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The Mother of All Conquests
Agreed today to buy this lot from a friend for $60 (text of the advert follows):
I don't have room for it all, so I suspect that duplicates and such will need to be sold on. Still, there should be no problem re-couping the $60, eh?
- 2 beige G3 Macs, 1 desktop, 1 tower
2 desktop Apple 6100/DOS
Centris 660AV
IICI
Quadra 650
IICX
6290
IISI
LCIII
LC 475
LC 575
Starmax 3000 (rare)
SE
8550
9500 180/MP (rare)
IIx
Apple Portable
Monitors- Color, greyscale(including rare portrait), and multimedia
External hard drives, cdrom's, raid array, tape drives, worm etc
Boxes of parts, including motherboards, cpus, ram (all kinds from 30pin to SDRAM), sleds, and cards- pci, nubus, pds, agp - video cards, scsi, ethernet, tv tuners, etc
Audio gear including mac midi adaptor and cables
Boxes of cables, -scsi, serial, localtalk, audio, video etc
Network equipment - localtalk, 10 base 2, bridges etc
Boxes of ibook and 603 laptop parts- screens, drives, ram etc
Tons of software on floppy and cd-rom, including all versions of mac os
Manuals and books - including parts and repair manuals for most vintage macs
Boxes of mice, trackballs, sketch pad, joysticks, keyboards
Box of usb stuff - mac tv tuner, usb floppy drive, usb to scsi, usb to serial
etc
Boxes of mac floppy drives and mac hard disks (scsi and ide) from 20mg to 2Ogig
This is only a partial list.
I don't have room for it all, so I suspect that duplicates and such will need to be sold on. Still, there should be no problem re-couping the $60, eh?
I haven't seen it yet up close and personal, but only on racks in another room when I last visited, so I am just going by the advertised list at present. Probably later this week or at the weekend I'll pick it up and will take stock then.
I do know the seller and have a general sense on that basis that the stuff will a) be working (-ish), and B) should include some interesting bits and pieces. He is a good deal more knowledgeable than me and has some very good connections among local Apple users/ collectors, including the ITS folk at the main university in the city. So I am hopeful for some hidden goodies and golden oldies. And if not, then for $60, I can't have gone far wrong.
The story is that changed circumstances require that it all go quickly. And I am happy to oblige. Come to papa....
I do know the seller and have a general sense on that basis that the stuff will a) be working (-ish), and B) should include some interesting bits and pieces. He is a good deal more knowledgeable than me and has some very good connections among local Apple users/ collectors, including the ITS folk at the main university in the city. So I am hopeful for some hidden goodies and golden oldies. And if not, then for $60, I can't have gone far wrong.
The story is that changed circumstances require that it all go quickly. And I am happy to oblige. Come to papa....
Insta-collection! Nicely done.
I'm looking forward to your further detailing of this haul. If there's a 660AV Nubus adapter in amongst all that, DIBS :rambo:
I'm looking forward to your further detailing of this haul. If there's a 660AV Nubus adapter in amongst all that, DIBS :rambo:
] ]'>The explanation offered (with apologies) is fair and above board; items still included make the price agreeable. He'll probably say $50 on the day; I know the guy.
Married? Yes, married for about 20 years, but with a big enough house these days to hide it away in. As I say, however, I do not plan to keep all of it; of the items listed, I already have the following: G3 Tower, IIci, Q650 (but on the blink), IIsi, LCIII, LC475, LC575, 9500, MP 604e card @200MHz, SE FDHD.
So most of this new stuff will be sold on to others, though I will no doubt pick it over first. I had been most keenly interested in the Portable. That is the real regret. A IIx I can live without; I have a IIfx. And I have two 660av units already.
My main interest now is in the parts boxes, scsi drives, Nubus cards, the AV Monitor (always wanted one of those), etc. etc. Bring on the weekend!
Married? Yes, married for about 20 years, but with a big enough house these days to hide it away in. As I say, however, I do not plan to keep all of it; of the items listed, I already have the following: G3 Tower, IIci, Q650 (but on the blink), IIsi, LCIII, LC475, LC575, 9500, MP 604e card @200MHz, SE FDHD.
So most of this new stuff will be sold on to others, though I will no doubt pick it over first. I had been most keenly interested in the Portable. That is the real regret. A IIx I can live without; I have a IIfx. And I have two 660av units already.
My main interest now is in the parts boxes, scsi drives, Nubus cards, the AV Monitor (always wanted one of those), etc. etc. Bring on the weekend!
The only thing that ever stands between me and a good conquest is a woman. They never seem to understand. I've been carrying four computers in the trunk of my car for over a year because I haven't had a chance to sneak them into the collection. Dammit I wish she would leave me so I could clean out my trunk. :lol:
Some of you might recall my recent 512k conquest last week. Well, I left it case and all in the trunk of my car, waiting until the next day after my wife left for work to smuggle it down in the basement. By the time I got home from work the city had declared a snow emergency so all 3 of our vehicles had to be parked in the driveway. Since my car was the last in the driveway, my wife took it to work the next morning, because she leaves before me. Long story short, she spun out on her way to work and got stuck on a curb. When she opened the trunk to get a flash light to check for damage, she also found my *newest* computer. 
One full Dodge Grand Caravan load and one further half load later, I am well and truly stocked up on old Mac goodies - i.e., my Garage is a great deal more full of crap than it was a day ago.
The machines are (more or less) as originally listed. The boxes of parts are what I was really after, and in this respect, the haul did not disappoint.
I have not looked in great detail, but on the basis of a cursory inspection, I must have hundreds of RAM sticks (with 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs among them, and one - hopefully there will be a set of four - of those enormous 16MB 30-pin SIMMS), dozens of manuals and books, ZIF cards for PCI Macs, 5+ LC575 (I think) logic boards, 50+ Hard Drives, 15 or 20 SCSI CD-ROM drives, several DAT drives, a box of internal SCSI ZIP drives, 8-10 external SCSI drive cases (many of them nicely-sized for Compacts and all but one in very good shape), a SCSI RAID, a 7-CD external SCSI changer, external CD drives (several Apple-branded), boxes of cabling, an Apple Full-Page monochrome display, etc. etc.. The lot also contains little gems like a SCSI-Ethernet converter, an AsanteTalk localtalk-ethernet printer adapter and possibly two (I think I saw another at the bottom of the box) and on and on. Also hundreds of software floppy disks, at least a dozen 68040 processors, a box chock full of those CD-caddies .... Good golly, Miss Molly.
I would reckon that it would take me the best part of a solid 40-hour week just to do an inventory. As it is way too much for even this pack-rat, and as I must also be aware of Herself's views of the quantity of boxes newly-piled in the Garage, eBay definitely beckons.
The machines are (more or less) as originally listed. The boxes of parts are what I was really after, and in this respect, the haul did not disappoint.
I have not looked in great detail, but on the basis of a cursory inspection, I must have hundreds of RAM sticks (with 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs among them, and one - hopefully there will be a set of four - of those enormous 16MB 30-pin SIMMS), dozens of manuals and books, ZIF cards for PCI Macs, 5+ LC575 (I think) logic boards, 50+ Hard Drives, 15 or 20 SCSI CD-ROM drives, several DAT drives, a box of internal SCSI ZIP drives, 8-10 external SCSI drive cases (many of them nicely-sized for Compacts and all but one in very good shape), a SCSI RAID, a 7-CD external SCSI changer, external CD drives (several Apple-branded), boxes of cabling, an Apple Full-Page monochrome display, etc. etc.. The lot also contains little gems like a SCSI-Ethernet converter, an AsanteTalk localtalk-ethernet printer adapter and possibly two (I think I saw another at the bottom of the box) and on and on. Also hundreds of software floppy disks, at least a dozen 68040 processors, a box chock full of those CD-caddies .... Good golly, Miss Molly.
I would reckon that it would take me the best part of a solid 40-hour week just to do an inventory. As it is way too much for even this pack-rat, and as I must also be aware of Herself's views of the quantity of boxes newly-piled in the Garage, eBay definitely beckons.
Some random finds from the boxes:
A Spectrum SE/30 pds video card with cable and connection assembly for SE/30 (maybe the SE too?);
A Radius Two-Page Display SE/30 pds video (this one, unfortunately, has a BNC connector);
Macintosh Display 8 24GC nubus (ideal for my IIfx under System 6, methinks);
An E-Machines Futura II 7" nubus (not sure which of the series it is yet, but it seems to be one of the higher end models from 1993);
A G4 Stealth Serial Port;
2x 486 DOS-compatibility cards (fits 6100 with angle adapter or, it seems, the Quadra PDS) and I seem to have at least one of the octopus cables required to use it (very odd device).
I also have an unknown ethernet card which has no markings and which I am thus unable to identify. The connector is the same as nubus, but it surely cannot be a nubus card as the connector is at a 90º angle to the card and thus the card would lie across the logic board rather than sitting vertically in the machine if installed. It is about 8 inches long, and so something like a gigantic LCPDS card. As there is a cable that connects to a separate board with ethernet, I assume that it must be for a Compact, but that it requires some sort of adapter to fit. Any ideas as to what it could be?
A Spectrum SE/30 pds video card with cable and connection assembly for SE/30 (maybe the SE too?);
A Radius Two-Page Display SE/30 pds video (this one, unfortunately, has a BNC connector);
Macintosh Display 8 24GC nubus (ideal for my IIfx under System 6, methinks);
An E-Machines Futura II 7" nubus (not sure which of the series it is yet, but it seems to be one of the higher end models from 1993);
A G4 Stealth Serial Port;
2x 486 DOS-compatibility cards (fits 6100 with angle adapter or, it seems, the Quadra PDS) and I seem to have at least one of the octopus cables required to use it (very odd device).
I also have an unknown ethernet card which has no markings and which I am thus unable to identify. The connector is the same as nubus, but it surely cannot be a nubus card as the connector is at a 90º angle to the card and thus the card would lie across the logic board rather than sitting vertically in the machine if installed. It is about 8 inches long, and so something like a gigantic LCPDS card. As there is a cable that connects to a separate board with ethernet, I assume that it must be for a Compact, but that it requires some sort of adapter to fit. Any ideas as to what it could be?
Yes, here too. There are, however, certain things that are worth real money (like SE/30 ethernet cards) on the right day on eBay.
On this topic, I am sorry to say that there is no 660av nubus adapter in the haul, which I have now been through in a first reasonably methodical pass.
There is, however, yet one further SE/30 video card that has emerged, this one a Radius two-page display with a VGA connection. That makes three SE/30 video cards. This latest must have been made for the old Radius greyscale displays that came with a VGA rather than a DB15 connector.
Daystar DiskRunner caching SCSI card :O so jealous right now.
Your haul of SE/30 PDS cards makes me want to
:scrambled: xx(
Very nice little treasure trove.
Your haul of SE/30 PDS cards makes me want to
Very nice little treasure trove.
Definitely. I left a Dell Optiplex (covered in black plastic) in the back of the car for about 2 days (in the middle of summer, in Melbourne...) and when I went to collect it it was little more than a warped mass of black and grey plastic. Another issue is that with the older macs, moving them from a hot to cold environment constantly causes the plastic to brittle - hence my beige Plus cracking in several places when I went to pry it open! Weather and computers don't mix...
Same here, but I do seem to recall someone else here extolling their virtues. I'll see if I can dig up the thread.
Meanwhile, software here - maybe it has a readme or a manual in the download.