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Recent conquests

68kMLA Hardware 13 posts Jul 16, 2009 to Aug 7, 2009

#1 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 05:08 68kMLA

Been inactive a little while on the forums, but added two items just recently to my conquest list.

Was lucky enough to pick up a PowerMac 7600/200 with a Sonnet G4-400MHz processor upgrade, 1GB RAM (8x 128MB), Sonnet USB2/FireWire400 combo card and an additional video card with DVI and VGA all for free!

Haven't had a chance to power it on, but it only has an 80 MB hard drive?

Also have a TAM finally making it's way over to Australia for me - but this one wasn't free 8-o

#2 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 07:46 68kMLA

I read about the TAM over on MacTalk...very cool! Good score on the 7600 too, apart from the 80MB HDD, it sounds like a nice machine, especially for free.

#3 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 13:28 68kMLA

Yeah I posted up in the TAM thread too - what can I say, I'm pretty excited and it's still weeks away!

Secondly the 7600/G4 should be good fun to play around with.

#4 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 04:43 68kMLA

That 80MB hard disk has to be after-market, surely.

Maybe their hard disk died and they replaced it with the only SCSI disk they had available.

#5 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 09:00 68kMLA

Well the weekend just gone I had a proper look over the 7600 G4 and found that in the optional zip drive bay it had a 30 GB IDE hard drive with a SCSI adapter on it! WEIRD....

Anyway, I dusted out the 7600, made sure everything was seated correctly and powered it on. Smelt like burning and tripped the main power off in the meterbox!!!

Sniffed around and it seems the PSU has died. Will be a parts machine now - hopefully can salvage the G4 card, RAM, USB/FW card and the hard drive. I have access to a WorkGroup server 9650 and a 9600 so the bits will most likely get whipped into one of those.

#6 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 13:32 68kMLA

Aw that sucks! That was such a nice machine!

#7 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 14:28 68kMLA

:'( That indeed was a really nice Macintosh. Just keep everything around until a power supply might come your way.

#8 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 15:10 68kMLA

A 9600/G4/400 with a SCSI-IDE converter is nothing to be sniffed at! Even with a dead 7600 in your hands, that's a pretty good set of scores.

May I ask what the shipping bill for the TAM is?

#9 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 15:45 68kMLA

Shame about the 7600 but I do prefer the tower case design of the 96xx series and will get it all running one way or another.

TAM shipping bill was included in an agreed overall price, but the seller and myself decided it would be between 150 and 250 USD.

#10 Wed, 5 Aug 2009 - 08:12 68kMLA

My TAM arrived today - was quicker than I thought it'd be!

First thing I did when I pulled it out of the box was switch over the voltage on the base unit, set it up then took an iPhone pic... Pretty bad pic but you get the idea

For anyone that's interested, the official postage cost was exactly $197.50 (US) by USPS Airmail Priority.

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#11 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 - 05:54 68kMLA

My TAM arrived today - was quicker than I thought it'd be!
First thing I did when I pulled it out of the box was switch over the voltage on the base unit, set it up then took an iPhone pic... Pretty bad pic but you get the idea

For anyone that's interested, the official postage cost was exactly $197.50 (US) by USPS Airmail Priority.

Omg envious! So awesome!!

#12 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 - 14:00 68kMLA

Beautiful TAM

#13 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 - 15:56 68kMLA

Really nice TAM!