Hello all,
I go to a local university auction fairly regularly. I know the auctioneer well and have attended for nearly as long as I've had money of my own to spend. I got a lot of my classic gear from this auction, and every once in a while something very interesting comes up. So, I'm running around looking at things and not actually paying attention to the auction until I hear the criers, well, crying my number holding up PowerBook G3s. I shake my head no, and the auctioneer gets nary a bid. So, what does he do? He stacks all of the PowerBooks together in one lot.
The bidding commences, and it again gets not so much as a maybe. I'm still shaking my head; he says, "Aww, C'mon wthww." over the loudspeaker and yells at the recorder, "Put it on number 42 (my number)". So I walked away with a giant stack of 'book for very little, albeit forcefully.After judicious cleanup and inventory I was able to come up a lombard and wallstreet in nearly perfect condition with a parts wallstreet, 5300cs, and duo 2300c. Sadly the parts machines are simply wrecked and do not have serviceable plastics, only electronics.
I have been using the Wallsteet as a daily side-machine. It runs 9.2/Debian Sid dual boot and typically is the machine I use to run pianobar and poke around on irc. I love this machine because honest-to-goodness this is what I'd imagine you'd get if you said to IBM of the time, "Pretty please won't you make a T-series that runs our operating system? And oh yeah... can it be... rounded?".
On a final note: I lucked out. The wallstreet has a 450mhz CPU upgrade. Cha-ching. It runs hot and can get uncomfortable in the lap, but oh well. I'm ponderizing how to max out its memory. I wonder if it would be happy with a low density 512mb simm...
//wthww
I go to a local university auction fairly regularly. I know the auctioneer well and have attended for nearly as long as I've had money of my own to spend. I got a lot of my classic gear from this auction, and every once in a while something very interesting comes up. So, I'm running around looking at things and not actually paying attention to the auction until I hear the criers, well, crying my number holding up PowerBook G3s. I shake my head no, and the auctioneer gets nary a bid. So, what does he do? He stacks all of the PowerBooks together in one lot.
The bidding commences, and it again gets not so much as a maybe. I'm still shaking my head; he says, "Aww, C'mon wthww." over the loudspeaker and yells at the recorder, "Put it on number 42 (my number)". So I walked away with a giant stack of 'book for very little, albeit forcefully.After judicious cleanup and inventory I was able to come up a lombard and wallstreet in nearly perfect condition with a parts wallstreet, 5300cs, and duo 2300c. Sadly the parts machines are simply wrecked and do not have serviceable plastics, only electronics.
I have been using the Wallsteet as a daily side-machine. It runs 9.2/Debian Sid dual boot and typically is the machine I use to run pianobar and poke around on irc. I love this machine because honest-to-goodness this is what I'd imagine you'd get if you said to IBM of the time, "Pretty please won't you make a T-series that runs our operating system? And oh yeah... can it be... rounded?".
On a final note: I lucked out. The wallstreet has a 450mhz CPU upgrade. Cha-ching. It runs hot and can get uncomfortable in the lap, but oh well. I'm ponderizing how to max out its memory. I wonder if it would be happy with a low density 512mb simm...
//wthww
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