Inventorying my new to growing collection starting from Zed

[sunvalleylaw]

Hi all! Relatively new guy here, joining only this last January, as I started to shop and acquire the beginnings of my vintage collection. Kinda went all out for a while, and now am slowing down and considering what stays and what goes long run. So the purpose of this thread, inspired by @volvo242gt 's thread I ran across, is to track the collection from the beginning, and conclude with a current inventory, and then update the thread to current as things change. So, here is how thing started:

Macintosh SE modded to SE/30

Beige Power Mac 266 MHz, fully working, PRAM battery and holder replaced, recapped. (Buffalo G3 Accelerator 500 MHz to be installed, along with maxing out RAM)

Apple IIe (with various floppy drives/peripherals, library of computer and program literature, software on floppies)

Blue and White PowerMac G3 400 MHz. (

Incoming Second Beige PowerMac G3 with apparent nice cosmetics to possibly use for parts to build one centerpiece Beige G3, still looking for "Wings" AV personality card, working but needs restoration or will be used for parts.

Macintosh Color Display M1212 13 inch "Trinitron". Working, will need to be recapped/serviced.

Macintosh Performa Plus Color Display 14 inch. Working, likely will need to be recapped/serviced

Performa 6360 working well. PRAM batterie removed.

Quicksilver PowerMac, working well.

Apple Studio Display M4551 (first gen 15" flat screen)

Couple more 15" and 17" Apple Cinema displays with hingers in various states of repair

(Various 3400/3500, would like to end up with a couple good working machines and perhaps will sell others if they can be restored)

Powerbook 3400c 180 MHz working, decent cosmetic missing the back door

Incoming Powerbook 3400c incoming with full doors, non functional display, thinking it is 200 MHz but not sure yet

Incoming Powerbook 3500 (Kanga) times two. One with stock RAM, good excellent cosmetics, 20x CD drive, one working fully, Zip drive with broken trim, pretty good cosmetics, 160MB total RAM.


ImageWriter II times too, status other than powers on unknown.

Would like a G3 iMac, slot loading 400 MHz with working CD drive, indigo, purple or flower power, and G4 either 17 inch or 20 inch

Also will consider adding an air-cooled dual G5 (or two) and try to fashion a good server set up to ultimately reduce or eradicate reliance on the cloud. Need to learn more about that.

That's it at this point.

 

[Byrd]

That's a good lot - nice selection of vintage Mac eras.

 

[Durosity]

Welcome to the club! That’s an excellent collection. Have you done any work to recap or restore the ones that are currently working?

 

[herd]

Welcome! It is nice to see people coming into what is probably a shrinking community.

I use a G4 tower as a local file server. It hosts a RAID, it's relatively quiet and low power. If I'm going away for a few weeks I can just put it to sleep. At one point it had a 4-year uptime.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Welcome to the club! That’s an excellent collection. Have you done any work to recap or restore the ones that are currently working?

The SE to SE/30 was fully recapped by prior owner, who bought a recapped SE/30 logic board from eBay, along with upgraded ROM to allow 32 bit clean and more RAM, with 64 MB RAM currently installed, and recapped the analog board himself. It also as a BlueSDSI v.1 as the hard drive and a Floppy EMU, and no actual floppy drive. The Beige G3 was gone through, cleaned and inspected, and battery and battery holder replaced with newer style, but I don't believe it was recapped. I am learning about that and planning to upgrade my soldering skills via a class, and an experienced friend who repaired electronics, computers, audio, etc. for the Air Force for years and continues to restore old gear so I can. and AFAIK, the rest have not been re-capped. Some have had their batteries pulled and/or replaced, and I will definitely make sure that is done in all of them. The batteries WERE addressed on the B/W g3 and quicksilver. And I though I have not received it yet, I believe it was done on the other Beige G3 also.

The parts donor 3400c may have suffered some damage due to battery leaking, as it chimes and appears (by sound only) to boot, but the screen stays black. This is on power via original power cord, and battery has been pulled.

The 6360 I received for like 25 bucks for two Performas, the 6360 and a 6116CD I forgot I had, missing the hard drive. He basically gave it to me. I had purchased one of the Apple CRT monitors from him, along with an Atari 1040 STfm with mouse and joy stick and software and adapters for modern monitors. The 6360 is kinda nice and reminds me of my original mid 90's computing experience as a solo lawyer who liked to use his computer for Myst and Launch CD-Rom music and game sampler magazines, but better than my 6200 road apple I had.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

That's a good lot - nice selection of vintage Mac eras.

Thanks! Now I am getting into making sure everything is in good shape and considering what to upgrade, use for parts, etc.

Welcome! It is nice to see people coming into what is probably a shrinking community.

I use a G4 tower as a local file server. It hosts a RAID, it's relatively quiet and low power. If I'm going away for a few weeks I can just put it to sleep. At one point it had a 4-year uptime.

Thanks! Also interesting on the servers. My hope is, as I go back and forth from Boise to Sun Valley area to be able to have a server at least in one home and be able to access it remotely to do stuff. But will need to research how that all works and what is possible as I have NEVER done any real server set up or maintenance work myself, even if I have used them as part of my jobs at times.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Oh, I also did not mention that I have various SE/30 parts (case, analog board to restore with power supply to restore or replace) along with a purple "Reloaded Board" with some sockets and such along with a couple processor options, to use ultimately in a SE/30 reloaded build. Down the road when I can solder better.

And also a quite battery bombed Mac IIvx I picked up at the local computer recycler, "Reuseum" to use to practice soldering by attempting to re-cap it and see if it can be saved. If not savable, I will just be glad for the practice, and keep an eye out for a Quada/Centris 650 to use to bring it back to life.