Huxley
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A second Dual-Processor "Quicksilver" PowerMac G4!
Some of you guys may remember that I recently found a Quicksilver G4 (800MHz) and have been fixing it up over the past few weeks - new speaker, deep-cleaning, SuperDrive installed, max RAM installed, hard drive added, upgrade to dual-G4 @ 1GHz, etc. Funnily enough, the Craigslist bot that lead me to the Quicksilver popped into my email again the other day, pointing out that someone in my region was selling another Quicksilver for only $20. I reached out and was able to make arrangements to pick it up.
This 'new' Quicksilver was owned by the seller's father who bought it new. He used it for extensive writing and graphic-design work before retiring, and it has literally never left their home prior to yesterday when I picked it up. After the computer was retired the previous owner removed "all the memory" to protect himself from data theft, which means he took out the hard drive, the hard drive cable, the RAM and (oddly) the CPU fan. Go figure! After it was no longer in use, the family used it as an end-table alongside their couch for 10+ years
In any case, I bought this second machine for the following specific reasons:
1. The outer case is gorgeous - the machine never left the home of the original buyer, and it shows - there's virtually no wear or scuffing on the outer plastics. It looks darn close to brand-new, other than some dust. Hell, it still has the original "S U P E R D R I V E" sticker on the DVD tray. Mmmmm minty!
2. I spotted some sort of PCI card in the (very low-res) pics from the original Craigslist post. I now know that it's some kind of SCSI card, but I don't have details yet
3. It's got a Zip drive with the special faceplate / bezel to make it look correct in the case
4. It's got the dual-CPU module installed! Given that I just paid nearly $100 for the same module, it seemed silly not to snag this one and see if I can make back the money I spent on my CPU upgrade, more-or-less
Assuming the CPU board works, I'll probably list it (and maybe the motherboard too) in the Trading Post here, Once that's done, I may migrate the internals of my first Quicksilver into this case, since it's in such great condition. Fun!
Some of you guys may remember that I recently found a Quicksilver G4 (800MHz) and have been fixing it up over the past few weeks - new speaker, deep-cleaning, SuperDrive installed, max RAM installed, hard drive added, upgrade to dual-G4 @ 1GHz, etc. Funnily enough, the Craigslist bot that lead me to the Quicksilver popped into my email again the other day, pointing out that someone in my region was selling another Quicksilver for only $20. I reached out and was able to make arrangements to pick it up.
This 'new' Quicksilver was owned by the seller's father who bought it new. He used it for extensive writing and graphic-design work before retiring, and it has literally never left their home prior to yesterday when I picked it up. After the computer was retired the previous owner removed "all the memory" to protect himself from data theft, which means he took out the hard drive, the hard drive cable, the RAM and (oddly) the CPU fan. Go figure! After it was no longer in use, the family used it as an end-table alongside their couch for 10+ years
In any case, I bought this second machine for the following specific reasons:
1. The outer case is gorgeous - the machine never left the home of the original buyer, and it shows - there's virtually no wear or scuffing on the outer plastics. It looks darn close to brand-new, other than some dust. Hell, it still has the original "S U P E R D R I V E" sticker on the DVD tray. Mmmmm minty!
2. I spotted some sort of PCI card in the (very low-res) pics from the original Craigslist post. I now know that it's some kind of SCSI card, but I don't have details yet
3. It's got a Zip drive with the special faceplate / bezel to make it look correct in the case
4. It's got the dual-CPU module installed! Given that I just paid nearly $100 for the same module, it seemed silly not to snag this one and see if I can make back the money I spent on my CPU upgrade, more-or-less
Assuming the CPU board works, I'll probably list it (and maybe the motherboard too) in the Trading Post here, Once that's done, I may migrate the internals of my first Quicksilver into this case, since it's in such great condition. Fun!
