Terrific Haul: $0

2 x Quadra 9501 x Workgroup 9150

Quadra 605

Mac IIfx (broken)

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Whoa.

Peace,

Drew

So when is the big sale

Are the portrait displays nice? Someone on Craigslist has been offering 2 for $5.

Niiiice. I almost had a Portrait display, but I plugged it into the wall where I found it, and nothing happened when I hit the power button. (The outlet was working)

I used a Portrait display when I was in Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. From what I remember, they rock.

wow, thats amazing!

The Quadra 950s appear to be decked out with like 4-5 hard drives each and all RAM slots full. Also found what looks like a spare 950 motherboard. Another card with a 68k and RAM slots may be a radius rocket? Another Daystar card appears to be a PPC upgrade of some sort.

Some DSP cards, lots of 16 bit/24 bit NuBus sound cards a few in the box.

Quadra 605 has 1 GB HD and 128 MB SIMM.

Apple 4 GB tape drive with several tapes, also some kind of big SyQuest thing with cartridge.

Wow all the good cheap/free vintage macs seem to be coming from Texas these days! Congrats on the awesome haul! I've always wanted a workgroup server 9150!

You snagged the hard to find 5 drive mounting trays (I have one in my aws95). They were special order for the AWS95 and came with all 9150s.

If you get bored take some pics of the Nubus cards

Was this guy a collector or just clearing out some old company lab? Did you find him on LEMswap?

Oh, happen to get driver disks for all that hardware?

He mentioned that they had the 5 disk shelves.

He used to live in California and worked in technology and stuff so that's probably how he got all of it. He was the guy who posted on LEM Swap with the Quadra/NuBus treasures in Houston. It seemed to be most of his collection. He kept a Quadra 950.

I see a few floppy disks to go with the cards. Some good drivers for SCSI cards here.

Well if I have not mentioned I collect original disks/images for Nubus cards and would love to have images of the driver disks you have.

Might want a crack at buying some of the SCSI Nubus cards you have if they are not what I currently have (Silicon Express II, Silicon Express IV, Jackhammer, Micronet Nuport II).

Or we could let him keep his own hardware and play with it. Thus not acting like the pack of dogs we are. Give him a month os so for the 'newness' to wear off.

Hey, I mostly want driver disk images.

And I do share them when I have them

Enjoy.

He mentioned that they had the 5 disk shelves.
He used to live in California and worked in technology and stuff so that's probably how he got all of it. He was the guy who posted on LEM Swap with the Quadra/NuBus treasures in Houston. It seemed to be most of his collection. He kept a Quadra 950.

I see a few floppy disks to go with the cards. Some good drivers for SCSI cards here.

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Wow I think I use to know that guy. I met a guy a couple of years ago who was from Livermore, CA and he moved to Texas because of his work. He was previously into tech stuff and had a stroke a few years back and couldn't go back to his old job.

He had a full garage of vintage mac stuff ( at least 4 quadra 950s, 12 SE/30s, 6 IIcis, boxes of accelerator and nubus cards) He wanted to take his whole collection with him to Texas but only brought a few special machines.

I seriously wonder if the guy you got all the quadras from is the same guy i met two years ago.....

Do you have his name? I might know it!

EDIT: WOW IT IS!!!! Exact same guy! He had an awesome collection in CA. You should have seen his collection! An entire garage with nothing but vintage mac stuff. He had just about every rare mac item available. I was lucky enough to receive a Color Classic, two SE/30s, two IIcis, and a Mac Plus from him. I also remember him having whole boxes of SCSI hard drives, boxes of flashed (ooo) mac video cards, piles of cables, a bunch of PC servers, and about another 20 boxes of other apple stuff..

Glad to here he's doing ok! Nice to hear he found you to take his other stuff!

He mentioned that they had the 5 disk shelves.
He used to live in California and worked in technology and stuff so that's probably how he got all of it. He was the guy who posted on LEM Swap with the Quadra/NuBus treasures in Houston. It seemed to be most of his collection. He kept a Quadra 950.

I see a few floppy disks to go with the cards. Some good drivers for SCSI cards here.

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Wow I think I use to know that guy. I met a guy a couple of years ago who was from Livermore, CA and he moved to Texas because of his work. He was previously into tech stuff and had a stroke a few years back and couldn't go back to his old job.

He had a full garage of vintage mac stuff ( at least 4 quadra 950s, 12 SE/30s, 6 IIcis, boxes of accelerator and nubus cards) He wanted to take his whole collection with him to Texas but only brought a few special machines.

I seriously wonder if the guy you got all the quadras from is the same guy i met two years ago.....

Do you have his name? I might know it!

EDIT: WOW IT IS!!!! Exact same guy! He had an awesome collection in CA. You should have seen his collection! An entire garage with nothing but vintage mac stuff. He had just about every rare mac item available. I was lucky enough to receive a Color Classic, two SE/30s, two IIcis, and a Mac Plus from him. I also remember him having whole boxes of SCSI hard drives, boxes of flashed (ooo) mac video cards, piles of cables, a bunch of PC servers, and about another 20 boxes of other apple stuff..

Glad to here he's doing ok! Nice to hear he found you to take his other stuff!

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Yes it's the same guy! That's awesome! He told me about his stroke, and his garage in CA full of Apple stuff! One of his boxes here also has his Livermore address.

Looks like he's been paring down his collection over time. I know he did keep a Quadra 950 for himself though.

Or we could let him keep his own hardware and play with it. Thus not acting like the pack of dogs we are. Give him a month os so for the 'newness' to wear off.

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Yeah, I still really need to go through it all, and I might sell off some of the extra cards, after I fill up my NuBus slots of course.

What kind of ram did you get from him?

What kind of ram did you get from him?

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It's gotta be at least, 100, 30 pin SIMMs of unknown size. Some are in a bag that says 1 MB though. I assume the biggest SIMMs are already in the Quadras.

What kind of ram did you get from him?

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It's gotta be at least, 100, 30 pin SIMMs of unknown size. Some are in a bag that says 1 MB though. I assume the biggest SIMMs are already in the Quadras.

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When I was at his garage a couple of years ago I saw the memory bin...most is 1mb and there are a few 4mb....

I got one of these Quadra 950s booted up.

Main drive is a 1 GB IBM drive on the motherboard bus, mounted where the CD would go.

It has the 5 drive shelf, all 5 drives are Quantum 9.1 GB drives, set up in a RAID 5 array to get about 36 GB of space. Freakin' sweet. Fast, fault tolerant - what more could you ask for. I assume the other 950 is similar. There are more, what appear to be 9.1 GB drives in a box.

For some reason when I boot with all the extensions on it never boots - it gets to the Desktop and just kind of freezes up. Right now I have enabled only the "Remus" extensions and a control panel for the SCSI card and it boots right up.

The other 950 is not producing a startup sound. It may need a battery?

The 9150 is in storage due to lack of space at this time.

I'm definitely considering making one of these a server. If I can configure it somehow to only use a small slice of my upload bandwidth - I get 1 mbps upload and it would need to be limited to like 256 kbps or so as not to monopolize it. Then I could run Hotline and maybe a basic web server just to say I have a 950 web server. A/UX a possibility but I don't know if Hotline can run on that.

This really sounds too good to be true..

the raid q950 must almost destroy your ears when it's turned on.

one of my long term projects is to quiet down mine.

very nice haul

Follow up:

The old PC that I got with this haul does not seem to work. But there is a bonus inside: a total of 8, 64 MB Parity FPM SIMMs. I have only dealt with ordinary 64 MB SIMMs so I don't know if Parity is any better or not, when used in a Mac.