Couldn't help myself...

[EvieSigma]

I still need to get my Model 70's floppy drive fixed.

 

[Brett B.]

I need to stop.  I haven't even turned on the 6200 and have done very minimal playing around with the rest, but I just HAD to pick up a pair of LCIIs and a 600E CD-ROM drive.  One of the LCIIs appears to boot, the other suffered a battery explosion but came with a IIe card (!!!) that I don't believe was damaged!  I'll get 'em both up and running eventually.

 

[Brett B.]

So since my last post - I swapped out the 6200's logic board with one that I saved from a 5260/120.  Huge improvement and I also added a bunch of other spare stuff - ethernet, TV tuner, AV card, etc.  The 6200 came with a 256k L2 cache card that prevents the 5260 board from booting but works fine in its original home... don't know what's up with that.

Haven't touched the LCII's - they're on my winter repair list.

I did dig through my box of expansion cards and found a "2-8MB memory expansion card", an ethernet card, and a 50 pin SCSI card for the IBM.  I think I saved them from a dead PS/2 I tossed years ago - never thought I'd find a good home for MCA cards!

I also scored again last night and bought two G4's - a 400MHz Sawtooth and a 733MHz Digital Audio.  Both work great but the DA is kinda beat up and missing two bottom handles/feet.  I also got a Cinema display of some sort that is missing its power supply unfortunately.

The biggest score was in the DA - It had a Sonnet Tempo-X SATA card!  :O AND, a 4 bay external SATA hard drive enclosure full of 250GB drives!  I haven't figured out exactly how to make it all work yet and I think one of the drives is dead but it was totally worth $30 for the lot!

 

[bibilit]

Cinema display of some sort that is missing its power supply unfortunately.

If this is the one with the white square Apple PSU, they are bad most of the times.

I did repair one a few weeks ago hacking a generic 24 volt PSU, pretty easy, just two wires and you are done.

 

[CC_333]

If this is the one with the white square Apple PSU, they are bad most of the times.

Any of the Aluminum-clad models fall under this category; most of the plasticy, easel-style ones that I know of are powered via the ADC port.

Anyway, I seem to be lucky so far, as I have my 9 year old 20" display whose original PSU is still working like new *knock on some hard, wood-like substance*

c

 

[Brett B.]

This one is an earlier graphite cinema display and has a plastic case - it has a single cable that splits into DVI, USB and a 3 pin power connector.  I will probably hack an aftermarket PSU - just kind of a bummer that I don't have the original, even if it was dead, I wouldn't have to cut off the connector on the monitor end.

 

[CC_333]

it has a single cable that splits into DVI, USB and a 3 pin power connector. 

What does the 3 pin power connector look like?

c

 

[Brett B.]

Round, small, about the size of an ADB port with three larger round pins.  I'll try and remember to take a picture.  I am fairly sure it's the original 22" model, M5662.

 

[LaPorta]

I have to ask...where are you getting all of this from???

 

[Brett B.]

Well, about half of it comes from responses to a craigslist ad I have had posted for several years.  

On occasion I also have found things at thrift stores, Facebook marketplace, in the trash, yard sales, etc.  I am a pretty dedicated scrounger and make the rounds at a variety of good spots at least weekly.

I'm kinda back to the point where I need to part ways with a few things.  I have a pile that I really don't want (like theses G4s...) but they had some unique item included that made me bring home the lot.  

 

[LaPorta]

Lots of G4s hmm?

 

[Brett B.]

I have a nice Quicksilver, another one that is in fair condition, plus the new Sawtooth and DA.  And an iMac G4... and a G4 mini.  The only one I really actually want is the first one, the rest are just fluff that I picked up on a whim.

 

[Brett B.]

I took the Tempo-X card out and put it in my nice Quicksilver, replaced the bad drive with a good one, and I now have a perfectly working 1TB RAID array.  So cool!

I also scored a free Compaq Proliant ML330 G2 server and had some time to play with it.  Really nothing special, already have a PIII based server but I have a soft spot for old Compaq hardware.  Works great but the 4GB memory upgrade I had in hand for it won't work - it's apparently VERY picky about clocking PC100 RAM up to PC133 specs and just won't boot so I'm stuck at 640MB.  Oh well.

 

[EvieSigma]

Post pics of the Compaq if you can.

 

[Unknown_K]

I took the Tempo-X card out and put it in my nice Quicksilver, replaced the bad drive with a good one, and I now have a perfectly working 1TB RAID array.  So cool!

I also scored a free Compaq Proliant ML330 G2 server and had some time to play with it.  Really nothing special, already have a PIII based server but I have a soft spot for old Compaq hardware.  Works great but the 4GB memory upgrade I had in hand for it won't work - it's apparently VERY picky about clocking PC100 RAM up to PC133 specs and just won't boot so I'm stuck at 640MB.  Oh well.

I have one of those ML330 servers but with 1 P3 (is that a G2 or a G1?).

 

[Brett B.]

It's a G2, single processor 1.13GHz Pentium III but has a socket for a second CPU.  I am under the impression that it was pretty low end hardware when it was new but they were pretty reliable.  Too bad it doesn't have an AGP slot, it otherwise might have made a cool retro gaming rig.

 

[Gorgonops]

doesn't have an AGP slot

Does it have a ServerWorks chipset? (Google-google... yeah, Serverworks LE.) The lack of AGP is indeed a bummer when it comes to re-purposing those. I had a motherboard with that chipset and an onboard UltraSCSI RAID controller (with a couple Tulatin PIIIs and 2GB of RAM) sitting around on the junk pile for a few years because I didn't have the heart to get rid of it yet couldn't think of any use for it.

 

[CC_333]

Does it have PCI slots?

One can get a decent PCI video card and have an okay system for late 90s games and such, couldn't they?

c

 

[Unknown_K]

Mine has PCI slots but no ISA slots for a Soundblaster. They were decent low end servers.

 

[Brett B.]

PLENTY of PCI slots!  Yeah, I could throw a Radeon variant in it... I think I have a PCI 7000 with PC firmware and I definitely have a PCI soundblaster card somewhere but... meh.  I still have an AMD Athlon XP based machine from that era that is much better suited for that purpose.