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This is a great story, thanks for sharing! I've bought plenty of cool stuff on eBay over the years, but there are so many alternatives globally - it's good to see a success story a bit off the usual (US-centric) beaten path. Congrats! Huxley

So about a week ago, I spotted a post in the San Francisco Bay Area Craigslist, advertising a Mac SE for only $25! The pics in the listing weren't great - it was kinda hard to get a sense of the condition of the machine, but one pic showing the nametag on the back of the machine was cropped in...

Oh man, this is a great story - congrats! I know it's not on most "All Time Greatest Macs" lists, but I have such a personal affection for the Performa 6400/180. My closest childhood friend's parents bought one when we were in 6th grade together, and sleepover nights at his place became...

This is so cool - congrats! I'd love to play with this too, should you ever get a working copy uploaded to The Garden (or any of the similar archive sites).

Sadly no! I have a healthy number of iMac G3's already, so now I'm torn between seeking out the matching Indigo keyboard and mouse, or just confirming what condition the machine is, cleaning it up, and then re-homing it. Decisions decisions... :) H.

Thanks! I feel extra lucky this time around, since I found this iMac on Sunday afternoon, and just a few hours later that evening we got a painfully-rare rainshower here. This little iMac (and the SCSI drive + CRT monitor I also grabbed) just missed getting a bath! H.

The other day I was out running errands with my family, and as we drove across town, I spotted a familiar shape and color out of the corner of my eye. I quickly circled the block, double-parked, and hopped out to take a look - it was an Indigo iMac G3! My wife snapped a pic from the car, since...

This is so great, congrats! I know it's not a particularly beloved model - it'll never have legions of fans like a Color Classic or an SE/30... but I have a huge personal soft spot for the 7100/80. Back in 1999 I was desperate for a 'modern' Mac and some kind soul (I think it may have been...

This past weekend, I met up with a lovely woman from my town - she'd seen some of my "Retro Roadshow" events and thought I might be interested in some of the stuff she's had stashed in her garage for decades. Among other things, she gave me the Macintosh LC that she bought new when she started...

Oh man, that's a great haul for the price! Just note that it's the "cs" edition (not the plain "c" model), so it will have the less-enjoyable passive-matrix display. My PB1400 is also a "cs" and I'm actively searching for a body-less "c" display I can do a monitor-swap with :-) Anyway...

At risk of derailing the topic, I just remembered that a year or two ago, I created a little Imgur album about the PCMCIA "Hard Disk Card" I referenced above, and how I use it with my PowerBook 1400 - here's the link, if anyone's curious: https://imgur.com/gallery/NbV8lnI :D   Huxley

In my case, it's just another disk in the Startup Disk control panel - no startup-key-combo magic required, thankfully  H.

Can confirm! My PB1400 (CS model, upgraded with 40MB RAM and G3 CPU) has a 2x-height PCMCIA Hard Drive Card (a literal spinning-disk drive in the form of a double-height PCMCIA card) with a backup copy of MacOS 8.1 and it happily boots from it :)   Congrats @travistouchdown - the PB1400 is a...

Gotcha, totally makes sense. You're right about the battery holder - one of the posts is completely rotted away, while the other is barely holding on and not long for the world. Here's a pic which will haunt my nightmares for a while: In any case, I have another IIci I rescued from an e-waste...

Sighhhh... the battery did indeed puke its guts onto the logic board :/   Here are some updated pics showing what looks to be fairly severe corrosion / battery-juice damage: https://imgur.com/a/FloNF6d The corrosion on the RAM looks pretty bad, and the battery holder itself (not just the...

Got lucky on Craigslist and ended up with a nice Mac IIci for the low, low price of FREEEE! It’s in unknown functional status at the moment, and the original owner just asked that I copy off any data which I may find on the SCSI drive (should the drive even work). Pretty cool! Other than the...

Hahah, well said! I'm extremely happy to report that we paid $250 total for this entire haul :D   H.

Oooooh - congrats! Awesome stuff here :) Huxley

Thanks to some super-lucky timing with a local(ish) Craigslist ad last night, my family and I returned from a ~3 hour round-trip drive with the rear-end of my trusty Prius riding much lower than normal :D   Here's an album with pics: https://imgur.com/a/UBvt3MO Also pictured is my...

A stranger reached out to me via a local Facebook group in my town, because he had seen some of my retro computing posts and wanted to know if I might be interested in a couple of old laptops he was about to have e-waste recycled. Naturally, I said yes, and here’s what I ended up with: a pair of...