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GORDOOM
Junior Member
Canada
208 Posts |
 Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 15:12:44
The U of T Swap Shop has come through for me yet again!  Today, I liberated from there: - a Power Mac 6100/60, with the AV card - scoooore! I've needed an AV card for my 6100 for a while!
- a Quadra 840AV with a 1.2 GB HD - not too shabby
- an LC 475 - this one is interesting, because it has an auto-inject floppy drive. I've never seen a 475 with auto-inject floppy.
I also got a Multiple Scan 15AV, which seems to be in really good shape. I still want to try it out on 1024x768 and see how it looks...  Total cost: $60 CDN for the whole load. Unfortunately, I now have to go out and get a bunch of PRAM batteries... *sigh* (I still need more 32-MB RAM sticks like nothing funny! And I need to get rid of a bunch of the less interesting ones - I can't use twenty-some-odd Macs at once!) GORDOOM
Commander, Academic Operations Reserve
(University of Toronto, St. George Campus)
total Macs liberated: way the hell too many "...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 15:52:41
Welcome to the Grand-High Secret Mystical Ordained Benevolent Order of the Quadra 840av, Gordoom, we've been expecting you...
666th poster and 666th thread-creator
Mod of the Mac II series Forums
Total 68K Macs liberated: 7
My Site: http://cine.sytes.net
My Hotline Server: 840av.sytes.net
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GORDOOM
Junior Member
Canada
208 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 18:15:27
*laughs*Indeed so - I've been wanting one of those for ages! The trouble is, I'm still not sure where I'm going to put the thing... I have even more limited space now than I did before! The other thing is that I don't actually get the 840AV until Tuesday afternoon. I own it now, but I wasn't able to take it home because I couldn't carry the whole load at once.  GORDOOM
Commander, Academic Operations Reserve
(University of Toronto, St. George Campus)
total Macs liberated: way the hell too many "...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." |
oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 19:03:14
I'm doing 1024x768 on the Multiple Scan 15av in Linux right now, and it works great. Very clear picture.Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180
PCs liberated from Windoze: 3 |
II2II
Junior Member
Canada
115 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 20:06:21
Nice find. All I saw were a bunch of PS/2s. [;(]II2II
Intelligence officer in training. |
Kami
Junior Member
Canada
132 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 20:29:46
This must be the week of great 840AV deals. I just picked up a great condition unit from a PC consignment store - no stickers or scratches on the case. The 840 came with a 33.6 external modem, 13 inch high res monitor, keyboard, mouse, maxed RAM and a 250 MB and 2 GB hard drive. The part that always amazes me is looking back in old Macworld or MacUser mags for the pricing on these computers when they were new. Ouch! I'm just glad that I now have the chance to use one these awesome computers K
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2002 : 23:28:38
quote:
The part that always amazes me is looking back in old Macworld or MacUser mags for the pricing on these computers when they were new. Ouch! I'm just glad that I now have the chance to use one these awesome computers
Look about 3 years earlier at the IIfx prices.   jt  ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF |
Kami
Junior Member
Canada
132 Posts |
Posted - 21 Nov 2002 : 01:02:59
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Look about 3 years earlier at the IIfx prices.
I know, I know. Unbelievable! In Canada the IIfx was close to $15,000 when it had the 230 MB hard drive and 8 MB of RAM (top of the line model). That was the golden age for Apple resellers. Can you imagine the commission cheque that some sales people would have had selling just *one* of those computers Kami
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Some not bad liberations...
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.