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With my recent acquisition(gift for the cost of shipping) 9600, and the rackmout G4 Digital Audio I bought today, I have officially hit 50 PPC Macs.
 
With my recent purchases think I am around the half century mark, too. Too scared to count.
 
Wow. My family and friends think I'm crazy, and I only have a handful...

Laptops:
PowerBook G4 1.25 GHz
iBook G3 Clamshell

Desktops:
PowerMac G3 (B/W)
PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)
PowerMac G4 Cube
iMac G4

Other:
Apple Set Top Box

I used to have a Titanium, but gave it to a friend who needed a computer, as well as an iBook G3 (White) which I loaned to someone who broke it...

Would love to get a hold of a TAM...
 
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Wow. My family and friends think I'm crazy, and I only have a handful...

Laptops:
PowerBook G4 1.25 GHz
iBook G3 Clamshell

Desktops:
PowerMac G3 (B/W)
PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)
PowerMac G4 Cube
iMac G4

Other:
Apple Set Top Box

I used to have a Titanium, but gave it to a friend who needed a computer, as well as an iBook G3 (White) which I loaned to someone who broke it...

Would love to get a hold of a TAM...


Please post some pics of the Apple STB!!! That's an ultra rare item to own.
 
Please post some pics of the Apple STB!!! That's an ultra rare item to own.

I'll try to pull it out of storage and get a pic. It may be a day or two.


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I'll say. There is one going on eBay for $950 ono. Plenty of nice pics, too. Item 350728422394

That's crazy. I got mine on ebay a few years ago for 50 dollars buy-it-now! (It didn't come with a remote though :( )
 
Please post some pics of the Apple STB!!! That's an ultra rare item to own.

Well, here you go. My wife took them and for some reason the images ended up tiny. It is super dusty and in the garage.

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My original plan was to put a MacMini in it with an extra HDD, etc to serve as a media center/streaming machine, but with the advent of the latest :apple:tv, it seems necessary. So they it just sits there in my garage... Any suggestions on what to do with it?
 
Well, here you go. My wife took them and for some reason the images ended up tiny. It is super dusty and in the garage.



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My original plan was to put a MacMini in it with an extra HDD, etc to serve as a media center/streaming machine, but with the advent of the latest :apple:tv, it seems necessary. So they it just sits there in my garage... Any suggestions on what to do with it?


Well, if it works, dust it off and sell it. If it doesn't, then I definitely would gut it or try to fix it. I'm not too sure what you could do with it currently, being that you don't have the remote.
 
I come back and respond to this thread occasionally, as I like to keep track of how many Macs I have(I honestly don't know off the top of my head). This is a chance for me to brag a bit, but also to again for me to keep an inventory.

68K:

SE FDHD
Quadra 700

PPC:

PowerMacintoshes/PowerMacs
7100/66
7350 WGS
8500/180
8600/200(w/700mhz Sonnet G4 upgrade)
9600/200MP

G3 Beige desktop 266
G3 Beige desktop w/400mhz processor out of a B&W(and overclocked to 433mhz).
G3 minitower 233mhz
G3 mintower 266mhz server(w/3 factory 10K UW SCSI drives)
G3 B&W 300mhz(near mint) w/matching 17" display
G3 B&W 400mhz(all DP versions of OS X installed)
G3 B&W upgraded with Fastmac 450mhz G4 upgrade

G4 Yikes! 350mhz(w/matching 21" CRT)
G4 Yikes! 400mhz
G4 Sawtooth 400mhz(retail Radeon 8500)
G4 Cube 450mhz w/DVD
G4 Cube factory 500mhz w/CD-RW
G4 Cube originally 450/CD-RW but with a Sonnet 800mhz/2mb L3 upgrade
G4 Cube originally 500mhz/CD-RW but with a Sonnet(I think) 1.5ghz upgrade(on the way)
G4 GigE dual 500mhz(every version OS X installed)
G4 DA 533mhz
G4 DA 533mhz(test computer for various purposes)
G4 DA 667mhz(17" ADC CRT monitor connected)
G4 DA in rackmount case with dual 1.8 Sonnet upgrade
G4 Quicksilver, originally 733 mhz but with a factory dual 1ghz installed
G4 Quicksilver, dual 800mhz
G4 Quicksilver 2002, originally 800mhz but now with a Gigadesigns dual 1.8 running at 1.6ghz
G4 Quicksilver 2002, original factory dual 1ghz
G4 MDD, dual 867
G4 MDD, dual 1ghz
G4 MDD, dual 1.25ghz
G4 MDD FW800, single 1ghz
2x G4 MDD 2003, single 1.25

G5 single 1.8(nVidia 6800 Ultra!)
G5 late '05 DC 2.0ghz
G5 Quad
Xserve G5 dual 2.0

iMacs
233mhz Rev. A "Bondi Blue"(not running)
400mhz iMac G3 DV graphite
500mhz iMac G3 indigo
2x 1.25ghz iMac G4 17"

iBooks
"Clamshell" FW 366mhz
G3 "Snow" 800mhz
G3 "Snow" 900mhz(on the way)
G4 12" 1.02 ghz
G4 12" 1.33ghz

PowerBooks
Wallstreet 233mhz "Mainstreet"(on the way)
Pismo G3 500mhz
TiBook G4 400mhz
TiBook G4 867mhz
2x TiBook 1ghz
2x 1.5ghz 12" AlBook
2x 15" DLSD 1.67ghz A1138
17" DLSD 1.67ghz A1139

Intel
Mac Pro 1,1
Mac Mini late '06 Core Duo
iMac late 2006 base model
Blackbook Late '07
2x MBP 15" early '08(one leaving soon)
mid-09 white Macbook
Late 2011 13" MBP
Mid 2012 15" MBP(classic) w/hi-res matte screen

By my count, that puts me at 59 PPC. I thought I was past 60, but unless I'm forgetting something I need to get buying :)

That's also 9 Intels and 2 68Ks, so 70 Macs in total.

I recently spoke to my favorite professor at school, whose husband has Alzheimers very seriously. He had(I think) a 512K(I have 512K worth of RAM from him that would have come out of one of his Macs) at home that she is thinking about passing on to someone who would "enjoy it as much as he did" and thinks I would fit the bill. She hasn't made up her mind yet, but that one may come along at some point in the future.

I'm also still waiting on a guy here in town to dig out a 128K along with a tray load "5 color" iMac that I hope I can deal on.
 
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I come back and respond to this thread occasionally, as I like to keep track of how many Macs I have(I honestly don't know off the top of my head). This is a chance for me to brag a bit, but also to again for me to keep an inventory.

68K:

SE FDHD
Quadra 700

PPC:

PowerMacintoshes/PowerMacs
7100/66
7350 WGS
8500/180
8600/200(w/700mhz Sonnet G4 upgrade)
9600/200MP

G3 Beige desktop 266
G3 Beige desktop w/400mhz processor out of a B&W(and overclocked to 433mhz).
G3 minitower 233mhz
G3 mintower 266mhz server(w/3 factory 10K UW SCSI drives)
G3 B&W 300mhz(near mint) w/matching 17" display
G3 B&W 400mhz(all DP versions of OS X installed)
G3 B&W upgraded with Fastmac 450mhz G4 upgrade

G4 Yikes! 350mhz(w/matching 21" CRT)
G4 Yikes! 400mhz
G4 Sawtooth 400mhz(retail Radeon 8500)
G4 Cube 450mhz w/DVD
G4 Cube factory 500mhz w/CD-RW
G4 Cube originally 450/CD-RW but with a Sonnet 800mhz/2mb L3 upgrade
G4 Cube originally 500mhz/CD-RW but with a Sonnet(I think) 1.5ghz upgrade(on the way)
G4 GigE dual 500mhz(every version OS X installed)
G4 DA 533mhz
G4 DA 533mhz(test computer for various purposes)
G4 DA 667mhz(17" ADC CRT monitor connected)
G4 DA in rackmount case with dual 1.8 Sonnet upgrade
G4 Quicksilver, originally 733 mhz but with a factory dual 1ghz installed
G4 Quicksilver, dual 800mhz
G4 Quicksilver 2002, originally 800mhz but now with a Gigadesigns dual 1.8 running at 1.6ghz
G4 Quicksilver 2002, original factory dual 1ghz
G4 MDD, dual 867
G4 MDD, dual 1ghz
G4 MDD, dual 1.25ghz
G4 MDD FW800, single 1ghz
2x G4 MDD 2003, single 1.25

G5 single 1.8(nVidia 6800 Ultra!)
G5 late '05 DC 2.0ghz
G5 Quad

iMacs
233mhz Rev. A "Bondi Blue"(not running)
400mhz iMac G3 DV graphite
500mhz iMac G3 indigo
2x 1.25ghz iMac G4 17"

iBooks
"Clamshell" FW 366mhz
G3 "Snow" 800mhz
G3 "Snow" 900mhz(on the way)
G4 12" 1.02 ghz
G4 12" 1.33ghz

PowerBooks
Wallstreet 233mhz "Mainstreet"(on the way)
Pismo G3 500mhz
TiBook G4 400mhz
TiBook G4 867mhz
2x TiBook 1ghz
2x 1.5ghz 12" AlBook
2x 15" DLSD 1.67ghz A1138
17" DLSD 1.67ghz A1139

Intel
Mac Pro 1,1
Mac Mini late '06 Core Duo
iMac late 2006 base model
Blackbook Late '07
2x MBP 15" early '08(one leaving soon)
mid-09 white Macbook
Late 2011 13" MBP
Mid 2012 15" MBP(classic) w/hi-res matte screen

By my count, that puts me at 58 PPC. I thought I was past 60, but unless I'm forgetting something I need to get buying :)

That's also 9 Intels and 2 68Ks, so 69 Macs in total.

I recently spoke to my favorite professor at school, whose husband has Alzheimers very seriously. He had(I think) a 512K(I have 512K worth of RAM from him that would have come out of one of his Macs) at home that she is thinking about passing on to someone who would "enjoy it as much as he did" and thinks I would fit the bill. She hasn't made up her mind yet, but that one may come along at some point in the future.

I'm also still waiting on a guy here in town to dig out a 128K along with a tray load "5 color" iMac that I hope I can deal on.

Thanks for telling us the name of every PowerPC Mac Apple made ;)
 
Also, I'm up to 22 computers in total, 11 of which are PowerPC Macs; here's the complete list:

1. Dell desktop (Dimension XPS T500) *CASE MISSING*
2. Dell desktop (Dimension 4700)
3. Dell laptop (Latitude LM)
4. Dell desktop (Optiplex 360)
5. Dell laptop (latitude e6410)
6. eMac (700MHz)
7. PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.3GHz)
8. PowerMac G4 (Dual 1.25GHz)
9. iBook G4 (1.33GHz 12in)
10. PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet II)
11. PowerMac 7300 (Sonnet Crescendo G3)
12. PowerMac 8500 (604e)
13. PowerMac 6100/66
14. Performa 6360 (Sonnet Crescendo G3)
15. MacBook Pro (13in, Late 2011, 2.4GHz i5)
16. eMac (1.25GHz)
17. Macintosh 512ke (SCSI Interface and 2MB RAM upgrades)
18. HP (Pavilion 500-c60)
19. MacBook (Early 08 upgraded to Early 09) *WIP*
21. PowerBook G3 (Lombard) *COMING SOON*
22. Dell Desktop (Optiplex 380)
 
… Hi Guys, it’s nice to be back here, where yesteryear’s hard wares are still appreciated.
In the nation from which I originate, not much heed is given to pre-Intel Macs. Even started a thread in the biggest online local community, which did not draw much …. Anyways I have managed to slightly ‘up’ my counts.

It is getting more and more rare now, to spot pre-Intel Macs, also the lack of space to give em a good comfy home, …………….while you guys from the West continue to party with em’ pre-intels !


1. PowerMac G4 Sawtooth 400Mhz
(paired with 15” luminescent CRT, Apple Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse)

2. PowerMac G4 Quick Silver (DP) 800 Mhz

3. PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Ghz

4. Power Mac G4 Cube 450 Mhz
(paired with 17" Apple Cinema Display, Apple USB Keyboard, Apple (Puck) Mouse)

5. PowerMac G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
(paired with Apple Aluminium Keyboard, Magic Mouse)

6. Mac Mini G4 1.25Ghz

7. eMac G4 1.25 Ghz

8. iMac G3 Graphite 600 Mhz
(paired with Apple Pro Keyboard & Glass Mouse)

9. iMac G3 Indigo 500 Mhz

10.iMac G4 15” 800 Mhz

11.iMac G4 20” 1.25 Ghz
(paired with Apple Pro Keyboard, Pro Mouse, Harman Kardon and Eyesight)

12.iMac G5 17” (eye sight) 1.9 Ghz
(paired with Apple Keyboard, Wireless Magic Mouse)
 
Thankfully I only have three PowerPCs, I did work around or had been issued a few different generations of PowerBook G3s before I left the dotcom/tech industry. From a Mac user point of view, I'm more surrounded by PCs than PPC+Intel Macs :eek:
 
I come back and respond to this thread occasionally, as I like to keep track of how many Macs I have(I honestly don't know off the top of my head). This is a chance for me to brag a bit, but also to again for me to keep an inventory.

68K:

SE FDHD
Quadra 700

PPC:

PowerMacintoshes/PowerMacs
7100/66
7350 WGS
8500/180
8600/200(w/700mhz Sonnet G4 upgrade)
9600/200MP

G3 Beige desktop 266
G3 Beige desktop w/400mhz processor out of a B&W(and overclocked to 433mhz).
G3 minitower 233mhz
G3 mintower 266mhz server(w/3 factory 10K UW SCSI drives)
G3 B&W 300mhz(near mint) w/matching 17" display
G3 B&W 400mhz(all DP versions of OS X installed)
G3 B&W upgraded with Fastmac 450mhz G4 upgrade

G4 Yikes! 350mhz(w/matching 21" CRT)
G4 Yikes! 400mhz
G4 Sawtooth 400mhz(retail Radeon 8500)
G4 Cube 450mhz w/DVD
G4 Cube factory 500mhz w/CD-RW
G4 Cube originally 450/CD-RW but with a Sonnet 800mhz/2mb L3 upgrade
G4 Cube originally 500mhz/CD-RW but with a Sonnet(I think) 1.5ghz upgrade(on the way)
G4 GigE dual 500mhz(every version OS X installed)
G4 DA 533mhz
G4 DA 533mhz(test computer for various purposes)
G4 DA 667mhz(17" ADC CRT monitor connected)
G4 DA in rackmount case with dual 1.8 Sonnet upgrade
G4 Quicksilver, originally 733 mhz but with a factory dual 1ghz installed
G4 Quicksilver, dual 800mhz
G4 Quicksilver 2002, originally 800mhz but now with a Gigadesigns dual 1.8 running at 1.6ghz
G4 Quicksilver 2002, original factory dual 1ghz
G4 MDD, dual 867
G4 MDD, dual 1ghz
G4 MDD, dual 1.25ghz
G4 MDD FW800, single 1ghz
2x G4 MDD 2003, single 1.25

G5 single 1.8(nVidia 6800 Ultra!)
G5 late '05 DC 2.0ghz
G5 Quad

iMacs
233mhz Rev. A "Bondi Blue"(not running)
400mhz iMac G3 DV graphite
500mhz iMac G3 indigo
2x 1.25ghz iMac G4 17"

iBooks
"Clamshell" FW 366mhz
G3 "Snow" 800mhz
G3 "Snow" 900mhz(on the way)
G4 12" 1.02 ghz
G4 12" 1.33ghz

PowerBooks
Wallstreet 233mhz "Mainstreet"(on the way)
Pismo G3 500mhz
TiBook G4 400mhz
TiBook G4 867mhz
2x TiBook 1ghz
2x 1.5ghz 12" AlBook
2x 15" DLSD 1.67ghz A1138
17" DLSD 1.67ghz A1139

Intel
Mac Pro 1,1
Mac Mini late '06 Core Duo
iMac late 2006 base model
Blackbook Late '07
2x MBP 15" early '08(one leaving soon)
mid-09 white Macbook
Late 2011 13" MBP
Mid 2012 15" MBP(classic) w/hi-res matte screen

By my count, that puts me at 58 PPC. I thought I was past 60, but unless I'm forgetting something I need to get buying :)

That's also 9 Intels and 2 68Ks, so 69 Macs in total.

I recently spoke to my favorite professor at school, whose husband has Alzheimers very seriously. He had(I think) a 512K(I have 512K worth of RAM from him that would have come out of one of his Macs) at home that she is thinking about passing on to someone who would "enjoy it as much as he did" and thinks I would fit the bill. She hasn't made up her mind yet, but that one may come along at some point in the future.

I'm also still waiting on a guy here in town to dig out a 128K along with a tray load "5 color" iMac that I hope I can deal on.
Good god - where on earth do you put all this? Some of these things are huge!

My wife had a conniption at the prospect of me having more than 1 in the house! She was not a happy camper when I found an old original iMac on the side of the road, and tried to double the size of my collection (from 1 to 2).
 
Good god - where on earth do you put all this? My wife had a conniption when I found an old original iMac on the side of the road, and tried to double the size of my collection (from 1 to 2).

I'm not married and live alone :)

Plus some(increasingly more) are a "mini museum" at the office, and others are at my parent's house(in use).
 
Just made a deal on a dual 1.42 MDD, so when it gets here that will make 60!

Now the "major" area to work on are the Powerbook G3s. It's amazing to me how expensive many of them are over here. I just bought a working Wallstreet(Mainstreet) from Harrymatic in the UK which he virtually gave me(I think he charged me £15, which is about $25 I think) plus shipping-it still worked out to less than usual Ebay prices.

I have to admit that I'd forgotten how terrible passive matrix displays are :) . It's almost like turning on the old Windows 95 "Mouse Tail" feature.
 
I have to admit that I'd forgotten how terrible passive matrix displays are :) . It's almost like turning on the old Windows 95 "Mouse Tail" feature.

I hear you. Just picked up a vintage Thinkpad with a dualscan display. It looks like someone took Vaseline to a TFT. I am already thinking of cannibalising another locked Thinkpad and replacing the screen. I have been spoiled by modern technology.

The one G3 you might struggle with is the Kanga. Even in the UK this one is rare and anything over stock memory fetches a premium. The last two I tracked in Germany went over €100. PB3400/Kanga RAM is one of those stupid proprietary modules and only MemoryX has regular stock at eye-watering prices.
 
That was a feature? ;)

I actually thought it was auto enabled until I used a brand new Windows XP machine after growing up on Win98, and my 5 year old self wasn't happy that there weren't lots of mice moving all together. Eventually I found the setting, and I wasn't thrilled with it because it didn't feel like the natural trails on my older computer.
 
I hear you. Just picked up a vintage Thinkpad with a dualscan display. It looks like someone took Vaseline to a TFT. I am already thinking of cannibalising another locked Thinkpad and replacing the screen. I have been spoiled by modern technology.

The one G3 you might struggle with is the Kanga. Even in the UK this one is rare and anything over stock memory fetches a premium. The last two I tracked in Germany went over €100. PB3400/Kanga RAM is one of those stupid proprietary modules and only MemoryX has regular stock at eye-watering prices.

I don't think I've ever run across a Kanga for sale anywhere...that will be the last one probably that I find.

The passive matrix on the Mainstreet is actually fairly sharp. The annoying thing is that you get artifacts that aren't there on TFT displays. There are "lines" anchoring the edge of every window and window bar. The refresh rate is terrible, so you get "ghosting" when moving the cursor around or dragging around a window.

Perhaps its easier to make them and keep the refresh rate up on a small scale, but I don't know how I ever played a Game Boy with one. I also wrote a lot of games and things for TI Graphic Calculators, but I guess that all of us who did it just learned to live with the lag as part of the "experience" of playing games on something we were allowed to have at school :)

There is a certain charming quality about them, however, including the low color saturation and the fact that they are relatively sharp. As a general rule, passive matrix computer screens are horrible, but in typical Apple fashion the one on the Mainstreet is probably one of the best out there.
 
That was a feature? ;)

Frighteningiy enough, it was also a feature you could turn on in OS 9...

I found it last night wondering if it might have been turned on inadvertently.

But yes, you could actually make it happen intentionally in older versions of Windows.
 
I don't think I've ever run across a Kanga for sale anywhere...that will be the last one probably that I find.

The passive matrix on the Mainstreet is actually fairly sharp. The annoying thing is that you get artifacts that aren't there on TFT displays. There are "lines" anchoring the edge of every window and window bar. The refresh rate is terrible, so you get "ghosting" when moving the cursor around or dragging around a window.

Perhaps its easier to make them and keep the refresh rate up on a small scale, but I don't know how I ever played a Game Boy with one. I also wrote a lot of games and things for TI Graphic Calculators, but I guess that all of us who did it just learned to live with the lag as part of the "experience" of playing games on something we were allowed to have at school :)

There is a certain charming quality about them, however, including the low color saturation and the fact that they are relatively sharp. As a general rule, passive matrix computer screens are horrible, but in typical Apple fashion the one on the Mainstreet is probably one of the best out there.
The ghosting and lines don't seem to be an issue on my second-gen Wallstreet. It's a crisp display, although maybe a bit undersaturated. Really makes Mac OS 9 look nice.
 
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The ghosting and lines don't seem to be an issue on my second-gen Wallstreet. It's a crisp display, although maybe a bit undersaturated. Really makes Mac OS 9 look nice.

Is yours TFT or passive matrix? Wallstreets came with both, although I think that the "Mainstreet" model of the original Wallstreet was the only one with passive.

At least as per Wikipedia(the perennial source of good information) all PDQs-AKA the Wallstreet II-had the same 14.1" active matrix TFT display as on my Pismo. I agree that this is a great display.
 
Is yours TFT or passive matrix? Wallstreets came with both, although I think that the "Mainstreet" model of the original Wallstreet was the only one with passive.

At least as per Wikipedia(the perennial source of good information) all PDQs-AKA the Wallstreet II-had the same 14.1" active matrix TFT display as on my Pismo. I agree that this is a great display.
You're right, by that point they were TFT.
 
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