MinerAl Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 "...you want 'em?" My dad works where they used to use Macs to run analysis hardware, and asked me if I wanted the old Macs they were going to pitch. Sure! So, Monday he shows up at my house with two PM 9500s. Sweet! One has a Sonnet upgrade that I haven't investigated yet. Tuesday he shows up with a Quadra 950, with the key. "I think it has an old 9GB SCSI server drive in it." Then last night while I'm showing him my Portable he drops off two Quadra 840AVs! My wife's gonna kill me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EvilCapitalist Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Just show her prices for the aforementioned machines and say "It's an investment!" Getting what you just got for FREE is a seriously great haul. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScutBoy Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 "They're gonna throw away some old Macs at work..." I _love_ it when I hear a sentence that begins this way That's some seriously nice stuff - have fun! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted March 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 The 950's door goes back on, but I haven't fiddled with it yet. Don't want to shatter any plastic bits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uniserver Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Good stuff man, You hit the Mac jackpot Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted March 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 This has been a good week Mac-quisition wise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sherry Haibara Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 I just love this kind of things Congratulations for the haul! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
commodorejohn Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 If you're worried about what the wife will say you could always send one of those 840s over my way Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheWhiteFalcon Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Sell an 840AV, buy her something nice. Should solve any issues. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trag Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) Soooooo envious.... Nice haul. Edited March 13, 2015 by trag Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CC_333 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 I'll take a Q840av!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried getting one, but one beat up case and three logic boards later, it's still just a heap of broken parts. c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted March 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Dad dropped off another 9500/132 and another Q950 tonight. And a bucket of ADKs and mice. The 9500 with the Sonnet accelerator in it is a G4/350. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madmax_2069 Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 A 840av has always been something I wanted to get. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
olePigeon Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Analysis, huh? You should ask if they have any Lisp hardware for Macintosh. That stuff is crazy expensive, but really cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LazarusNine Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Soooooo envious.... Nice haul. Thank you for saying 'envious' instead of 'jealous'!! That's one of my little hang-ups. In any case, this haul is amazing. I am secretly wishing it was mine while at the same time wondering how I would deal with my wife's wrath. I'd probably just invest in a storage unit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CompuNurd Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 I would be willing to buy that Q950 (if you want to sell it) or just the case if it is in good shape and the side closes right. I have one that looks like it was thrown off a building! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted March 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Yeah I closed the side, I just prefer to do it with the 950 on its side, so I can line it all up right There's another 950 on top of it now, and a third he gave me a while ago, in pieces on the other side of the garage. I need to get them up to my lab at school and test them all out. After spring break of course! I hate to be mercenary with them, but I really can't keep them all, so I'll probably eBay most of them sooner or later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CC_333 Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 ....I'll probably eBay most of them sooner or later. Don't do that! Sell them here!!! c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuperToaster Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 True. It seems like a lot of people are interested on here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hotdog Zanzibar Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Would the 2nd Q950 happen to have a CD-ROM bezel? I might even be interested in the whole unit, if you aren't parting-out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CC_333 Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 I'll even take a blank bezel, if you have one to spare! c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted March 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Back in the 90s I bought a WGS9150 cd bezel online, and had a tricked out 950. It was too big to move when I changed jobs. Both of these are stock flat beveled 950s, as is the 900 in the corner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted March 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) I'll get them cleaned up and see what's working and what needs attention soon. Then I'll post what I have and want over in the trading post forum. It might be a month or so before I'm ready tho. Edited March 16, 2015 by MinerAl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MinerAl Posted April 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Finally dug into these tonight. Last thing dad brought me was a Perf. 630 with a TV tuner in it, and a 15" Apple Color monitor (the one with the mic and headphone jacks on the circular base). The 630 works great and I'm gonna recap and keep this one, because it is fairly small and easy to store. The monitor was the necessary bit to test the rest. The 950s just work. HDDs and all. Pretty cool after all these years. One of them even had the correct date and the clock was only slow by about 30 minutes; I'm fairly sure it hadn't been turned on in 5 years. #1 has 32M RAM and a 1G HDD, and #2 has 48M and 5 partitions on a 9G HDD. The partitions on #2 are named Michael, Jermaine, Marlon, Jackie, and Tito. They both had un-updated 7.5 for an OS. They both have the custom GPIO cards in them for the LC/MS machines they were attached to, too. I have to wipe the drives, but the 9G one is getting its partitions' names back. The 840AVs both chime and give video but #1 gives me the , probably because of the screaming HDD, and #2 boots but throws an error just prior to the desktop. I'm going to have them recapped before plugging them in again. #2 acted like the OS was System 7.5(.0) The three 9500s all made bad mechanical sounds with their fans and drives, and none of them made a chime or video, so they all get to be "for parts/repair" machines. I still have a few things to go through from an earlier purging at dad's work. A couple of beige G3 towers, a G3 desktop, and a boxed eMac they never used. Once I get them all tested I'll sell the hopeless ones here, and get the hopeful ones recapped to sell as lovely working Macs. Look for a thread over in the trading post soon! (Don't PM me to get dibs, please. Wait until I say what I'll sell and for how much before you pile on ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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