Durosity’s conquests and collection
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She is wonderful. I’d be lost without her.Lovely wife you have
I only just noticed this... I know that some of us collectors are a bit odd but building a hidden room for stashing your 486s in seems perhaps a little excessive...
I had to cannibalise two broken units to get one working, but I’m glad I’ve now got one!
Well, it was in a large house in a very rough part of Newcastle (apparently there was a big riot there in the early 90s and half of it was demolished after it) so maybe they felt safer having stuff hidden!
The 486s were obviously there as a distraction in case anyone discovered the room. The hidden room was for the 8100.
So last week I won an auction on eBay for 5 big boxes of random cables and such. I didn’t actually mean to win.. I put in a bid of £5.. and it went for £1.86. It wasn’t that far a drive away, so went down there one morning and picked them up in my little Zoe! While I was in Nottingham we went for a tour of the caves.. if you’re ever there I’d suggest you do it!
So today.. I’ve started sifting through the boxes.. as expected the SCSI cables I wanted are there, the AAUI transceivers.. etc.. but then just as I was emptying out one of the boxes… I saw this.
It even works! I have a couple of them, but the plastic is broken.. this one is intact (although I imagine it’s only time until it does break!) but either way I’m chuffed, I’ve wanted a working one of these for my “Directors Edition” PowerMac 5500/275 for ages!
So today.. I’ve started sifting through the boxes.. as expected the SCSI cables I wanted are there, the AAUI transceivers.. etc.. but then just as I was emptying out one of the boxes… I saw this.
It even works! I have a couple of them, but the plastic is broken.. this one is intact (although I imagine it’s only time until it does break!) but either way I’m chuffed, I’ve wanted a working one of these for my “Directors Edition” PowerMac 5500/275 for ages!
Nice. I want the PowerBook grey one.
@mg.man, what a coincidence…
They made one in gray??
How on earth have I gone this long without knowing these existed. Never seen a photo of one. Ever.
You learn something new every day!
I’m convinced I once saw a PowerBook grey ADV Mouse 1 (the square one) but as best I can tell they never actually existed.
I really shouldn’t be spending money on anything at the moment, but this popped up for just £52 and I couldn’t resist. I’ve always had a deep love for the Marathon games, and I hate myself for binning my old original triangular boxed copies of Marathons 1, 2, and ∞. And this even has the three unused stickers inside it still! 
Well, this is something.. I was dumping stuff at the local recycling centre and there were some iMacs. I was only able to grab one (you’re not supposed to take anything and the staff are very protective of it) so I chose the Flower Power, even although it was missing the bottom case.. the others were just graphites.
Well done. I hate that UK recycling centres don’t let you take stuff away. How did you manage, just quickly whilst nobody was looking?
Same in France
Same in France
It’s health and safety, isn’t it?
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