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[mcdermd]

So, I found this in the trash this morning ...

No idea what to do with it but I couldn't leave it.

 

[olePigeon]

That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry! What you do with it is find some games for it.

 

[mcdermd]

The raster is out on the monitor (very bright, diagonal lines) and while I had it on, magic smoke came out

Time to inspect the power supply and find the burning death,

 

[mcdermd]

Found it:

 

[jruschme]

That was in the trash? Man, it looks cherry!

Yes. A well used-one would have the silver worn off where the user's hands rested on the case, just below the keyboard.

 

[mcdermd]

It has a vinyl cover with it so I assume that's why it looks as good as it does. It smells like old garage.

If I put it next to the Apple IIe and the Apple ///, the room will start to look like my Jr. High computer lab.

 

[mcdermd]

Ah HA! SUCCESS!

Next step: find software to use with it. I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?

 

[Dog Cow]

I wonder if ADT would work to write TRS-80 disk images on the Apple IIe? Anyone?

ADT is designed to write out 16-sector disk images. Are TRS-80 disks in 16-sector format?

 

[mcdermd]

Good question. To be honest, I'm pretty unfamiliar with the Tandy systems. They were there in school but everyone used the Apple IIs so I don't have a lot of exposure. Time to start some research tonight.

 

[mcdermd]

I shouldn't have but I cleared out Mark Kronquist's garage sale leftovers:

15" Original graphite Apple Studio Display with adapter

3x eMate 300s

MacBottom 20MB hard drive

2x Powerbook 165 (one with working SCSI drive)

12" Powerbook G4 867MHz - drop damage on a corner but fully functional

Airport Graphite base station

Airport Snow dual ethernet base station

2x Wallstreet floppy drives

2x Wallstreet batteries

14" iBook battery

Powerbook Duo battery + case

45w Powerbook adapter (small barrel)

2x 512MB iPod Shuffles

Extended Keyboard

Extended Keyboard II

Keyspan serial-to-USB adapter

4-port USB hub

iomega Clik drive

3x Sony HD 10-pack floppies

2x Original Airport cards

Apple ATI Radeon 7500 ADC card

Original ADB mouse

SD card to CF adapter

Apple Pro Speakers

Tangerine iBook 300MHz logic board and bottom case

Tangerine USB floppy drive

Quicktake 100 camera

A few phone net adapters

Palm visor

Texas Instruments TI99-4A with Cassette deck (and three cassettes!)

 

[Cosmo]

One can never have too much of such stuff! Good find! That MacBottom-drive is really good find also. Rarely see those, atleast here.

Quicktake would be interesting, mm.. maybe need to start looking for one. Thanks for the tip. Haven't seen those for ages (we sold few of those back in time), never seen eMate. Possibly not even sold here.

 

[mcdermd]

The Studio Display is one of the original dark blue LCD displays with the old DB 15-pin Macintosh video connector. I'll use it with the Power Macintosh G3 then!

 

[mcdermd]

Picked up a Platinum Mac Plus with a Radius Accelerator 16 card in it. With keyboard/mouse, bag, floppies, 150MB external SCSI HDD and Apple 3.5" drive for $30.

 

[techknight]

is the MacBottom serial? or SCSI? if its serial, did you find a driver?

 

[mcdermd]

Unfortunately, it's just the common SCSI version.

 

[techknight]

eh... well I figured i would ask, I assume only a handful exist in this world, and I have one of them. lol.

 

[mcdermd]

Grabbed a Quadra 610 from the dumpster. The cover has broken tabs on the back but in decent shape other than that. 25MHz 68040, 32MB RAM, 1GB SCSI hard drive. No cards, no CD. Boots from the internal drive into 7.1.

 

[TheIanMan85]

...And the sweet scores keep rolling in. Given the fact that it got tossed into a dumpster I'd say you're lucky all that's broken are the tabs.

I opened a WGS 6150 and Performa 6116CD both with tabs still on them and managed to get them open and shut without breaking anything. (Well, anything else...I broke the bezel on the 6150's CD-ROM in the first place prompting the need to open both...)

A Quadra 610 was the first file server I used at home. Complete with PhoneNet to a IIcx, my Power Mac 5300/100 and PB 5300cs. Awww yeeeaaahhh... It was later replaced with a 950 from eBay. Actually I think they were both from eBay...back in the late 90s when they could be had for shipping plus a few bucks.

 

[Unknown_K]

Shipping was also much cheaper in the late 1990's. Actually from what I recall 68K macs were not that cheap until 2000+, there was a massive amount of dumping in 2000-2004 on ebay.

 

[TheIanMan85]

True on both, actually. Now that I think of it in the late 1990s they were cheap but usually not less than the shipping cost. (Sometimes they were...depended on the model and the deal you found.) It was the early 2000s when I started taking in a lot of 68k and early PPCs for next to nothing.

A good time to play with all things retro Mac. Much harder to get such a variety of 68k Macs on the cheap these days. Then again, it's all in finding the right deal. The proof is in this thread...like the aforementioned Dumpster Quadra!