Cheap eBay Quadra 700

[Schafeman]

This is the Quadra 700 that was recently on eBay for $100.  So I will admit now that it arrived and I've assessed the most serious potential situation, an exploded battery (which isn't ), I was the buyer.  Its at work with me, so I haven't had a chance to dig in and test anything yet, but i'm very pleased for a 'best offer' price well under $100.  According to the auction it powers on, but doesn't display anything.  I guess we'll see.  It does have a Macintosh II video card installed and a bunch of ram.

 

[MJ313]

Nice machine! It looks incredibly clean on the inside. Good news about the battery.

 

[joethezombie]

Nice! I'm curious, isn't the Q700 internal video superior than that Mac II card? You'd think they'd installed more vram than a video card.

 

[Schafeman]

Yeah, its a very old video card in general so I'm not sure why it was installed.

 

[omidimo]

Nice to see it was not a Maxell nightmare, and found a good home. 

Zap the pram, reset the vram back into place. Try another video card if you have one.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Two screens are better than one and TOBY's are all but free, 'nuf said.

Nice catch, have fun with it.

 

[ScutBoy]

Two screens are better than one and TOBY's are all but free, 'nuf said.

Agreed - probably to drive more than one display.

 

[Byrd]

Nice find, and one of the more bulletproof 68Ks.  Assume the motherboard is OK, check the PSU, PRAM, RAM, etc.

 

[Schafeman]

UPDATE..  I re-seated the ram and vram, works good as new.  Has 20mb installed and maxed out vram, since it does millions of colors @ 800x600.  Has a 230mb HDD (which is a bit noisy) with System 7.5.  I'd say this was a success!

 

[Themk]

Congrats! Nice find!

 

[omidimo]

Sweet! If and/or when you pop in a SCSI2SD, the old workhorse will be amazing. 

The 601 PDS upgrade is a nice little boost if you plan to push past 7.6, but not necessary if you want to keep the machine as authentic to the time frame.

 

[Johnnya101]

Awesome! I saw that but was worried about the no video.