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bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2002 : 03:39:25 So I wuz staggering to catch a cab home after a hard day's sailing (and the compulsory after-race revel) when I saw a PC dumped on the roadside. Double take... That ain't no PC! its a Quadra 700 complete w/ apple 14" colour monitor. Chucked it in the cab, rushed home, booted... no worries! 20 meg RAM, 350 meg HDD, looks like it just came outta the showroom. What is wrong with some people? Another sad case of someone pinching the good stuff tho... both the little covers on the back are missing, but no compensatory kick-ass nubus cards inside. 6 empty VRAM slots too. Oh well, can't win 'em all! Its running 7.1... amazing, boots in 15 sec from power-up. So much for progress! Anyone know of a website with pullapart instructions for this baby? CC PS. Just picked up a 12.1 wallstreet for US$300 on e-bay too... if anyone's interested.... Thought not. Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet 233 Edited by - bigsadhu on 16 Mar 2002 03:44:57
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2002 : 03:50:21 Umm...if you want the cough SERVICE MANUAL cough for the Quadra 700, which has a detailed Take-Apart section for the machine, email me. I'll send it to you. -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 5
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2002 : 04:34:42 quote: Umm...if you want the cough SERVICE MANUAL cough for the Quadra 700, which has a detailed Take-Apart section for the machine, email me. I'll send it to you. errrr. Actually now you mention it I think I might have that on my HDD at work... Or maybe not. If you feel friendly you could e-mail it to me anyways... seem my profile for details. Ta! Nasty cough you've got there! CC Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet
Tallgeese Full Member USA 523 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2002 : 08:27:09 You get big points for that rescue! You get some taken away for mistaking a beautiful work of Mac for a PC. On the whole... good deal! Sgt. Tallgeese Thread Lord of Darkness Apple II Squad Leader 68k Mac Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 4
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2002 : 12:28:38 quote: Chucked it in the cab, rushed home, booted... no worries! 20 meg RAM, 350 meg HDD, looks like it just came outta the showroom. What is wrong with some people? They just don't have the right addictions, thas'what! quote: Its running 7.1... amazing, boots in 15 sec from power-up. So much for progress! Anyone know of a website with pullapart instructions for this baby? Tis all simple with the 700 - until it comes to getting the psu/drive bays out. that's all just so unintuitive... of course it's the insides so it's forgivable for apple to have made it a leeeetle painful. The 'tube' down the center of the case (attached to the drive bay) may have a screw in the middle. Undo that and then 'unclip' the tube from the power supply and out pops the psu, and the drive bay near falls out from there on!. quote: PS. Just picked up a 12.1 wallstreet for US$300 on e-bay too... if anyone's interested.... Thought not. mmmmm, black gothicky styled laptop! dana
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2002 : 20:54:51 quote: Umm...if you want the cough SERVICE MANUAL cough for the Quadra 700, which has a detailed Take-Apart section for the machine, email me. I'll send it to you. Why have him go through that when he could just mozy on down to our Hotline server and download it! I didn't upload all of the Quadra/Centris (and PowerBook/Duo and Macintosh II for that matter...) service manuals for nothing (I know, I know, double negative...) -------------------- Spellcheck/Grammar Bandit and beholder of: -the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice� -the HTML Keyboard of Greater Knowledge� -Compact Mac Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip� --------------------
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2002 : 06:23:05 Nice score... now can you let me have some of those NuBus cards on eBay for cheap, please??? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2002 : 23:42:35 quote: Nice score... now can you let me have some of those NuBus cards on eBay for cheap, please??? Aha! Someone peering over my shoulder at the auction. If ya do need some, lets arrange something behind the scenes rather than bid against each other. CC Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2002 : 18:32:42 ...It's more a case of want than need, but if you need them then you can have them. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2002 : 09:59:55 Great find! The Quadra 600/IIci is actually ridiculously easy to open up and prod around in. Well, except for that awful drive shelf...I hate that thing. Oh, and uh.... quote: 6 empty VRAM slots too. ...the Quadra 700 doesn't have any VRAM slots. It uses the first 1MB of RAM for video memory, unless you use a Nubus video card. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
K-man Starting Member Finland 10 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2002 : 12:27:37 quote: quote: 6 empty VRAM slots too. ...the Quadra 700 doesn't have any VRAM slots. It uses the first 1MB of RAM for video memory, unless you use a Nubus video card. Got to correct you on that one. It has 512K of dedicated VRAM on the motherboard, and six (preferrably occupied ) slots. It maxes out at 2 MB, which gives 24 bit colour in 832x624. The IIsi is the (only?) Mac that uses main RAM for video. ---------- K-man New recruit, fresh off the boat 68k Mac Liberation Army 68k Macs liberated: 14
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2002 : 12:37:14 Damn, I forgot...I was thinking of the IIci and because the IIci and the Q700 are so similar, I forgot that it had VRAM slots added to its Mobo. The IIci, the Iisi and actually alot of other '030 and older macs use RAM for video. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
Tallgeese Full Member USA 523 Posts	Posted - 20 Mar 2002 : 07:32:46 Busted! Sgt. Tallgeese Thread Lord of Darkness Apple II Squad Leader 68k Mac Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 4
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 20 Mar 2002 : 10:35:05 I am a fraud. I don't even know what a "68k" is. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 20 Mar 2002 : 18:34:13 quote: I am a fraud. I don't even know what a "68k" is. You'll have to come with me, son. puts cine in handcuffs, escorts to squad car -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice� --------------------
LeeMac Trading Post Commander USA 202 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 12:19:34 HEY! Cine, your not suppose to smile when he whips out his Stick of Justice!!!!! General LeeMac M.A.C ( Mac Action Commando) Macs Liberated 0002 Trading post Forum moderator 68k Macintosh Liberation Army
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 12:46:32 There's so many directions where I could take that statement, but this is a family forum... 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear! Edited by - cinemafia on 25 Mar 2002 12:46:57
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 18:37:58 ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.

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