Huxley
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I was really bummed when our local e-waste place (one of my favorite sources for interesting / weird stuff) shut down several months ago. Happily, I learned today that they relocated just a few miles away and are back in business! I ran over after work and ended up buying a Mac Plus (with keyboard, keyboard cable and mouse!) and a blue-and-white PowerMac G3, all for $30. The seller said the Mac Plus chimes when turned on, but nothing shows on the CRT. I haven't tested it myself yet (hope to put some time into it this weekend), but it seems at least possible that the brightness knob is turned down, or the yoke connector came loose, or it's just a totally-unsurprising case of bad capacitors. Even if the electronics are beyond repair (which I doubt), the case is in great shape (other than being very dirty), and the mouse / keyboard are both in great condition too.
I'm also really psyched about the PowerMac G3 - it's a pretty under-powered system by modern standards, but the look of the machine is so iconic to me, I couldn't pass it up. Note that the first thing I did was pop out the little Maxell battery from the G3's motherboard - it was only just starting to leak, so thankfully I don't see any signs of serious corrosion. I don't know if the machine works at all, but I'm very curious what might be on those two HDD's. One of my earliest college memories is of an afternoon I spent in the Graphics Lab at my school in the summer of 1999 - the lab was overflowing with these blue-and-white G3's, and I'd never been in the presence of so much computing power before. Good times!
Here's an album of pics (I can't seem to attach them to this post for some reason)
Huxley
I'm also really psyched about the PowerMac G3 - it's a pretty under-powered system by modern standards, but the look of the machine is so iconic to me, I couldn't pass it up. Note that the first thing I did was pop out the little Maxell battery from the G3's motherboard - it was only just starting to leak, so thankfully I don't see any signs of serious corrosion. I don't know if the machine works at all, but I'm very curious what might be on those two HDD's. One of my earliest college memories is of an afternoon I spent in the Graphics Lab at my school in the summer of 1999 - the lab was overflowing with these blue-and-white G3's, and I'd never been in the presence of so much computing power before. Good times!
Here's an album of pics (I can't seem to attach them to this post for some reason)
Huxley