Monthly ArchiveMarch 2006
hack rickk on 09 Mar 2006
Essential Amiga Software
As the AmigaOS 3.x is basically 10 years old, there’s quite some room for improvement. Ofcourse Haage & Partner released OS 3.9 some time ago, which includes a lot of useful new stuff, but still, there’s room for improvement. Here’s a writeup on the stuff that I like, note that all applies to OS 3.x on “classic” m68k hardware, as I don’t have any other Amiga system running for now.
hack rickk on 09 Mar 2006
Replacing an iMac G3 harddrive
I’ve never minded much about the noise my various computers generated, but recently, listening to the whine of my PC’s harddrive, something just “snapped” inside my head, and I declared war on noise - I just couldn’t stand it anymore.Guess everyone has it’s limits when it comes to this, and well, I guess after 15 years I reached mine.
The PC was quickly quitened down that same day by replacing the old Maxtor bootdisk with a Seagate Barracuda and a new CPU fan, but then another sound started bugging me: the old Quantum Fireball SE HD from my Girlfriend’s iMac DV made an ‘unbearable’ bearing noise when idle and loud knocking sounds when grinding. It also was too slow and too small, and okay, I just needed to finally rip open that iMac to poke around inside 
drive rickk on 09 Mar 2006
BMW E30: 325i Motronic 1.0 Information
After I installed a rebuilt 325i engine in my (previously L-Jetronic) 320i I had a lot of “fun” getting it to idle correctly.
It idled, but not very well and I had occasional troubles with stalling or hard starting every time I fixed some component of the system.
In the end, I got so tired of it I just decided to check EVERYTHING and get everything back to factory spec. Unfortunately, the early Euro 325is (without catalyst) used Motronic 1.0, which is not documented very well, in workshop manuals or on the web. Continue Reading »