Spring 2025 finds

phunguss

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Dec 24, 2023
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Stillwater, MN
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$50 Ebay local pickup
Power Macintosh 7600/120 604 with keyboard and mouse
-full of dust, cleaned
-Power button shattered, 3D printed replacement
-Internal Quantum loud and not recognized
-BlueSCSI external boots fine
Testing to be done:
-Alternate graphics cards
-Firewire cards
-USB cards

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$30 UofMN ReUse Center
MacPro4,1 case missing door and rear grille
-3D printed grille, painted, installed
-For PC-Hackintosh build
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$9 UofMN ReUse Center
-PowerBook1,1 G3 Lombard 333MHz, no hard drive
-Borrowed power brick from 3400c
-Would not power on, battery shorted? Removed battery and get chime
-Installed CF adapter (see the red light on the side of the translucent keyboard)
-Installed OS9.2
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$5 Free Geek Minneapolis
-MacPro4,1 "Partially gutted, as-is", loose parts rattling around inside, optical drive tray will not come out
-4GB RAM, no drives, no drive trays, HP FirePro V3800 graphics (untested)
-Stripped down, found 7 loose hard drive screws. No other missing parts.
-optical tray was bent, but recoverable, removed burrs
-Upgraded wifi from b/g to b/g/n
-Installed NVME drive
-Installed USB3 card ($1 Free Geek)
-Upgraded RAM to 24GB
-Installed Quadro K2000 (keplar) video card
-Installed Sequoia 15.5, Mojave 10.14
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Had to have a "cat scan"
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Loose screws found behind mobo
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Bent optical drive tray, but fixed it.
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