I have an update!
went over to pick up a computer from the guy so I can set it up with XP so he could give it to his uncle, who does semi-professional car racing and needs an XP machine to interface to the programmer and diagnostics stuff with software. So, I look and I found he had ANOTHER 9500 on the other side of the garage door! it's also in deplorable condition on the outside, but the inside is pretty clean-ish. the case is a bit on the tattered side. I'm going to see if I can get it from him as payment for the XP install and cleanup on the one box (an OptiPlex 755 with a Pentium E2160 and 4GB of RAM.) he should be more than willing since the machine is just steel scrap and old yellowed ABS plastic. that and I've already shown him the pictures of my cleanup job on the dishwasher'd IIvx and he's impressed at the meticulousness of the cleaning I did, so far as to put it in the dishwasher, at least. first he ever heard of such a thing happening (he's in no way an expert, he just deals with them as scrap most days.)
Sufficed to say, I may have a PowerMac 9500 by week's end. if not, hey, I'll see if I can at least grab a couple of parts from it. it seems pretty well endowed inside as far as parts go... I just need to swap the outer case with the other 9500 and I have me a beastly machine. I may even go as far as swapping all the parts over to it from the PowerTower Pro 250. 4 more RAM slots mean I can up it to 1.5GB of RAM easy instead of the gig the other box is limited at. it'd also give me an excuse to drop the new ATX PSU I have for the PTP in with just the SATA card and some drives (with proper SATA power connectors from the PSU!) and use that as some sort of server/Linux box. I haven't messed with Linux on an oldworld mac in a LONG time and I think I'm overdue. gotta get me a nice PPC kernel rolled and see if it's any good anymore.
As far as the IIvx goes, I tried to start it up today and the hard drive gave me a bit of a fit as to if it was going to start up again-- it spun up but it didn't do the self-test. I'm getting ready to do another bootup with another drive in the chain to clone the system to so I don't have any worries on that wonderful install of 7.6.1 falling between my fingers.
More as it happens. off to install XP on that PC with me.
went over to pick up a computer from the guy so I can set it up with XP so he could give it to his uncle, who does semi-professional car racing and needs an XP machine to interface to the programmer and diagnostics stuff with software. So, I look and I found he had ANOTHER 9500 on the other side of the garage door! it's also in deplorable condition on the outside, but the inside is pretty clean-ish. the case is a bit on the tattered side. I'm going to see if I can get it from him as payment for the XP install and cleanup on the one box (an OptiPlex 755 with a Pentium E2160 and 4GB of RAM.) he should be more than willing since the machine is just steel scrap and old yellowed ABS plastic. that and I've already shown him the pictures of my cleanup job on the dishwasher'd IIvx and he's impressed at the meticulousness of the cleaning I did, so far as to put it in the dishwasher, at least. first he ever heard of such a thing happening (he's in no way an expert, he just deals with them as scrap most days.)
Sufficed to say, I may have a PowerMac 9500 by week's end. if not, hey, I'll see if I can at least grab a couple of parts from it. it seems pretty well endowed inside as far as parts go... I just need to swap the outer case with the other 9500 and I have me a beastly machine. I may even go as far as swapping all the parts over to it from the PowerTower Pro 250. 4 more RAM slots mean I can up it to 1.5GB of RAM easy instead of the gig the other box is limited at. it'd also give me an excuse to drop the new ATX PSU I have for the PTP in with just the SATA card and some drives (with proper SATA power connectors from the PSU!) and use that as some sort of server/Linux box. I haven't messed with Linux on an oldworld mac in a LONG time and I think I'm overdue. gotta get me a nice PPC kernel rolled and see if it's any good anymore.
As far as the IIvx goes, I tried to start it up today and the hard drive gave me a bit of a fit as to if it was going to start up again-- it spun up but it didn't do the self-test. I'm getting ready to do another bootup with another drive in the chain to clone the system to so I don't have any worries on that wonderful install of 7.6.1 falling between my fingers.
More as it happens. off to install XP on that PC with me.