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Posted by: Performa450 on 2016-08-05 14:32:26
Found this up for grabs and now conquered - must be one of a kind. Nice probably never seen out side Apple circuit board art and reveals a new apple codename, I think!
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Posted by: trag on 2016-08-06 02:00:15
I think Kaye Yum had a 9150 with a board like that. You didn't get it from him, did you? I lost track of him some years ago.
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Posted by: Performa450 on 2016-08-08 23:45:01
Hi, Sorry to say I didn't, I found it (online) at a recycler in Stockton, California and I don't think they knew what it was.
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Posted by: unity on 2016-08-09 02:33:23
Same board sold on eBay. Missing the processor of course.
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Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2016-08-09 04:26:16
Holy moly! Never seen anything like it made by Apple. RED. This is one fine board sir.
Shame the processor is gone though. Is it easily replaceable ?
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-08-15 10:47:15
Hi, Sorry to say I didn't, I found it (online) at a recycler in Stockton, California and I don't think they knew what it was. Is that TriValley Recycling? I really want to go back there. That's where I found both a boxed Outbound laptop & a boxed IIsi.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-08-15 10:48:58
I don't know if you'd want to ruin the board because it'd look cool just hanging on a wall someplace, but I wonder if you could get it to work by using parts from a 9100 production board.
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Posted by: max1zzz on 2016-08-15 15:22:54
I would solder a CPU on there and see if it fires up. It may look cool hanging on a wall, but it is even cooler if it actually runs
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Posted by: Performa450 on 2016-08-19 15:06:20
Yep, tri valley recycling - lots of interesting stuff online. I did get it on eBay but they took a nice low offer. I will very likely keep the board as is (poor soldering skills here and wouldn't dare!). I got several prototypes from recyclers and I have a couple of nearly complete systems that just need minor parts to work. I'm confident assembling systems but not board components!
I recently rebuilt a 2 Ghz MacBook Pro 17" prototype I acquired from a recycler, nearly disassembled but just missing the screen and drives. It works but has a dead FireWire chip. I will eventually post the pics I took of the rebuild.
I've also just got a 2.2 Ghz 15" prototype (this time missing the entire screen assembly and HD) although this one has Nvidia graphics, so unsure whether it'll work when I rebuild it.
I also have two kids so that's why it takes me weeks to rebuild and then months to get round to posting pics of stuff 🙂
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Posted by: beachycove on 2016-08-27 18:03:06
My 9150/120 has a greenish-brownish logic board, as I recall, so that prototype (presumably?) is unusual.
Would it work with a G3 card plugged into the PDS slot, I wonder?
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Posted by: unity on 2016-08-27 18:52:31
Greenish brown is just another PCB color.
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Posted by: trag on 2016-08-27 19:50:22
Shame the processor is gone though. Is it easily replaceable ? 304 very fine pitch pins. Not for the faint of heart, nor shakey of hand.
I wonder if you could get it to work by using parts from a 9100 production board. I wouldn't kill a 9100. Better sources of the PPC601 processor is a 7200 board, or, best, a Power Computing, PowerCurve 120 CPU card. The PowerCurve was a short lived model between PCC's 8100 clone and the PowerCenter/PowerTower era. It shipped with a PPC601 CPU card running at 120 MHz and everybody only ever upgraded away from that card. They're probably rare by now though.
There's also a lot of ten PPC601 chips for $99 on Ebay, but I think they may be pulls and are 100MHz rather than 120. Not sure though. The memory is hazy.
Man, bad memory. They're NOS but only 75MHz.
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