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Clamshell SE and Snowball 17”
Posted by: therieau on 2018-08-19 11:44:35 Friends, I’ve ignored the hobby for a while, spending my energies lately looking for a new job and basking in newly wedded bliss. The funny thing is that the hobby will not be ignored... The 17-inch 800MHz iMac was “obtained” from the e-waste recycling area at the dump. It works perfectly, and has a fresh coat of OS X 10.4 installed. Amazingly, the previous owner made absolutely no effort to delete their files, so I did it for them. My friend had been threatening to give me her iBook SE for about two years, and although it cost dinner, I finally have it. The machine fires right up and runs great with the 256 MB RAM I added, it only when plugged in. It looks like batteries on eBay are 40 bucks, which seems cheap. Finding a replacement graphite logo for the lid might be more challenging. It it looks like I’m back in the thick of it.
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2018-08-19 14:26:30 Do those 800mhz models boot OS9? I have a 20" 1,25ghz model that is OSX only. I used to hate those things but they have grown on me a little bit (not having to drag a monitor around to use them helps).
Posted by: EvieSigma on 2018-08-19 15:25:19 My 1.25GHz is still sitting idle because it needs a new heat sink and clip and I keep forgetting to buy one...
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2018-08-19 15:31:11 I tend to buy, fix, clean, and setup a machine before I start another project so I don't have a bunch of half finished machines with parts all over the place.
Posted by: EvieSigma on 2018-08-19 15:38:45 Yeah, unfortunately I bought the iMac before I got wise to that approach. There's a lot of cleaning up after bad collecting habits going on at my house.
Posted by: tanaquil on 2018-08-19 18:08:00 There's a lot of cleaning up after bad collecting habits going on at my house. Haha, I hear this! I am working on repairing my machines one by one, but those irresistable "deals" keep popping up on ebay and elsewhere... I am really hoping that the many hours invested this summer in honing my soldering skills will result in my being able to rehab quite a few machines in short succession. I easily have more than a dozen machines that need (hopefully) minor repairs at the compenent level.
Posted by: therieau on 2018-08-19 21:11:25 Do those 800mhz models boot OS9? I have a 20" 1,25ghz model that is OSX only. I used to hate those things but they have grown on me a little bit (not having to drag a monitor around to use them helps). Yes, it boots 9, which I kept just in case.
Posted by: therieau on 2018-10-01 16:01:18 I just came into possession of a half dozen NOS third-party batteries for the Clamshell iBook! It turns out that the local school district didn't want to pay the recycling fees and my man on the inside knew I was looking for one. Now that I put an SSD in the iBook (follow ifixit's instructions to the letter unless you know more than two hours' worth of curse words) and have a fresh new battery, I can run the thing in OS9 for the advertised 6 hours. Now If I could connect to a WPA2 hotspot...
Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-10-01 21:34:42 I just came into possession of a half dozen NOS third-party batteries for the Clamshell iBook! Ooo! Nice find!! What are you going to do with them? c
Posted by: Rick Dangerous on 2018-10-02 08:15:37 Great finds, love them both! Pretty great to have OS9 on the imac...one of the last I believe that would run it.
Posted by: therieau on 2018-10-02 16:27:10 Ooo! Nice find!! What are you going to do with them? c I’d love to find a good home for them, since I don’t need that many. I suppose I should put them on the Trading Post except I don’t know what a fair price might be.
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