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Stuff like this either gets put in my detached shop building or left outside until it can be cleaned (the former, in this case.)  Hantavirus is a very real concern but it can be mitigated - and as gross as this computer looks, I have cleaned out cars that were FAR worse.  Just try not to breathe...

Distilled water will definitely not hurt it. I wouldn't be afraid to scrub this one with dish soap, or vinegar, simple green, etc... Just rinsing all the soap off and drying completely is the main thing.  I think I'm gonna try washing it and cleaning all the removable ICs. Maybe it'll work! Who...

Just about any G3 or G4 would be great - iMacs included (get a USB floppy drive.)  Older PowerMacs would be fine too but the limitation there is the cost of SCSI CD burner drives, although I suppose you could get a Firewire/USB/ATA PCI card for some of them and then it'd be a non-issue.  I'm a...

Yeah... the case plastics are probably OK.  The Apple logo and IIe logo are peeling off and it's super discolored.  I need to rig up an old dishwasher outside for projects like this.   I forgot the part where the guy told me he was going to make a fish tank out of the monitor if I didn't buy...

I have had this for a couple weeks now and just had time to post it - bought it off a guy from NE who answered my craigslist ad.  As you can see... it's in BAD shape.  I got it for the monitor to use with my II - fortunately I had a power inverter with me to test it or I would have let it go. ...

Sure it's possible and I think there's plenty of room there - although I'm not sure how feasible using an IDE->CF/SD adapter would be.  Wouldn't be hot swappable, would it?  And I don't recall exactly how the IDE bus is configured on those.  It may be that the hard drive and CD-ROM are on the...

The Core2Duo upgrade on the Mini was successful - after about 30 failed attempts.  The 2,1 firmware flash did not work exactly like the instructions I found said it would, then I had issues with the 1GB and 2GB memory sticks, and it would just not boot at all for a while with the Core2Duo...

I also scored a Late '06 Mini out of the trash today (my boss threw it away...)  Works great, has a 1.83 Core Duo.  I ordered a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo for it.  I wanted one of these to use as a Windows server but ended up with a laptop instead - I may do some reconfiguring anyway.  Low power use...

MSI boards, especially of the era around '05, 06, ish were absolute shit.  Total garbage.  I took a two year computer networking degree program at a community college from '05 to '07 and we were required to build a PC from scratch using parts the school bought - at least half the MSI...

They were common as mud back in the day but I haven't run across one in years.  The one I had is actually the first PC I ever built from scratch - it started out as a dead motherboard that had a 900MHz Duron CPU on it that I got for next to nothing.  It just sorta came back to life after several...

PLENTY of PCI slots!  Yeah, I could throw a Radeon variant in it... I think I have a PCI 7000 with PC firmware and I definitely have a PCI soundblaster card somewhere but... meh.  I still have an AMD Athlon XP based machine from that era that is much better suited for that purpose.  

It's a G2, single processor 1.13GHz Pentium III but has a socket for a second CPU.  I am under the impression that it was pretty low end hardware when it was new but they were pretty reliable.  Too bad it doesn't have an AGP slot, it otherwise might have made a cool retro gaming rig.

I took the Tempo-X card out and put it in my nice Quicksilver, replaced the bad drive with a good one, and I now have a perfectly working 1TB RAID array.  So cool! I also scored a free Compaq Proliant ML330 G2 server and had some time to play with it.  Really nothing special, already have a...

I have a nice Quicksilver, another one that is in fair condition, plus the new Sawtooth and DA.  And an iMac G4... and a G4 mini.  The only one I really actually want is the first one, the rest are just fluff that I picked up on a whim.

Well, about half of it comes from responses to a craigslist ad I have had posted for several years.   On occasion I also have found things at thrift stores, Facebook marketplace, in the trash, yard sales, etc.  I am a pretty dedicated scrounger and make the rounds at a variety of good spots at...

Round, small, about the size of an ADB port with three larger round pins.  I'll try and remember to take a picture.  I am fairly sure it's the original 22" model, M5662.

Where to begin.  After 15+ years in the IT industry I have seen it all - medical records. Gross pictures. Financial information. Business paperwork.  School files. People are definitely more careful than they were, but it's still shocking - I recently purchased a Pentium 4 based PC for the case...

This one is an earlier graphite cinema display and has a plastic case - it has a single cable that splits into DVI, USB and a 3 pin power connector.  I will probably hack an aftermarket PSU - just kind of a bummer that I don't have the original, even if it was dead, I wouldn't have to cut off...

So since my last post - I swapped out the 6200's logic board with one that I saved from a 5260/120.  Huge improvement and I also added a bunch of other spare stuff - ethernet, TV tuner, AV card, etc.  The 6200 came with a 256k L2 cache card that prevents the 5260 board from booting but works...

I know for sure I have a double sided 32MB SIMM and a single sided 16MB SIMM on the logic board and an identical 32MB double sided SIMM on the DOS card.  The 64MB SIMMs I have are double sided. In reality, not much difference, although I swear it feels faster while running everyday tasks. ...