Last week I found a couple Craigslist items and was able to pick them up this weekend. A pile of misc parts:
15 hard drives (10 Sata, 3 IDE, 1 SCSI, 1 SSD), some had Intel cMP trays on them, a couple G5 video cards, an RX570, some other misc PCIe cards, and a serial Wacom tablet. Even a 3.5 floppy cleaner!
The other pickup was a Centris 650 and PowerMac 7100, no accessories. I opened up the c650 and found the case and drive screws missing, two sticks of ram floating around inside. I secured the drives and case with zip ties for now, as I had no matching M3.5 screws. Pretty clean mobo.
PSU was super clean.
Installed the RAM and reassembled the case. I don't have an Apple 15 to VGA adapter on hand (If I do, I can't locate it)... so I just plugged in power and pressed the button on the back. It chimed! Both are in need of an external cleaning and retrobrite. Not sure if the orange stains are rust seeping though or some other biological residue.
On to the 7100. Missing the retaining clip for the PSU, but I 3D printed one.
Ram slots full.
Has a standard x100 series video card that could use some 68pin SIMMs.
Front says 7100/66 but has the AV card as well.
Both batteries measured 0v, neither had bombed.
Reassembled, plugged in power, got a chime! Time to build my own video adapter while I wait for eBay to deliver another. I started with a VGA extension cable and a Parallel port.
Sawed the Parallel port in half. Removed some extra pins, and bent over the shield/cover.
Then I used this pinout and soldered it up.
C650 did not boot, added the BlueSCSI 25 external, still no boot. Removed the power from the internal SCSI and then it booted, 16MB RAM.
BlueSCSI and fugly video adapter.
And the 7100 had a 2GB SCSI hard drive (blank) in it, with 104MB of RAM.
15 hard drives (10 Sata, 3 IDE, 1 SCSI, 1 SSD), some had Intel cMP trays on them, a couple G5 video cards, an RX570, some other misc PCIe cards, and a serial Wacom tablet. Even a 3.5 floppy cleaner!
The other pickup was a Centris 650 and PowerMac 7100, no accessories. I opened up the c650 and found the case and drive screws missing, two sticks of ram floating around inside. I secured the drives and case with zip ties for now, as I had no matching M3.5 screws. Pretty clean mobo.
PSU was super clean.
Installed the RAM and reassembled the case. I don't have an Apple 15 to VGA adapter on hand (If I do, I can't locate it)... so I just plugged in power and pressed the button on the back. It chimed! Both are in need of an external cleaning and retrobrite. Not sure if the orange stains are rust seeping though or some other biological residue.
On to the 7100. Missing the retaining clip for the PSU, but I 3D printed one.
Ram slots full.
Has a standard x100 series video card that could use some 68pin SIMMs.
Front says 7100/66 but has the AV card as well.
Both batteries measured 0v, neither had bombed.
Reassembled, plugged in power, got a chime! Time to build my own video adapter while I wait for eBay to deliver another. I started with a VGA extension cable and a Parallel port.
Sawed the Parallel port in half. Removed some extra pins, and bent over the shield/cover.
Then I used this pinout and soldered it up.
C650 did not boot, added the BlueSCSI 25 external, still no boot. Removed the power from the internal SCSI and then it booted, 16MB RAM.
BlueSCSI and fugly video adapter.
And the 7100 had a 2GB SCSI hard drive (blank) in it, with 104MB of RAM.
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