Today user IPNixon, a non-MLA friend, and I went to the local university surplus and bought a pallet. Of macs. Twenty four macs in total, mostly G4 towers, and four 68ks. They all barely fit in my station wagon, and two of them had to be roped onto the roof. Most were missing RAM and HDDs, but some were packed, and there were a good amount of cards of various sorts, though nothing crazy. Condition is nothing spectacular, mostly scuffs and scratches.
Pictures of loading the car:
G4s in first.. http://i28.tinypic.com/250hxd2.jpg
Not much room in the back - http://i30.tinypic.com/2rqfz28.jpg
Still a lot to load - http://i28.tinypic.com/23vxe9e.jpg
Everything but two G4s - http://i27.tinypic.com/kevm8j.jpg
Which get tied to the roof… http://i28.tinypic.com/25zkw76.jpg
The List:
(note: because of how we tested these and how they were mostly stripped, I’m just going to list machines + cards + ram + drives and you can imagine the configurations.)
Four 400MHz Sawtooths (one has dead PSU)
Four 400MHz Gigabit Ethernets (one has a dead PSU)
Two Dual 500MHz Gig-Es (another has a dead PSU)
Two Digital Audios, one 733 one 533
Three Quicksilvers, two 800s and a 733
A very lonely looking eMac 700MHz
Three Beige G3 MTs. AWFUL condition – missing plastics, cracked plastics, etc. All 300s and do work.
Three IIcis, one with a bad PSU
One Quadra 650 – Great condition.
Now, the bits and pieces (in ascending order in conjunction with the above):
Four big sticks of RAM in the Q650. Have not yet tested to see how much. No hard drive.
IIcis are packed with 256kB sticks, one has higher cap. sticks, haven’t tested. All three are full. None have HDDs.
The IIci with the big sticks has a NuBus AAUI card and an Apple Video 820-0600-A.
- Daystar Sonnet Presto 100MHz 601 in the Q650
- three Apple braded 10/100 PCI cards
- three PCI twin turbo cards
- eight Rage 128 Pro (32MB) AGP cards.
- three Rage 128 Pro (16MB) AGP cards.
- one Rage 128 (16MB) PCI card.
- eight Adaptec Ultra SCSI cards. Nothing special, not bootable - 68pin outside, 50pin inside.
- ATTO Express SCSI cards, model “UL2D” 68pin inside. Not bootable.
- Geforce TN2s and one Geforce 2 FX (32MB).
- four Stealth Serial card things.
- ten DVD drives, two being –RAM.
- three CD-ROMs.
- five CD-RWs
- one superdrive
- Not much in the way of hard drives, an 80GB IDE, a 10GB IDE, a 36GB SCSI, and a 40GB in the eMac. Yawn.
- Everything but the beige macs have good PRAM batteries!
- Lots of RAM. Four 256s, three 512s, five 128s, and two 64s. Mostly PC133.
Pictures of loading the car:
G4s in first.. http://i28.tinypic.com/250hxd2.jpg
Not much room in the back - http://i30.tinypic.com/2rqfz28.jpg
Still a lot to load - http://i28.tinypic.com/23vxe9e.jpg
Everything but two G4s - http://i27.tinypic.com/kevm8j.jpg
Which get tied to the roof… http://i28.tinypic.com/25zkw76.jpg
The List:
(note: because of how we tested these and how they were mostly stripped, I’m just going to list machines + cards + ram + drives and you can imagine the configurations.)
Four 400MHz Sawtooths (one has dead PSU)
Four 400MHz Gigabit Ethernets (one has a dead PSU)
Two Dual 500MHz Gig-Es (another has a dead PSU)
Two Digital Audios, one 733 one 533
Three Quicksilvers, two 800s and a 733
A very lonely looking eMac 700MHz
Three Beige G3 MTs. AWFUL condition – missing plastics, cracked plastics, etc. All 300s and do work.
Three IIcis, one with a bad PSU
One Quadra 650 – Great condition.
Now, the bits and pieces (in ascending order in conjunction with the above):
Four big sticks of RAM in the Q650. Have not yet tested to see how much. No hard drive.
IIcis are packed with 256kB sticks, one has higher cap. sticks, haven’t tested. All three are full. None have HDDs.
The IIci with the big sticks has a NuBus AAUI card and an Apple Video 820-0600-A.
- Daystar Sonnet Presto 100MHz 601 in the Q650
- three Apple braded 10/100 PCI cards
- three PCI twin turbo cards
- eight Rage 128 Pro (32MB) AGP cards.
- three Rage 128 Pro (16MB) AGP cards.
- one Rage 128 (16MB) PCI card.
- eight Adaptec Ultra SCSI cards. Nothing special, not bootable - 68pin outside, 50pin inside.
- ATTO Express SCSI cards, model “UL2D” 68pin inside. Not bootable.
- Geforce TN2s and one Geforce 2 FX (32MB).
- four Stealth Serial card things.
- ten DVD drives, two being –RAM.
- three CD-ROMs.
- five CD-RWs
- one superdrive
- Not much in the way of hard drives, an 80GB IDE, a 10GB IDE, a 36GB SCSI, and a 40GB in the eMac. Yawn.
- Everything but the beige macs have good PRAM batteries!
- Lots of RAM. Four 256s, three 512s, five 128s, and two 64s. Mostly PC133.
Great Haul (literally). That has got to be a sight for other drivers...
(It might speed my system up a bit 
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