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eBay bargains - what's your latest conquest?

Dronecatcher said:
🙂 It was my attempt at humour....
Around 15 years ago "put Linux on it" was a refrain endlessly parroted by some about any digital device whether it was an 80s personal computer, pocket pc or a digital camera...
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That's pretty good 😛

I would love to see NetBSD run on a C64... They do imply it runs on everything 😉
 
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Amethyst1 said:
I think we can arrive at the consensus that this group is best ignored. 😉
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Of course, hence me now refusing to even mention its name. 😉

(I feel for the people who visit that group looking for answers to serious questions regarding getting the best out of older machines and instead of being recommended to try Fedora or Linux Mint on Intel Macs or tweaks for PPC Macs, they're mocked and told to repurpose them as furniture.)

Amethyst1 said:
I see - sorry for the misunderstanding. Lemme guess - 25 years ago it was "port Doom to it"?
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Such as this? 🙂

 
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Amethyst1 said:
My first digicam was a Sony DSC-P9 I bought in 2002. Boring design but I still have it. Blasted Memory Sticks though...
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That reminds me, I sort of panic bought a few of those Sony sticks when Best Buy had a closing down sale in the UK prior to shutting down all their shops. Never found a use for them and they are still in their blister packs.

My brother donated a Fuji bridge camera to me. That used an even more obscure SmartMedia Memory card. Not the best choice to bank on and it obsoleted itself before its time.
 
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weckart said:
That reminds me, I sort of panic bought a few of those Sony sticks when Best Buy had a closing down sale in the UK prior to shutting down all their shops. Never found a use for them and they are still in their blister packs.

My brother donated a Fuji bridge camera to me. That used an even more obscure SmartMedia Memory card. Not the best choice to bank on and it obsoleted itself before its time.
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Got a bunch of random Sony sticks in my old desk out in the garage. I’ll have to fire up that camera & see what turn-of-the-century nostalgia might be on them.
 
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Dronecatcher said:
In that case, my last three....
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Forgot to ask - do you have plans for the E75 or is it just for the collection? Another two worth collecting IMHO are the 5500 as the only S60 with a square screen and the E70 with that fold-over keyboard and high-rez (352×416) screen.
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RhianB said:
Got a bunch of random Sony sticks in my old desk out in the garage. I’ll have to fire up that camera & see what turn-of-the-century nostalgia might be on them.
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Good idea. No idea what's on mine tbh.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Forgot to ask - do you have plans for the E75 or is it just for the collection? Another two worth collecting IMHO are the 5500 as the only S60 with a square screen and the E70 with that fold-over keyboard and high-rez (352×416) screen.
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When I buy phones like this it's usually in the capacity as a reserve/emergency phone - and only if the price is right.
I'm not a collector - I'll buy bargains, tinker with them, maybe stretch them beyond their intended use and then resell them - usually at a loss 😉

There's nostalgia too - certainly a lot of gizmos I buy I had the first time round...
 
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Got a 2007 Mac mini after giving up on my 2006 mini. Now I can say I have a Mac mini running every OS from 10.4 to 10.14. I'm thinking about getting a G4 Cube to increase my collection to 9.2.2-10.4, but their fairly expensive. Also, does anyone know of any smaller Macs that can run older versions of Mac OS? I guess I'm trying to have a collection of small Macs (don't know why, but probably because my first Mac was a mini)
 
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Got a 2007 Mac mini after giving up on my 2006 mini. Now I can say I have a Mac mini running every OS from 10.4 to 10.14. I'm thinking about getting a G4 Cube to increase my collection to 9.2.2-10.4, but their fairly expensive. Also, does anyone know of any smaller Macs that can run older versions of Mac OS? I guess I'm trying to have a collection of small Macs (don't know why, but probably because my first Mac was a mini)
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There is a modified OS 9 installer that will allow you to install OS 9.2.2 on a Mac Mini G4.
 
These are an illustration of ebay craziness...

Both are from the same era (1999) one is a pro level 2.5 megapixel TTL camera retailing around £1000 back then - I used to use one in my job.

The other is a cheap, plastic Chinese cam that can take 19 photos at a resolution of 352x288 on it's internal only memory!

However, they were both bought for £3 each 🙂

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Just purchased this ATI Radeon 9800 Pro from eBay for £34 GBP - much cheaper than any other 9800 Pro's listed on eBay UK. I employed sneaky sniping and waited till the few seconds to bid so that my opponents wouldn't have enough time to react, figure out that I'd added odd pennies and then outbid me.

I'm going to flash it with Graphiccelerator so I can use it with my Quicksilver.

I received a nice surprise when the seller contacted me and explained that he lives in my vicinity and offered to refund the additional £4.58 postage costs and deliver the card himself tomorrow afternoon. Lovely! 😀
 
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I had one Ebay seller refund me on one usb2 pci card, another eBay seller refund me on a pci Radeon 7000 - both because they did not want to take the time to ship.

Anyhoo, I scored another NEC usb2 card for $7 bucks shipped which IS on its way & will live in my B&W when it arrives. :apple:

I’m now on the hunt for another pci Radeon 7000.

- that and some 1k resistors & solderless M/F headers to see if I can get my single 733mhz daughter card up to 933mhz & maintain L3 cache.
 
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Dronecatcher said:
"What fresh lunacy is this?"

This is currently for sale on UK ebay at £70 (collection only.)
I have to ask, does anyone find this remotely appealing? Ok, if someone were to say it's now an object d'art, then wouldn't the MDD still be an object d'art but without the awkward legs?

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Ugly style and bad performed.
If the (ugly) legs were fitted on the opposite site, you could at least open the MDD and reveil a secret home bar, or a record-player, a beamer, a laser-cannon to fight hostile aliens, a bath-tube for babies, a fodue, office-grill, mini-kitchen, a shoe-box, toy-box, goldfish-pond, hamster's cage, dressing-table, secret bedpan, versatile secret storage, piggy-bank, ... (to be continued)
 
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bobesch said:
Ugly style and bad performed.
If the (ugly) legs were fitted on the opposite site, you could at least open the MDD and reveil a secret home bar, or a record-player, a beamer, a laser-cannon to fight hostile aliens, a bath-tube for babies, a fodue, office-grill, mini-kitchen, a shoe-box, toy-box, goldfish-pond, hamster's cage, dressing-table, secret bedpan, versatile secret storage, piggy-bank, ... (to be continued)
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What are you talking about? This is better than functional! It's A E S T H E T I C! 😛
 
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