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| Posted by: Berserker on 2015-10-04 16:50:54 Picked up a Quadra 650, keyboard, mouse, software, monitor and laserwriter all for $100.  | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-10-04 16:54:34 Ooo, very nice. Even have the boxes! | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2015-10-04 17:47:54 remove the battery! | |
Posted by: Apache Thunder on 2015-10-04 20:09:45Picked up a Quadra 650, keyboard, mouse, software, monitor and laserwriter all for $100.Nice. Though I think you meant to say Centris 650 according to how it's labeled on the box. 😛 | |
| Posted by: LazarusNine on 2015-10-05 07:03:20 Cool find. Nice to have something complete like that. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: Berserker on 2015-10-05 08:57:49 You are correct, I meant Centris, not Quadra. The first thing I did was pop out the battery, it was a red Maxwell :O (no signs of corrosion thankfully). Not a collection item for me though, have a practical for it, building a console to run some Virtual World Entertainment 3.0 pods (cockpit simulators that run Battletech and Red Planet). I do have one question though, at what point should I have the caps replaced on these old Macs?  Where there are signs of issues or should I just do it as a preventative measure? | |
| Posted by: MJ313 on 2015-10-05 11:53:49 The Centris 650 logic board has tantalum caps...so no need to worry about those. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2015-10-05 20:24:30 You should probably still check out the PSU though, as those use electrolytics pretty much universally. c | |
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