Look what I found in the woods!

[tanaquil]

That is fantastic!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[olePigeon]

Pardon my ignorance, but is that a horror movie reference?

c

Yes, The Blair Witch Project.

 

[avadondragon]

Well I had time to do some more testing and I now have a spare working CRT! I think I have a friend that managed to break the yoke on their SE/30 a decade ago I'll probably give it to them if they still have the machine.



I also hooked up the hard drive to my PowerMac7200. It spun up and was recognized by system profiler but sadly I couldn't read any Mac partition info. I think one of the heads fused to the platter judging by the ting ting ting noise it is making.

 

[Elfen]

Congrats!

 

[XBHS1997]

Wow! That's the kind of find I'd love to make! Great!

 

[CC_333]

Too bad it wasn't a Lisa. That would've been something!

c

 

[Tiptoeturtle]

Maybe it was hibernating.

 

[trag]

Nah, that's only bears... But you know what they say bears do in the woods. Perhaps there's a magical bear out there that excretes old Macs.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Makes sense, they're yummy!

 

[olePigeon]

No, don't turn it on!  They say that if you watch the screen of a Mac you find buried in the woods, you'll die 3 days later! :O

 

[olePigeon]

I'm too late!  Arrrrrrgh!

 

[djcommie]

Too bad it wasn't a Lisa. That would've been something!

c

I once found a Lisa at the local ancient ewaste recycler in horrible shape (got it for free) and put it on eBay. I documented the condition well and mentioned it was likely only good for a case and bracketry and it sold $244. The buyer gave me neutral feedback saying it wasn't in very good condition... The buyer was the Computer History Museum.

 

[james_w]

Brilliant conquest and story!

 

[uridium]

That Intergraph monitor.. that's off a Clipper UNIX box. Probably a 2xxx series. 

I used to run those on some 2400's and a 6800 with CLIX. Dead tech sadly, though it was a lovely UNIX and the Clipper RISC (C[1,2,3,4]00's) processors for the day were pretty nice. Quite unobtanium these days.

Monitors were easy to get working off VGA if the card supplied SOG signals correctly.

 

[Schmoburger]

I actually love this thread so much, I could just play billiards in the rain in my underpants!