haplain's never-ending quest

Sucks about the hard drive. It was completely toast?

Yeah it was no good but I'll figure it out. It always makes it sweeter when I get it working after some serious stress. Thus far my track records good so I remain hopeful. Does anyone think that maybe trying to install 9.2.2 would help to get it working? I'd be okay running 9.2.2-10.5 if I knew which one would work. I haven't tried 10.5 yet.

Well, the 5,8 that shipped didn't support a native boot of OS 9, so its safe to assume the PBG4DP Proto is the same.

Maybe a 10.0 public beta or 10.0 standard would work

Maybe a 10.0 public beta or 10.0 standard would work

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Are you talking about this on the dual CPU prototype? I rather doubt it. If there's one consistent rule about Macs it's that they *never* boot OS releases older than themselves and if the dual CPU unit is really in the "5,8" family it probably won't boot anything less than 10.4.something. (Another possibility is the 5,8 designation was reused and simply means "successor to 5,7", but that would still make the oldest OS at all likely to run on it a late version of 10.3.) Are you booting it with a "Retail" 10.4 disk, and if so, does it attempt to install or does it complain the system is unsupported? I'd hazard that cloning a working 10.4 install from another machine is probably your best shot at making it go, but if that's not working, I dunno, maybe Leopard?

(I have to wonder if the 5,8 designation, since that applies to the shipped 1.67 high-def screen model, might be causing the system to load the wrong set of kernel modules for a dual CPU or some other hardware element. It might be interesting to try a PPC Linux disk on it and see what happens.)

Ok well maybe I'll try 10.5 and see if that gets me anything.

Any chance I could somehow test/remove the 5,8 designation?

It has to do with the OS. By the model identifier, it loads up the proper drivers. Since the 5,8 shipped without a DP, it can't load the proper drivers with a standard OS. Thats my guess.

I FINALLY GOT ONE!!!! I was super excited to see this pop up. Now I just need a frame.

Is that going to hand above the NeXTCube? Nice nab!

Maybe. I might put it in my back shed that's where I have all my tools etc.

maybe you could frame it.. and your GF will let you have it in the living room…

or maybe you can put it on the ceiling in your bed room

LOL

Just grabbed this

Not bad! Especially considering it was originally listed at $4k (maybe more)!

6500 is where it started. Didn't pay that and will maybe use it for a trade.

6500 is where it started. Didn't pay that and will maybe use it for a trade.

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Okay, I thought it was more but the auction I found was $4k. Crazy. No matter the start price, I think you made out really well on that one!

Thanks. I continue my conquest for the clear Portable.

If I'm not mistaken, that looks like a MacBook Pro of some sort with a DVT prototype wireless card.

Based on the limited evidence, it appears to be otherwise production or very late pre-production, unless you all know something I don't?

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Yeah it's some kind of late stage DVT model. I'd assume the wireless chip was what was being evaluated. Also the fact the board is not the standard logic board color for that machine is another indication it's not a production model. Lastly the EMC number being XXXX means it was a test unit. Overall I'm happy with the purchase and think it was worthwhile. It's hard to find newer DVT units like this. After the iPhone 4 was "lost" Apple really got crazy about everything. This was the model before that loss but one I doubt we see many prototype things from 2010 on.

you must get a clear portable !

Being in the SF bay area allows me unique opportunities given the proximity to Apple. I was unable to attend the 30th Mac celebration at De Anza (sad) but that didn't stop me from making some new friends! As some of you may recall I was on a retromaccast podcast a few weeks back. That got me excited but I didn't know when I'd be on there next so it was bittersweet. Well, as fate would have it, James the host of retromaccast was in the area and wanted to drop by. He said he'd like to bring a friend too, which is obviously fine... well much to my surprise Jonathan Zufi, the author of ICONIC, graced my museum with his presence. I was extremely excited to show him what I have, talk shop, talk about my new acquisition (the massive collection we picked up), etc. It's a really a blast to officially meet James, what a good guy, and Jonathan, a legend on his own. My prototypes spoke for themselves and left both speechless, perfect!

For those of you who haven't seen Jonathan's book, I really think you should (http://iconicbook.com)

I received that book for xmas and it is indeed awesome.

hap is kinda like a Mac Rock Star

I picked up these little guys over the last week. The one frankenstein looking one is a iPhone 3G thermal testing unit. All those little wires coming out would have been hooked up to a thermocouple to make sure the resistors were within spec.

The other is an unreleased, black chrome iPod touch. How bada** is that? Why the hell didn't Apple come out with the black chrome, it's real classy like.

That iPod touch is SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTT LOOKING! Nice find!

I wonder why Apple didn't release one?

iPod Stealth! Does it charge?

It charges and works. The white device is an evt unit even the battery.

Which white device?

Also, is that iPod touch running the testing firmware or a full version of iOS?