Scored a Q950 today!

[Juror22]

I have always wanted a Quadra 950, but they were always out of reach, especially lately, with the elevated prices and potentially disastrous shipping. So today, I drove three hours to Alabama, to avoid the shipping issue, and paid an acceptably low price for one. It has fantastic plastic (it has no feet, yellowing of the front and the access panel, but otherwise everything is intact, relatively scuff-n-scratch-free and works as its supposed to including the latches).
The guy that I bought it from, had it in storage and before that, it was originally his father's from an office. There was no battery installed, so it was removed before it went into storage. The RAM slots are all filled and it was relatively dust free on the inside, but written on the PSU is a notation of "68MRAM", which I'm hoping is the amount of memory...

As soon as I check it out thoroughly (lube the floppy, etc), I will start it up and test it out.

 

[Callan]

Awesome! Congrats on finding a nice one! I've found a couple, but the plastics have been pretty rough (especially the tray that holds the motherboard - lots of broken clips). They're are definitely a beast of a computer! The power supply is huge and like most p/s from that time usually has leaky caps. Fingers crosses on the ram! Have fun!

 

[volvo242gt]

Nice. I've had two. Sold my last one about 14 months ago. Wanted to upgrade my photo gear.

 

[Unknown_K]

I could never sell my 950's too cool and too many useful Nubus slots.

The front panel is the only bare unpainted plastics on the machine so it will yellow sometimes.

Did you get keys with it?

30 pin SIMMs are probably going to be harder to find then the good old days but even with 16 x 1MB SIMMs you should be good to go with anything 68K software related.

The only things getting harder to find are the metal HD trays (hold CDROM or other 5.25" removable drives as well), the elusive CDROM/5.25" cutout bezels, and maybe VRAM upgrades (4 x 256K for 2MB total).

 

[akator70]

Congrats on getting one, especially in decent shape and at a good price. Those are very nice machines.

 

[Juror22]

Did you get keys with it?

Yes, I got only one, but it turns to all the stops, which indicates that it matches the machine's barrel?
I think it is number 064...

I'm going to dig out the top bracket tonight (along with the HD and floppy) and also try to see if there are any VRAM sticks in it.
Thanks all!