"Good news everyone!" Last week one of my Computer Science professors told me he was going through his vintage mac collection and noticed he had an old Apple Printer that he didn't feel he really needed/wanted to keep.
He approached me after the lecture about it because I grabbed a 1GHz Dual Quicksilver earlier this year, and had later negotiated the matching 17" Studio display he had taken moment before I got to the "trash" pile, so he knew I was a keen collector like himself.
His office is adorned with Quadras, Performas, iBooks, PowerBooks and the jumbo blue 22" apple CRT display.
I eagerly agreed to accept the offer. The next day he sent me and E-mail saying that while he was routing it out of storage that he came across an equally useless-to-him monitor, and wondered if I'd be interested in that too. Guess my answer.
Anyway, today he brought them in with him to todays lecture and (after employing the help of the nicest canteen worker on earth who drove me across campus in his car,) I hauled the monitor and the printer back to my apartment for inspection.
Here they are:
The monitor is an 'Apple MultipleScan 15', and the printer is a 'Color StyleWriter 2500'. They were both unbelievably filthy, with dead spiders inside the printer, so I gave them both a major rejuvenation.
Here is the two of them after a good clean:
It's almost perfect, because my Power Macintosh 8600 has currently being using a generic FujitzuSiemens monitor and a Canon S200 printer. Once I replace them with these two beauties that setup will now be 100% fruit.
Next thing will be to get the LocalTalk Adpater for the 2500 so it can join my ever growing AppleTalk network. My recent addition of the AsantéTalk ethernet adapter will mean I could even share this thing over WiFi to my Quicksilver and iMac G4.
All in all, not a bad haul!
(Apologies for the sideways pictures, seem to be a symptom of iOS uploading since iOS 5 for me...clicking them corrects it)
He approached me after the lecture about it because I grabbed a 1GHz Dual Quicksilver earlier this year, and had later negotiated the matching 17" Studio display he had taken moment before I got to the "trash" pile, so he knew I was a keen collector like himself.
His office is adorned with Quadras, Performas, iBooks, PowerBooks and the jumbo blue 22" apple CRT display.
I eagerly agreed to accept the offer. The next day he sent me and E-mail saying that while he was routing it out of storage that he came across an equally useless-to-him monitor, and wondered if I'd be interested in that too. Guess my answer.
Anyway, today he brought them in with him to todays lecture and (after employing the help of the nicest canteen worker on earth who drove me across campus in his car,) I hauled the monitor and the printer back to my apartment for inspection.
Here they are:
The monitor is an 'Apple MultipleScan 15', and the printer is a 'Color StyleWriter 2500'. They were both unbelievably filthy, with dead spiders inside the printer, so I gave them both a major rejuvenation.
Here is the two of them after a good clean:
It's almost perfect, because my Power Macintosh 8600 has currently being using a generic FujitzuSiemens monitor and a Canon S200 printer. Once I replace them with these two beauties that setup will now be 100% fruit.
Next thing will be to get the LocalTalk Adpater for the 2500 so it can join my ever growing AppleTalk network. My recent addition of the AsantéTalk ethernet adapter will mean I could even share this thing over WiFi to my Quicksilver and iMac G4.
All in all, not a bad haul!
(Apologies for the sideways pictures, seem to be a symptom of iOS uploading since iOS 5 for me...clicking them corrects it)
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