Big Day on Thurdsay

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

Eariler in the week, was speaking by email with someone who had an old Mac she had picked up for her daughter. When she got it home, she realized it was useless to her as it lacked any sort of optical drive and USB. she offered it on craigslist for naught and I responded. I was set to pick it up Thursday afternoon from work. It was quite a haul to about 30 miles north east of the Twin Cities, but worth it, I thougth. Thursday came and I spotted another craigslist ad for a lot of free Macs south-east of where I worked. I responded and he called me as I was leaving the parking lot to pick up Macintosh number one. he wanted these gone soon, so I got direcitons and fought an hour of rushhour traffic to first pick up his five macintoshes and a bunch of other stuff for free, with one exception. I picked this large lot up first and packed in the back of the Buick and fought Rushhour again for another hour going up north to pick up package number one. here's what I got:

Mac #1 from lady to the north: Quadra 950. 26MB ram and 240 HD. works, but missing keys and three expansion covers. Running 7.5.1 with MS office 6 and other applications.

From the guy with the free lot of macs:

8100AV. condition unknown, haven't yet had time to test

7300/180s (x2) condition unknown

Revision A iMac, nonworking, seems to have problem descriptive of flyback transformer issue. It was partially dissasembled when I recieved it and guy did not know it's condition. Also recieved a few other optical drives with it that look like they'll fit. unknown condition, but I could probably test with the imac by bypassing it's internal CRT.

Quadra 650 with 36MB ram and a 400mb HD. Also has 7.5.1 and office apps installed.

External Scsi 2xCdRom drive. not tested.

Unknown Apple ram or cache chips

old SE-style keyboard cord.

old SE-style one-button mouse

15" Mac 15-pin monitor. works, but blue is failing

External Scsi ZIP drive with cables. unknown condition. (paid $5)

everything else was free.

I'm hoping to find an SE FDHD or SE/30 soon.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Awesome hauls!

 

[Unknown_K]

You can jumper the 950 inside where the lock circuit connects to the motherboard if it is locked into the closed position (to get it working).

Nice haul.

 

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

Here's an update all.

The iMac is hopeless. Given the fact that they are plentifull around here I'll probably recycle the shell unless i can find a new flyback part cheap as I don't mind venturing into soldering work a bit, but spending $70 on a sub-$50 machine when I could fail to do the work right just does not make sense to me.

The quadras work great. They have MS Software on their that I'm looking to back up to the Scsi ZIP.

The 7300s came with no ram, so I had to take the stick out of the powercurve I have and verified that both of them work. Both have 2mb VRAM. One of their disks was blank, the other has 8.1 and a few other tidbits on them. I'm combining the HDs into one to make a 8.1/Beos machine. The problem is the monitor's green is the only thing that works reliably. the Be installer is all in shades of blue and red. heh.

 

[Bunsen]

If you do recycle the iMac shell, consider keeping the motherboard and other internal parts, especially the cable looms. The ATX conversion for these is well documented, and they will run from an external monitor. And you can add other funky stuff, like ADB, serial and a floppy.

 

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

If you do recycle the iMac shell, consider keeping the motherboard and other internal parts, especially the cable looms. The ATX conversion for these is well documented, and they will run from an external monitor. And you can add other funky stuff, like ADB, serial and a floppy.

I presume the cable looms are the cable's that attach the goodies to the shell? I'll do that. If not for an ATx conversion who knows, I may just find an original Bondi with a bad logic board....