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macdaddy
Junior Member
USA
107 Posts |
 Posted - 21 Jun 2002 : 17:51:25
Today, I got a Quadra 605 FeetsMac!! Here's how I got it, along with an LC 475, when I originally went to get a Contraband Mac 5400!
Back a couple weeks ago, I got a Power Mac 5400. One of my friends wanted to buy it off me for $75 like as soon as I got it. I didn't want to sell it because I'm going to upgrade it a bit and give it to my girlfriend and get her on Mac   ...she has a peeeeeeeceeeeeeee... So anyhoo, this guy I bought the 5400 off of had a couple more of 'em that he was going to put on eBay if he didn't sell 'em to someone around here. So, I told my friend I'd get one for him, and he could get that one off me for $50-75. I went back over to this guy's place today, to pick one up. Last time I was over there, he had about 30 pizzabox LCs, mostly LCs and LCIIs, with a few LCIIIs and a couple LC475s. Many of 'em have Ethernet cards in them, and probably only need PRAM batteries. I'd asked how much he would be asking for one of the 475s, but he wanted to ask his wife before letting 'em go [a little SAF was needed - this guy sorta 'collects' 'em too, but sells 'em sometimes too.] So, I picked up the 5400, he wanted 50 bux for it, and he let me go through the stack of pizzabox Macs and pick out a couple of 'em out. There, at the bottom of one of the stacks, there's a FeetsMac!! I dug it out, along with an LC 475. He let me have some AppleDesign keyboards and mice too, and both the FeetsMac and the '475 had Ethernet cards in them. 50 bux later I went back home with one Power Mac 5400, a MicroQuadra 605 FeetsMac, and an LC 475, with some Mac keyboards and mice. I'll get the 5400 goin' good [it needs some software on it since it'd been reformatted], then sell it to my friend, since he really wanted a 5400... Not exactly sure how I'm going to use the FeetsMac and the 475 yet, but I might give one of 'em [most likely the 475] to a friend of my dad's who has a 5 yr old boy who loves messing around with computers. Gotta hook him on the Mac! So.... I call the acquisition of these 68Ks a Liberation, because they were sitting, unused, in the basement, in need of a home. . I can't go and liberate them all, I don't have the freakin' space to store them around here . After poking around in the Quadra, and the '475... here's each of their specs:
Quadra 605: Case is a bit yellowed, some scratches. 8 MB RAM, 250 MB HD. Maxed out VRAM [1 MB]. System 7.5.3, with quite a bit of 68K software still on it. Needs a PRAM battery, had to swictch it off, then back on again to get it to boot.
LC 475: Case is in excellent condition, very little yellowing, hardly a scratch on it. 8MB RAM, 160 MB HD, VRAM maxed out to 1 MB. Same PRAM battery issues as the FeetsMac. macdaddy - 68KMLA Field Meteorologist
68Ks at my base:
Q840AV,Q800,, Q605, D280/DuoDock II,P550, LC 475,LCIII+,(2) LCIIIs,IIci, P410,LCII,Mac II
Contraband:
(2) PM G3/300 MTs, P6360, 5400/120,Q700/PPC 601, (2) 6100/66s
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2002 : 18:41:25
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Today, I got a Quadra 605 FeetsMac!!
After poking around in the Quadra, and the '475... here's each of their specs:
Quadra 605: Case is a bit yellowed, some scratches. 8 MB RAM, 250 MB HD. Maxed out VRAM [1 MB]. System 7.5.3, with quite a bit of 68K software still on it. Needs a PRAM battery, had to swictch it off, then back on again to get it to boot.
Wooohoo! eeeeeee! feeeeeeeeeets!. Are they not deliciously lickably cute?. Congrats on not just getting ahold of one, but on a danged neat story too :D dana 
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macdaddy
Junior Member
USA
107 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2002 : 19:06:51
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Are they not deliciously lickably cute?
Don't think I'd quite call 'em lickable as the mac is right now... this FeetsMac got its feets pretty dirty, and needs to wash his little feeeeets. macdaddy - 68KMLA Field Meteorologist
68Ks at my base:
Q840AV,Q800, Q605, D280/DuoDock II,P550, LC 475,LCIII+,(2) LCIIIs,IIci, P410,LCII,Mac II
Contraband:
(2) PM G3/300 MTs, P6360, 5400/120,Q700/PPC 601, (2) 6100/66s
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2002 : 19:18:03
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Are they not deliciously lickably cute?
Don't think I'd quite call 'em lickable as the mac is right now... this FeetsMac got its feets pretty dirty, and needs to wash his little feeeeets.
*laff*. yes - good idea. my family think I'm a little bit odd, partly cos of the stripping down and reassembling of every mac I come across. dana (then there was the time I showered with an LC475...)
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scchicago
Full Member
USA
936 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jun 2002 : 11:39:00
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dana (then there was the time I showered with an LC475...)
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2002 : 06:03:54
Well, I did give a IIcx and a IIsi a sponge bath today... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2002 : 19:11:42
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Well, I did give a IIcx and a IIsi a sponge bath today...
Exotic!  --------------------
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macdaddy
Junior Member
USA
107 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2002 : 19:24:32
The FeetsMac and the '475 got a little cleanin' today... mostly knocked the dust out of 'em. I didn't give them the exotic sponge bath... that is a little too moist for 'em! ;) The bathing they did get included just a damp-cloth wipedown on their exteriors, and some air power on the guts.Now that I've had them for a while, I'm thinking that I'm going to give the 475 to the little kid i mentioned in my original post, and keep the FeetsMac. What kind of uses do you think I could use it for? macdaddy - 68KMLA Field Meteorologist
68Ks at my base:
Q840AV,Q800, Q605, D280/DuoDock II,P550, LC 475,LCIII+,(2) LCIIIs,IIci, P410,LCII,Mac II
Contraband:
(2) PM G3/300 MTs, P6360, 5400/120,Q700/PPC 601, (2) 6100/66s
Edited by - macdaddy on 23 Jun 2002 19:26:53
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2002 : 19:31:02
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I didn't give them the exotic sponge bath... that is a little too moist for 'em! ;)
Yeah, that's basically what I did, except that I used a sponge to clean off the grime. That IIsi is sadly discoloured beyond repair. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 03:53:03
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Now that I've had them for a while, I'm thinking that I'm going to give the 475 to the little kid i mentioned in my original post, and keep the FeetsMac. What kind of uses do you think I could use it for?
Yay! Anything that needs a small-boxed 040, that looks damned good... ie just about anything. Do you have any kind of home network? It'd do a decent job at sitting to the side doing some kinda serving/proxying/caching/DNS'ing/stuff... I'd say the usual "good general wordprocessing box" but really I don't know ANYONE who wordprocesses enough to have a computer dedicated to it :D. One of my 605s is 'serving' as a stand for the iMac atm - my new desk chair is 2nd hand and doesn't QUITE go down as low as I'm used to, so the iMac is propped up some. Just like a bought one! dana
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QuadraJets
Junior Member
USA
344 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 05:59:53
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Do you have any kind of home network?
we have a 14-computer 10bt network, hooked up to a cable modem.  I already have the q700/ppc,6100,lcIII+, and IIci doing the serving duty, but maybe the 605 could be a unix box....after I put the full '040 from the contraband quadra in the feetsmac. Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA
Liberated:
LCII , III+, IIci, Q700, 800, and 840av, P550, 410
Contraband: Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz, (2) 6100's
Keeper of the 68kmla Hotline mirror server:
68k.dyndns.org
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 06:11:24
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Do you have any kind of home network?
we have a 14-computer 10bt network, hooked up to a cable modem. I already have the q700/ppc,6100,lcIII+, and IIci doing the serving duty, but maybe the 605 could be a unix box....after I put the full '040 from the contraband quadra in the feetsmac.
Personally I think that's an absolutely excellent idea. a spark of genius. something only a wonderful mind could dream up (got a 605 debian box webserving myself *grin*) dana605mania
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Flash
Full Member
Australia
637 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 08:00:59
Hey Dana, I've downloaded bits'n'pieces of Debian.....but I really don't have a clue what I'm doing or what goes where. If you've ever played with MacHTTP then that's about the level I'm at - but I really want to FTP to the box and such things as that.... do you know where I can find Debian for dummies? I have a Q605 here just itching to be a server  (hmmmm, Q605 needs a name too...) 68k MLA ParaMedic |
danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 08:26:50
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Hey Dana, I've downloaded bits'n'pieces of Debian.....but I really don't have a clue what I'm doing or what goes where. If you've ever played with MacHTTP then that's about the level I'm at - but I really want to FTP to the box and such things as that.... do you know where I can find Debian for dummies? I have a Q605 here just itching to be a server
Well. debian. um. I could help there some! The first bit is.... http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/docs/debian-2.2-mac68k-install.php thats the instructions I used :D. It can be a little fiddly getting a HD formatted firstly as say, 15mb mac/300 linux/60 swap or something, and then getting the base system n kernel images accessible to install... but there's lotsa ways around that :). If you have a ethernet card in the 605 and another mac that can webserve, it makes it a lot easier! it means the debian installer can pull its files across from the other mac... dana
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catsdorule
Senior Member
Canada
1627 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 09:09:36
Nice Going.-----
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TCP/IP server : 216.130.83.218 L: 68kmla p:68000
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jul 2002 : 18:00:44
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(then there was the time I showered with an LC475...)
The Hackintosh is starting to get jealous... ...and NOT because of the fact that yours probably has 1 meg of vram and max RAM... -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
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I'm now the proud owner of a FeetsMac!!
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.