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Yay, free stuff!!
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2010-05-30 11:44:04
I just got all of this for free!

Pics coming later (am on my NDS)

1x ADB keyboard - needs some cleaning.

2x old mac null modem cables or whatevertheyarecalled.

2x old mac serial cable extension cables.

1x HyperCard manual

2x PS/2 mice

1x SCSI Zip drive - couldnt find any cables for it

3x PC paralel cables

1x mysterious ADB dongle

1x mysterious MiniDIN 8 or 9 (forget which) to DB25 cable

😀

EDIT: Add:

1x FireWire 400 cable

to that list!
Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-05-30 13:06:57
1x mysterious ADB dongle
Post pics
Posted by: BarnacleGrim on 2010-05-30 13:18:58
1x HyperCard manual
I wish had that during the Christmas of 1999, when I only had the IIsi up and running. Still learning as much of HyperCard as I did was pretty rewarding.
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2010-05-30 14:43:18
1x mysterious ADB dongle
Post pics
I am going to, but am kinda hours from home so only have my DS for the net, There was a lot more i couldnt get. (i snapped pics of that)

The dongle looks like a passthrough cable. Hardware copy protection?
Posted by: Osgeld on 2010-05-30 15:03:14
could be
Posted by: CJ_Miller on 2010-05-30 23:15:10
I miss finding random computer stuff! When I lived in the city, computers used to sprout out of the sidewalk like Ballardian weeds. Since being stuck in the burbs, I rarely even see junk computers, and not yet anything interesting. The wife got really "excited" when I made up a story about finding a Wang mainframe and having it shipped to the house!
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2010-05-30 23:54:26
I dont find much random stuff, but the parents dragged me to some event a few hours away. As a pleasent supprise, in another room in the same building, the Cincinati Comodore Computer Club was also having some sort of event. I just hid in that room all day =P

Also, I forgot to mention:

1x CD caddy
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2010-05-31 12:04:52
OK, here are pics of everything:

My conquests...

Weird ADB dongle







PS/2 Mice:



It's a Logitech! Much better than my old HP mouse, so I use this one on my desktop PC.



The other PS/2 mouse. The right mouse button doesn't work.



ADB keyboard!! Now I have 2 full sets of ADB mice/keyboards. When I finaly get that PowerMac 9600, I will have a mouse and keyboard for it!





HyperCard user manual. No version number so I am assuming it is 1.0?



The other mysterious cable. Don't know what it is for, and I am not going to try it to find out =P



LocalTalk null modem cable.





SCSI Zip drive.



CD caddy.



LocalTalk extension cable?



Another LocalTalk extension cable (thats what it is right?)



The other null modem cable



FW400 cable.





PC parallel cables.

And here's some other pics:

All of this stuff no-one took so went to the dumpster :'(



















Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-31 12:38:32
Too bad that ADB dongle has no label, could be for anything.
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2010-05-31 13:01:22
Too bad that ADB dongle has no label, could be for anything.
It is labaled - see the text on it?

I googled "Sentinel Eve3" and looks like it is in fact hardware copy protection.
Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2010-05-31 13:02:41
It's clearly copy protection though. Sentinel had a large range of ADB-based hardware copy protection systems.

The "unknown" cable looks like a Mac DIN serial to DB-25 (can't tell, the picture is blurry). If so, it's probably either a serial converter or null modem.
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2010-05-31 13:04:14
It's clearly copy protection though. Sentinel had a large range of ADB-based hardware copy protection systems.
The "unknown" cable looks like a Mac DIN serial to DB-25 (can't tell, the picture is blurry). If so, it's probably either a serial converter or null modem.
yes it is a Mac DIN to DB-25 cable.

So serial converter or null modem cable?
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-31 13:16:36
"Sentinel Eve3" is the type of dongle, not the company who purchased it and coded it for an application. I have dongles with that writing that are for QUARK and various AVID systems, plus there are many others using them.
Posted by: Paralel on 2010-05-31 15:00:27
Any way to query the dongle in a terminal or something like that to find out what it's for?
Posted by: Osgeld on 2010-05-31 15:20:25
yes you can ask a adb what data it contains, but its not going to be through the terminal, and its just going to send back 2-8 bytes, which will just be the key for whatever it went to (ie its not like usb where when you poll it it comes back with a page of vendor data)
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-31 15:25:09
Not sure, AVID has a dongle dumper but it doesn't read other product dongles.

Maybe the serial number can be traced back to a companies product?
Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-06-01 16:24:28
yes it is a Mac DIN to DB-25 cable.
That'd be a standard Mac modem cable, used to connect a standard modem to a Mac.
Posted by: ppuskari on 2010-06-04 18:59:55
The wife got really "excited" when I made up a story about finding a Wang mainframe and having it shipped to the house!
The funny thing is that when I went to pick up a recent conquest from Ebay at a guy's place in Indiana, he HAS a WANG mainframe in the industrial surplus warehouse. Plus many other things... I saw some of the Disney Pixar render farm there as well as most of the original CNN AV broadcast booth and tons of other DAT and AV Decks and Protools and Sonic Solutions, and Avid gear.

Great score there on the free stuff!
Posted by: Osgeld on 2010-06-04 22:30:56
that man needs a good warehouse and a wind farm asap!
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