Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[R.A. Cantrell]

on 5/6/02 5:02 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Didn't you even look inside them for goodies? :)
Nope, nor did I  look  inside the 100 7100/66s. I have goodies amighty now
that nobody wants. I've  tried rescuing whole boxes in mass, and rescuing
bulk parts by ransacking the boxes. The Macs that I passed up went straight
to the dump, not even  to the recycler first. It's  gettin sad out there.
When institutions flush out old hardware, jobbers bid on the stuff in lots,
what they can't make use of they put out at auctions and flea markets for
scrapper/salvagers like  me, the Fred T.  Sanford of  Macdom. (I did not do
this to myself on purpose) A year or  so ago I'd have  walked across Texas
(or at  least  a few  blocks) to get the widget that would keep an old
Quadra in service. Right now, me, the dog, or these 50 SuperMac Spectrum 8
cards have to  go: the dog is  sweet, so it's me  or them. Speak  now  or
forever. . .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again? Ever? If you are
going to go to the trouble  to disassemble the machine down to  the  board,
you'd be  nutz  to put a 66 board back in when you could put in an 80 for
$3-$5. So what's to do with the 66 boards? Say 100 of them? Sigh.
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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Teri Pittman]

> . .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again? Ever?

I don't know, I haven't worked my way up to that era yet *grin*.  I can tell
you, having paid money for a couple of these ancient machines that there are
a few folks buying them.  Probably just not enough to put a dent in your
collection.

Let's see, I have a Classic, a IIci and next a Quadra.  I figure I'll get a
PPC and an iMac and I'll be set.


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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[R.A. Cantrell]

on 5/6/02 5:32 PM, Teri Pittman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Let's see, I have a Classic, a IIci and next a Quadra.  I figure I'll get a
> PPC and an iMac and I'll be set.
My path was: a gift of a Quadra 700, one 6300cd the fifty more, one 7100,
then a  hundred  more, (still have a 6300cd t.v. in service and a 7100/80 as
well) fifty partly junked 8100's, a 7300, some 7600's (sold a few) a Beige
G3 (sold  it) and my new in the  box iMacdv400/1gig (brag). Got some 7200's
that I'm  getting  spiffed up (sold one barebones to buy stuff  for  the
others) Need one? Sigh. I'm still using a 56k dialup, and behind that
limitation there  is nothing really that the 7100 wouldn't  do except
streaming media. Especially when it  had the Sonnet G3 in it.
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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Gregg Eshelman]

> > . .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again?
> Ever?

Well, when (if) things ever get settled down in
places like Afghanistan, I'd bet the schools there
would love to have just about any computer.

Of course they need some electricity too, so info
from sites like http://www.otherpower.com which shows
how to build powerful but dirt cheap wind and water
powered generators from scratch using super strong
magnets from hard drives would be very useful. :)

Hmm, a homebrew wind turbine, a rack of absorbed
glass matt storage batteries*, charging and regulating
electronics, PLUS a few pallets of old Macs. That
would be quite the aid package, eh? :) Way cheaper
than photovoltaic and even works at night if the
wind is blowing. Everything but the batteries could
be found used or built from scratch or basic
components by local labor.

*Those are the ones that look like a giant six-pack.
They'll take rapid charge and discharge, can be
discharged almost to zero without damage and gass
off so little hydrogen under charge that it's as
close to nil as you can get. They don't spill and
can be mounted in any position. My sister delivers
pizza for Dominos and drove around with one of those
in her car for a week after the alternator quit
working. Expensive but well worth it!

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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[R.A. Cantrell]

on 5/6/02 6:35 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> even works at night if the
> wind is blowing.
In a past life I was a securities broker, and  the firm I was with raised a
LOT of  money for wind generated electricity. The  big  windfarms  out in
California. Like  out  around  Palm  Springs and  so forth. The  one  thing
that  kept them  from being  economic( making  money) was that bugs splatted
on the turbine blades and cut the  efficiency down  below  the  $$$ line.
Washing them  was right  out of  the  question considering  the  size of
the things. Go  figure.
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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Dana Sibera.]

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 08:32  AM, Teri Pittman wrote:
> . .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again? Ever?
>
> Ls see, I have a Classic, a IIci and next a Quadra.  I figure I'll get a
> PC and an iMac and I'll be set.

I'd take a 7100/66... if they were free, which really isn't worth a 
resellers time.

My path started in 2000, with the gift of an 8100. A little later I 
helped restore a Classic II for a friend, and just had to have one 
myself. Then my lusting after an LC from the early 90's came back - so I 
bought an LCII. then a couple of LCIII's. A Quadra or two appeared, WAY 
too many more LCIII's, a couple more powermacs, an iMac 400, some II's 
and a Plus and more Quadras and more Quadras and more Quadras...

Now less than 2 years after my first mac there are 36 of them being kept 
warm in my flat. Sometimes, a few of them do a little useful work :)

dana (aiming for a full complement of quadras someday)
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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Teri Pittman]

> Now less than 2 years after my first mac there are 36 of them being kept
> warm in my flat. Sometimes, a few of them do a little useful work :)
>

Now, that is what I'm afraid of!  I am starting to think of having these all
networked together, with a different version of the OS on each one..

Why Quadras?


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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Dana Sibera.]

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 02:54  AM, Teri Pittman wrote:

>> Now less than 2 years after my first mac there are 36 of them being 
>> kept
>> warm in my flat. Sometimes, a few of them do a little useful work :)
>>
>
> Now, that is what I'm afraid of!  I am starting to think of having 
> these all
> networked together, with a different version of the OS on each one..

Not long ago I read of someone, perhaps someone on this list, who'd 
reached over 100 machines, after giving up smoking and spending the $$ 
on macs. My mac obsession did start with spare $$ from giving up - 11 
months for me - it's far cheaper in the end, and far more fun :D

> Why Quadras?

Going back to when I liked the look of LC's (but not owning any macs at 
the time) I was heavily into Amigas. 68030 and 040 CPU's are what I knew 
well. It's a bit of a recapturing-a-never-misspent youth, mixed with 
staying with what I know. I'm very heavily into collecting by case 
design now, and Q605's for me are the top there. I may as well collect 
their family!. x100PPC's and 68030 macs also have a place in my home. 
x600's and G3 minitowers are the next phase I think - just because 
they're kind of pretty, and because cheap obsessions are just eccentric 
like that :)

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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[R.A. Cantrell]

on 5/7/02 11:54 AM, Teri Pittman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Now, that is what I'm afraid of!  I am starting to think of having these all
> networked together, with a different version of the OS on each one..
> 
> Why Quadras?
I've had as many as  eight on  a LN in  the  same 12x12  room. For no real
purpose except maybe one  was  rigged  to handle a printer and the other the
net and the  other a scanner and the other a camera and the  other was a
t.v..One  G4 and a Sony 32  is  easier and  better, but not  as  satisfying
to  the obsessed.
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Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Adrian Abraham]

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 07:10 AM, Brian Smith wrote:

> that freak ME out!  C'mon, spill the beans!
> -Brian

Another yarn... from the other side of the planet,

in my room I have 6 pcs and 5 Macs, not many Vintage though,

iP3-800 - Win2k
AMDk6-500 - Win98se
iP200MMX - FreeBSD
iP100 - HardDiskless - PicoBSD off a floppy
i486 - Win3.11 - Stand for my dead Quadra 660AV
Thinkpad - Win98se - for long trips away

And for some real fun

PowerMac G3/233 - Beige - OSX/OS9 - wants a G4 and more Ram :)
PowerMac 7300/200 - OSX/OS9
LC III - OS7.6.1
Quadra 660AV - unstable motherboard :( - Hope to save this one day.
PowerBook 5300cs - OS8.1 - for short trips away

2 more macs are away at our home across the South China Sea

PowerMac 7200/90 - OS8.6
LC575 - OS8.1

Don't want to risk damaging the 575 whilst shipping it here.

The P3, AMDK6, P200, G3, 7300, LC III, Thinkpad and PowerBook are all 
networked on either BNC or UTP via a 3Com Hub, the P3 serves out the Net 
to everyone via a 56k USR Courier modem and a software router.
'
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wind Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Gregg Eshelman]

--- "R.A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 5/6/02 6:35 PM, Gregg Eshelman at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > even works at night if the
> > wind is blowing.

> In a past life I was a securities broker, and  the
> firm I was with raised a
> LOT of  money for wind generated electricity. The 
> big  windfarms  out in
> California. Like  out  around  Palm  Springs and  so
> forth. The  one  thing
> that  kept them  from being  economic( making 
> money) was that bugs splatted
> on the turbine blades and cut the  efficiency down 
> below  the  $$$ line.
> Washing them  was right  out of  the  question
> considering  the  size of
> the things. Go  figure.

That's the beauty of building from scratch with
salvaged and surplus parts. Very low initial
investment and when built with reasonable care,
these generators are quite efficient. :)

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Re: wind Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

[Joseph Russo]

And such a lovely sight to behold. Yuck! There everywhere now and produce
virtually nothing with which to power my little Cube. Junk science indeed.
What we need are a few good nukes !!!

Joe

> --- "R.A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> on 5/6/02 6:35 PM, Gregg Eshelman at
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> even works at night if the
>>> wind is blowing.
> 
>> In a past life I was a securities broker, and  the
>> firm I was with raised a
>> LOT of  money for wind generated electricity. The
>> big  windfarms  out in
>> California. Like  out  around  Palm  Springs and  so
>> forth. The  one  thing
>> that  kept them  from being  economic( making
>> money) was that bugs splatted
>> on the turbine blades and cut the  efficiency down
>> below  the  $$$ line.
>> Washing them  was right  out of  the  question
>> considering  the  size of
>> the things. Go  figure.
> 
> That's the beauty of building from scratch with
> salvaged and surplus parts. Very low initial
> investment and when built with reasonable care,
> these generators are quite efficient. :)
> 
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