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Posted by: markyb86 on 2012-10-25 16:03:21 are those covers on the speakers detachable? or are those just a different version? I have the whites but no covers.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-10-25 17:02:44 These are the stock, USB G4 Cube speakers, not the Pro speakers. They have detachable covers. Although, my new-in-box Pro Speakers have the same covers:
Posted by: markyb86 on 2012-10-25 17:56:29 They're USB too? not that awkward minijack!??! ah man I have to find some of these. I like the black better too. Mine are not really white any longer and have colored scuffs, etc. Those black ring ones are so much nicer looking haha. Congrats on getting your monitor together. Those really are nice units.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-10-25 18:02:41 The Pro Speakers are Apple Audio jack. The G4 Cube speakers are USB.
Posted by: markyb86 on 2012-10-25 18:03:47 Ahhh gotcha 🙂
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-10-27 18:24:22 My friend Mike was kind enough to pass this on today: It's cool in that it's loaded (for the time) with fast SCSI and has a neato "Server" sticker on the front. Other than that, it's a pretty unremarkable 233 MHz G3 Minitower.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-28 07:07:33 Is that a matching LW to the right? pica?
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-10-28 08:08:35 Haha, no ... it's a matching Power Mac G3 minitower.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-28 16:36:43 I sort of figured that from the lettering, but I never realized that the curved bezel for the CD was so low. Still, it'd make a handsomely matched pair.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-10-28 18:53:47 Although I've never seen one mounted there, I guess I don't see why you couldn't.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-10-29 08:50:11 Another yellowed, Platinum Plus found at the dumpster. I have too many just like it but I just can't bring myself to leave these things there.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-29 10:55:43 Parts is parts . . . 😱) Although I've never seen one mounted there . . . I guess that'd be the zip bezel in the top right corner of your pic. Looked like the outfeed for a LW at first glance, I still think it would have made a handsome pair.
Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-10-30 04:42:27 Well if we ever get together I would love to get a few of those macs off of you. I never see macs in dumpsters, but where I'm at no to many people haven't already dumped there old computers.
Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-10-31 01:03:07 Another yellowed, Platinum Plus found at the dumpster. I have too many just like it but I just can't bring myself to leave these things there. Thank god you rescued her! Those minitowers reminds me of the work mine needs. Adding an ZIP drive to it with front bezel (taken from 9600/300, fits perfectly).
Posted by: uniserver on 2012-11-13 21:47:18 here is the 165c you can see the issue with the hinge, the rest of the laptop is almost mint.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-11-15 08:45:57 Found a sad looking 7500 with some beefy upgrades this morning. It is ugly, dirty and the plastics on the IO area have some big chips out of them. It fires right up and actually holds some upgrades. I found a PowerLogix G3 processor, 512 MB RAM, Sonnet Tempo ATA133 card in the PCI slot and an 18 GB, 50-pin Barracuda SCSI drive inside. The PowerLogix splash screen reports the CPU speed at 1000 MHz (?) but Mac OS 9.1's System Profiler reports it at 557 MHz. Not sure why they are different but it is a PowerForce 750GX G3 1 GHz processor with 1 MB cache. Maybe I'll try installing the PowerLogix software.
Posted by: uniserver on 2012-11-15 09:06:44 wow those machines are beastly! very rugged! my 7500 is my main localtalk/appletalk server, its always on, just sits there and works 🙂 They are so cool because you can load them up with ram, upgrade the cpu, and they have PCI slots. also i appreciate the built in 10bT , no adaptors needed, but have AAUI as well if needed. 🙂 Also I use the TV in, with my Apple II, then i don't have to lug a monitor around.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-12-13 23:20:55 It's been a while since I picked up any hardware as its mostly been restore discs recently along with some trades for a PowerBook 165c and an LC II. But today my friend told me he had a little surprise for me. When I dropped by, he dropped a pair of these bad boys on me I'm stoked. Now I have the old style and the new style.
Posted by: TheMacGuy on 2012-12-14 01:07:58 Honestly, I don't know what those are. Are they, (pause for a second) joysticks? I don't ever remember seeing those. Nice nab with the 165c. How are hinges and plastics on it?
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-12-14 01:14:28 They're paddle input devices. All sorts of games used paddle controllers back then (the Atari 2600 came with paddles and joysticks). The paddle control was really popularized by Pong (and later on Breakout!).
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