MacMan
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I was away visiting friends the other day and during the evening we decided to do a bit of skip-raking (ie. "dumpster diving"). This produced an original Apple Extended Keyboard, two AppleDesign keyboards, one ADB mouse and a Performa 5260! All attention was on the 5260 but when we got it home it wouldn't start at all. I re-seated the SIMMs, re-set the motherboard and checked all the connections but the 5260 was still a lemon. So I stripped it down of all parts and decided to throw away the remaining carcass/CRT.
So anyway, the really juicy bit! Yesterday I took the dead 5260 to the local dump and dropped it off in the TV/CRT disposal area (basically a large shipping container). Naturally I had a look at what was there and it was mostly old beige PC CRTs and TVs. I was about to leave when something caught my eye: a graphite iMac G3! It was buried under a couple of CRTs but I dug it out and stuck it in the car. Got it back to the house and it works: it's a 400MHz machine with 256MB RAM, 12GB hard drive and OS X Jaguar installed. I decided to give it to the guy who's house I was staying in as he had been talking about buying a G3 iMac off eBay for a while. He bought a wireless USB keyboard and mouse for it and is delighted!
My personal haul from all this were the keyboards and I'm especially keen to get the Extended keyboard cleaned up and established somewhere in my collection.
So anyway, the really juicy bit! Yesterday I took the dead 5260 to the local dump and dropped it off in the TV/CRT disposal area (basically a large shipping container). Naturally I had a look at what was there and it was mostly old beige PC CRTs and TVs. I was about to leave when something caught my eye: a graphite iMac G3! It was buried under a couple of CRTs but I dug it out and stuck it in the car. Got it back to the house and it works: it's a 400MHz machine with 256MB RAM, 12GB hard drive and OS X Jaguar installed. I decided to give it to the guy who's house I was staying in as he had been talking about buying a G3 iMac off eBay for a while. He bought a wireless USB keyboard and mouse for it and is delighted!
My personal haul from all this were the keyboards and I'm especially keen to get the Extended keyboard cleaned up and established somewhere in my collection.