Another B&W

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

Granted, I haven't yet fully catalogued that van-full of stuff yet, and that was about two months ago....

I have a guy that has been giving me stuff of his and surplus stuff from the company where he works. I have scored a bunch of software, cords and odds and ends, NUBUS cards, books, and a big workgroup printer (I haven't fully IDd and catalogued that either.)

Today he calls me and I stop over on my way home. I score a 300Mhz B&W system with 64mb of ram running 10.2.

Yeah, it's a revA board, but hey, I can probably eventually find someone to use it after I transfer the Zip drive and faceplate over to my RevB B&W, but the best part is that I found the original G3 had been replaced with a Sonnet 500 G4 which is also going to get switched.

I got this, like everything else from this guy, for free.

Next week he'll have a 6100...

 

[MrMacPlus]

Lucky, I want a 6100. It would sit right on top of my 660av. ;D

 

[Unknown_K]

Any interesting Nubus cards? Is the company a graphics house that used old macs?

 

[MultiFinder]

64 megs of RAM + Mac OS X 10.2 = :'( :'( :'(

Still, a B&W is always a nice score, especially for free

 

[istar1018]

Yeah, what of this potential NuBus gold mine?

You know, the Rev A B&Ws get such a bad rap. I have a nice 300 mhz tower, Rev A, and ever since I put in an ATA/66 ($20) PCI card, it's been rock solid. I use mine every few days to do some video editing in FCP 3 or multitrack stuff in Digital Performer 4. With tiger and a gig of RAM, it doesn't do too badly at all.

 

[Lateralus]

Yeah, what of this potential NuBus gold mine?
You know, the Rev A B&Ws get such a bad rap. I have a nice 300 mhz tower, Rev A, and ever since I put in an ATA/66 ($20) PCI card, it's been rock solid...

Well... by adding an ATA card, you've mitigated the most prominent issue of the Rev A B&W. So why is it any surprise that the machine works well?

 

[istar1018]

Well... by adding an ATA card, you've mitigated the most prominent issue of the Rev A B&W. So why is it any surprise that the machine works well?

It isn't! Sometimes people discuss Rev. A's like they're the plague or require voodoo to run well (see here: http://tinyurl.com/6qvveh or here: http://tinyurl.com/5tkpkq). Sometimes people even pass them up just because they're Rev. A's! But Rev. A's need love too! Not all of them are flaky... ESPECIALLY when you get past the ATA issues.

 

[Lateralus]

I think the ATA controller problem became such a hoopla among well-versed Mac users that it evolved into something of a 'Rev A Plague' for less knowledgeable users who didn't understand that the addition of an ATA controller card (something that should be added to an A or B machine anyways) made the Rev A the same type of machine as the Rev B; One of the most well designed, reliable Macs ever built.

I miss my Blue to death. When I let her go, I was running a G3 750GX @ 1.1GHz, 1GB of RAM, an ATA-133 card w/ 2x 320GB ATA drives, a Pioneer 16x DVD burner and a Radeon 9200 128MB.

Truly the ultimate Blue. And even with all the upgrades, it was still the most reliable thing machine I've owned.

 

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

Yeah, what of this potential NuBus gold mine?
You know, the Rev A B&Ws get such a bad rap. I have a nice 300 mhz tower, Rev A, and ever since I put in an ATA/66 ($20) PCI card, it's been rock solid. I use mine every few days to do some video editing in FCP 3 or multitrack stuff in Digital Performer 4. With tiger and a gig of RAM, it doesn't do too badly at all.

Mostly video cards and a few thicknet PCI adapters. Much I haven't identified. I've been trying to catalogue the mess of 3.5" disks I have also recieved to see what works, and then have been recording it into spreadshoot.

 

[Unknown_K]

Would be cool if you have some hard to find driver disks in that bunch.

 

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

Would be cool if you have some hard to find driver disks in that bunch.

Yeah, that's one things that's so painstaking about the software process. There are tons of non-oem disks that have their contents scribbled on them, many are marked wrong, and some aren't marked at all.

So far I've found a scribbled copy of a 7.5 tools disk and Disk Copy 6.3.3 (both usefull)

I also have plenty of comlete sets in which half the disks are unreadable.