Out-of-business sale conquests

[TheMacGuy]

From what it sounds like, the computers are going to be there until Saturday, but then...

I don't even want to think about those poor Macs.

 

[trag]

I have never heard of a Quadra 640. :?:

IIRC, there was a Q640, or it may have been a Performa 640 or an LC640. In any case, it was one of the many, many variants on the Q630.

 

[Macdrone]

It was a performa 640 DOS, it was the one that shipped with a dos card instead of the TV tuner.

 

[tattar8]

I may go back tomorrow with $40 or $50 if I get a chance, and grab some of what's left. Namely that G3 and the Quadras. Perhaps a tape drive. I'm going to call tomorrow morning and find out.

 

[tattar8]

An update: I went back and grabbed the Server G3 and a Quadra 660AV. They're putting the rest of the 605's (there were three) into storage, so if anyone wants one, you should call.

Now if anyone can solve the (for me) ages-old mystery as to why my 10.2 Server hangs at the server assistant on the Server G3, it'd make my day.

 

[TheMacGuy]

Just got my 605 today, sadly with many broken plastic pieces. Good news though, IT STILL CHIMES WITH HDD ACTIVITY! :O

I'm glad you snagged the Server G3. I was going to go for it, but shipping would have been to much.

 

[mcdermd]

Was that a beige Server G3 or B&W?

 

[TheMacGuy]

By the photos, beige.

 

[tattar8]

It was a beige G3 running OS 8.1 with AppleShare IP installed, and a SCSI card and second NIC installed in the PCI slots. The dual 9GB drives were set up in RAID 0; I couldn't get them to mount when booting off the OS 9 install disc, so I took them out, set them aside, and installed OS 9 and 10.2 Server on a SCSI Seagate Cheetah I had laying around.

The 660AV is, at this point, untouched. When I first turned it on, it played the first few notes of the sad mac sound for that model (the "silly" tune, as I like to call it", but then transitioned to the startup chime and finished booting into OS 7.6.1 (Do you think 8.1 is feasible on this thing?)

 

[Bunsen]

Feasible, yes, given enough RAM. 8.1 runs on 040s.

Performative? That's another question. 7.6.1 will probably be a deal peppier.

 

[tattar8]

So I should just leave it running the currently installed 7.6.1? OK.

Now what software do I use to utilize its video capture capabilities?

 

[mcdermd]

It was a beige G3 running OS 8.1 with AppleShare IP installed, and a SCSI card and second NIC installed in the PCI slots

Sweet! I got one of those a while back and it's on the list for restoration. I need to check out what's on it but it would be cool to compare your software to mine. I'd like to have mine as "original" as possible.

 

[Bunsen]

Now what software do I use to utilize its video capture capabilities?

If it's booting the OS that was on it when you found it, there's every chance the software you need is already installed. Mostly extensions and control panels.

There used to be a great FAQ on the AV Quadras by one James Wang, but all I can find right now is an archive.org copy of the index to his site. Poke around there and see what you can find.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090826131422/http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~jwang/pitstop/

/ETA/ helf found it:

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/download/documents/av-faq-156.rtf (text file download)

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/download/documents/av_digitizer.txt

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/download/documents/quadra_video.txt

 

[tattar8]

So does this mean that I just use QuickTime to capture video through the port?