A pile of Beige!

[oneboyarmy]

After istar1018 posted his listing, I had asked him about picking up some Macs he had for sale since I was heading to Pittsburgh this past Thursday to see Lords of Acid at Diesel (amazing show, by the way). I came back to Ohio with the following:

Quadra 800

IIci

Performa 6116CD

and a Umax S900!

I haven't even gotten to take them out of my trunk yet so I'm not sure of specs or working status of all of them yet. I did pop open the IIci's case today since it's easy and I was cleaning my car... No hard drive, RAM or floppy drive, but bouncing around inside the case was a MicroMac Carrera 040 accelerator! It will be fun to see if it works.

I'll have to get some pictures and a better update after I've gotten a chance to test all of them.

I also got my beaaautiful SE from Scott Baret a couple months back. But wouldn't you know, I get System 6 installed, start putting on a few apps and then the hard drive made this horrible "PLINK" sound and gave up the ghost. I had to laugh... since I was installing Photoshop 2. Another disaster, courtesy of Adobe. :lol:

 

[oneboyarmy]

Well I kept the IIci and the SE out of my storage unit. I believe the IIci is simply in need of RAM, as it gives the startup chime then immediate death chime. I couldn't remember whether or not they had any onboard RAM at all. Now I need 30-pin SIMMs.

I replaced the dead 80MB ProDrive in the SE with a 160MB drive I pulled out of my LC III, which is in storage. It was much easier to do than I expected, and now it's humming along with an install of System 7.1.1 Pro... soon to go back to System 6.0.8, for the sake of speed.

Once the IIci is fixed, I'm going to tackle the Quadra and see where it stands, and if I can get A/UX running on it!

 

[Scott Baret]

Sorry to hear about the hard drive in the SE--it formatted perfectly with no bad blocks whatsoever before I shipped it. Was it a mechanical failure?

(The drive was a pull from an LCII that had been used sparingly in a middle school science classroom and was actually my best spare hard drive when I put it in the SE, which originally had a MiniScribe inside; the MiniScribe was dead when I got the SE).

If you want a new drive let me know, I feel bad about the drive dying so soon and can send you a new drive if you want me to.

 

[oneboyarmy]

No need, Scott, but thank you! I do appreciate the offer. Honestly, when it happened, I just laughed. :lol: I just said 'eh, I'll grab a drive out of storage next trip I make" and I finally did.

Mechanical? Yeah, it made the most awful sounds and it won't even recognize that it has a drive installed! It just squeaks and squeaks. Silly moving parts and all!