Huxley
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Stopped by my favorite local junk-shop today, and the manager hooked me up - everything in the pic for $25 flat!
I recently bought a Mac Plus from the same shop and while it came with a keyboard, I was a little bummed that it was missing its mouse... so color me surprised and happy when I spotted the missing rodent on today's visit! The manager also tossed in that Apple Remote - I'm not 100% sure what it goes with (maybe the old PowerCD player or Macintosh TV?), so please comment if you know. The same day I got the Mac Plus, I'd also picked up a gorgeous "Blue and White" PowerMac G3 tower, but at the time I didn't see a matching keyboard or mouse, so I was stoked when I spotted the matching blue keyboard today under a pile of random junk. Same for the larger "Pro" keyboard and Pro Mouse - there's something special about that era of Apple design, with the beautiful flowing glass-like plastics.
Speaking of gorgeous flowing glass-like plastics, this was my big purchase today: a PowerMac G4 "Quicksilver" edition. This one has an 800MHz CPU, unknown amount of RAM (probably 256megs but I'll confirm later) and no internal hard drive at the moment, but that's an easy replacement. I had just started working for Apple in a sales / retail partnership role around the time this machine was being phased out, but the design really stuck with me - it's such a fantastic mix of retro / art deco style with ultra-futuristic presentation. I've wanted one ever since. Sadly the chrome speaker has been smushed inwards (this is pretty common with these models since they didn't have a grill covering the speaker dome) but is otherwise in remarkably good condition.
A look at the rear will quickly reveal what caught my eye when I first spotted the machine: tons of weird ports!
A peek inside the G4: this thing is overflowing with PCI cards which are labeled "DSP Farm." I haven't had a chance to investigate further (literally just got home), but 30 seconds on Google indicates that this may have been a high-end ProTools audio workstation at one time. Cool! Each of the "DSP Farm" cards has some sort of super-high-density connector on the back, but I don't know anything about it yet. I'm just hoping they don't require some sort of hard-coded dongle to use or something like that - if anyone knows, please leave a comment!
Siblings together again at last. Love seeing the side-by-side comparison - they clearly belong in the same family, and yet the G4 is also a much more elegant and refined version of the design language, compared to the bold and playfully colorful G3
I recently bought a Mac Plus from the same shop and while it came with a keyboard, I was a little bummed that it was missing its mouse... so color me surprised and happy when I spotted the missing rodent on today's visit! The manager also tossed in that Apple Remote - I'm not 100% sure what it goes with (maybe the old PowerCD player or Macintosh TV?), so please comment if you know. The same day I got the Mac Plus, I'd also picked up a gorgeous "Blue and White" PowerMac G3 tower, but at the time I didn't see a matching keyboard or mouse, so I was stoked when I spotted the matching blue keyboard today under a pile of random junk. Same for the larger "Pro" keyboard and Pro Mouse - there's something special about that era of Apple design, with the beautiful flowing glass-like plastics.
Speaking of gorgeous flowing glass-like plastics, this was my big purchase today: a PowerMac G4 "Quicksilver" edition. This one has an 800MHz CPU, unknown amount of RAM (probably 256megs but I'll confirm later) and no internal hard drive at the moment, but that's an easy replacement. I had just started working for Apple in a sales / retail partnership role around the time this machine was being phased out, but the design really stuck with me - it's such a fantastic mix of retro / art deco style with ultra-futuristic presentation. I've wanted one ever since. Sadly the chrome speaker has been smushed inwards (this is pretty common with these models since they didn't have a grill covering the speaker dome) but is otherwise in remarkably good condition.
A look at the rear will quickly reveal what caught my eye when I first spotted the machine: tons of weird ports!
A peek inside the G4: this thing is overflowing with PCI cards which are labeled "DSP Farm." I haven't had a chance to investigate further (literally just got home), but 30 seconds on Google indicates that this may have been a high-end ProTools audio workstation at one time. Cool! Each of the "DSP Farm" cards has some sort of super-high-density connector on the back, but I don't know anything about it yet. I'm just hoping they don't require some sort of hard-coded dongle to use or something like that - if anyone knows, please leave a comment!
Siblings together again at last. Love seeing the side-by-side comparison - they clearly belong in the same family, and yet the G4 is also a much more elegant and refined version of the design language, compared to the bold and playfully colorful G3
