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Another Conquest
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-05-16 12:42:46 Lucky this week, I have scored tonight: A blue and White Powermac G3 including matching display: A powermac G4 (probably Sawtooth) A wireless keyboard A1016 and a usb one. the set is pretty dirty but the G4 alone is interesting: At least one stick is a 512 Mo one, the HD is 80 Go and graphic card is not standard.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-05-16 14:56:10 Excellent! I hope your StudioDisplay has a better FlyBack Transformer(?) than the one I thought I'd nabbed. Good luck with the testing! :approve:
Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-05-16 16:05:45 Congrats and ditto on what Trash said. I bought a 17" Graphite new in 1999 that eventually died, and got a 17" Blueberry with a B&W 300 that died shortly after I got it. The 21" Blueberry still lives. Not in use currently, but the gigantic monster sits waiting in the basement for the day I have a use for it. Keep us updated on the details as you find them out!
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-05-17 00:02:19 thanks, The Studio Display is still in my car, waiting to be collected. I came home with both Powermacs (one in each hand) and keyboards. (pretty heavy setup) The G3 has an internal zip (but unfortunately the blue zip cover is missing) will let you know !
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-05-17 02:35:09 The Powermac G4 is working fine, after a fresh Panther install. 768 Mo (512 + 128 + 64 + 64) but Graphic is the ATI one (so nothing special here) and no Airport in the slot...battery is fine 🙂 I removed some black stains from the casing, but the white sticker has to go 🙂 the B&W followed the same process, and is running fine, a bit slow but fine. The G3 is a basic setup (only 192 Mo - 3 x 64 Mo -) but two HD and a SCSI card, battery was dead and quickly removed. Cleaned the G3 also, but some more work required : Don't know what to do with all those yet, already have three G4's, will probably keep the B&W and trade one of the Beige G3.
Posted by: spiceyokooko on 2012-05-17 04:54:37 The G3 has an internal zip (but unfortunately the blue zip cover is missing) will let you know ! I may be able to help you with that as I have some spare blue zip covers for the Blue and White G3. The internal zip is an ATAPI if my recollection serves me correctly. Buzz me a pm if you're interested. Cheers!
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-05-19 03:55:29 I bought a 17" Graphite new in 1999 that eventually died Mine is dead too, or near... can't get fine colors...will be trashed tomorrow. I have some spare blue zip covers for the Blue and White G3 Thanks for the proposal, but is not a big deal can live with it (or rather without)
Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-05-19 12:48:13 I really wanted to make a fish tank out of one or both of my dead Studio Displays. Then I was forced to move to a smaller place and off to the dump they went with the beat up shells os a IIc and IIe, two beat up ImageWriters, and like six monochrome Apple IIgs monitors. Wish I could have kept the IIgs monitors, but they were the more beat up and faded ones. Still have quite a few left, and their color cousins at least; just feel bad trashing working Apple hardware. A little off topic, but I wanted to toss out the idea of turning the shell of the Studio Display into something else. Maybe mount an LCD and build a custom all-in-one computer? Maybe we need to get Trash80 on this... :approve: If it's being sent to the dump I always thought it'd be cool to cut out the translucent Apples from the side and put them in a window for the sun to shine through. Then you get the fun of taking a saw to electronics AND making something new! (Or if you feel comfortable with high voltage components you could attempt to repair it. I didn't feel that brave, which is why mine are in the big computer lab in the sky...)
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-05-20 02:20:44 I always thought it'd be cool to cut out the translucent Apples Of course, those were removed 😉 if you feel comfortable with high voltage components you could attempt to repair it. I didn't feel that brave I am not that brave, and didn't wanted to keep it anyway ( too bulky and already have the ADC 17' one) i asked around if somebody was interested (in working order of course, nobody was)
Posted by: CelGen on 2012-05-20 11:11:05 I'd recommend doing anything but use the current internals of that studio display. There's an ancient recall bulletin for them because they have a thing for catching fire.
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