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My first big Conquest!
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-15 08:33:05
Will have more info later on today.... going to head out around 5:30 to pick up a bunch of goodies!
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-03-15 10:39:43
😎
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-15 18:22:49
I'm back! And let my just say... I hit the motherlode! Filled the trunk of my Dad's 2011 Impala.

I am flat out pooped... but let me just say, I have TONS of stuff now. Systems, keyboards, mice, accelerator cards, memory, hard drives, floppy drives, etc.
Posted by: jsarchibald on 2012-03-15 18:33:35
Nice, I know the feeling. I'm still sorting through it all a year later!
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-15 18:49:57
I'll start with the systems.

7600/120 - Works... has a 300MHz CPU card

8500/120 - Works

LC II - Works

6100/66 - Works

7100/80AV - Works
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-15 20:54:05
Hmm... I got a whole box of these Newer Technology accelerator cards... not sure what they go to. The one card goes into a slot, and the other goes into a PDS/Nubus? slot. They are attached via an orange ribbon. The number on the card is DT370C1.

BTW.. I got all of this stuff for free!
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-03-15 21:35:32
Those'd be for the NuBus PPC Macs, the ribbon connects the HPV or AV VidCard to the PDS passthru on the Accelerator, the NuBus Bracket just holds the Video Card.

Very nice haul! :approve:

Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-03-15 22:11:26
It's time for the pictures 🙂

Good luck for such a nice conquest!
Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-03-15 23:40:55
Awesome! I too am excited to see the pictures. The only thing better than free stuff is tons of free stuff! 😎

Posted by: jruschme on 2012-03-16 03:22:24
Any USB keyboards/mice? I've got a PowerLogix G3/350 that would go nice in your 8500. 🙂

JR
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-16 09:51:17
No USB stuff. All ADB. Everything is 90's Mac stuff.

Along with the systems listed above -

Many, MANY drive sleds... plastic and metal ones

10 hard drives

12 floppy drives

Lots of memory, ROMs, cache, VRAM

1 Monitor (which I've needed for a LONG time)

6 CD-Rom drives, a ClubMac external SCSI CD drive (Yay!)

Numerous SCSI ribbons, a few external SCSI cables

Many Accelerators and video cards to go with them, including a Sonnet Crescendo 500MHz G3 card

6 Keyboards, 5 or 6 mice, and a Kensington Turbo roller ball mouse

A few Ethernet cards

And numerous bezels, many of which have broken tabs on them.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I'm pooped yet again sorting through it. I'll try to get some pictures in a bit.
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-16 12:32:07
Hmm..... noticed that this 6100/66 has no ROM simm or cache. Will the ROM simm out of the 7100/80AV work?
Posted by: Bunsen on 2012-03-17 11:33:37
IIRC, the 6100 shipped with no ROM SIMM (ie, ROM is on the logic board). Try booting it and see. If I am wrong, the 7100 ROM should work.

Many Accelerators and video cards to go with them, including a Sonnet Crescendo 500MHz G3 card
Always nice 🙂

The one card goes into a slot, and the other goes into a PDS/Nubus? slot. They are attached via an orange ribbon.
Is the ribbon cable permanently attached, or socketed? In the 6100, the ribbon cable is not required - the video card plugs straight into the accelerator. In the 7100 or 8100, the video card would collide with other components, so the ribbon cable allows you to move it over to a Nubus slot space.

The second card is almost certainly a video card - Apple AV with a Mac video port and two S-Video ports, or HPV, with only the Mac video port. When the accelerator is not present, this goes directly into the PDS slot.

If you post a picture, we can probably ID the whole thing for sure. In fact, throw us some pics of anything you're not sure about 🙂

If you do have the socketed ribbon cable, that would let you mix & match accelerators & video cards in the 7100 😎

Posted by: Mk.558 on 2012-03-17 12:58:40
Kensington Turbo roller ball mouse
Can I have it?

Assuming it looks like the one I've been looking for...
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-18 09:06:59
I am actually quite excited to have an ADB rollerball mouse... always thought it went great with the compact macs...

Anyways, here are the pics. Just a note... yes the boxes are dirty, and yes some of the stuff is dirty. It was all in a garage. I haven't cleaned anything yet. I've been really busy over the past few days.



































And this came with a white ball as well -
Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-03-18 17:21:30
I love those extended keyboards. Not sure if I like the first gen for their "clickier" keys or the second gen for the adjustable tilt better. And you got an external SCSI CD drive...I know you wanted one of those!

What's with the colored keys on the Keyboard II?
Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-18 17:27:05
Yeah, the External drive is nice... it's a ClubMac one. Works very well. As for the colored keys, they definitely aren't the OE keys.... it looks like an aftermarket set installed for a certain program.
Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-03-18 20:26:37
Those are odd keys on the Keyboard II...I thought the letters looked bigger when I first looked but dismissed it and only mentioned the colored ones. Now I notice the blank keys, "Erase"instead of "delete", and use of capitolization like "Shift" unlike the two examples I have here without going down into The Dungeon. Shift, caps lock,etc are all lower case on the normal keys. I can't quite read the green "return" key to see if the label is different. Odd keys! Anyone seen those key caps before?

Here's an image I borrowed from Wikipedia so anyone reading can see them both in this thread.
Posted by: Byrd on 2012-03-19 00:57:13
That tub 'o accelerators and various cards would be a dream find - apart from the PPC/G3 accelerators and some HPV graphics cards, what else in in there?

JB
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