I'm completely surprised at the cleanliness of the iMac G5 and the GigE G4, they're the cleanest of the bunch (and probably why the G5 hasn't suffered from cap plague yet). the MDD needs its own run to the gas station for blowing out, but I hooked it up a couple nights ago and it does work, as does the G5. the GigE G4 does not boot, it only beeps at me in disgust. probably RAM issue, but didn't have time to dive into it more. Will later this week. had to even swap video cards with the GigE so I could get the MDD running on a screen, as I didn't have any spare DVI cables.
I'm actually considering swapping all the RAM and stuff from the dual 450 GigE G4 in the closet with the 500 and selling the 450... it's a lot cleaner and isn't missing the front panel doors.
...unless someone can point me in the right direction for a replacement to the front panel bay doors.
Since I used to see this sort of thing in printing company offices with the dust , I can only assume that the iMac was in its own office a couple rooms away from the main shop floor doors into the office, the GigE was closer and the MDD even closer if not right on the other side of the door. I suspect they used all the older beige boxes on the shop floor or just never cleaned them, as again, they were extremely filthy just like the IIvx and in deplorable condition internally as stated for the select few.
As far as I can tell, the IIvx is going to be very interesting once I get it running... the G4 had old tax return info and stuff on the desktop, and at least one drive from one of the other beige macs I pulled had some older stuff.
Nothing of any interest to me, but the older software titles on them are what I'm really after. the userdata can do die in the fire pit for all I care.
I probably also should have mentioned that the IIvx also came with an AppleCD 600E in enclosure, working, with all applicable cables. so I'm hoping someone upgraded it to 7.5.5 or 7.6.1 by now.