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Powermac conquests

68kMLA Hardware 16 posts Dec 24, 2011 to Jan 8, 2012

#1 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 - 07:53 68kMLA

Possible conquests.. for free. 1x Ci, 1x 6100, 1x 7100, 1x 4400, 2x G3 powermac, 2x G4 powermac. Now wondering wich ones to pick up. WIll pass G3's and G4's unless the G4 is Cube ;D I am thinking to pickup IICi and possibly 4400.

Gave the Powermac G5 1.8Ghz single to work collegue as first Mac as i replaced it with 2.3Ghz DC. Have limited space for machines right now (and still getting more, silly).

#2 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 - 07:08 68kMLA

Grab them all and pass on the rest to us for shipping

#3 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 - 18:56 68kMLA

Shipping for these would cost more than any value you would put on the machine :lol:

#4 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 - 22:53 68kMLA

And within Europe?

#5 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 - 22:56 68kMLA

I would also grab a nubus powermac If you don't have one already, get the 6100 for style and the 7100 for POWER!

#6 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 - 08:14 68kMLA

The great thing about the x100 Nubus PowerMacs is that they can be easily and cheaply upgraded with G3 processors. With a G3 in the 7100, you would have about the fastest possible host for any favourite Nubus cards.

#7 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 - 09:12 68kMLA

Thanks for the suggestions! Looks like i'll get atleast IIci and then maybe indeed 7100. Let's see what happens.

#8 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 - 08:11 68kMLA

Looks like he'll be dropping these for me in friday,

1x II Ci

1x 6100

2x 7100

1x 4400

#9 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 - 18:54 68kMLA

Indeed the guy dropped me these on friday:

1 x II Ci

1 x 6100

2 x 7100

1 x 4400 200mhz

inc. full sets of keyboards, mouses and even an VGA-adapter, external SCSI-CD-burner etc etc.!

Looked inside few machines and they all looked with full RAM modules filled. That's good news!

Had to store them for time being in the basement, but will first clean them up from dust and see if they work and what's actually

inside.

Another, non-mac, conquest. HP ProLiant ML110 G5, Core2Duo 2.8Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD, DVD-+RW, basic entry server. Very clean, looks like new.

No OS discs however came with the machine, wich is really not an problem. Plan on having Linux server on it, or transfer my FreeNAS to this instead of

an same era HP "pizzabox" having right now.

And also looking for possibility for an iBook 12" (don't have specs, was offered by collegue at work). No power adaptor, one cursor key missing. Free.

#10 Sun, 1 Jan 2012 - 18:50 68kMLA

The machines came from Graphics design company who have been using Macintosh since almost day one. Sadly they have trashed the oldest machines, ie. just recently Macintosh Classic and such (so sad, so sad).

Had time today so opened the machines and looked it, also cleaned up the IICi.

Interesting cards inside, atleast for me.

IICi had these installed :

-Asante mc3nb (thin network card, can remove)

-Viking Controller Mac ii/gs & color (for some hires 21" displays?? - the card is HUGE!).

-Daystar FastCache card

-All RAM filled, haven't yet bootled so don't know the ammount.

7100/80 (better unit)

-Hermstedt Leonardo SP v1.2 (this is an graphics card of somesort?) I know they made some ISDN cards but this isn't one.

4400/200

-Apple 1MB HPV PDS Video Card (maxed memory) + Hermstedt Leomardo SP v1.1

6100/60 is quite stock, RAM-slots atleast maxed out

7100/80 is very dusty and all cards removed, have two RAM modules. This is parts only.

#11 Sun, 1 Jan 2012 - 22:20 68kMLA

Those are pretty great conquests! awesome!

#12 Mon, 2 Jan 2012 - 06:37 68kMLA

Our company sales person told me that he used Viking card to run 19"-21" monitors. Cost of the card, 42.000 FIM (maybe around 5000-7000 usd at time). Amazing.

#13 Wed, 4 Jan 2012 - 05:26 68kMLA

7100/80 (better unit) boots nicely, 500Mb HD. Might get an G3-card for this. Sweet! This motherboard is brown (not burnt lol) and have designers names on it. Nice detail.

4400/200 boots nicely, 112Mb RAM, 2GB IDE HD, CDROM. Sadly no PC card. Will put new HD to this one (less noisy), have enough ATA-replacement drives, none of the SCSI. Need to find some good-condition SCSI drives!

6100/60 boots finally after PRAM replacement, 40Mb RAM, 250mb HD, CDROM. First i thought the video adapter was fawlty.. nice formfactor of the unit! Makes me want to get for some reason Sun Sparcstation or some LC!

7100/80 (parts only) parts left: Case, Motherboard, PSU. Dirty! Different color motherboard than the other one (this is green).

#14 Wed, 4 Jan 2012 - 21:17 68kMLA

http://kan.org/6100 has all your x100-related tips. And Sonnet still have the x100 G3 upgrade for cheap.

#15 Wed, 4 Jan 2012 - 21:37 68kMLA

Thanks for the tips. Sonnet don't ship to Europe..

#16 Sun, 8 Jan 2012 - 05:04 68kMLA

I've got a card for you. Luckilly, I ship to europe.

I have a 240 for sure and I might have a extra 400 somewhere.