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The biggest haul I’ve ever made.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-02 16:42:49 Now starting to go through. There is a ton of these sales and training DVDs. Anyone know what these are for and if anyone could use them?
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2020-03-02 17:12:42 How does a IIfx end up in the pile of not worth selling? The sales DVDs should be ripped to ISO and dumped at archive.org
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-02 17:17:01 How does a IIfx end up in the pile of not worth selling? The sales DVDs should be ripped to ISO and dumped at archive.org 1: You got me. I saw it and grabbed it with no questions asked. I didn't care what was inside. 2: All materials are going to be archived and uploaded to various sites. At the end of it, a real archivist can have the discs. I'm running out of space.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-02 17:30:19 Organized the floppies. Incredible amount of early system revisions piled under the system software stack. Hopefully it’s all still readable too. If anyone wants the Lisa disks, I don’t need them. Anyone need an image of the PowerCache IIci disk? Also: there’s a bunch of audio tapes with the MacWrite, etc boxes. Has anyone recorded these? I can bust out my tape deck and digitize them.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-02 18:26:31 Inside the IIfx: Just waiting to explode and utterly destroy this beast. No one must have been in here who knew anything, or they’d already be out. Counting my blessings on this one!
Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-03-02 18:32:13 Wow, how much ram does it have?
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-02 18:35:29 A good question. It has two video cards but that’s about it. This will need to be overhauled, recapped, cleaned, traces, and re-batteried before I take a look. If anyone knows how to read RAM chips (I don’t, I’m happy to take a look. Ill start a separate resto thread on the machine.
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2020-03-03 06:09:51 -About 10 Mac 128k/512k/Plus/SE logic boards in various states (I’ll bet all need repairs). If you have a Mac 128K motherboard, or a 512K motherboard with socketed RAM in that stack, I'd be interested.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-03 06:26:10 If you have a Mac 128K motherboard, or a 512K motherboard with socketed RAM in that stack, I'd be interested. Tomorrow/this weekend I’ll be rifling through the boards to see what is there and In what quantity. I’ll let you know.
Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-03-03 07:52:02 If anyone knows how to read RAM chips (I don’t, I’m happy to take a look. I AltaVistad, and found this: Size or capacity of SIMM Look at the four digits to the left, these often carry information about the number of bits in the chip. A 4256 indicates 256 K bits arranged in sets of four, for a total of 1 Mb. "1000" indicates 1 MB of bits arranged in one set. With some memory, the last one or two digits may be changed to indicate different kinds of memory; there are 1 MB chips that end with 4256, 4257, and 4258. In this case, round the last digits to an even 256 or thousand. Three-chip SIMMs have two larger chips that are quadruple the capacity of the third chip. The third chip is dedicated to parity data.
Posted by: btober on 2020-03-03 08:04:06 Ill start a separate resto thread on the machine. It'd be great to see this come back to life! Adam's records indicated that this one needed quite a bit of work (it does not power on currently), but wasn't any more specific than that. Information like this played a significant role in prioritizing what we would attempt to sell and what we would view as a contribution to the community.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-03 08:31:39 It is a great piece, and I’m going to be happy to work on it.
Posted by: sstaylor on 2020-03-03 12:09:13 Some of those sales and training CDs and DVDs can be cool. Lots of product photography, line art, typefaces, presentations, brochures, that sort of thing. I've seen some with radio ads. It's been a long time since I've seen one though, so who knows?
Posted by: trag on 2020-03-03 12:35:20 If anyone knows how to read RAM chips (I don’t, I’m happy to take a look. If you present an image from which we can read the markings on the RAM SIMM chips, we can figure out the capacity from the datasheet(s) for the chips on the SIMM boards.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-04 06:10:56 RAM chip info in in the new rest thread! I count 10 logic boards: Two 128k, one 512k, five Mac Plus, Two SE, and one SE/30 that it appears someone worked on previously. Here's a puzzler to me: what the heck is this contraption?
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-03-04 06:17:13 Here's a puzzler to me: what the heck is this contraption? Looks like the power button and keyboard jack from a Lisa to me?
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-04 06:30:18 I have no Lisa knowledge...so I guess so? Anyone want it?
Posted by: lisa2 on 2020-03-04 08:23:04 Looks like the power button and keyboard jack from a Lisa to me? Correct, this is a the Lisa power button and kb jack assembly. Someone will want it.
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-03-04 08:27:43 I mean, this would be a useful spare for me, and I'd imagine for anyone else who has a Lisa and is neurotic about availability of parts 🙂 (or has a failed power button or keyboard jack!)
Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-10 10:08:20 If you are interested, just send me a PM. Unless I find a free Lisa somewhere, I’ll never have one! Would rather it be useful to someone.
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