The original base station (known as Graphite) featured a modem and an Ethernet port. It was based on the same Lucent WaveLAN Bronze PC Card as the AirPort Card, and used an embedded 486 processor. It was released July 21, 1999. The Graphite AirPort Base Station is functionally identical to the Lucent RG-1000 wireless base station.

Click to expand...

I've just finished completing a software restore to its factory default settings. Seems to be fully operational, works well, it's now replacing my Netgear router. Despite being much older, the network seems to be considerably faster.

Initially it had some problems, being completely inaccessible regardless of whatever I tried, but after installing some extra software for 10.5, making up a new network cable and hooking it all up with specific TCP/IP settings, I was able to successfully flash the software and restore the factory defaults.

Pretty good cosmetically, although it is missing the tip of the Apple in the Apple logo. Nothing major.

Interesting little tidbit I noticed was that Apple stamped their devices as if they were living, breathing beings- the base labelling is marked with "I was made in Taiwan, my Family no is M5757".

:lol:

Photo of my new UFO.

Cheers

- MB