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That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry! What you do with it is find some games for it.

The raster is out on the monitor (very bright, diagonal lines) and while I had it on, magic smoke came out

Time to inspect the power supply and find the burning death,

Found it:

That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry!

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Yes. A well used-one would have the silver worn off where the user's hands rested on the case, just below the keyboard.

It has a vinyl cover with it so I assume that's why it looks as good as it does. It smells like old garage.

If I put it next to the Apple IIe and the Apple ///, the room will start to look like my Jr. High computer lab.

Ah HA! SUCCESS!



Next step: find software to use with it. I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?

I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?

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ADT is designed to write out 16-sector disk images. Are TRS-80 disks in 16-sector format?

Good question. To be honest, I'm pretty unfamiliar with the Tandy systems. They were there in school but everyone used the Apple IIs so I don't have a lot of exposure. Time to start some research tonight.

I shouldn't have but I cleared out Mark Kronquist's garage sale leftovers:

15" Original graphite Apple Studio Display with adapter

3x eMate 300s

MacBottom 20MB hard drive

2x Powerbook 165 (one with working SCSI drive)

12" Powerbook G4 867MHz - drop damage on a corner but fully functional

Airport Graphite base station

Airport Snow dual ethernet base station

2x Wallstreet floppy drives

2x Wallstreet batteries

14" iBook battery

Powerbook Duo battery + case

45w Powerbook adapter (small barrel)

2x 512MB iPod Shuffles

Extended Keyboard

Extended Keyboard II

Keyspan serial-to-USB adapter

4-port USB hub

iomega Clik drive

3x Sony HD 10-pack floppies

2x Original Airport cards

Apple ATI Radeon 7500 ADC card

Original ADB mouse

SD card to CF adapter

Apple Pro Speakers

Tangerine iBook 300MHz logic board and bottom case

Tangerine USB floppy drive

Quicktake 100 camera

A few phone net adapters

Palm visor

Texas Instruments TI99-4A with Cassette deck (and three cassettes!)

One can never have too much of such stuff! Good find! That MacBottom-drive is really good find also. Rarely see those, atleast here.

Quicktake would be interesting, mm.. maybe need to start looking for one. Thanks for the tip. Haven't seen those for ages (we sold few of those back in time), never seen eMate. Possibly not even sold here.

The Studio Display is one of the original dark blue LCD displays with the old DB 15-pin Macintosh video connector. I'll use it with the Power Macintosh G3 then!

Picked up a Platinum Mac Plus with a Radius Accelerator 16 card in it. With keyboard/mouse, bag, floppies, 150MB external SCSI HDD and Apple 3.5" drive for $30.

is the MacBottom serial? or SCSI? if its serial, did you find a driver?

Unfortunately, it's just the common SCSI version.

eh... well I figured i would ask, I assume only a handful exist in this world, and I have one of them. lol.

Grabbed a Quadra 610 from the dumpster. The cover has broken tabs on the back but in decent shape other than that. 25MHz 68040, 32MB RAM, 1GB SCSI hard drive. No cards, no CD. Boots from the internal drive into 7.1.

...And the sweet scores keep rolling in. Given the fact that it got tossed into a dumpster I'd say you're lucky all that's broken are the tabs.

I opened a WGS 6150 and Performa 6116CD both with tabs still on them and managed to get them open and shut without breaking anything. (Well, anything else...I broke the bezel on the 6150's CD-ROM in the first place prompting the need to open both...)

A Quadra 610 was the first file server I used at home. Complete with PhoneNet to a IIcx, my Power Mac 5300/100 and PB 5300cs. Awww yeeeaaahhh... It was later replaced with a 950 from eBay. Actually I think they were both from eBay...back in the late 90s when they could be had for shipping plus a few bucks.

Shipping was also much cheaper in the late 1990's. Actually from what I recall 68K macs were not that cheap until 2000+, there was a massive amount of dumping in 2000-2004 on ebay.

True on both, actually. Now that I think of it in the late 1990s they were cheap but usually not less than the shipping cost. (Sometimes they were...depended on the model and the deal you found.) It was the early 2000s when I started taking in a lot of 68k and early PPCs for next to nothing.

A good time to play with all things retro Mac. Much harder to get such a variety of 68k Macs on the cheap these days. Then again, it's all in finding the right deal. The proof is in this thread...like the aforementioned Dumpster Quadra!

You can still find a specific machine cheap enough to collect, you just won't find tons of vintage well kept machines for next to nothing in one large lot anymore (unless somebody local kicks the bucket and their reletives don't have time to look the stuff over).

If I just started collecting today then finding a SE/30, IIfx, 840AV, and 950 would just be a matter of coming up with $100 - 200 a pop for each one. Plus a few hundred more for misc stuff like software and add-ons. A super hoarding collection is just not economic to do anymore, and you are probably better off as a collector not doing that anyway.

Agreed on being better off with a collection of a few you can maintain, use and cherish versus a super hoard. I've got too many left over from the days of getting tons at once for pocket change. Now I hardly know where to start when it comes to playing with them again.

Unless you have a huge climate controlled space where you live and lots of time. Then I say hoard away! After all, collecting old Macs is an addiction. Like any good addiction it should be pushed to the absolute max. Wait...that's why I needed to rent a U-Haul to move my Macs into storage. Even if you have he space to have them all at home today, you may not tomorrow.

I grabbed another Indigo iBook today for $15. The bummer is that it's missing the CD bezel just like my other one

That's a good price there! Otherwise in good condition i assume. The cd-bezel seems to be one part to easily break/get loose, bummer.

I saw also one auction for lime iBook G3 with Airport and original package, but bidding goes at 55€ right now wich i think is bit too much. Would be nice addition/replacement of my previous one. But that comes to another topic of reducing collection to level of handing them all. I am thinking of putting Plus and 512k in storage and keep only Classic on desk for classic form machines, best of each type.

Yes, in my office space, I keep a SE/30, Color Classic Mystic, Apple ///, Macintosh 128k and Macintosh Plus Platinum setup. The rest get shuffled in and out of storage.

Bought two B&W G3 PowerMacs (no RAM, Video Cards or Hard Drives) and an LC this weekend (with an ethernet card and 512k VRAM). Found a 1.25 GHz eMac in the dumpster this morning (1.25 GB RAM, 80GB HDD).

Hi,

How do you find all this stuff?!

I can never seem to find the things you do with such frequency (of course, if I looked harder,and had more money and space, I could probably accomplish a lot...)

In California, unfortunately, it seems that almost everybody's recycling everything electronic older than about 10 years these days. Older stuff (especially 68k and pre-G3 Mac stuff) is becoming increasingly hard to find.

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It is that way here too. I check craigslist about every day, looking for stuff in about a 75 mile radius. I also check the electronics dumpster at the recycling station here. There are a lot of people who throw this stuff away because they believe it to be worthless.

In short, it's an active hobby.

Finding stuff is indeed a active hobby, finding new ways to contact people, find places hear stories, being an Sherlock Holmes at times. That's how it goes. Sometimes it's really hard finding nothing worth a while, sometimes you make the score justifying all the work put on the hobby. Don't take too much pressure :beige:

It's easily notiseable. Pre G3 machines are more difficult to find. Those that are cheap/free, are usually in bad shape and the better ones the owners think they are treasure and ask money for them (sometimes less, sometimes more). I've seen insane asking prices for basic PPC stuff from the 90's lately wich is just plain silly. If something goes up in value over time, it would be 68k machines and before, times of Apple II and, of cos certain triumph-of-the-design items like Cube, iMac G4 and of cos, raretie, TAM.

Oh, i'll keep my eye on the CD bezel. I have a friend who have lots of project shaped iBook G3's around. What were the colors you were looking for? PM me with details ok?

Excellent! I need two Indigo colored ones if you come across them. I think I've decided that it's my Favorite iBook color. The milky white with the blue looks really great.

Another day, another ... eMac? :-/

Strange but another eMac (1GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD) was in the trash today.