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[Unknown_K]

I won a working G4 MDD (867mhz DP, 512MB, 60GB) for $37 shipped on ebay, should be here this week. After a few upgrades this will probably be the newest Mac I ever get (if I can't run OS 9 on it I don't want it).

Also got a Thinkpad T20 for something like $8 last week (it needed a HD) and a Thinkpad A30 a few days before that (needed an LCD transplant from a junker I had). P3 Thinkpads rock!

[mcdermd]

100 usd for Apple IIe... that's aint too bad! I've been looking one for ages here but no luck. One auction is been up for one IIe with monitor, two drives and printer (+ lots of software) for starting price for bids 299 euro.

$100USD was for a ][ Plus. The IIe's were cheaper. He looked up recent auction sales for an original Apple ][ and found one at $850!

[mcdermd]

Picked up a few things -

a Power Macintosh G3 mini tower (266MHz/256MB/60GB) for $10
a (working!) 30GB 2.5" external firewire drive (Smartdisk FireLite) for 50 cents
a Zip 100 Plus drive and two Zip disks for $2
an external Panasonic SCSI CD-ROM drive (KXL-D720) for $1. This one is black and looks good with the NeXTStation Turbo

[Cosmo]

an external Panasonic SCSI CD-ROM drive (KXL-D720) for $1. This one is black and looks good with the NeXTStation Turbo

That's good find for SCSI2 and really cheap. Put a picture on your site with the drive so we can see how it looks like? Perfect match?

[Arths]

Wow nice conquests

[BGoins12]

Man! Where do you guys find this stuff? I can't find ANYTHING older than a G3 or G4 around here. I've had my eyes glued to every site around here looking for a IIfx.

[mcdermd]

Perfect match?

Close enough:

Where do you guys find this stuff?

I'm an avid craigslist searcher and keep my feelers out to friends and acquaintances for hand-me-downs. That latest batch was bought at a HamFest I went to with my brother. I also have the bonus of weekly university surplus sales, electronics stores with surplus junk areas and local recyclers.

[jruschme]

Well, I don't have a NexStation, but I do have one of those Panasonic portable CD-ROMs I could be convinced to part with.

Actually, two... one with speakers and one without, though I only have one PCMCIA card.

JR

[mcdermd]

Forgot to post that I picked up a $10 266MHZ Wallstreet II for parts last week. Seems to work alright but it has a bad LCD and a hole in every plastic piece due to a drop.

Found software install sets for my Dual USB iBook G3 and GigE PowerBook G4 today.

[mcdermd]

So, I found this in the trash this morning ...



No idea what to do with it but I couldn't leave it.

[olePigeon]

That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry! What you do with it is find some games for it.

[mcdermd]

The raster is out on the monitor (very bright, diagonal lines) and while I had it on, magic smoke came out

Time to inspect the power supply and find the burning death,

[mcdermd]

Found it:

[jruschme]

That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry!

Yes. A well used-one would have the silver worn off where the user's hands rested on the case, just below the keyboard.

[mcdermd]

It has a vinyl cover with it so I assume that's why it looks as good as it does. It smells like old garage.

If I put it next to the Apple IIe and the Apple ///, the room will start to look like my Jr. High computer lab.

[mcdermd]

Ah HA! SUCCESS!



Next step: find software to use with it. I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?

[Dog Cow]

I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?

ADT is designed to write out 16-sector disk images. Are TRS-80 disks in 16-sector format?

[mcdermd]

Good question. To be honest, I'm pretty unfamiliar with the Tandy systems. They were there in school but everyone used the Apple IIs so I don't have a lot of exposure. Time to start some research tonight.

[mcdermd]

I shouldn't have but I cleared out Mark Kronquist's garage sale leftovers:

15" Original graphite Apple Studio Display with adapter
3x eMate 300s
MacBottom 20MB hard drive
2x Powerbook 165 (one with working SCSI drive)
12" Powerbook G4 867MHz - drop damage on a corner but fully functional
Airport Graphite base station
Airport Snow dual ethernet base station
2x Wallstreet floppy drives
2x Wallstreet batteries
14" iBook battery
Powerbook Duo battery + case
45w Powerbook adapter (small barrel)
2x 512MB iPod Shuffles
Extended Keyboard
Extended Keyboard II
Keyspan serial-to-USB adapter
4-port USB hub
iomega Clik drive
3x Sony HD 10-pack floppies
2x Original Airport cards
Apple ATI Radeon 7500 ADC card
Original ADB mouse
SD card to CF adapter
Apple Pro Speakers
Tangerine iBook 300MHz logic board and bottom case
Tangerine USB floppy drive
Quicktake 100 camera
A few phone net adapters
Palm visor
Texas Instruments TI99-4A with Cassette deck (and three cassettes!)

[Cosmo]

One can never have too much of such stuff! Good find! That MacBottom-drive is really good find also. Rarely see those, atleast here.

Quicktake would be interesting, mm.. maybe need to start looking for one. Thanks for the tip. Haven't seen those for ages (we sold few of those back in time), never seen eMate. Possibly not even sold here.

[mcdermd]

The Studio Display is one of the original dark blue LCD displays with the old DB 15-pin Macintosh video connector. I'll use it with the Power Macintosh G3 then!

[mcdermd]

Picked up a Platinum Mac Plus with a Radius Accelerator 16 card in it. With keyboard/mouse, bag, floppies, 150MB external SCSI HDD and Apple 3.5" drive for $30.

[techknight]

is the MacBottom serial? or SCSI? if its serial, did you find a driver?

[mcdermd]

Unfortunately, it's just the common SCSI version.

[techknight]

eh... well I figured i would ask, I assume only a handful exist in this world, and I have one of them. lol.