Computer Stuff (again!)
Have finally rounded the corner on my computer project. Have been working on a less space consuming way to get all my music together, rip the 1000's of vinyl LP's I have and pipe videos to the living room over the network.
I present the evidence:
The collection of the scrap..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/BitsAndBobs.JPG
The general idea..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/IdeaSoFar.JPG
The assemblage of parts..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/DSC03011.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/DSC03012.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/DSC03015.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/tabletopCPU.jpg
The almost finished product..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/AlmostFinishedTabletopG3.jpg
This baby is an 1998 Apple Macintosh BeigeG3 motherboard (Rev.3), with 768MB RAM, a 1.0ghz Sonnet G4 CPU ZIF upgrade, a very rare Apple Bordeaux PERCH card (THE proverbial hen's tooth! - the one with the built-in Audio/Video and DVD decoder hardware), DVD-ROM, 120GB HD, FireWire, USB and a Radeon 9200 video card. It's got dual-boot and the installed operating systems are OS 9.2.2 and an XPostFacto install of Tiger OS X 10.4.11. It is fully connected to both the house network and internet.
All tucked into an attractive - COMPACT - shelf/table system that holds the turntable, cassette deck and home stereo system. I do all the vinyl ripping in OS 9, as the sound editing tool for .aiff format files is actually superior to what is freely available for OS X.
I fingered out a nifty video player - mplayer OSX - that will handle the video quite well, even across that 33mhz beige G3 PCI bus! While this isn't technically a machine that can handle video, for the most part, it makes a fair go of it. Eventually, I plan to lay my hands on a 'new world' Mac that will be built into a teevee stand and that will run videos straight off the web and can encode video.. But for now, I still have too much vinyl to sort through to really think on adding my VHS collection and a second computer project to the mix.
Fun!
Deb.
I present the evidence:
The collection of the scrap..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/BitsAndBobs.JPG
The general idea..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/IdeaSoFar.JPG
The assemblage of parts..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/DSC03011.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/DSC03012.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/DSC03015.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/tabletopCPU.jpg
The almost finished product..
http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/AlmostFinishedTabletopG3.jpg
This baby is an 1998 Apple Macintosh BeigeG3 motherboard (Rev.3), with 768MB RAM, a 1.0ghz Sonnet G4 CPU ZIF upgrade, a very rare Apple Bordeaux PERCH card (THE proverbial hen's tooth! - the one with the built-in Audio/Video and DVD decoder hardware), DVD-ROM, 120GB HD, FireWire, USB and a Radeon 9200 video card. It's got dual-boot and the installed operating systems are OS 9.2.2 and an XPostFacto install of Tiger OS X 10.4.11. It is fully connected to both the house network and internet.
All tucked into an attractive - COMPACT - shelf/table system that holds the turntable, cassette deck and home stereo system. I do all the vinyl ripping in OS 9, as the sound editing tool for .aiff format files is actually superior to what is freely available for OS X.
I fingered out a nifty video player - mplayer OSX - that will handle the video quite well, even across that 33mhz beige G3 PCI bus! While this isn't technically a machine that can handle video, for the most part, it makes a fair go of it. Eventually, I plan to lay my hands on a 'new world' Mac that will be built into a teevee stand and that will run videos straight off the web and can encode video.. But for now, I still have too much vinyl to sort through to really think on adding my VHS collection and a second computer project to the mix.
Fun!
Deb.