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Big haul
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-06-28 11:24:53
A lady placed an ad locally for some material to give away, some was Apple related, so i send a reply.

In the first place i just asked for a Powermac G4 (was advertised as a 1 Ghz processor unit) and we agree the PM can be collected the very same day.

I was asked what i was going to do with it, and i started talking about collecting Apple stuff.

The lady advised very few people had replied to the ad, and most of them won't be able to get good use of the material anyway, so i asked if i can have a look at it, and ended up with most of it 🙂 (she advised all will be trashed anyway)

So, i scored today:

* Powermac G4, has been upgraded to 1 ghz (Giga Designs) and to my surprise an original Airport card is present !!! :b&w:

* Syquest Nomai drive (540 mo) complete and boxed (a French Syquest drive, very nice and black in color)

* Macway syquest drive

* Wacom Artpad II, boxed (almost new)

* 4 Go external HD (SCSI)

* Firewire DVD external reader/writer

* external CD drive (one of caddy ones)

the lady advised all has been tested and working fine.

Pictures to come soon.
Posted by: macinbot on 2012-06-28 12:51:39
Nice score! Looking forward to pics.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-06-28 13:27:34
here are the pics:

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Posted by: bibilit on 2012-06-28 13:34:35
Still some more:

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Was thinking... i have collected five PM G4 so far, no room for all those (The second beige was sold a couple of weeks ago)
Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-06-28 14:37:32
Very nice score. I like that HDD case. Is that an LCD on the front?
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-06-30 13:24:45
Yes, it's a SCSI ID number display, will talk about it soon, tried to make the HD work but couldn't... didn't get no light or sound from the case until i removed the power plug from the inner HD.

Just after that, the display worked (and fan too)
Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-06-30 20:58:38
Very cool.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-07-01 01:16:44
Small edit:

The powermac G4 was given to me free, and the lady advised mac os 9 and 10.5 were still available on the HD.

She however didn't advise Mac Os X was protected by a password.

This morning i tried different tricks to remove it, but 10.5 was not willing to accept my 10.4 disk and the panther one wasn't able to locate the right volume.

By chance, her first name was also the first name of my wife, so was pretty easy to remember... so i took my chance and tried it as password and that worked 🙂

I am posting right now with it (wirelessly)
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-07-01 02:17:38
Also have removed dust from fans and get fresh oil to the bearings, quieter now 🙂

Posted by: macinbot on 2012-07-01 06:32:41
By chance, her first name was also the first name of my wife, so was pretty easy to remember... so i took my chance and tried it as password and that worked 🙂
Quite a bit of luck there. Glad you've got it working.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-07-01 10:57:52
Thanks, on the downside i have spent all day testing some items.

I turned my attention to the Macway syquest drive first, was connected to my PM 7600...which was reluctant to boot in the first place xx(

I just discovered that the HD finally gave up, the floppy drive also was reluctant to work and was unable to read my copy of Scsi Probe

When everything was solved on the 7600 side, the Syquest was unable to mount and Scsi Probe kept complaining about the bus not being terminated.

Using a terminator and not only the terminator switch didn't improve things, Scsi Prove can actually "found something" but wasn't able to mount. (so i think this drive is gone bad)

I tried the Nomai for a change, and this time everything went fine 🙂 (the small drive is a pleasure to use, is nice and can read 270 and 540 Mo disks)

All except one disk are OK, i have got a tremendous amount of games, applications and a Mac Os (7.6) on those disks.

The Caddy drive was also tested, and worked...only once xx( wasn't able to make it work twice !!

And the Powermac is working great of course 🙂

So half is OK and Half is not, not bad after all.
Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-07-01 11:41:12
The drive might not be bad. I have several external media devices that don't mount with SCSI Probe. They need the device drivers or they won't work at all.
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