So I scored some recent conquests, some mac related, some not (or barely)
I recently won a pair of 74GB WD Raptor (10k RPM 8MB Cache) drives off ebay and I bought a new Sandisk 120GB SSD (btw, OCZ seems to have fixed their issues with the Vertex Plus/2 series of drives lately if people saw my way-earlier rant) for my thinkpad.
I have acquired a Beige G4 (400Mhz) desktop with 256MB RAM (believe it or not, 128MB + 64MB + 64MB) which had a Radeon 7000 PCI 32MB, a PCI Gigabit card (works under OS X) and a DVD Burner (DVD Burner's Kaput) which a customer was throwing out. I will have to swap the processor though as the person broke the latch on the heatsink and decided to get some of that heatsink grease + glue compound and glue the heatsink to the G4 CPU, it effectively ruined the CPU. So I need to find a new CPU, heatsink and latch, so if anyone has a set and wouldn't mind parting with it (I would pay up to $23 shipped to 68132, even for a 500Mhz G3) I would like to get this running.
I then acquired what I believe is a compatibly SATA PCI card that I can flash a mac-based firmware to and it should allow me to run SATA drives in the beige. So I thought I would take the raptors (if I get it up) and throw them in the beige, and use it as a small classic OS or OS X Server (friend gave me a copy with key of 10.3 server discs in box to try getting the beige up)
I will take pics later of the processor catastrophe, but thought it might be a fun project.
Either way, the SSD was on sale for $139 shipped (Cheapest 120GB on newegg), the WD Raptors with shipping were $55 but I got some money from paypal recently so it ended up really costing my bank about $36.
But that's pretty much my conquest. if anyone has a cheap G4 ZIF, heatsink and clip I would love to hear from you!
I recently won a pair of 74GB WD Raptor (10k RPM 8MB Cache) drives off ebay and I bought a new Sandisk 120GB SSD (btw, OCZ seems to have fixed their issues with the Vertex Plus/2 series of drives lately if people saw my way-earlier rant) for my thinkpad.
I have acquired a Beige G4 (400Mhz) desktop with 256MB RAM (believe it or not, 128MB + 64MB + 64MB) which had a Radeon 7000 PCI 32MB, a PCI Gigabit card (works under OS X) and a DVD Burner (DVD Burner's Kaput) which a customer was throwing out. I will have to swap the processor though as the person broke the latch on the heatsink and decided to get some of that heatsink grease + glue compound and glue the heatsink to the G4 CPU, it effectively ruined the CPU. So I need to find a new CPU, heatsink and latch, so if anyone has a set and wouldn't mind parting with it (I would pay up to $23 shipped to 68132, even for a 500Mhz G3) I would like to get this running.
I then acquired what I believe is a compatibly SATA PCI card that I can flash a mac-based firmware to and it should allow me to run SATA drives in the beige. So I thought I would take the raptors (if I get it up) and throw them in the beige, and use it as a small classic OS or OS X Server (friend gave me a copy with key of 10.3 server discs in box to try getting the beige up)
I will take pics later of the processor catastrophe, but thought it might be a fun project.
Either way, the SSD was on sale for $139 shipped (Cheapest 120GB on newegg), the WD Raptors with shipping were $55 but I got some money from paypal recently so it ended up really costing my bank about $36.
But that's pretty much my conquest. if anyone has a cheap G4 ZIF, heatsink and clip I would love to hear from you!
