I paint my mac

[equill]

Nooo... !!
8-o

An interesting alternative to motion's design. How'd you come by it?

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[motion]

Did you strip the phosphor off the inside of the monitor? That will go a long way to letting more light pass through. Not exactly sure how you would go about doing it without direct access to the back of the CRT display area. I'm sure some kind of chemical stripper would dissolve it as has been done for at least one LCD Mac mod.
How did you cut the neck off? With a diamond wheel Dremel tool?

i don't strip off phosphor on monitor, i don't know how to do that, i need to try so chemical you are right.

to cut neck, i used.... a hammer got a not regular cut, than i 've put some scotch tape around cut ( to try to not get a huge cut) and slowly get it regular with a little rounded pliers with cutting very little pieces of glass. than after cleaning glass remains i put again some scotch tape to not have cutting edge (didn't have any diamond or dremel:/)

thks for the link, this is very interesting

and yes, special glass painting should be too an interesting solution

 

[motion]

hi

i come back to the iron merchent and find some interesting things but in very bad shape (was storage outside like the 512k :/ ) founded 3 apple II in bad condition and some others things (there is a LOT of laserwriter still there and apple monitors i don't take but i don't think they will work after taking rain, maybe i'll got them later)

check what i've grab back home :

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/G87Y9A5mnSQxkJjaR5h7BA?feat=directlink

you can check the picts of the pieces i take here : http://picasaweb.google.com/stefcoug/2009_03_18#

i need help about this card :

http://picasaweb.google.com/stefcoug/2009_03_18#5314661643782250290

i think it's a apple II card but not sure, there's a connector but don't understand what is this for, any idea ?

 

[Charlieman]

i need help about this card :
http://picasaweb.google.com/stefcoug/2009_03_18#5314661643782250290

The MC6850P and 9 pin connector suggest that you have a serial card. A slow serial card.

Iron merchant == scrap merchant. Traditionally, scrap merchants picked up old iron, copper, brass and lead waste from homes and factories. Today, scrappers pick up old computers as well -- for resale, parts salvage (valuable chips) and eventually metal recovery. You are lucky to have someone who does not immediately trash old computers: have you talked to them about the sources of their old computer junk? There might be a business opportunity.

Pardon, the intrusion, but where does motion live? It makes a difference.

 

[motion]

thanks for the info about card.

For the iron seller, it's not exactly that, he not sell just iron but very various old things from army (he has some helicopters parts, old jeeps), public administry (chairs, offices, racks...), olds tvs, parts of vehicules, etc... he has only a few of computers and he had one corner OUTSIDE his warehouse (what a shame to put that outisde, most of these has been destroy by rain and full of rust and moisture), that's there i founded the 512k wich was on top of the pile of pcs (i saw him immediately from like 50 meters and recognize a mac !), this is outside for many years i think if i guess to the rust on connectors.

as i know his computers come from public domain sells and public auctions, he say me last time i go there what he will get some comps soon, but i guess this will be 5/7 years pcs and not be interesting, most administrations there uses pcs not macs

honestly if i came back there again for the apple II i saw 1st time, it's not to collect, i'm not into apple II, i'll sell them and they're actually on ebay

i'm from france, and apple vintage have some value here too, but not like in the us, as i look sometimes prices on ebay us, prices are very high for some olds mac parts.

there's still there many laserwriters but i don't know if it's worse getting them, the only good mac parts still there is old monitors, theres at least three or four 17", a 15" portrait (not sure of size), and i think there's an apple II monitor too but it was under many pcs and i didn't move all of these to see it

inside his warehouse he has some macs cables and mouses, i took some adb mouses to sell them in france, i founded too some olds macs video cables, i'll put them later on ebay, found a near clean adb keyboard, i've plug it into a mac 6500/300 i founded into a garbage trash !! yes it's true and it works perfectly ! i just needed a keyboard and a mouse to test it now i have plus the mac/vga adaptator i bought some days ago on ebay (didn't know at this time there was mac monitors at the merchent)

look at some of the stuff i clean and prepare today (it was horribly dirty :/ )

 

[superpantoufle]

i'm from france, and apple vintage have some value here too, but not like in the us, as i look sometimes prices on ebay us, prices are very high for some olds mac parts.

Tiens, c'est toujours sympa d'avoir des francophones dans le coin!

 

[macgeek417]

Me thinks you made a typo or something...

Google Translate doesn't translate it all. xx(

 

[motion]

salut superpantoufle ;D

he said it's cool to meet french people there

 

[superpantoufle]

Me thinks you made a typo or something...Google Translate doesn't translate it all. xx(

Some kind of huge typo, then! But it seems we don't have the same Google: I just tried to translate my sentence, and it gave me "Oh, it's always nice to have around francophones!", which is pretty much what I wrote. Did you choose french to english?

Well, let's get back to the subject, and I'll continue in my poor english…  Motion, any chance your Apple ][ stuff is still working? I can see at least two Disk ][ drives in your pictures, and assuming one of them is functional and you have no use for it, I may be interested in buying it from you, especially if it's labelled "Drive 2", since my newly acquired Apple ][ Europlus has only one drive!

 

[motion]

I really don't know if all these Apple II stuff is working, cases were in bad conditions, i think mother board should be ok cause even outisde stored, it's only electronic composants and the 512k had been power on even after taking rain, the 2 drives i've got seems not so bad inside (i've open them) no rust inside but i can't test them

here's the link for drive 2, no auction on it actually, i've put it at 5 euros

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=220380472034

someone asked me if i can test power supply, i d'ont have any multimeter for now but i can find one, is it no risk to test a power supply "empty" ?? i've looked for the ATX pc way to test pc power supply (put a cable between black and green plot) is that same on these olds power supply ? i don't want to burn them by testing :/

 

[superpantoufle]

here's the link for drive 2, no auction on it actually, i've put it at 5 euros
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=220380472034

Et tu as une première enchère!

 

[macgeek417]

*Whips out Google Translate...*

And you have a first bid!

 

[superpantoufle]

*Whips out Google Translate...*
And you have a first bid!

Indeed!

 

[Temetka]

i need help about this card :

http://picasaweb.google.com/stefcoug/2009_03_18#5314661643782250290

i think it's a apple II card but not sure, there's a connector but don't understand what is this for, any idea ?

God I miss those old rainbow colored ribbon cables.