Recent content by oneboyarmy

I haven't added anything to my arsenal in a while and I found myself bored and browsing listings on everybody's favorite auction site. Not being overly optimistic, I threw a $10 bid at an as-is Centris 610. Incredibly surprised, there wasn't a single bid against me - I won and it showed up...

Exactly! Not exactly a common thing, and those external enclosures always seem to be extremely expensive!

A friend of mine reached out while I was out of town for WWDC and sent me a picture of some Mac hardware that he was looking to give to a new home. Needless to say, his house was one of the first places I went when I got back. In the picture, I saw a pre-Quicksilver G4 and a 6100-series Power...

I did some installs on beige hardware and my experience was that it was a wee bit particular about the optical drive. It has been a while since I've tinkered with it as well. 

I've seen, and it amazes me! 4 unsupported OS releases is rather impressive. I might have attempt it just for grins.

As the subject says, I'm now the proud owner of a Mac Pro 1,1. A friend of mine picked one up from a work auction and decided it would be something I would appreciate. 250GB HDD, 13GB RAM and a Radeon HD 5770! I noticed the graphics card when I was loading it into the car - definitely not...

We used to have this happen in a previous job of mine. A few of my users referred to it as the "turn signal." Anything I looked it during that time pointed to bad inverter boards, seems to be a fairly common failure with those displays. 

Mine too! We had it in my 5th grade classroom and it was always a good day when we got to play it. Sadly, our IIe had a monochrome monitor so some of the keys proved to be a challenge. The teacher across the hall had a color monitor (and a Platinum IIe) and I was very jealous of how good Wheel...

I snagged a 5.25" drive and now we're really in business! I can't wait to move so I can get this Mac on a proper desk. 

A good friend of mine since me a box of goodies - does that still count as a conquest? :p   The contents? Various compact flash cards to be used for my various IDE to CF projects Newton OS 2.0 CD-ROM and a bit of documentation An original iSight camera 2 ADB to USB adapters An 8-inch...

Wonder why that would be? They all use the same connection. Seems odd. I don't recall which model I used with mine but it definitely wasn't my Multiple Scan 15.

I've heard the stories about them but totally forgot! I'm definitely feeling more and more pleased about this purchase. I was extremely glad to get a case that was intact and not cracked or falling apart in some way. I peeked around for a 600MHz logic board but I'm not going to go too crazy just...

I love the Pro speakers. I remember my friends getting an iMac G4 in college and how amazed I was by the sound quality. I still kick myself for not buying one of the Griffin iFire adapters so I could use a set with my iBook. 

I was the only bidder on a recent eBay auction for a Flower Power iMac G3. I got a push notification that the auction was ending in 15 minutes and still had no bids. The listing didn't go into a ton of detail about the specs on the machine, but it looked great in the photos and the seller has...

I think I have one of those FlexView LCDs still in storage from a T40/42 that had a fried motherboard, if you're interested.