WGS 9150 Zephyr "120 Mhz" EVT-1 Board

[Performa450]

Found this up for grabs and now conquered - must be one of a kind. Nice probably never seen out side Apple circuit board art and reveals a new apple codename, I think!

 

[trag]

I think Kaye Yum had a 9150 with a board like that. You didn't get it from him, did you? I lost track of him some years ago.

 

[Performa450]

Hi, Sorry to say I didn't, I found it (online) at a recycler in Stockton, California and I don't think they knew what it was.

 

[unity]

Same board sold on eBay. Missing the processor of course.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Holy moly! Never seen anything like it made by Apple. RED. This is one fine board sir.

Shame the processor is gone though. Is it easily replaceable ?

 

[olePigeon]

Hi, Sorry to say I didn't, I found it (online) at a recycler in Stockton, California and I don't think they knew what it was.

Is that TriValley Recycling?  I really want to go back there.  That's where I found both a boxed Outbound laptop & a boxed IIsi.

 

[olePigeon]

I don't know if you'd want to ruin the board because it'd look cool just hanging on a wall someplace, but I wonder if you could get it to work by using parts from a 9100 production board.

 

[max1zzz]

I would solder a CPU on there and see if it fires up. It may look cool hanging on a wall, but it is even cooler if it actually runs

 

[Performa450]

Yep, tri valley recycling - lots of interesting stuff online. I did get it on eBay but they took a nice low offer. I will very likely keep the board as is (poor soldering skills here and wouldn't dare!). I got several prototypes from recyclers and I have a couple of nearly complete systems that just need minor parts to work. I'm confident assembling systems but not board components!

I recently rebuilt a 2 Ghz MacBook Pro 17" prototype I acquired from a recycler, nearly disassembled but just missing the screen and drives. It works but has a dead FireWire chip. I will eventually post the pics I took of the rebuild.

I've also just got a 2.2 Ghz 15" prototype (this time missing the entire screen assembly and HD) although this one has Nvidia graphics, so unsure whether it'll work when I rebuild it.

I also have two kids so that's why it takes me weeks to rebuild and then months to get round to posting pics of stuff

 

[beachycove]

My 9150/120 has a greenish-brownish logic board, as I recall, so that prototype (presumably?) is unusual.

Would it work with a G3 card plugged into the PDS slot, I wonder?

 

[unity]

Greenish brown is just another PCB color.

 

[trag]

Shame the processor is gone though. Is it easily replaceable ?

304 very fine pitch pins. Not for the faint of heart, nor shakey of hand.

I wonder if you could get it to work by using parts from a 9100 production board.

I wouldn't kill a 9100. Better sources of the PPC601 processor is a 7200 board, or, best, a Power Computing, PowerCurve 120 CPU card. The PowerCurve was a short lived model between PCC's 8100 clone and the PowerCenter/PowerTower era. It shipped with a PPC601 CPU card running at 120 MHz and everybody only ever upgraded away from that card. They're probably rare by now though.
There's also a lot of ten PPC601 chips for $99 on Ebay, but I think they may be pulls and are 100MHz rather than 120. Not sure though. The memory is hazy.

Man, bad memory. They're NOS but only 75MHz.