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He bought it right after my parents bought theirs because he thought it was cool and rarely used it.  I have my parents old iMac too but it has definitely been used, abused, and upgraded.  The screen is a little fuzzy now and the plastics are discolored.   I don't know what I'm going to do with...

I brought home another Bondi iMac yesterday.  I normally wouldn't have bothered... and I almost still didn't, but this one was my grandpa's and it is as close to mint condition as it gets.  I am sure it has been used less than 10 hours total and was under a cover in the guest bedroom all these...

Good score on the iLamp, I picked up a 17" 1GHz  one a few months back from the thrift store for $20.  Very dirty and scratched up but the magic eraser made it look pretty nice.  I wish it would boot OS 9 but for the price I can't complain - I always kinda wanted one, I wouldn't have minded even...

Speedometer... yeah that was the one. There are so many variables in terms of upgrades that this would just be a massive, impossible undertaking to see how far each machine could be pushed from stock. Although it would be kind of a cool contest to try and push whatever you have over the last...

I get exactly what you're saying and it would just take some sort of benchmark software to get a rough idea.  I'm not sure what that software would be, it would have to be a measurement of a lot of different factors and run on almost any version of Mac OS prior to OS X.  I seem to remember that...

Nice Quadra, now you need a video capture board, TV input, and DOS card ;) 63x have always been high on my like list.  They're easy to max out and surprisingly fast.

I probably have a spare module if that one on eBay doesn't work out.  I used to pull them off ATI video cards from junker PCs.

Wow, that's cool.  I don't normally get too excited about keyboards but it looks identical to the KeyTronic ones that were real popular in the late 90's.  I like those a lot. Very nice score, hope you get it working.

It has been a few years since I've had my LC630 opened up but I can tell you that it's not as simple as plugging in a cable.  The logic board edge connector (inside the computer, not on the logic board itself) has built in ribbon cables for SCSI, IDE, etc... there is no internal 50 pin connector...

Mine has a 400MHz CPU module clocked up to 433MHz, 768MB RAM, 80GB IDE hard drive (using the onboard controller) as well as two IDE DVD-RW drives, and a flashed PC Radeon 9200 w/ 128MB.  Also have a USB card and 10/100 ethernet card. I don't know about partition size limitations but I suspect...

Since the damage is done... I'd try to make a mold of the undamaged part, fit it over the melted section, and heat it from the back with a heat gun to see if you can melt it back into the right shape. Then a scrub with a magic eraser and maybe a retro Brite treatment to even out the color...

It is totally possible to have several bad disks these days... although it's far more likely that it's the drive.  I have one that did something like that, swapped out and all was well.  I have noticed that certain machines in my collection seem to write disks far better than others... for...

Ha, well, still cheaper than impulse buying drugs or hookers.  Or cars........ I'll just leave it at that.  So now you just need to keep the thread updated so we can make a group effort at getting your new toy working.  ;)

They will all need caps. Some or all could have exploded batteries Plus other issues - bad drives, excessively burned in screens, bad analog boards, cosmetic defects. No way would I pay $85 for an SE/30 untested with those potential issues.  The ethernet cards are the only bright spot in that...

The 630 is an odd machine.  I have had numerous issues with hard drives in mine over the years, among other things.  I wonder if maybe a much smaller partition would boot?  Or maybe a different driver?  LaCie or something else perhaps

Did it again, I picked up a G5 last night for $10.  Dual 2GHz air cooled with Radeon 9600.  Seems to work great other than not recognizing one bank of memory at all.  Haven't decided if I should Hackintosh the thing, fix it, or what.  Never have found a G5 that actually works correctly, worst...

G3 desktops and AIOs never really caught my eye.  G3 towers are probably my favorite Mac, they are damn near perfect in every way for the era they were built in... certain rev ROM limitations and the lack of 10/100 onboard ethernet are really the only factors where they are lacking.

I don't see how it would hurt the hardware but it could possibly corrupt the hard drive's contents.  The point of "shut down" is to more or less park the file system so that no data is being written to the drive at the moment when the power is turned off.  Used to happen a lot prior to Windows...

You can rinse the board in denatured alcohol after the water bath if you want, that would remove most or all remaining water and the alcohol will evaporate very quickly.  Blow dry with compressed air.   Better yet use distilled water.  The more pure your cleaning supplies are, the better...

So... your local Goodwill actually sells computer stuff?  I thought they "recycle" all of it.  I haven't been in there in quite a while because I thought it was a waste of time for electronics.