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[Schmoburger]

Bjaisus... that excess represents about a third of my entire monochrome compact collection of all models from 512K to Classic II. Mcdermd, you are a madman! :lol:

 

[mcdermd]

Sometimes too much is too much.

 

[mcdermd]

Bjaisus... that excess represents about a third of my entire monochrome compact collection of all models from 512K to Classic II. Mcdermd, you are a madman! :lol:

I think I have two more SEs to add but you can see most of my Compacts in my desktops gallery

 

[macinbot]

That Quadra 950 is a looker. One of my top 5 favorite case designs. How much did your wife have to layout for that one?

 

[mcdermd]

I paid them $50 without testing but it has logic board issues I've been getting help with here. If all ease fails, macdrone has a 950 board for me that was last known to run well.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Dang! I was considering offering my MoBo just so's I can hack the 950's case. }

 

[Macdrone]

Well give him your motherboard then and me the power supply so I can hack my 950 board into something.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

The PSU would have been retained for the hack, but now that I've played with it a bit, I'm not sure I can make all the parts fit into the 950 case. :-/

 

[mcdermd]

Picked up a dual 1GHz Quicksilver with 1GB RAM, GeForce 4, UW SCSI card, ATA card, DVD, and ZIP. it also has a "hidden" serial card that plugs into the modem port with a ribbon to a mini-DIN serial port in the card slot cover.

 

[uniserver]

you should throw that serial card up for 30 bucks it sounds quite useful to the right people!

 

[volvo242gt]

Ah, the Griffin gPort. Had one of those on my old G3...

-J

 

[mcdermd]

Here is the Serial card. It is a "Stealth Serial" from GeeThree and they retail for $49 (if the company still exists). The handiest feature seems to be Localtalk compatibility in OS 9. I hadn't ever seen one of these before:

 

[uniserver]

man... i find that to be pretty cool for some reason.

 

[NJRoadfan]

Cool because it brought a bit of Old World into the New World. Many people bought these solely for Localtalk connectivity since that was the only advantage these ports had over USB-to-serial adapters.

 

[olePigeon]

I liked the GDock II that was out very briefly. It has 2x Serial Ports, 2x ADB Ports, a Parallel port, and a 3.5" ATA drive slot. Connected over the USB port and sat on top of your G3/G4 style case. I have a GDock I on my G4. Would love to find a GDock II.

 

[volvo242gt]

Hmmm, cool. That's a bit different than the gPort which mounted in place of the modem jack.

-J

 

[mcdermd]

Found an SE/30 at the university sale today. I convinced them to sell it whole with the hard drive after bringing a 7.5.3 boot disk with SCSI Director to wipe it with.

Does anyone know a vintage formatting util that zero writes?

 

[cb88]

See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/456419?start=0&tstart=0

The relevant bit...

Drive Setup (Zero all data under Initialization Options) can overwrite with zeros.

 

[mcdermd]

I was able to pick up a IIci from the LEM swap list this week for $15. It had a dead logic board but I was able to find the rotten trace and get it running. On to retrobriting.

 

[volvo242gt]

Cool, so no more need for the one I have, or do you want a second one?

-J