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A wild 7100/80 appeared!

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littlecloud92

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I was at the junkyard on a mission to acquire a P4 system when out of the corner of my eye, stacked up high above piles of obsolete lab equipment...

A wild 7100/80 appeared!

Go Screwdriver!

Screwdriver dismantled the wild 7100/80 and found no missing parts!

The wild 7100/80 sits motionlessly!

Screwdriver, come back!

Go, Power Cord!

Power Cord used Mains Power!

The wild 7100/80 chimes!

The wild 7100/80 boots up Mac OS 8!

Power Cord, unplug!

Go, Wallet!

Wallet used Money Attack!

Wallet lost $16 in banknotes!

Congratulations! The wild 7100/80 was caught!

PPC 601 80MHz

Video card with full VRAM slots

48MB RAM - 2x16MB, 2x4MB, 8MB built-in

4GB IBM SCSI HDD - definitely an upgrade, says OCT-98 on label

Dead PRAM battery - original for the machine, says 4/95 on case, hasn't defecated its contents on the logicboard, removed pronto!

The usual missing rubber feet - 1 of them

It is complete and in working condition but is totally filthy and rusty inside. It was the console for a (probably SCSI) DNA analyzer/sequencer in its past life, but god knows what has happened since its decommissioning... I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

7600-2.jpg

7600-1.jpg

 
Nice find, though it looks like it's lived a rough life.

I just got a 7100/66 a few days ago, there pretty nice machines, and mine had a pretty good surprise in it, a Sonnet Crescendo G3 Card @ 250Mhz with video card adapter attached to the HPV card.

 
I've mentioned this before, but it's worth mentioning again...

Many 7100s stop working because the heat sink grease between the CPU and the heat sink dries out. If you've got an old one, you may wish to consider cleaning off the old grease (probably a white powder by now) and applying new heat sink grease.

The first machine on which I saw this drove me crazy because it would seem to work great and then it would lock up or crash. And then it would be fine for a while, etc. Finally, I got lucky and saw some video artifacts which I had seen on a Power Computing Power 120 (notorious for overheating) and then I realized what was going on. Replaced the grease and the machine was tip top after that.

 
The DNA software is probably more rare and valuable than the 7100 is! IMO it is definitely worth archiving the software and extensions for this kind of stuff.

Congrats on your find!

 
@Trag: Yeah, thanks for the reminder. I'll do that after I've finished exorcising the logicboard of any icky gray powdery dust. I've fixed a G4 MDD tower that was howling non-stop, along with an iMac G4 with random lockups by re-applying the thermal paste ^^

@tt: Just general cautiousness... if I were me, I sure as hell wouldn't make off with such a rusty and obsolete machine... Furthermore, the grime on it would've stained my shirt black, thus making myself an easy target for the cops...

 
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