My first big Conquest!

I'm back! And let my just say... I hit the motherlode! Filled the trunk of my Dad's 2011 Impala.

I am flat out pooped... but let me just say, I have TONS of stuff now. Systems, keyboards, mice, accelerator cards, memory, hard drives, floppy drives, etc.

Nice, I know the feeling. I'm still sorting through it all a year later!

I'll start with the systems.

7600/120 - Works... has a 300MHz CPU card

8500/120 - Works

LC II - Works

6100/66 - Works

7100/80AV - Works

Hmm... I got a whole box of these Newer Technology accelerator cards... not sure what they go to. The one card goes into a slot, and the other goes into a PDS/Nubus? slot. They are attached via an orange ribbon. The number on the card is DT370C1.

BTW.. I got all of this stuff for free!

Those'd be for the NuBus PPC Macs, the ribbon connects the HPV or AV VidCard to the PDS passthru on the Accelerator, the NuBus Bracket just holds the Video Card.

Very nice haul! :approve:

It's time for the pictures

Good luck for such a nice conquest!

Awesome! I too am excited to see the pictures. The only thing better than free stuff is tons of free stuff!

Any USB keyboards/mice? I've got a PowerLogix G3/350 that would go nice in your 8500.

JR

No USB stuff. All ADB. Everything is 90's Mac stuff.

Along with the systems listed above -

Many, MANY drive sleds... plastic and metal ones

10 hard drives

12 floppy drives

Lots of memory, ROMs, cache, VRAM

1 Monitor (which I've needed for a LONG time)

6 CD-Rom drives, a ClubMac external SCSI CD drive (Yay!)

Numerous SCSI ribbons, a few external SCSI cables

Many Accelerators and video cards to go with them, including a Sonnet Crescendo 500MHz G3 card

6 Keyboards, 5 or 6 mice, and a Kensington Turbo roller ball mouse

A few Ethernet cards

And numerous bezels, many of which have broken tabs on them.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I'm pooped yet again sorting through it. I'll try to get some pictures in a bit.

Hmm..... noticed that this 6100/66 has no ROM simm or cache. Will the ROM simm out of the 7100/80AV work?

IIRC, the 6100 shipped with no ROM SIMM (ie, ROM is on the logic board). Try booting it and see. If I am wrong, the 7100 ROM should work.

Many Accelerators and video cards to go with them, including a Sonnet Crescendo 500MHz G3 card

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Always nice

The one card goes into a slot, and the other goes into a PDS/Nubus? slot. They are attached via an orange ribbon.

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Is the ribbon cable permanently attached, or socketed? In the 6100, the ribbon cable is not required - the video card plugs straight into the accelerator. In the 7100 or 8100, the video card would collide with other components, so the ribbon cable allows you to move it over to a Nubus slot space.

The second card is almost certainly a video card - Apple AV with a Mac video port and two S-Video ports, or HPV, with only the Mac video port. When the accelerator is not present, this goes directly into the PDS slot.

If you post a picture, we can probably ID the whole thing for sure. In fact, throw us some pics of anything you're not sure about

If you do have the socketed ribbon cable, that would let you mix & match accelerators & video cards in the 7100

Kensington Turbo roller ball mouse

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Can I have it?

Assuming it looks like the one I've been looking for...

I am actually quite excited to have an ADB rollerball mouse... always thought it went great with the compact macs...

Anyways, here are the pics. Just a note... yes the boxes are dirty, and yes some of the stuff is dirty. It was all in a garage. I haven't cleaned anything yet. I've been really busy over the past few days.



































And this came with a white ball as well -

I love those extended keyboards. Not sure if I like the first gen for their "clickier" keys or the second gen for the adjustable tilt better. And you got an external SCSI CD drive...I know you wanted one of those!

What's with the colored keys on the Keyboard II?

Yeah, the External drive is nice... it's a ClubMac one. Works very well. As for the colored keys, they definitely aren't the OE keys.... it looks like an aftermarket set installed for a certain program.

Those are odd keys on the Keyboard II...I thought the letters looked bigger when I first looked but dismissed it and only mentioned the colored ones. Now I notice the blank keys, "Erase"instead of "delete", and use of capitolization like "Shift" unlike the two examples I have here without going down into The Dungeon. Shift, caps lock,etc are all lower case on the normal keys. I can't quite read the green "return" key to see if the label is different. Odd keys! Anyone seen those key caps before?

Here's an image I borrowed from Wikipedia so anyone reading can see them both in this thread.

That tub 'o accelerators and various cards would be a dream find - apart from the PPC/G3 accelerators and some HPV graphics cards, what else in in there?

JB

It's all accelerators and video cards out of 7100/80AVs, so they are all PDS slot cards. There's also 2 accelerators for the 6100... they are the PDS type with a right angle PDS slot above the heatsink. I think they are both 150MHz? cards.

As for the oddball keys on the Keyboard II, I'll get a better picture of them.

By the way.... The guy I got this stuff from worked for the US Government, and he got all of this stuff at government auctions. He also had TONS of Sun stuff, as well as a few PCs.

Which remote came in the TV/Video System Box?

The bigger remote. I wish it was the one on the front of the box.

I'm scrolling through these pictures, and I'm all

:O

Awesome find!

2 accelerators for the 6100... / I think they are both 150MHz? cards.

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Interesting - if they are ~150MHz, they could be 604 accelerators - very rare. EveryMac lists G3 upgrades from 210MHz up. Kan agrees.

Just pulled the 2 6100 accelerators out... they are supposedly G3 266MHz cards. The model is MXP6100 and they say M266/133.

If you don't need all of those drive sleds, I have a few Macs that could use them.

Dog Cow, yes, I will probably get rid of most of them! I'll never own that many Macs.

As for the external CD drive, I ended up replacing the NEC drive with an Apple branded 24x drive. It wouldn't read burned discs on the SE/30, but the Apple drive does.