That all changed yesterday. It seems they have an annual event of spring cleaning here. You just set whatever you don't want (decent condition) on the curb for other people to take. The whole town becomes a sort of free version of Goodwill. Albeit, most of the stuff really is useless (empty cardboard boxes, dirty carpet padding, etc....) but in the midst of that, I was able to quell some bits of Mac hardware:

System Units:
Quadra 610 (my first Quadra!)
Quadra 650

SCSI Peripherals:
LaCie (Teac) External CD-R 4x32
LaCie Qlps 270 Mb (external hard drive)
Polaroid SprintScan 35 film scanner (missing the negative holder)
Some terminators and cables to go with them

There was other stuff, too that I just had to leave behind. Partly because it was just too old for my taste and partly because my car was *full* The local newspaper had more of those LaCie Qlps drives, a IIfx, a USR 33.6 modem (too slow, I've already got a TelePort 56 ahnnyway) and some kind of portrait display that I forgot what it was. I went back later to pick up the Qlps drives because I thought I could sell them or something, but they, and all the aforementioned peripherals were gone!

I also got a ton (by weight) of other stuff that's not computer related. Just for the sake of padding out the story, I might as well mention them. There are 2 dehumidifiers, a hose reel, a hose to go with the hose reel (1 split (easily fixed) large inside diameter), some pipes and valves, a huge snow blower (needs engine work) and small gas grill type LP gas tank. There's probably more, I just can't remember it all.

Then there was some non-Mac hardware:

Umax Astra 2000P Parallel port scanner (600x1200x36)
An internal IDE CD-ROM of unknown speed circa 1996
Quantum Fireball IDE Hard drive probably 1Gb
A Pentium 1 heatsink and clip that I thought I could use for the G3
A full tower ATX case I thought of putting the G3 motherboard into
A 17" VGA monitor (I found out later it was broken)

Okay, so that was yesterday and this morning I tried firing up those Quadras to see if they worked (without monitor). The 610 fired right up with the startup chime and the hard drive spun up, so no problems there. The 650 started up with no audible chime, but after a few seconds I could hear it booting the Mac OS, so probably the volume is just down or maybe it's got bad audio?

I'll try and get a monitor hooked up later to see what's on them. I'll try to keep you guys informed.

where are you living now?

certainly come cool finds

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where are you living now?

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Unfortunately, I think the film scanner has a bad lamp driver circuit. I'll have to try turning it on when it's connected to the SCSI bus and see if it decides to come on then.

working macs are great... I plan on finding some way to get macs or SOMETHING around here....

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