Hotdog Zanzibar
Well-known member
I haven't posted a conquest in a long time, and recently I've gotten several. Seems like people tend to create an all-encompassing thread for their findings, so this is mine!
Last fall, at our annual fall company picnic, I happened to mention that I collected vintage Macs. One of the salesmen said "hey, I have some old Macs at home in the attic, want to stop by and check them out?" He mentioned having a "blue iMac, a G3 tower, and a couple of the old compacts."
I stopped by that weekend and sure enough, he had a blueberry iMac G3, a G3 tower (which his wife said she wanted to keep, for whatever reason), and next to those, a 512k and an SE/30. I grabbed the compacts.
512k & SE/30 - $50
The 512k works just fine, but the SE/30 locks up after running for about 5-10 minutes. My work area has been a shambles for months but I'm just now getting things organized and will be opening these up to check them out soon.
Along with the two compacts, he had an assortment of old manuals & floppy disks, mostly of apps that never caught on and instructional programs. Then I came across this:
Looks like a bunch of 256k SIMMs of varying speeds. Anyone concur?
Here's something else that's cool:
The instructional cassette, still in its original wrapper. The disks are missing, as is the programmer's switch, but the picasso case is very nice, with no cracks in it.
Bondi Blue iMac G3 - free
This poor guy is a little worse for wear. It sat in the pressroom at work for years, collecting dust... literally. Printing presses use a fine spray powder to help keep sheets from sticking together. Guess what that stuff does in a computer with no fans? When I picked it up by the handle, you could see about an inch of the stuff "flowing" back and forth in the bottom of the case. The worst part is, someone cemented the screw on the bottom, and I stripped it out before realizing this. I'll have to drill it out now.
I'm pretty sure the screen has serious burn-in, because it was on ALL that time. Employees used it to log into their timesheets. I may end up turning it into a cat house, but I'd rather get a couple nonworking graphite iMacs for that.
Sawtooth G4/400 - $20
As I mentioned in the Trading Post, I'm gutting this machine and using the case parts to do the "clear-case" mod on my B&W G3 tower.
20" iMac G4 - free
This belonged to my folks, and I upgraded them to an Intel iMac for Christmas last year. I maxed out the RAM and installed a 250gb 7200rpm drive in it. Still has the speakers and runs/sounds great.
2007 24" iMac 2.4ghz - free (with cost of new power supply)
They were going to recycle this at work because the power supply blew. I snagged it and waited til I found a good replacement. It has a 1TB drive in it. I'm going to replace it with a Velociraptor drive from my Mac Pro, put the bigger drive in the Mac Pro, and RAID5 it with a couple other big drives. It has 2gb RAM. I'm on the lookout for a cheap way to upgrade it to 6gb. It's now running Mavericks. Display is very yellow, though. I may just use it as a Minecraft server.
2006 20" iMac 2ghz C2D - free
Logic board's toast. Looking for a new one.
22" Cinema display (ADC version) - $8
Bought this on craigslist. It's in excellent shape and works beautifully. She really must've wanted to get rid of it! It's going to look GREAT with my G4 Cube.
Last fall, at our annual fall company picnic, I happened to mention that I collected vintage Macs. One of the salesmen said "hey, I have some old Macs at home in the attic, want to stop by and check them out?" He mentioned having a "blue iMac, a G3 tower, and a couple of the old compacts."
I stopped by that weekend and sure enough, he had a blueberry iMac G3, a G3 tower (which his wife said she wanted to keep, for whatever reason), and next to those, a 512k and an SE/30. I grabbed the compacts.
512k & SE/30 - $50
The 512k works just fine, but the SE/30 locks up after running for about 5-10 minutes. My work area has been a shambles for months but I'm just now getting things organized and will be opening these up to check them out soon.
Along with the two compacts, he had an assortment of old manuals & floppy disks, mostly of apps that never caught on and instructional programs. Then I came across this:
Looks like a bunch of 256k SIMMs of varying speeds. Anyone concur?
Here's something else that's cool:
The instructional cassette, still in its original wrapper. The disks are missing, as is the programmer's switch, but the picasso case is very nice, with no cracks in it.
Bondi Blue iMac G3 - free
This poor guy is a little worse for wear. It sat in the pressroom at work for years, collecting dust... literally. Printing presses use a fine spray powder to help keep sheets from sticking together. Guess what that stuff does in a computer with no fans?
When I picked it up by the handle, you could see about an inch of the stuff "flowing" back and forth in the bottom of the case. The worst part is, someone cemented the screw on the bottom, and I stripped it out before realizing this. I'll have to drill it out now. I'm pretty sure the screen has serious burn-in, because it was on ALL that time. Employees used it to log into their timesheets. I may end up turning it into a cat house, but I'd rather get a couple nonworking graphite iMacs for that.
Sawtooth G4/400 - $20
As I mentioned in the Trading Post, I'm gutting this machine and using the case parts to do the "clear-case" mod on my B&W G3 tower.
20" iMac G4 - free
This belonged to my folks, and I upgraded them to an Intel iMac for Christmas last year. I maxed out the RAM and installed a 250gb 7200rpm drive in it. Still has the speakers and runs/sounds great.
2007 24" iMac 2.4ghz - free (with cost of new power supply)
They were going to recycle this at work because the power supply blew. I snagged it and waited til I found a good replacement. It has a 1TB drive in it. I'm going to replace it with a Velociraptor drive from my Mac Pro, put the bigger drive in the Mac Pro, and RAID5 it with a couple other big drives. It has 2gb RAM. I'm on the lookout for a cheap way to upgrade it to 6gb. It's now running Mavericks. Display is very yellow, though. I may just use it as a Minecraft server.
2006 20" iMac 2ghz C2D - free
Logic board's toast. Looking for a new one.
22" Cinema display (ADC version) - $8
Bought this on craigslist. It's in excellent shape and works beautifully. She really must've wanted to get rid of it! It's going to look GREAT with my G4 Cube.
