This is the cheapest G5 I could find that didn't say Parts or Repair on it: http://cgi.ebay.com/power-pc-g5_W0QQitemZ250494997439QQcmdZViewItemQQptZApple_Desktops?hash=item3a52aa5…

It's like a used car. Someone may replace the engine and all major support parts costing the person 5 grand in parts. But the car's only worth maybe 3 grand. This happens all the t…

to a realist it is, to mac fanatic its not, funny things about mac's I guess whats going to be interesting is when these mactels start hitting vintage, that should even out the pl…

You'd be lucky to get $700. Honestly, you're insane to think you'll get more, or the buyer is a sucker. They're almost vintage. You never get your investment back with upgrades, an…

The 030 card is a nice find, but I think the real prize is the boxed software which mostly gets trashed these days.

but its not 1984 any more and yes I have been reading this thread, and video works uses a propitiatory format, so good luck figuring that one out! One would need to write a playe…

Well, I'm back from behind enemy lines again and I brought back a Blueberry Bundle, another MordorSoft Ergonomic KBD, to complete the pair I need for yet another KBD HackAthon . …

he ostensibly saved the company with such gimmicky computers as the iMac & Cube (?) etc, but those products were YEARS in development, long before the (volatile) steve brou…

I'm not 100% sure I understand your point. In 1984, such a thing took hours and hours with 128K RAM, 400K discs and your Imagewriter printer with Thunderscan. Which explains why we…

well it isn't vintage yet... it is still a very capable machine and the difference from 2.0GHZ to 2.3 is not much, only 300MHZ anyways... and with 16 gb ram this thing doesn't stut…

Nice haul! :O

Hot damn! There was a 50 MHz '030 card (also Daystar) that went for $40 recently on eBay.

Maybe I'll get my screwdrivers out and perform a little surgery

Thanks for the advice, but ... reset that and the PRAM but it's still not working. Now it just boots to a gray screen and nothing else. FWTDM still doesn't work. :?:

You'd be lucky to get $700. Honestly, you're insane to think you'll get more, or the buyer is a sucker. They're almost vintage. You never get your investment back with upgrades, an…

As for dates, Apple sent us a prototype a few months before release. There were other developers who were seeded with prototypes much earlier. Click to expand... PICTURES

It's possible the hard drive is bad, or the volume is bad. Depending on what you're connecting the unit to in target disk mode, if the volume has issues it will not mount or show u…

Try resetting the NVRAM, +opt+o+f and type "reset-nvram" No quotes and then type exit and reboot. Also try resetting PRAM and SMC if it has it.

I guess I'll have to dig the old Mac out of the closet and put the 64K ROMs back in it. I was under the impression that the 1.4 drives only worked with the SWIM chips, and didn't r…

Nice find! IIci are nice machines! What video card is in it?

Awesome!!! 8-o

Complete IIci system: - Daystar 68030 50 MHz upgrade card - All SIMM slots filled - Nice looking NuBus video card - Ethernet Card 2 x Apple RGB Display LaserWriter II Extend…

The only way to get anything like full frame video on a 68000 was to literally scan each frame of video one at a time, dither it for 1-bit, and then string them together in an anim…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! Click to expand... I'm still laughing. You realize how much work it …