John8520
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I'm typically not a huge fan of AIO machines. Back in 2001 my father decided he wanted to get a new mac, and decided on an iMac G3/600, which came in Snow and Graphite. I voted for snow, my sister and parents voted graphite. After we all got separate machines the iMac turned into my main computer, and in 2004 when it died I bought myself an iMac G5.
Anyway. Today I visited the local college surplus I usually visit on Thursday mornings. I was there with some friends looking for a projector, all of which had bad bulbs as it turned out. Most of the machines there are dells of the mid P4 era, lots of 2.6GHz machines with DDR1 missing drives and whatnot. A handful of G4/G3 towers, nothing too special. I noticed, however, that there was a little white bubble sitting at the end of a table between some laserjets, I swirled it around a few times, discovering it was in great condition other than some sticker residue, no cracks though! After waiting for the testing station to become available we lugged it over and plugged it in. It beeped, but I figured it was stripped of RAM and decided to nab it anyway - $40 wasn't too bad considering I've wanted one for ages.
Once I got it home I took a close look at the sticker - a DV 500 with 128MB RAM and a 30GB HDD. Upon popping the access panel I found two 128MB sticks, which I promptly reseated. Upon starting again it chimed happily and sent me to a plain jane 9.2 desktop. No documents or files, just office and filemaker. Checking the startup control panel shows it had 10.4.0 installed as well, which was just as plain as the OS9 desktop.
I looked up the username to find that the previous owner was a member of faculty, which explains the good condition as compared to a lab machine. Not sure what I'm going to do with this rig yet, but I remember they have great speakers so perhaps a media box?
And finally, the most crucial element of any conquest thread, pictures!
Anyway. Today I visited the local college surplus I usually visit on Thursday mornings. I was there with some friends looking for a projector, all of which had bad bulbs as it turned out. Most of the machines there are dells of the mid P4 era, lots of 2.6GHz machines with DDR1 missing drives and whatnot. A handful of G4/G3 towers, nothing too special. I noticed, however, that there was a little white bubble sitting at the end of a table between some laserjets, I swirled it around a few times, discovering it was in great condition other than some sticker residue, no cracks though! After waiting for the testing station to become available we lugged it over and plugged it in. It beeped, but I figured it was stripped of RAM and decided to nab it anyway - $40 wasn't too bad considering I've wanted one for ages.
Once I got it home I took a close look at the sticker - a DV 500 with 128MB RAM and a 30GB HDD. Upon popping the access panel I found two 128MB sticks, which I promptly reseated. Upon starting again it chimed happily and sent me to a plain jane 9.2 desktop. No documents or files, just office and filemaker. Checking the startup control panel shows it had 10.4.0 installed as well, which was just as plain as the OS9 desktop.
I looked up the username to find that the previous owner was a member of faculty, which explains the good condition as compared to a lab machine. Not sure what I'm going to do with this rig yet, but I remember they have great speakers so perhaps a media box?
And finally, the most crucial element of any conquest thread, pictures!
Sorry. 
