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| Q800 and mystery Nubus cards |
Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-12-31 05:49:11
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/330510640623
Bidding stopped a mere $0.16 below my top bid 🙂
Further news when it arrives.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2010-12-31 07:16:20
A Q800 makes a great A/UX box, and is typically a very quiet machine for some reason. Or, it would make a fine parts donor for a smashed 840av!
The Nubus mystery, however, may yet be the real prize.
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Posted by: highlandcattle on 2010-12-31 08:24:22
Can't wait to find out what the cards are.
I do prefer the Quadra 700, IIci design. I hate to open up quadra 800 tower design
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2010-12-31 09:13:17
Nice snag, buddy! I've been idly watching for one of those to make my MacCoffeeTableâ„¢ a PPC free landing zone for munchies and the occasional photo shoot.
Great find! That just might have some very interesting NuBus Goodness inside!
Have you got a 24" x 48" x 1/2" piece of Plexi laying around. }🙂
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-12-31 09:53:27
ummmm... /looks around the workshop/ ... nope 😱)
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2010-12-31 10:12:49
:🙂 😉 😱)
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2010-12-31 10:50:41
. . . hrmmmm . . . on a more serious note: LOL! 😱)
3/4" Plywood and some Platinum Gray Formica would do nicely too . . . and if you built the edge up thick enough you could mount one of those articulated KBD trays, a KVM switchbox and custom made AC/Signal distribution system with a custom umbilical connection extension "socket" with the umbilical cord stored under the sofa and broken out to serial, network, telephone, surge protected AC, etc connections broken out to a "project box" sitting behind said sofa . . .
. . . suspend configurable shelves on threaded rod for an interesting mix of Mini-Micro Quadras hooked up to the KVM . . .
. . . cables hidden by a MacKnickKnackShelfâ„¢ unit/swinging doors with sliding Plexi doors on the outward facing side . . .
. . . center mount something like my 1080p VGA/HDMI equipped LCD Panel face-up on a tilt up section of a platinum painted frame/thin back painted plexi covered wooden MacCoffeeTableâ„¢ top . . .
. . . with Classic Platinum Mac IIfx (dado) grooves routered out of the thick edges . . .
. . . or have the KBD/mouse underneath the tilt-up in a tray in an under-slung storage compartment . . .
. . . with the plexi covered LCD mounted on an offset parallelogram pivot to control the angle and expose your "mission control" panel in the front with an HDMI equipped DVD Player for watching movies from said sofa and the KBD/Mouse tray in the back portion of the opening . . .
< wanders off . . . wondering . . . figuring . . . muttering . . . driven to the next distraction . . . >
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-12-31 13:23:40
All 3 slots are full, wonder what is inside.
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Posted by: Byrd on 2010-12-31 15:30:57
Cool score B - knowing you've been looking for one of these beauties for ages! How are you getting the unit shipped to you?
Reminds me of my Q840AV, which came to me at a similar price but shipped in merely a cardboard box ... glued, recapped and going well.
JB
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-12-31 17:31:21
How are you getting the unit shipped to you? Not sure yet - the seller has offered to pack and post, or I might be able to con an accomplice *cough* into picking it up for me. The main thing is I want to ensure that it gets down here in one piece, so I can use the case to rebuild my 840AV.
but shipped in merely a cardboard box Ugh, I received a Roland MKS-7 "packed" like that from Brisbane. Good thing those puppies are built like tanks.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-12-31 23:33:22
Oh, so that was you who won that...I bidded as well, though given the $40 postage to Longreach I decided to back out in the end. Anyway, good to see that it was a 68kMLAer who won it...great score 🙂
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Posted by: Temetka on 2011-01-03 01:52:05
Grats on the score. I know some people hate but I love that case style and design. For whatever reason, it just appeals to me on a very basic level.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2011-01-03 03:24:33
Hm well, postage took it up to $50. Those had better be some funky Nubus cards 😛
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-01-03 05:14:09
One's likely Ethernet, one's probably a decent Video Card and the "wild card" could very well make it worth the price! 😉
. . . or not. :-/
Best of luck.
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Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2011-01-03 09:03:20
Congrats! I'd really like to have a Q800 (or two—can't have too many reserves these days) for A/UX. My Q650 is the second-best option, though, IMO.
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Posted by: tmtomh on 2011-01-03 13:26:03
Cool pickup, Bunsen - looking forward to hearing the details when it arrives!
@highlandcattle - I too prefer the Q700 form factor (had a Q700 with Q800 mobo in it that was my favorite Classic & A/UX box ever). But at the same time, I found disassembling and upgrading a Q800 is not nearly as awful as its reputation. Certainly not super-easy, but not really a nightmare either.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2011-01-03 13:33:17
I think that people tend to make the Q800 case out to be much worse than it actually is. I once had an 8100, and I can honestly say that I'd much rather work on it than say, most PCs, or an Intel based iMac...
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Posted by: beachycove on 2011-01-03 15:23:00
I think that people tend to make the Q800 case out to be much worse than it actually is. I once had an 8100, and I can honestly say that I'd much rather work on it than say, most PCs, or an Intel based iMac... It is, shall we say, not a case for the tinkering set. It is, however, a very quiet case design for some reason: my Q840av, Q800, PM8500 and PM9500 are all of them machines from which scarcely any fan noise escapes. Once set up they are happy to run along without incident for years.
But you don't want to use one for testing RAM. Definitely not.
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Posted by: IIfx on 2011-01-13 17:14:41
Based on how picky my Q800 is on RAM, you do not want to use them for RAM testing indeed. Not only is it hard but it seems that it likes to stop working every time I open the cover. So I dont like to modify anything about mine. But the case looks good and its quiet. (Just a pain to put the motherboard back in the case)
One cool thing about some of the Q800 cases is that the designers signatures are below the power supply on the plastic thing between the PSU bay and Nubus cards.
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