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The Mother of All Conquests
- Thread starter beachycove
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The only thing that ever stands between me and a good conquest is a woman. They never seem to understand. I've been carrying four computers in the trunk of my car for over a year because I haven't had a chance to sneak them into the collection. Dammit I wish she would leave me so I could clean out my trunk. :lol:
Some of you might recall my recent 512k conquest last week. Well, I left it case and all in the trunk of my car, waiting until the next day after my wife left for work to smuggle it down in the basement. By the time I got home from work the city had declared a snow emergency so all 3 of our vehicles had to be parked in the driveway. Since my car was the last in the driveway, my wife took it to work the next morning, because she leaves before me. Long story short, she spun out on her way to work and got stuck on a curb. When she opened the trunk to get a flash light to check for damage, she also found my *newest* computer. 
One full Dodge Grand Caravan load and one further half load later, I am well and truly stocked up on old Mac goodies - i.e., my Garage is a great deal more full of crap than it was a day ago.
The machines are (more or less) as originally listed. The boxes of parts are what I was really after, and in this respect, the haul did not disappoint.
I have not looked in great detail, but on the basis of a cursory inspection, I must have hundreds of RAM sticks (with 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs among them, and one - hopefully there will be a set of four - of those enormous 16MB 30-pin SIMMS), dozens of manuals and books, ZIF cards for PCI Macs, 5+ LC575 (I think) logic boards, 50+ Hard Drives, 15 or 20 SCSI CD-ROM drives, several DAT drives, a box of internal SCSI ZIP drives, 8-10 external SCSI drive cases (many of them nicely-sized for Compacts and all but one in very good shape), a SCSI RAID, a 7-CD external SCSI changer, external CD drives (several Apple-branded), boxes of cabling, an Apple Full-Page monochrome display, etc. etc.. The lot also contains little gems like a SCSI-Ethernet converter, an AsanteTalk localtalk-ethernet printer adapter and possibly two (I think I saw another at the bottom of the box) and on and on. Also hundreds of software floppy disks, at least a dozen 68040 processors, a box chock full of those CD-caddies .... Good golly, Miss Molly.
I would reckon that it would take me the best part of a solid 40-hour week just to do an inventory. As it is way too much for even this pack-rat, and as I must also be aware of Herself's views of the quantity of boxes newly-piled in the Garage, eBay definitely beckons.
The machines are (more or less) as originally listed. The boxes of parts are what I was really after, and in this respect, the haul did not disappoint.
I have not looked in great detail, but on the basis of a cursory inspection, I must have hundreds of RAM sticks (with 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs among them, and one - hopefully there will be a set of four - of those enormous 16MB 30-pin SIMMS), dozens of manuals and books, ZIF cards for PCI Macs, 5+ LC575 (I think) logic boards, 50+ Hard Drives, 15 or 20 SCSI CD-ROM drives, several DAT drives, a box of internal SCSI ZIP drives, 8-10 external SCSI drive cases (many of them nicely-sized for Compacts and all but one in very good shape), a SCSI RAID, a 7-CD external SCSI changer, external CD drives (several Apple-branded), boxes of cabling, an Apple Full-Page monochrome display, etc. etc.. The lot also contains little gems like a SCSI-Ethernet converter, an AsanteTalk localtalk-ethernet printer adapter and possibly two (I think I saw another at the bottom of the box) and on and on. Also hundreds of software floppy disks, at least a dozen 68040 processors, a box chock full of those CD-caddies .... Good golly, Miss Molly.
I would reckon that it would take me the best part of a solid 40-hour week just to do an inventory. As it is way too much for even this pack-rat, and as I must also be aware of Herself's views of the quantity of boxes newly-piled in the Garage, eBay definitely beckons.
And the plastics of the machines are mostly excellent - even on the SE.
Am I excited? You can tell I'm excited, can't you?
Am I excited? You can tell I'm excited, can't you?
Some random finds from the boxes:
A Spectrum SE/30 pds video card with cable and connection assembly for SE/30 (maybe the SE too?);
A Radius Two-Page Display SE/30 pds video (this one, unfortunately, has a BNC connector);
Macintosh Display 8 24GC nubus (ideal for my IIfx under System 6, methinks);
An E-Machines Futura II 7" nubus (not sure which of the series it is yet, but it seems to be one of the higher end models from 1993);
A G4 Stealth Serial Port;
2x 486 DOS-compatibility cards (fits 6100 with angle adapter or, it seems, the Quadra PDS) and I seem to have at least one of the octopus cables required to use it (very odd device).
I also have an unknown ethernet card which has no markings and which I am thus unable to identify. The connector is the same as nubus, but it surely cannot be a nubus card as the connector is at a 90º angle to the card and thus the card would lie across the logic board rather than sitting vertically in the machine if installed. It is about 8 inches long, and so something like a gigantic LCPDS card. As there is a cable that connects to a separate board with ethernet, I assume that it must be for a Compact, but that it requires some sort of adapter to fit. Any ideas as to what it could be?
A Spectrum SE/30 pds video card with cable and connection assembly for SE/30 (maybe the SE too?);
A Radius Two-Page Display SE/30 pds video (this one, unfortunately, has a BNC connector);
Macintosh Display 8 24GC nubus (ideal for my IIfx under System 6, methinks);
An E-Machines Futura II 7" nubus (not sure which of the series it is yet, but it seems to be one of the higher end models from 1993);
A G4 Stealth Serial Port;
2x 486 DOS-compatibility cards (fits 6100 with angle adapter or, it seems, the Quadra PDS) and I seem to have at least one of the octopus cables required to use it (very odd device).
I also have an unknown ethernet card which has no markings and which I am thus unable to identify. The connector is the same as nubus, but it surely cannot be a nubus card as the connector is at a 90º angle to the card and thus the card would lie across the logic board rather than sitting vertically in the machine if installed. It is about 8 inches long, and so something like a gigantic LCPDS card. As there is a cable that connects to a separate board with ethernet, I assume that it must be for a Compact, but that it requires some sort of adapter to fit. Any ideas as to what it could be?
Yes, here too. There are, however, certain things that are worth real money (like SE/30 ethernet cards) on the right day on eBay.
On this topic, I am sorry to say that there is no 660av nubus adapter in the haul, which I have now been through in a first reasonably methodical pass.
There is, however, yet one further SE/30 video card that has emerged, this one a Radius two-page display with a VGA connection. That makes three SE/30 video cards. This latest must have been made for the old Radius greyscale displays that came with a VGA rather than a DB15 connector.
Go on. Do the dance. You know you want to.
Unless I go scrapping the Q650, I have so far only found two 68040s, at 25 and 33MHz, but plan to keep them (for my Q605 and LC575). I have a few 68LC040s processors, and seven or eight Intel Pentiums, but obviously neither is so appealing.
