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| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-13 08:24:34 So, I found this in the trash this morning ...  No idea what to do with it but I couldn't leave it. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-03-13 09:22:51 That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry! What you do with it is find some games for it. 😀 | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-13 10:16:20 The raster is out on the monitor (very bright, diagonal lines) and while I had it on, magic smoke came out 🙁 Time to inspect the power supply and find the burning death, | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-13 10:57:34 Found it:  | |
Posted by: jruschme on 2012-03-13 11:15:21That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry!Yes. A well used-one would have the silver worn off where the user's hands rested on the case, just below the keyboard. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-13 12:39:43 It has a vinyl cover with it so I assume that's why it looks as good as it does. It smells like old garage. If I put it next to the Apple IIe and the Apple ///, the room will start to look like my Jr. High computer lab. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-20 14:39:53 Ah HA! SUCCESS!  Next step: find software to use with it. I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone? | |
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2012-03-20 15:23:00I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?ADT is designed to write out 16-sector disk images. Are TRS-80 disks in 16-sector format? | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-20 15:31:56 Good question. To be honest, I'm pretty unfamiliar with the Tandy systems. They were there in school but everyone used the Apple IIs so I don't have a lot of exposure. Time to start some research tonight. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-25 21:56:35 I shouldn't have but I cleared out Mark Kronquist's garage sale leftovers: 15" Original graphite Apple Studio Display with adapter 3x eMate 300s MacBottom 20MB hard drive 2x Powerbook 165 (one with working SCSI drive) 12" Powerbook G4 867MHz - drop damage on a corner but fully functional Airport Graphite base station Airport Snow dual ethernet base station 2x Wallstreet floppy drives 2x Wallstreet batteries 14" iBook battery Powerbook Duo battery + case 45w Powerbook adapter (small barrel) 2x 512MB iPod Shuffles Extended Keyboard Extended Keyboard II Keyspan serial-to-USB adapter 4-port USB hub iomega Clik drive 3x Sony HD 10-pack floppies 2x Original Airport cards Apple ATI Radeon 7500 ADC card Original ADB mouse SD card to CF adapter Apple Pro Speakers Tangerine iBook 300MHz logic board and bottom case Tangerine USB floppy drive Quicktake 100 camera A few phone net adapters Palm visor Texas Instruments TI99-4A with Cassette deck (and three cassettes!) | |
| Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-03-25 22:16:41 One can never have too much of such stuff! Good find! That MacBottom-drive is really good find also. Rarely see those, atleast here. Quicktake would be interesting, mm.. maybe need to start looking for one. Thanks for the tip. Haven't seen those for ages (we sold few of those back in time), never seen eMate. Possibly not even sold here. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-25 22:43:04 The Studio Display is one of the original dark blue LCD displays with the old DB 15-pin Macintosh video connector. I'll use it with the Power Macintosh G3 then! | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-28 15:39:46 Picked up a Platinum Mac Plus with a Radius Accelerator 16 card in it. With keyboard/mouse, bag, floppies, 150MB external SCSI HDD and Apple 3.5" drive for $30.   | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2012-03-28 20:16:10 is the MacBottom serial? or SCSI? if its serial, did you find a driver? | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-29 11:01:32 Unfortunately, it's just the common SCSI version. | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2012-03-29 21:10:43 eh... well I figured i would ask, I assume only a handful exist in this world, and I have one of them. lol. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-04-09 08:48:26 Grabbed a Quadra 610 from the dumpster. The cover has broken tabs on the back but in decent shape other than that. 25MHz 68040, 32MB RAM, 1GB SCSI hard drive. No cards, no CD. Boots from the internal drive into 7.1. | |
| Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-04-10 15:22:24 ...And the sweet scores keep rolling in. Given the fact that it got tossed into a dumpster I'd say you're lucky all that's broken are the tabs. I opened a WGS 6150 and Performa 6116CD both with tabs still on them and managed to get them open and shut without breaking anything. (Well, anything else...I broke the bezel on the 6150's CD-ROM in the first place prompting the need to open both...) A Quadra 610 was the first file server I used at home. Complete with PhoneNet to a IIcx, my Power Mac 5300/100 and PB 5300cs. Awww yeeeaaahhh... It was later replaced with a 950 from eBay. Actually I think they were both from eBay...back in the late 90s when they could be had for shipping plus a few bucks. | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2012-04-10 20:16:53 Shipping was also much cheaper in the late 1990's. Actually from what I recall 68K macs were not that cheap until 2000+, there was a massive amount of dumping in 2000-2004 on ebay. | |
| Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-04-11 19:52:50 True on both, actually. Now that I think of it in the late 1990s they were cheap but usually not less than the shipping cost. (Sometimes they were...depended on the model and the deal you found.) It was the early 2000s when I started taking in a lot of 68k and early PPCs for next to nothing. A good time to play with all things retro Mac. Much harder to get such a variety of 68k Macs on the cheap these days. Then again, it's all in finding the right deal. The proof is in this thread...like the aforementioned Dumpster Quadra! | |
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