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eBay bargains - what's your latest conquest?
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off the phone topic! I bid 300 quid which was more than I wanted too,
however someone wants it more than me...
it is ultra rare , never sold in the US and rarely in Europe
however someone wants it more than me...
it is ultra rare , never sold in the US and rarely in Europe
Macintosh Performa 275 | eBay
The Apple Macintosh Performa 275 only sold in Asia. The standard version of the Performa 275 is the Color Classic II, which also only was sold outside of the United States.
www.ebay.co.uk
And it still hasn't reached the reserve price as of this momentoff the phone topic! I bid 300 quid which was more than I wanted too,
however someone wants it more than me...
it is ultra rare , never sold in the US and rarely in Europe
Macintosh Performa 275 | eBay
The Apple Macintosh Performa 275 only sold in Asia. The standard version of the Performa 275 is the Color Classic II, which also only was sold outside of the United States.www.ebay.co.uk
Cheers
Hugh
And it still hasn't reached the reserve price as of this moment
Cheers
Hugh
hey Hugh , hows that G5 iMac ?
I know the reserve is to high , but I’d love to own it, I’m currently restoring a classic colour, and got my hands-on a Macintosh II card ,
I’d love to post here, show the results...
Hiya, yes the iMac is fine, triple booting Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard
After yours I bought an Intel iMac for about the same price, which I mainly use for photo editing, so as usual I'm surrounded by Macs
How are you doing; is Moat Park open? We love that place.
Cheers
Hugh
And it still hasn't reached the reserve price as of this moment
Cheers
Hugh
Certainly because the special
So those of you following the iMac G3 mod - Video Connector thread know that I got an iMac G3 400 Early 2001 Indigo a while ago and lobotomized it into a CRT. You can read all about it here.
Today I picked up an eMac G4/1.25 (USB 2.0) for about $40. ツ It appears to be in perfect working condition except for a dead PRAM battery and being a bit dusty. No extreme yellowing yet. Just a tiny bit a the top and behind the speaker grille. Not worth the effort to retr0brite.
I originally intended to lobotomize it too but I've had some whiskey, and I've been thinking... maybe that's not the best idea. Modding the G3 was already a huge pain in the behind even with full pinouts and instructions available thanks to @rockyhill.
At 1.25 GHz I feel like it should still be usable for light web browsing and listening to music. So the new plan is to replace the PRAM battery which hopefully hasn't leaked all over the PCB, max out the RAM, replace the HDD with an SSD, give it a through clean inside and out, and put Linux on it. シ
Anyone running Linux on one of these? Would you consider it usable or unbearable?
Today I picked up an eMac G4/1.25 (USB 2.0) for about $40. ツ It appears to be in perfect working condition except for a dead PRAM battery and being a bit dusty. No extreme yellowing yet. Just a tiny bit a the top and behind the speaker grille. Not worth the effort to retr0brite.
I originally intended to lobotomize it too but I've had some whiskey, and I've been thinking... maybe that's not the best idea. Modding the G3 was already a huge pain in the behind even with full pinouts and instructions available thanks to @rockyhill.
At 1.25 GHz I feel like it should still be usable for light web browsing and listening to music. So the new plan is to replace the PRAM battery which hopefully hasn't leaked all over the PCB, max out the RAM, replace the HDD with an SSD, give it a through clean inside and out, and put Linux on it. シ
Anyone running Linux on one of these? Would you consider it usable or unbearable?
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The last few PowerPCs I am looking to add to my collection (17inch PowerBook g4, Mac mini G4 and a TAM) are pretty difficult to find at a decent price, so I have increasingly being turning my attention to PowerPC games. They can often be picked up pretty cheaply on Ebay. Photo shows some of those I have purchased recently.
I know you can download most of them on Macintosh Garden but I like having the physical copies.
If anyone knows how to activate Europa Universalis Rome, please share with me the secret. I have a valid key but the server that does the verification is no longer active. Shame, because that is the game I was looking forward to play the most.
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I understand that philosophy: there are abandonware games and applications where I prefer to own the retail physical copy because of the instruction manuals etc.
I'm surprised that the programmers didn't share a patch for this. Hopefully someone will have a lead for a solution. Congrats on picking up Myst IV by the way, I bought it from a thrift store ages ago but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
I started playing it and got stuck on the first puzzle, and gave up. I no longer have the patience to play some of the games I loved as a kid and young man. Freedom Force is surprisingly fun even today, though. And Imperial Glory looks promising.
Got this early 2008 17" MBP4,1 A1261 for 40 EUR on Sunday. Can't believe it - I had been the only bidder.
It came without drive, battery and charger and was sold as a non functional unit.
So it was - but after 2h TLC and a "warm embrace" ...
... I was happy, when it greeted me with a happy 'bong' !
(Hope, this will last a while - tomorrow I'm gonna swap the drive from my 15" A1260 into this fine machine)
It came without drive, battery and charger and was sold as a non functional unit.
So it was - but after 2h TLC and a "warm embrace" ...
... I was happy, when it greeted me with a happy 'bong' !
(Hope, this will last a while - tomorrow I'm gonna swap the drive from my 15" A1260 into this fine machine)
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Congrats on that beauty - and it's the high-end 2.6 GHz to boot. Is the display 1680x1050 or 1920x1200?
Why is it that, whenever I see a high-res display, my first thought is to stick an anime wallpaper on there and see how it looks?Congrats on that beauty - and it's the high-end 2.6 GHz to boot. Is the display 1680x1050 or 1920x1200?
'cause you know it's gonna look awesome.Why is it that, whenever I see a high-res display, my first thought is to stick an anime wallpaper on there and see how it looks?
I've been hunting for a decent quality beige LCD screen to use with older beige computers (both pre-colorful Macs and PCs) and finally managed to score one for reasonable price.
15" Micron with VGA. Looks the part of a mid '90s monitor perfectly, even though it's newer, while taking up a lot less space. (I do have a few old CRTs, but they're so big and bulky, I wanted something smaller and easy to move around between systems, while still looking the part.)
15" Micron with VGA. Looks the part of a mid '90s monitor perfectly, even though it's newer, while taking up a lot less space. (I do have a few old CRTs, but they're so big and bulky, I wanted something smaller and easy to move around between systems, while still looking the part.)
It is the the very big screen! - almost a waste on me, since my view has to struggle with the small characters ...Congrats on that beauty - and it's the high-end 2.6 GHz to boot. Is the display 1680x1050 or 1920x1200?
I will definitely have to go for new glasses ASAP after the shutdown!
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Looks great, congrats! Could you post a side & rear view?
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Congrats again!
As for my latest conquests, I've bought two Core Duo MBPs this week - both sold as defective, without hard drives or batteries, but at least they power on. One is a high-end 2.16 GHz 15" (built in week 8/2006, so one of the earliest), the other is a 17". The latter cost all of 17 bucks including shipping (lucky coincidence) so I'm not complaining.
They haven't arrived yet.
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May I post a one-off update about the eMac?
I bought these parts:
- 2x Qimonda HYS64D128320HU-6-C to max out the RAM at 2GB
- 1x Saft LS14250 LS 14250 for the PRAM battery replacement
- 1x StarTech 40 pin IDE PATA to SATA Adapter
- 1x SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB Sata III
- 1x Generic China 2.5" to 3.5" HDD frame
- 1x Arctic P8 TC self-regulating fan
- 1x IT Dusters CompuCleaner Xpert
The Arctic P8 TC fan is an 80mm fan, while the original eMac fan is a 120mm fan. This makes it very easy to use plastic cable ties with the original eMac fan assembly to securely hold it in place over the heatsink. It is also easy to remove the Arctic fan from its square frame, which you do not need. Basically just look at it funny and the cheap plastic frame will break. However...
BIG WARNING
DO NOT CONNECT THIS FAN TO THE FAN POWER CABLE COMING FROM THE MLB. I did so, turned on power, and instantly fried a SMD cap on the MLB. Magic smoke came out of the headphone jack. :< Then the CRT turned on and the eMac made its power on chime. I was able to clean off the damage using isopropyl alcohol and amazingly enough the MLB still works even after a couple of reboots! The smell of burnt electronics really lingers around for hours in one's room though.
Does the eMac have a verification circuit that blows up the MLB unless it detects a fan that Steve Jobs has personally pissed on?
Or maybe I'm dumb? Three wires are coming from the MLB into the fan: yellow, red, black. Yellow is the tachometer signal, red is DC12V and black is ground, right? It would not be unlike Apple to not use industry standard wiring...
I took DC12V from the HDD connector as a workaround. Works fine.
Other random notes:
I put the new fan's temperature sensor underneath the heatsink. The fan is super silent when the machine is cold and the self-regulator seems to work fine. After a couple of minutes you can hear it ever so slightly, but its still worlds apart from Apple's original fan.
The above RAM is easily available refurbished and I can report that the eMac accepts it without problems.
The PATA/SATA adapter works as does the SanDisk SSD. Open Firmware sees the drive. I cannot yet get a MacOS installer to boot though. Apparently you can't just burn it to any old DVD-RW and expect it to boot.
The CompuCleaner Xpert is an amazing way to clean out dusty computers. This thing was so unbelievably filthy and using this electric blower I got it really clean.
@rockyhill if you do ever pick up on your eMac project again in some form, like to basically do what you did to the iMac G3, please send me a message. Doesn't have to be soon, just if/whenever you feel like it. I'm banned from hardware tinkering by my wife until further notice anyway. It's just I don't fully trust the MLB now that smoke came out from it. :/
Maybe I'm the one who's dumb, but I thought yellow was 12V and red was 5V? Couldn't it just change the drawn / output voltage if the fan speed needed to vary?
Thanks! Tonight I swapped my 1TB SSD from my 15" A1260 to the 17" A1261.Congrats again!
As for my latest conquests, I've bought two Core Duo MBPs this week - both sold as defective, without hard drives or batteries, but at least they power on. One is a high-end 2.16 GHz 15" (built in week 8/2006, so one of the earliest), the other is a 17". The latter cost all of 17 bucks including shipping (lucky coincidence) so I'm not complaining.
Display is great (sound-system too), but I reduced resolution to 1680x1050, cause my vision isn't that comfortable with 1920x1200 unfortunately.
I really have to get new glasses!
I'm a bit concerned about temperatures: CPU up to 80°C, GPU up to 84°C. I don't believe the fixed faulty GPU will last for long ...
Actually this is a trial to first find out, if a 17" book as DD fits my needs - then to think about a proper GPU-replacement.
I took Ceramique2 for repasting and I'm wondering if this was the right choice and if I did it properly.
I get your point. I'm fine with these pixel densities (the 11" MacBook Air is in the same ballpark) but it takes some getting used to.
That's on the high side - are the fans clean?
Yep, the whole unit was extraordinary clean inside, looked like it never been worked on inside previously.
Maybe the seller vaccum-cleaned it when he removed the harddrive, but there wasn't much dust or lint beneath logicboard or optical-drive too.
I had to remove the screws and lift up the logicboard a second time, because I forgot to fit the battery-charger plug in the right place.
Maybe that made the thermal-paste come off the right position ...
I think, I'm gonna reopen the book and repaste it again properly - this time following the instruction and also tinting the heatsink before.
Update: after disassembling, repasting (less goop, spreading-method, tinting the heatsink) and reassembling the heatsink prior to refitting the board into the case (pluggin the internal power cable drove me nuts!) temperature went down significantly and is now 6° lower than before. Well I seemed to have things really messed up on my first attempt.
Stress testing (2 browsers, itunes and streaming 3 videos at 720p) with factory settings for fan-thresholds lets temp go through the roof ...
That makes my by today finally following @eyoungren 's advise to apply iStat Menus' fan control rules ...
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Remember to always pull the SJ_DETECT line HIGH. lol
Hopefully you have enough smoke left in the logic board to keep it going!
Sure thing, I'll let you know when I revisit my eMac project again although I couldn't find the logic board so I'll have to keep looking through my attic. I suspect my wife had something to do with it's disappearance since
at the time the whole thing was done on my kitchen counter and I too was banned from working on it.
Once you get an OS on there I'm sure it will be zipping along.
Good luck!