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Posted by: jack on 2017-06-05 18:24:59
A LC II from Johnnya101... thanks!

A Bondi Blue iMac G3 from craigslist. This is my second iMac G3 (other one is a Indigo one). Even came with original manuals and stickers. There's even a particularly cute "Sorry, no beige." sticker.

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And in the non-Mac world:

A Digital HiNote CT475... Windows 95 era machine. It looks pretty sleek as it has no screws or battery slots on the outside, the case is opened with a latch on each side and the keyboard/palm rest lifts up to access all the parts.

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Sadly, when I opened it up, looks like the battery went off in there. The floppy ribbon cable was hit the hardest, and it definitely does not have full connectivity anymore. The logic board was mostly OK with a bit of corrosion on the surface, I cleaned it off using some rubbing alcohol, but after cleaning it, the RAM slot no longer works (it did before I cleaned the corrosion, but the system would occasionally freeze). Now, I'm left with 4 MB of RAM that was on board. And in all of this, the drive belt on the floppy was broken as well.

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And lastly, a monster server. This puppy has 48 cores in total (12 cores on each of the 4 processors) and 64 GB of RAM. Bought it on CraigsList for only $400.

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I've got a //gs hopefully coming soon. I'll update when I get that.
Posted by: Juror22 on 2017-06-05 22:24:31
Nice, nice and nauce! (too bad about the battery issues)
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