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Durosity’s conquests and collection
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Cool, is also still one to add to my collection.Picked up an emac for £35 today which is a reasonable price. In pretty good condition, 1.25ghz SuperDrive model. Nothing special, but another form factor for me to score off my list
As most I started with the coloured G3 iMac's and the iMac G4 because of the higher "cool" factor, but yes for completeness an emac is still needed...
Durosity
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I did consider trying to collect each colour of iMac.. but honestly I just don’t have the space for it! So I’ve decided to just have at least one of each major form factor. I’m actually getting pretty close on that now.. although some will be tricky.. the Mac XL and AIO G3 may be pipe dreams!
I've got a Lisa 2/10, plenty happy with that, and runs MacWorks just fine if you don't mind the weird elongated icons!
Aah, Molar Mac's, you don't see them much around unfortunately, and would need to be a fairly local pick up, wouldn't risk shipping one of those..
Durosity
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So.. I’ve kinda knuckled down to try and get some projects scratched off my list so I can make some headway…
Finally got my PowerBook 2400c/180 fully working!
It’s been a heck of a job. Had to transplant various components from a donor board.. repair ribbons.. but it’s done… and it’s good! And both the batteries I have for it give over 1 hour of use, and I’ve got it working with a wifi card too!
Finally got my PowerBook 2400c/180 fully working!
It’s been a heck of a job. Had to transplant various components from a donor board.. repair ribbons.. but it’s done… and it’s good! And both the batteries I have for it give over 1 hour of use, and I’ve got it working with a wifi card too!
3lectr1cPPC
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Nice example you’ve got there. Should be well worth the repair from what I’ve heard about them!
Nice example you’ve got there. Should be well worth the repair from what I’ve heard about them!
Snial
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Legend.
Durosity
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Yeah not many I’m sure! I’ll bring it with me to the meet up!Sweet. Can't be many examples of the 2400c in the UK.
Nice choice of system font there.
I didn’t choose the font.. that was how it was from the previous owner.. I reinstalled macOS over it so I could read it properly, but all the users files and stuff are still there from when she owned it around the year 2000. Of course I will be purging all that data soon, just want to make sure there’s no interesting apps or something that may need archiving first!
Durosity
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I was able to cannibalse two dead 9500s together last night to make one fully working system. Not bad for a total cost of £12.37. The one case of the 9500 I have is quite dirty, but surprisingly the cd bezel is still firmly in place! Hoping it’ll stay put during the rebuild.. I will not remove it 
Phipli
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AwesomeI was able to cannibalse two dead 9500s together last night to make one fully working system. Not bad for a total cost of £12.37. The one case of the 9500 I have is quite dirty, but surprisingly the cd bezel is still firmly in place! Hoping it’ll stay put during the rebuild.. I will not remove it
What CPU have you gone with? What video card?
Stock they came with... An ixMicro Twin Turbo or an early Mac ATI card, Mach64 based thing?
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How did you manage that? Sneeky local finds that you snagged before anyone else saw?
Durosity
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I’ve got both graphics cards so may as well add both of them in! As for CPUs I think one is a 132, but I’m not sure about the other yet. I thought it was an MP card but on closer inspection alas not. I shall report back once I’ve figured it out. I’ll probably go with the 132 as that’s the label on the one case I have!Awesome
What CPU have you gone with? What video card?
Stock they came with... An ixMicro Twin Turbo or an early Mac ATI card, Mach64 based thing?
These are ones I’ve had for a fair while. I got the whole 9500 with some portrait displays. That 9500s board was badly damaged by a battery leak, but everything else in it was good (including the ram strangely!) I then got a pile of spares which had a couple of dead 9500 boards in it.. they’ve just been sitting around for a while until finally I had the energy to have a look at them.
One started but cut out, the other would start but no bong, video, etc. swapped the CUDA chip and it worked! At least.. I believe that worked.. because oddly now the other board doesn’t cut out.. but still doesn’t show any video or audio.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yeah.. I’ve been getting a fair few things sorted out. I’ve managed to get my work benches all cleaned up and organised. Now trying to get any machine that’s been started on back into a good working state. Then I really need to sell off some stuff to recoup some space.Either way, sounds like you're ticking things off your project list which is great!
Durosity
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Also spent a little time with my eMate this evening… and found out that actually it’s working perfectly (sans battery of course)… the issue was that it had two ROMs fitted in the slots, when one should be for a memory card. I’m wondering if that actually happened at the factory as this machine has absolutely nothing on it, is in pristine condition and the hinges are brand new (I have installed washers to protect the ribbon!)
I have a soft spot for these; I had one years ago and wouldn't mind having one again. I have a MessagePad 2000 I need to actually get using first though.
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Phipli
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As per @joshc's link, Formac cards tend to be good. It doesn't do 3D stuff, but the accelerated fonts is great for scrolling text documents and it's good for 2D graphics. Very appropriate for a 9500. Note it does 1080p, so a good fit for modernish LCDs. Yours is the 6MB version. It technically has enough VRAM to do 24bit at 1920*1080, but it depends if it has image and font caches that take up some of that... I think the control panel lets you tweak such settings?
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