bsod
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... and back then I was complaining about the lack of conquests/liberations I got. Well, not any more! 
In the course of this year I got (all for free, mostly would-be dumped machines):
- a G4/733 Digital Audio, complete with a 17'' Studio Display (the big, extraterrestrial one, over a tripod...)
- a pair of 6400/180 (those two were just laying in the corridor, waiting for the recycler to come... I took both because I expected one not to work. After all, they both work! )
- a G3/233 "Gossamer" (everything stock, save the extra 64 megs of RAM it has...) - and it still had a VGA adapter hanging from it, a really valuable find!!
- a Classic (unfortunately, the only one which does not work... boots to a garbled screen, I still need to find the large screwdriver to open the case and check its innards...)
. a LC (this one had been heavily upgraded - memory maxed at 10 MBs, VRAM maxed as well, and a FPU on a card stuck to the LC PDS slot... this belonged to a Biology department, I believe they did some theoretical, computational work with it... and the G3 also had some similar software on its hard drive...)
And the latest ones:
- a Mac 512k (it states "Macintosh" at the back, the serial number dates to mid-July 1984, but it does have 512K of memory (I've checked that once I got a working boot floppy for it...). Maybe an aftermarket upgrade? (Battery is obviously dead, but fortunately it did not leak into the analog board, like my Plus... The screen is nice and crisp, the internal disk drive needs to be serviced, but I do have an external floppy drive which came with my Plus...
- and a 333 G3 iMac (Blueberry). That one is really nice cosmetically (save for the CD tray cover, my friend at the IT department opened it up to upgrade it a little and forgot to put it back... and now he doesn't know where he placed it! ), and came with matching keyboard and mouse...
I urgently need to find a solution to keep my collection decently stored... I'm thinking of shelves, but that will need some time to work out properly. I wished I had more time to play with them!! (with all this course and research work, I don't have the time I did when I was simply a high school student!! )
Well, that's all for now. Today I found a little time to browse the forum, and I've enjoyed it a lot - again, I wished I had more time to dedicate to this hobby (my website is extremely out of date, the hard drive on my server needs, er, servicing () , among other things). Unfortunately, time is not infinite...
In the course of this year I got (all for free, mostly would-be dumped machines):
- a G4/733 Digital Audio, complete with a 17'' Studio Display (the big, extraterrestrial one, over a tripod...)
- a pair of 6400/180 (those two were just laying in the corridor, waiting for the recycler to come... I took both because I expected one not to work. After all, they both work!
)- a G3/233 "Gossamer" (everything stock, save the extra 64 megs of RAM it has...) - and it still had a VGA adapter hanging from it, a really valuable find!!
- a Classic (unfortunately, the only one which does not work... boots to a garbled screen, I still need to find the large screwdriver to open the case and check its innards...)
. a LC (this one had been heavily upgraded - memory maxed at 10 MBs, VRAM maxed as well, and a FPU on a card stuck to the LC PDS slot... this belonged to a Biology department, I believe they did some theoretical, computational work with it... and the G3 also had some similar software on its hard drive...)
And the latest ones:
- a Mac 512k (it states "Macintosh" at the back, the serial number dates to mid-July 1984, but it does have 512K of memory (I've checked that once I got a working boot floppy for it...). Maybe an aftermarket upgrade? (Battery is obviously dead, but fortunately it did not leak into the analog board, like my Plus...
The screen is nice and crisp, the internal disk drive needs to be serviced, but I do have an external floppy drive which came with my Plus...- and a 333 G3 iMac (Blueberry). That one is really nice cosmetically (save for the CD tray cover, my friend at the IT department opened it up to upgrade it a little and forgot to put it back... and now he doesn't know where he placed it!
), and came with matching keyboard and mouse...I urgently need to find a solution to keep my collection decently stored... I'm thinking of shelves, but that will need some time to work out properly. I wished I had more time to play with them!! (with all this course and research work, I don't have the time I did when I was simply a high school student!!
)Well, that's all for now. Today I found a little time to browse the forum, and I've enjoyed it a lot - again, I wished I had more time to dedicate to this hobby (my website is extremely out of date, the hard drive on my server needs, er, servicing (
) , among other things). Unfortunately, time is not infinite... 
