com

On Saturday's noon EDT stream, we're going to see if we can get any acceleration out of a Macintosh Display Card 8•24 GC that is missing cache chips (and has other issues). I'll also be showing off a new trick that BlueSCSI can do- functioning as a video card! youtube.com/live/r5RdXcx...

Attempting repair of a NuBus Macintosh Display Card 8•24 GC and showing BlueSCSI video out functionYouTube video by BigBadBenchyoutube.com

Does anyone happen to have v 7.0 control panel for the Macintosh Display Card 8-24 GC? I'm trying to get this one working, but it is missing two impossible to find cache chips. V 7.0 supposedly doesn't use the cache as opposed to v 7.0.1 which is more easy to find savagetaylor.com/TIL/TIL10405...

Turns out I just needed to install 7.1.2 and everything works fine. Sigh. So I’ll cancel this stream. But I will have a fun BlueSCSI trick to show off during Saturday’s normal stream!

Gonna have to reschedule this till tomorrow. I hurt my back pretty badly this morning and I don't think I can speak coherently.

I would consider this type of medication gender-affirming care. Strange that the “alpha males” don’t want to see it that way.

We previously recapped/restored this Mac Classic, but I found a couple of weird issues: 1. it makes an odd static sound during bootup 2. it locks up if you hit any of the front buttons Let's see if we can figure out what's wrong Wednesday at 3:00 EDT. #vintagemacintosh youtube.com/live/r5RdXcx...

Diagnosing a Color Classic whose front buttons cause it to lock up (and weird startup sound)YouTube video by BigBadBenchyoutube.com