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| Look what I found in the woods! | |
| Posted by: tanaquil on 2015-12-12 19:55:31 That is fantastic!! Thanks for sharing. | |
Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-12-13 11:57:13Pardon my ignorance, but is that a horror movie reference?Yes, The Blair Witch Project. | |
| Posted by: avadondragon on 2015-12-13 15:40:49 Well I had time to do some more testing and I now have a spare working CRT! I think I have a friend that managed to break the yoke on their SE/30 a decade ago I'll probably give it to them if they still have the machine.  I also hooked up the hard drive to my PowerMac7200. It spun up and was recognized by system profiler but sadly I couldn't read any Mac partition info. I think one of the heads fused to the platter judging by the ting ting ting noise it is making. | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2015-12-13 19:20:21 Congrats! | |
| Posted by: XBHS1997 on 2015-12-13 23:59:49 Wow! That's the kind of find I'd love to make! 🙂 Great! | |
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2015-12-14 00:03:50 Too bad it wasn't a Lisa. That would've been something! c | |
| Posted by: Tiptoeturtle on 2015-12-14 15:21:20 Maybe it was hibernating. | |
| Posted by: trag on 2015-12-15 05:06:24 Nah, that's only bears... But you know what they say bears do in the woods. Perhaps there's a magical bear out there that excretes old Macs. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2015-12-15 06:19:03 Makes sense, they're yummy! | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-12-15 10:10:47 No, don't turn it on! Â They say that if you watch the screen of a Mac you find buried in the woods, you'll die 3 days later! :O | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-12-15 10:11:03 I'm too late! Â Arrrrrrgh! | |
Posted by: djcommie on 2015-12-17 13:09:20Too bad it wasn't a Lisa. That would've been something!I once found a Lisa at the local ancient ewaste recycler in horrible shape (got it for free) and put it on eBay. I documented the condition well and mentioned it was likely only good for a case and bracketry and it sold $244. The buyer gave me neutral feedback saying it wasn't in very good condition... The buyer was the Computer History Museum. | |
| Posted by: james_w on 2015-12-18 01:47:43 Brilliant conquest and story! 😀 | |
| Posted by: uridium on 2015-12-18 03:35:56 That Intergraph monitor.. that's off a Clipper UNIX box. Probably a 2xxx series. I used to run those on some 2400's and a 6800 with CLIX. Dead tech sadly, though it was a lovely UNIX and the Clipper RISC (C[1,2,3,4]00's) processors for the day were pretty nice. Quite unobtanium these days. Monitors were easy to get working off VGA if the card supplied SOG signals correctly. | |
| Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-12-21 07:18:53 I actually love this thread so much, I could just play billiards in the rain in my underpants! 😀 | |
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