Thrift Store finds today

[ppuskari]

Not so much direct Mac hardware, but this sure is making my PM9600/350 and 8500/G3 450 happy.

Que Firewire CDRW external drive - Minus power supply - Repinned the power supply connector to work with a Backpack CD Power supply - 3.93

Iomega ZIP 100 USB drive - mint in the box NEW - 2.92

2 Netgear Home PoweLine ethernet bridge modules - 3.99 a piece

Now I just need to find some Firewire/USB combo pci cards to populate the rest of my machines. Probably going to put a DVD Burner in the firewire cdrw case though. That way I can finally remove the ide/scsi converter in the PM8500 and just put a normal drive in there again, and use the firewire drive to burn cds and dvds when I need it. The ide/scsi converters are getting more rare every day to begin with.

 

[IPNixon]

Nice score! Finding little gadgets like that cheaply is always fun, especially things like those Netgear powerline modules. I've always found the idea interesting and have wanted to try using them, but they've usually been too expensive to buy.

Although my local Goodwill has long since stopped selling computers, I still come across some nice things every now and then. Last month, I got a Netgear ProSafe FM144P; it's a 10/100 router/access point with a parallel port for printer sharing. It's not really something I needed, but for $5, I had to bite

 

[ppuskari]

Nice score as well! There used to be a Volunteers of America in Galloway, OH that had a separate computer store in it. IT was like walking into heaven. They shut it down because not enough people bought stuff they said...

So on one of the last days I was able to buy 4 shopping carts worth of Apple II, and 68k, and early pm stuff for 20 bucks. Score that day. I tried to get them to also include the Amiga stuff they had but they said no... But I did get as well an Okidata Microline 82a printer new in box with the PC roms... Too bad I didn't remove the Apple roms from my very first 82a printer that died several years ago. But at least it's new in box and brings me back to the day when I was 12 and it was a PRINTER!!!

For anyone that cares, I did test out everything and it all worked believe it or not. That Zip eject mechanism on the usb powered version can almost propel the cart completely out of the unit.

The powerline units are 10mb ethernet to 14mbps powerline. - Max throughput on well optimized Windows tcpip stacks is about 5 mbps and stable. Not bad in my house. Which leads me to think. "Why the heck does my X10 signaling suck so badly, when this can do reliable 5mbps transfers?"