Power Macintosh 9500/120... it just followed me home!

[frankblues]

So, I'm digging around the local thrift looking for wireless stuff for a project (found both a nice 802.11b and 802.11n router) and lo and behold for $13:

What I've managed to figure out so far:

- It's got the mach64 Apple PCI video card with the old school 15-pin connector. Only monitor I have that fits is the 12" Apple RGB monitor, and it doesn't like the output from the 9500

- Two hard disks, one is an Apple branded IBM 1gb disk, the other is a Quantum of some kind. Sounds like the Quantum is banging it's heads around on boot - it had power disconnected when I got it, so I am guessing the previous owner knew of the problem.

I don't have a monitor that fits it. It posts (glorious sounding chime ), and I can get it to shut down (power button, then enter on the keyboard does it), but other than that, no other information.

What to do with it? I think it'll be a project eventually, but right now I've got my hands full!

 

[frankblues]

Razzafracking dropbox...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sq1lpjysj0m35h/20130713_145919.jpg

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Very sweet box!

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice...and it even has a non-broken CD bezel!

 

[Schmoburger]

Great stuff! I love the oldworld 9xxx towers... they just scream professionalism, power, and general awsomeness! Not much to talk about by todays standards, but in the mid-90s, it was not something you'd laugh at.

 

[frankblues]

Thank you, thank you!

I do love the look of it, but also the expandability - looking at eBay right now there are processor cards, ethernet cards, usb cards, it'll take big hard discs, 1.5gb of ram *pant pant pant*...

BTW, do the 9600 processor cards work in the 9500?

 

[Unknown_K]

9600 processor cards with cache onboard (604ev) don't work in a 9500, but you can pick up cheap G3 upgrades on LEMswap google groups lists from time to time.

I have a 9500, it is a nice machine but the 9600 case is easier to work on (less brittle also).

 

[CelGen]

I think somewhere I have the multiprocessor card for this system.

 

[onlyonemac]

I'm not a great fan of the power macs, but that's such a beauty!

 

[frankblues]

Got a monitor connected (17 inch LCD), and I can report back on a few things:

It had Mac OS 8.0, I just updated to 8.1.

PowerPC 604 at 120 mhz

48 MB ram

1 gb HD

Not sure what to do with it now. Never had a machine that ran OS 8 before (and it's a little wimpy to go to 9, at least not without some RAM updates and maybe a new processor card). Kinda nice to have a 7, 8, and 9 machine.

Any recommendations on web browser (Classila needs 8.6 I believe) and maybe a nice IM / IRC client?