Today's recycling trip

[Mike Richardson]

Prices are what I paid, not sale prices.

2x Power Mac G4 533 MHz

1x Power Mac G4 500 MHz

Nice specs. $45 each. Working, ready to go condition. Can re-sell on adoptamac.

3x White iBook

Various conditions. Two don't turn on, the third one works but you have to jiggle it, loose LCD connection? 3rd one is a 700 MHz w/Combo drive. All have AirPort cards! $40 each, worth it for the AirPort cards and parts even if I can't get them working. I can probably repair the 700 MHz one.

2 AirPort base stations. One labeled as dead. $25 for both. I can take out the AirPort card which is worth at least $40.

Big box, like 14x14x14 inches of disks, and two smaller boxes, $45.

Mostly 5 1/2 disks. I grabbed every single 5 1/2 disk that they had. They will be sorted through and re-sold.

My friend got:

Atari 1040 ST - $5

Old vacuum tube radio thing - $10

I forgot to grab a Macintosh Classic that he had, they closed early and we had to leave.

 

[LCGuy]

Just one thing, AirPort Base Stations don't have actual Apple AirPort cards in 'em, they have Lucent WaveLAN cards instead. Still neat though - they're 16 bit PCMCIA 802.11b cards that'll work on just about every laptop out there with PCMCIA slots.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Just one thing, AirPort Base Stations don't have actual Apple AirPort cards in 'em, they have Lucent WaveLAN cards instead. Still neat though - they're 16 bit PCMCIA 802.11b cards that'll work on just about every laptop out there with PCMCIA slots.

White base stations actually do have AirPort cards installed. I have taken one apart to extract the card, and it looks exactly like a retail AirPort card, and works fine in an iBook AirPort slot.

I think the Graphite bases have WaveLAN cards though, and that will be really cool, because I can use that in my PowerBook 1400.

 

[Rodus]

could the ibooks be suffering from the dodgy GPU connection that seemed to plague many of them?

 

[Mike Richardson]

could the ibooks be suffering from the dodgy GPU connection that seemed to plague many of them?

Two of them don't even chime or turn on at all. My personal iBook that I bought new, has the bad GPU but it does at least chime. The third iBook has a loose LCD connection.

 

[Christopher]

Just one thing, AirPort Base Stations don't have actual Apple AirPort cards in 'em, they have Lucent WaveLAN cards instead. Still neat though - they're 16 bit PCMCIA 802.11b cards that'll work on just about every laptop out there with PCMCIA slots.

White base stations actually do have AirPort cards installed. I have taken one apart to extract the card, and it looks exactly like a retail AirPort card, and works fine in an iBook AirPort slot.

I think the Graphite bases have WaveLAN cards though, and that will be really cool, because I can use that in my PowerBook 1400.

Do the white base stations use Airport Extreme or just plain Airport cards?

 

[Dog Cow]

What were the floppy disks? Blanks, or did they have files on them?

 

[Mike Richardson]

Just one thing, AirPort Base Stations don't have actual Apple AirPort cards in 'em, they have Lucent WaveLAN cards instead. Still neat though - they're 16 bit PCMCIA 802.11b cards that'll work on just about every laptop out there with PCMCIA slots.

White base stations actually do have AirPort cards installed. I have taken one apart to extract the card, and it looks exactly like a retail AirPort card, and works fine in an iBook AirPort slot.

I think the Graphite bases have WaveLAN cards though, and that will be really cool, because I can use that in my PowerBook 1400.

Do the white base stations use Airport Extreme or just plain Airport cards?

AirPort Extreme base stations use Extreme cards. Non Extreme bases use non-Extreme cards.

What were the floppy disks? Blanks, or did they have files on them?

Some have software. Some have personal data on them. Some are blank.