Superdos
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Friend of mine a few streets over has a scrapmetal business running out of his garage-- he buys old computer equipment, AC's, Fridges, etc. for scrap pricing from people that want it gone and makes a profit on it.
He called me up Friday afternoon and said "I have some space-age looking Macs here you should come take a look at."
So I pocket my newly-acquired Lumia phone (arguably a bad decision, should have taken a real camera but I wanted to test that one out!) run over in my mother's van (since my car seems to be having transmission issues... but that's another rant for another time.) and find him and his father outside ripping CRT monitors apart for the copper inside. He's 40 and in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down after a tree acident, so any help he can get in at least removing SOME of the mahcines that are at least usable to someone before going and profiting off of it is a godsend, I guess (but he'll still charge you a bit for them since he does need to get ROI on it in either case.) over on the left... Macs. Beige, white and silver. in all there were:
I checked out the 7500, 7300, 9500, G3 all for damage and was able to save the drives and cards from them, not including the CPU cards. left the RAM, all small amounts.
The IIvx... Well...
Yeah. that bad. I was told this was on the shop floor of a stainless steel fab place that made grills.
put the IIvx, G4's and the iMac plus all the pulled parts into the trunk and left. none of the others were worth saving, not even the 9500. everything was too badly battered or was missing plastics or both.
the 9500 was in regrettable condition inside. I have no pictures to show and glad I don't-- it's not something anyone wanted to see. the 630 was completely de-plastic'd, dirty, and had dents and dings in the steel. I did salvage the 33MHz 68040 out of it, however.
That said, I took the IIvx to the gas station and blew out all the dust for 75 cents at the air compressor. After doing so.... I noticed brown globs around the capacitors:
After some investigating with a toothpick, it looks like the solder under the goop has survived as well as the traces-- this means that the dust inside saved the board from any real harm, or at least noticeable harm. I'm going to have to give it a thorough washing, but it SHOULD clean up good. After that, it's probably going to be recap time-- I'm told Uniserver is the person to see about that, if I feel I can't do the job myself, and I'm no novice to recaps; I just don't want to ruin something like this. Old Macintosh logic boards, be it of a Performa 6320CD or the earliest of 128K's, are sacred things indeed. they need the utmost love and care across their lifetime to ensure years of computing awesomeness.
I have not gotten to do any runs through the dishwasher yet, that's coming up tomorrow or Wednesday. after it's dry, I'll see what I can do about capacitors.
Can anyone list me all the capacitors on the board of a IIvx, and what I should be using in terms of the capacitor package? Once I figure that all out and do some test soldering on a junk IIci board I have (unrecoverable corrosion damage to multiple areas) I'll probably be okay.
in the end, I left there with the IIvx which I'm keeping and needs love... the G4's and the iMac G5 are probably going to be fixed up to sell. When that time comes, I'll post those over in the Trading Post, probably-- they're going to clean up very nicely.
Pics from my little excursion to my friend's place exist here. (with blown-off images of the IIvx in the CleanedIIvx folder)
I'm told everything else went to the scrapyard yesterday. there were also some Imagewriters and some old CRT Apple monitors thrown in-- nothing special and nothing not-scratched. the cinema display pictured was cracked.
He called me up Friday afternoon and said "I have some space-age looking Macs here you should come take a look at."
So I pocket my newly-acquired Lumia phone (arguably a bad decision, should have taken a real camera but I wanted to test that one out!) run over in my mother's van (since my car seems to be having transmission issues... but that's another rant for another time.) and find him and his father outside ripping CRT monitors apart for the copper inside. He's 40 and in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down after a tree acident, so any help he can get in at least removing SOME of the mahcines that are at least usable to someone before going and profiting off of it is a godsend, I guess (but he'll still charge you a bit for them since he does need to get ROI on it in either case.) over on the left... Macs. Beige, white and silver. in all there were:
- PowerMac G4 GigE Dual 500MHz/256MB/no HDD, CTO unit
- PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25GHz/2GB/80GB, standard unit with RAM upgrade
- iMac G5 1.6GHz/768MB/80GB
- eMac, unknown, didn't bother with the boat anchor.
- PowerMac G3 Beige Tower
- Quadra 630
- PowerMac 7500/100
- PowerMac 7300/200
- PowerMac 9500
- Mac IIvx w/230MB HDD and NuBus Network Card
I checked out the 7500, 7300, 9500, G3 all for damage and was able to save the drives and cards from them, not including the CPU cards. left the RAM, all small amounts.
The IIvx... Well...
Yeah. that bad. I was told this was on the shop floor of a stainless steel fab place that made grills.
put the IIvx, G4's and the iMac plus all the pulled parts into the trunk and left. none of the others were worth saving, not even the 9500. everything was too badly battered or was missing plastics or both.
the 9500 was in regrettable condition inside. I have no pictures to show and glad I don't-- it's not something anyone wanted to see. the 630 was completely de-plastic'd, dirty, and had dents and dings in the steel. I did salvage the 33MHz 68040 out of it, however.
That said, I took the IIvx to the gas station and blew out all the dust for 75 cents at the air compressor. After doing so.... I noticed brown globs around the capacitors:
After some investigating with a toothpick, it looks like the solder under the goop has survived as well as the traces-- this means that the dust inside saved the board from any real harm, or at least noticeable harm. I'm going to have to give it a thorough washing, but it SHOULD clean up good. After that, it's probably going to be recap time-- I'm told Uniserver is the person to see about that, if I feel I can't do the job myself, and I'm no novice to recaps; I just don't want to ruin something like this. Old Macintosh logic boards, be it of a Performa 6320CD or the earliest of 128K's, are sacred things indeed. they need the utmost love and care across their lifetime to ensure years of computing awesomeness.
I have not gotten to do any runs through the dishwasher yet, that's coming up tomorrow or Wednesday. after it's dry, I'll see what I can do about capacitors.
Can anyone list me all the capacitors on the board of a IIvx, and what I should be using in terms of the capacitor package? Once I figure that all out and do some test soldering on a junk IIci board I have (unrecoverable corrosion damage to multiple areas) I'll probably be okay.
in the end, I left there with the IIvx which I'm keeping and needs love... the G4's and the iMac G5 are probably going to be fixed up to sell. When that time comes, I'll post those over in the Trading Post, probably-- they're going to clean up very nicely.
Pics from my little excursion to my friend's place exist here. (with blown-off images of the IIvx in the CleanedIIvx folder)
I'm told everything else went to the scrapyard yesterday. there were also some Imagewriters and some old CRT Apple monitors thrown in-- nothing special and nothing not-scratched. the cinema display pictured was cracked.
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