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Posted by: flyingtoasteroven on 2008-05-11 19:21:56
Spent part of the weekend in Boston. Score!

IIx in II case

IIx

IIfx (little worried about this one. I've never seen rust on a 3.5 dd before)

IIci in shambles (drive tray was left unsecured, crushed part of mobo; no PS)

IIci no hd

IIsi shot motherboard -- watch your batteries!!

3 PB 1XXs

Used Quadra 800 w/ original box, disks and manuals

SE FDHD

5 Monitors

5 Keyboards

2 or 3 mice

2 external SCSI CD drives

Cords and drives (internal and external) equal in approximate proportion, though not in type to the above hardware, w/ many drives pulled.

I lost the AAUI adapter. D'oh.

Some old sw in box, should have gotten more but couldn't fit. circa '90 Macworlds (from just before my own subscription)

And I passed on two more monitors and an iMac blueberry, due to flaky behavior and lack of room in the car.

The Mac IIs I'm a little worried about, as they were left on a porch for the better part of a drizzly week. Mabye longer. And had some, how should I say, unneccessary surgery. Net cost $100 gas/tolls (defrayed by primary purpose of visiting friends. Or secondary.)

Stashed them in basement. Stay tuned for future weekends when I'll see how/if they all work, and details on what they had in them.

And a nifty 16" square promotional poster about the IIfx detailing all the crazy things they did to make it run like heck.
Posted by: JRL on 2008-05-11 19:45:09
What PB 1x0's did you get?
Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-05-11 23:52:01
And a nifty 16" square promotional poster about the IIfx detailing all the crazy things they did to make it run like heck.
Whilst I'm pretty impressed with your haulage, that's the one thing of which I'm truly envious.
Posted by: Temetka on 2008-05-12 02:08:39
IIfx's are good machines from what I remember of my youth. A scan of that poster would be cool.

Oh and congrats on a great haul.
Posted by: flyingtoasteroven on 2008-05-12 13:25:32
I can't remember for sure but PBs 145, 150, 170 are my guess. A PB1400 with cat vomit damage (!) was lost (also owner had stuff on HD he did not want to give up).

The poster was from a second guy who had had a crazy assortment of mac stuff through the years (most of which have long since dispersed), and was not originally for the taking (as was a set of TAM goodies). Apparently he had been given a free TAM by Apple after 2 or 3 failed repair jobs on his Pismo. A true Edsel of a mac if there ever were one, 'cause that would have been three years after the TAM was new. After a long, interesting, rambling chat not unlike this paragraph, he agreed to throw the poster in. It is now stashed safely in a new basement. Mabye I'll frame it. It'd need two sides because its a picture on one side of the motherboard, and the other with overlaid notes about the tech. used.

Incidentally the physical 3.5" DDs are all so encrusted with dust/dirt I'm not sure how to clean them. Does anyone here have any tips to give me beyond the usual sprayed air? Do they still make cleaning kits?
Posted by: JRL on 2008-05-12 13:30:52
Would you sell any of the PB's to me? ;D

Posted by: tmtomh on 2008-05-12 14:10:44
That's a heck of a liberation - congrats! [^]

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Posted by: JRL on 2008-05-19 07:08:40
So, any updates? BTW, congrats!
Posted by: flyingtoasteroven on 2008-05-20 19:45:31
Would you sell any of the PB's to me? ;D
Whoa. Give me a chance to play with them first.

So, any updates? BTW, congrats!
Nope. I put them in my parents' basement, as I live in NYC apartment (= no room) I will have to borrow a camera to shoot this stuff too. Mabye next weekend or memorial day I'll get a good look at them. Real life intrudes now and then, you know.

On a side note I picked up up a free frankenmac from a guy in Brooklyn. 7200/90 case, TNT/Nitro (7300 et al.) board that seems to have been 'fixed' at one point. There is a thin green wire leading from one leg of a controller chip on top to underneath the board. 8x64 ram, sonnet g3-400 upgrade and original processor daughter card. no HD. don't know mhz. Won't run off of it, I'm guessing since the cache dimm was removed. Any help on this? It must have been removed for the proc. upgrade.
Posted by: JRL on 2008-05-21 16:31:27
Would you sell any of the PB's to me? ;D
Whoa. Give me a chance to play with them first.

So what models are they? Do they work?
Posted by: flyingtoasteroven on 2008-05-27 12:27:54
And a nifty 16" square promotional poster about the IIfx detailing all the crazy things they did to make it run like heck.
Whilst I'm pretty impressed with your haulage, that's the one thing of which I'm truly envious.
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Somehow the quality got trashed between the poster, the camera and the upload. Actually, I'm pretty sure it was the camera combined with my failing to hold it steady. It's 14.5 in. tall in real life. Mabye I'll frame it.
Posted by: Charlieman on 2008-05-27 13:36:27
Incidentally the physical 3.5" DDs are all so encrusted with dust/dirt I'm not sure how to clean them. Does anyone here have any tips to give me beyond the usual sprayed air? Do they still make cleaning kits?
Nobody will slag you off for asking this question again in the Mac II forum, so ask there.

Without a photo or detailed description, it is hard to give advice. I've rejuvenated Mac hardware that looked awful, but failed with hardware with apparently superficial damage. So there are no rules about appearances.

Any floppy disk drive with rust on the surface is an accident waiting to happen. As soon as the drive is introduced to a warm, arid environment, wee flakes of dust will separate from the major components and when they hit the drive head, it is "game over". Superficial rust might be treated using one of the rust inhibitors sold for cars or bikes, but rust elimination requires a complete disassembly, with aggressive cleaning before reassembly.
Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-05-27 14:54:22
Yes they do still make floppy drive cleaning kits. My local dollar store has them in amongst the ceramic kittys and cheap plastic kitchenware.
Posted by: flyingtoasteroven on 2008-06-02 22:50:22
So what models are they? Do they work?
PB150 w/ Adapter. Unfortunately the battery has leaked, the trackball collar's tabs are broken, and no response can be had from it.

PB145 has old screen syndrome. For about three minutes the brightness goes between normal and non-visible, with no discernable reason. After that it settles down and is quite usable, with 7.5.X installed. The floppy drive is bad -- it won't recognize disks and the eject mechanism doesn't work. Dead Battery.

PB170. Has no system installed, but otherwise seems to be the most pristine of the lot good screen display of ?-disk, and everything else seems to be in working order (except dead battery, of course) A note attached said the disk drive might not work. Since I don't have a bootable disk to test with, I cannot attest to this. I'll have to get a mac with a disk drive on the net to get apple's online systems.

One adapter between the latter two. I'd bet a bunch of cleaning would solve many of these problems.

Any interest? I'm open to trades. Hopefully near NYC
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