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Katheryn's (k24a1)'s conquests
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-18 13:42:47
Japanese A1048 arrived. Oh my god, it's so nice to type on... and I have never seen anything so fresh from Apple's older lineups!
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-20 06:02:54
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Well well well... what have I done 😅

Shipping will cost a fortune (Sendico also has protective packaging if that helps..) but I have wanted one of these dead or alive since I was 7 years old... I am planning to put a better board in, though.
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-22 05:40:29
5210 arrived at Sendico's warehouse. Chose all the protection options and even stated that it's a very fragile system, and also opted for Surface mail due to current space constraints. 6360 and iMac G5 may both arrive tomorrow. Hopefully by 3 months time I'll still be around... lol
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-23 03:40:32
I should be receiving the iMac G5 and the 6360 today. Hopefully this G5 won't lock up on me like the last two G5 based systems I had did! I have been conditioned to know that when later PowerMacs have lots of wear that I know something will go wrong in the next day or 2... Luckily, my eMacs are not a part of this... yet.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2022-03-23 11:14:19
@k24a1 You like eMacs, don't you?

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Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-23 11:15:26
Why, yes, I do like eMacs! How could you tell?
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(I'm sorry, I had to do this at some point.)
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-24 03:31:28
Received the 6360 and the iMac G5 yesterday and went through a painful process of repasting the latter. I thought of delidding the northbridge Kodiak chip, but then I got CELL delid PTSD.

Either way, it works like a charm and I also have the restore discs from a teacher who gave me some old PPC OS X software. Any other 20" iSight G5 owners out there? I love mine so far, much better than previous iMac G5s but a bit more painful to service...
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-31 17:29:48
SHE LIVES! I have decided 1.06GHz is a safe maximum for these cards.
Thanks to @mints for the replacement card and @EvieSigma for sending me the original parts (still using the heatsink) months back. We're back in business! 🙂
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-03-31 18:08:45
Aaaand family photo of the little desk machines at the moment. 🙂
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-05-10 10:15:45
The 5210CD arrives today.
Over the past 2 months I didn't get much other than some junk laptops and a bike stolen from me. :/
I am also waiting on a couple of hi-spec Toshiba Tecra A9 units to mess with too.
Posted by: croissantking on 2022-05-10 14:42:06
Do share pictures of the 6360 and its logic board. I once had a 6320 of my own, and it really was a slow beast (but not as slow as my PowerBook 5300c was).

I’ve never seen a 6360 for sale in the UK, either in the old issues of MacUser or on eBay. I assume they didn’t sell them here.
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-05-10 15:21:14
I need to get it out of the closet but here are some pics I took a while back.
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-05-11 05:49:58
So the Macintosh Performa 5210 I was hoping to have intact... didn't arrive intact. Honestly I was very much overconfident with this machine, but that isn't something a lot of precision work with Gorilla plastic super glue and a good set of puzzle solving skills can't fix.
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-05-26 06:47:28
Graduating high school later today, and went home with this after the last walk through the hallways! A 2003 dual 2GHz G5 with a Radeon 9600 Pro... always wanted a working G5 since a while back when both of my other G5s died.20220526_094206.jpg
Posted by: LaPorta on 2022-05-26 07:14:12
My middle and high schools are where I got a good chunk of my collection in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-06-02 11:02:19
So last night after my joyride with my grandmother I picked up a Compaq Presario SR5123WM from her house.

And now after restoring the factory image for fun, I can see why people ostracize vista. RTM was god awful.
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2022-06-02 13:06:49
Vista was...."fun"... 7 was much better, of course.
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2022-06-02 13:09:37
Does anyone even use Vista anymore? I went from XP to 7 and pretty much only use 10 on a couple machines because I have to.
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2022-06-02 13:22:20
Does anyone even use Vista anymore? I went from XP to 7 and pretty much only use 10 on a couple machines because I have to.

I don't think very many people do. There probably are some masochists out there who do use it, but they'd be few and far between.
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2022-06-02 13:46:24
I don't think very many people do. There probably are some masochists out there who do use it, but they'd be few and far between.
Guilty…
I run Vista on a few old laptops from the 2007-2009 time period. It honestly runs really great fully patched. 7 is better but I’m “that guy” who loves both.
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