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Out-of-business sale conquests

Out-of-business sale conquests Hardware 33 posts Mar 23, 2013 — Apr 15, 2013

#1 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 - 22:55

Had about 60 with me. Came back with this:

Power Macintosh G3 Blue and White, completely stock running OS 8.5.1 with SCSI card installed. One of three 64MB RAM sticks was dead.

iMac DV, snow. Plugged it in and turned it on, is running OS X 10.4, haven't checked anything else. Apparently needs new PRAM battery.

Macintosh Quadra 640 - Haven't hooked up a monitor to it yet, chimes. Has a 160MB hard drive, and an Ethernet card.

2 copies of AppleShare 4.0

Sealed set of System 7.5 Update 2.0

Original OS 9 restore disc for my Sawtooth G4

Sealed documentation and restore discs for my Power Mac G5.

Might go again, they had at least a dozen assorted Quadras, Power Mac 7200s, and a beige Mac Server G3, all marked $10. Also a couple of eMacs, Bondi Blue iMacs, and a bunch of old Apple monitors and peripherals (Saw a LaCie SCSI Tape drive).

#2 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 - 23:24

Quadras for $10 each is a pretty good bargain. I would go back to see what else is in the pile - perhaps some of those Quadras have some expansion cards of interest.

That iMac looks like its in nice condition. I would avoid the bondi iMacs as the CRT flyback transformer failure is an issue.

Was this a store that was going out of business, or some corporation? Interesting to see beige macs still in inventory all these years later...

#3 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 - 23:48

Id paypal you for a quadra with an ethernet card. If you go back, floppies would be a plus also.

#4 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 00:01

FEETS!!!

If your planing to go back, let me know. I'm interested in a pizza box Mac like your Quadra 640. Was it a store or Corporation that went under?

#5 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 00:13

I'm not sure if I will go back, since it's a ways out of my way. It's a newspaper that went out of business in the Oakland County, MI area. Never seen so much old Apple hardware in one place. If I do, I would like to pick up the Server G3 plus a few more Quadras. There were a few G4 Sawtooths and MDD's, but I didn't get to them in time.

#6 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 00:23

Was this posted on Craigslist?

#7 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 00:32

Yes, it was posted as "lots of computer equipment" with no mention of Apple or Mac in the title or description. The picture showed a lot of G3/G4 towers and older Apple hardware. I took money there planning to get the G3, a Quadra or 2, and some other peripherals there like the tape drives, etc since the G4's were all gone. Once I got there I couldn't pass up the snow iMac DV.

#8 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 00:46

I have never heard of a Quadra 640. :?:

#9 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 01:40

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote 640. It's actually a 605.

#10 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 02:26

Please let me know if your in the area at some point. I'm interested in one.

#11 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 03:25

Hey I saw that ad, want to go since it's nearby but it's out of the way and I have a busy weekend going on... What's left in terms of lizza boxes and beige powermacs? Have they had much interest?

#12 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 14:33

When I went, some reseller had already showed up and taken all the G4 towers. They had saved at least the B&W G3 because I had called earlier. There are a few eMacs for $50, a bunch of assorted Quadras and PowerMacs plus a beige Mac Server G3 all labelled $10, a lot of keyboards and peripherals, a few Bondi iMacs for $30, a room full of monitors, cables, and restore media downstairs, and a pair of Xserve mounting media. Their prices are all negotiable, esp. since the original price on the B&W G3 was 65. THey're around selling stuff until Fri, when it all goes to the dump.

#13 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 14:46

It would be a shame to let Quadras go to the dump.

Esp. if they are working. Parts are a scarcity now.

#14 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 15:13

Well, sadly I can't save them all. Especially since I have no time to go half an hour north of my house when everything I do daily is half an hour south of my house.

#15 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 15:28

Yeah I'm in the same boat... 40 minute drive (with no traffic) to nowhere near where I need to be, my weekend is packed, and weeknights there's traffic to contend with... Argh!

#16 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 - 16:54

The funny thing is I happened to net 2 Sawtooths from another former employee of this place 2 weeks ago; those two were completely stock as well, with Zip drives. Using one as a server, running Debian Linux. Installed 10.4 on the other one.

#17 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 - 15:02

I also would love to get a 605 if they have any left!!!!!

#18 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 - 02:50

I contacted the seller and they are willing to ship as long as you pay for shipping. I ordered a Quadra, but I don't know how many are left (3 I believe). The lady also set another one aside incase there is a problem with this one or if I want to buy it (probably will, if I can get the money together). It seems the G3 Server is still available!

Click here to go to the craigslist ad.

#19 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 - 14:44

I want to get that server, but I may not have time to go back, and I'm pretty sure shipping prices for that thing would be obscene.

#20 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 - 23:31

From what it sounds like, the computers are going to be there until Saturday, but then...

I don't even want to think about those poor Macs.

#21 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 - 20:29

I have never heard of a Quadra 640. :?:

IIRC, there was a Q640, or it may have been a Performa 640 or an LC640. In any case, it was one of the many, many variants on the Q630.

#22 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 - 21:52

It was a performa 640 DOS, it was the one that shipped with a dos card instead of the TV tuner.

#23 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 - 22:54

I may go back tomorrow with $40 or $50 if I get a chance, and grab some of what's left. Namely that G3 and the Quadras. Perhaps a tape drive. I'm going to call tomorrow morning and find out.

#24 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 - 22:32

An update: I went back and grabbed the Server G3 and a Quadra 660AV. They're putting the rest of the 605's (there were three) into storage, so if anyone wants one, you should call.

Now if anyone can solve the (for me) ages-old mystery as to why my 10.2 Server hangs at the server assistant on the Server G3, it'd make my day.

#25 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 - 23:05

Just got my 605 today, sadly with many broken plastic pieces. Good news though, IT STILL CHIMES WITH HDD ACTIVITY! :O

I'm glad you snagged the Server G3. I was going to go for it, but shipping would have been to much.

#26 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 - 23:41

Was that a beige Server G3 or B&W?

#27 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 - 00:52

By the photos, beige.

#28 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 - 01:24

It was a beige G3 running OS 8.1 with AppleShare IP installed, and a SCSI card and second NIC installed in the PCI slots. The dual 9GB drives were set up in RAID 0; I couldn't get them to mount when booting off the OS 9 install disc, so I took them out, set them aside, and installed OS 9 and 10.2 Server on a SCSI Seagate Cheetah I had laying around.

The 660AV is, at this point, untouched. When I first turned it on, it played the first few notes of the sad mac sound for that model (the "silly" tune, as I like to call it", but then transitioned to the startup chime and finished booting into OS 7.6.1 (Do you think 8.1 is feasible on this thing?)

#29 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 - 08:39

Feasible, yes, given enough RAM. 8.1 runs on 040s.

Performative? That's another question. 7.6.1 will probably be a deal peppier.

#30 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 - 23:58

So I should just leave it running the currently installed 7.6.1? OK.

Now what software do I use to utilize its video capture capabilities?