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| Posted by: Schmoburger on 2013-07-26 23:30:19 Bjaisus... that excess represents about a third of my entire monochrome compact collection of all models from 512K to Classic II. Mcdermd, you are a madman! :lol: 😎 | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-07-27 00:09:19 Sometimes too much is too much. | |
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-07-27 01:13:16Bjaisus... that excess represents about a third of my entire monochrome compact collection of all models from 512K to Classic II. Mcdermd, you are a madman! :lol: 😎I think I have two more SEs to add but you can see most of my Compacts in my desktops gallery | |
| Posted by: macinbot on 2013-07-28 00:42:52 That Quadra 950 is a looker. One of my top 5 favorite case designs. How much did your wife have to layout for that one? | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-07-28 00:47:02 I paid them $50 without testing but it has logic board issues I've been getting help with here. If all ease fails, macdrone has a 950 board for me that was last known to run well. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-07-28 08:53:41 Dang! I was considering offering my MoBo just so's I can hack the 950's case. }🙂 | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-07-28 11:37:56 Well give him your motherboard then and me the power supply so I can hack my 950 board into something. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-07-29 08:18:44 The PSU would have been retained for the hack, but now that I've played with it a bit, I'm not sure I can make all the parts fit into the 950 case. :-/ | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-08-21 18:03:40 Picked up a dual 1GHz Quicksilver with 1GB RAM, GeForce 4, UW SCSI card, ATA card, DVD, and ZIP. it also has a "hidden" serial card that plugs into the modem port with a ribbon to a mini-DIN serial port in the card slot cover. | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2013-08-21 18:35:08 you should throw that serial card up for 30 bucks it sounds quite useful to the right people! | |
| Posted by: volvo242gt on 2013-08-21 20:58:07 Ah, the Griffin gPort. Had one of those on my old G3... -J | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-08-22 08:24:12 Here is the Serial card. It is a "Stealth Serial" from GeeThree and they retail for $49 (if the company still exists). The handiest feature seems to be Localtalk compatibility in OS 9. I hadn't ever seen one of these before:   | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2013-08-22 08:47:36 man... i find that to be pretty cool for some reason. | |
| Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2013-08-22 09:37:53 Cool because it brought a bit of Old World into the New World. Many people bought these solely for Localtalk connectivity since that was the only advantage these ports had over USB-to-serial adapters. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-08-22 10:49:02 I liked the GDock II that was out very briefly. It has 2x Serial Ports, 2x ADB Ports, a Parallel port, and a 3.5" ATA drive slot. Connected over the USB port and sat on top of your G3/G4 style case. I have a GDock I on my G4. Would love to find a GDock II. | |
| Posted by: volvo242gt on 2013-08-22 11:04:34 Hmmm, cool. That's a bit different than the gPort which mounted in place of the modem jack. -J | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-08-23 15:00:26 Found an SE/30 at the university sale today. I convinced them to sell it whole with the hard drive after bringing a 7.5.3 boot disk with SCSI Director to wipe it with. Does anyone know a vintage formatting util that zero writes? | |
| Posted by: cb88 on 2013-08-23 19:58:22 See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/456419?start=0&tstart=0 The relevant bit... Drive Setup (Zero all data under Initialization Options) can overwrite with zeros. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-09-13 21:56:19 I was able to pick up a IIci from the LEM swap list this week for $15. It had a dead logic board but I was able to find the rotten trace and get it running. On to retrobriting. | |
| Posted by: volvo242gt on 2013-09-14 00:49:20 Cool, so no more need for the one I have, or do you want a second one? -J | |
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