This returned after a few years of being in a friend's possession. Daystar 100MHz Turbo 601. Is now inside the IIvx.
What I've received as of late...
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This returned after a few years of being in a friend's possession. Daystar 100MHz Turbo 601. Is now inside the IIvx.
Paid $75 for it. Case looks like it was under another Mac that had a Maxell detonate, so there's some rust on the lid, plus on the rear wall of the chassis. It does power up, and did go to the bliking question mark when the seller powered it up. No PRAM battery, so that's good. Probably will need a recap sometime soon, since Apple switched back to electrolytics with the 7100. 1GB hard drive that was unformatted when the computer arrived. Now formatted and will have 7.6.1 on it until I make another 8.1 or 8.6 install CD.
Nice, I got one of those back in the 'fritter days. It's been living in one of my Quadra 700 cases since then.
Ah, the 7100/66? That's cool. Kind of a shame that Apple went away from the Wombat configuration board with the 8100 series. Looks like this machine may need either some major surgery on its board or a board swap (see my last post in the What Did You Do To Your Apple/Mac Today thread over at the MLA for the gory details). Had hoped that an 8100 board would work in place of the 7100 board. Alas, no.
For those who aren't on the 'MLA, here's the damage...
For those who aren't on the 'MLA, here's the damage...
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I'm rather fond of the 7100 since I used one to edit the university newspaper as a grad student until I talked the dean of students into buying a brand spanking new Sawtooth G4/450. I managed to get it from surplus and stuck an HPV card, a G3, max RAM and a better CD-ROM in it. Naturally I call it the "SR-7100."
I may wind up popping in a G3 accelerator into mine, once I've a better board. After all, the IIvx is equipped with a faster 601 than the 7100 is.
Not actually a 7100/80AV. Reused the HPV card from the 7100/66, which I retired.
Other items I received between early 2025 and now:
- Quadra 650 logic board with bad internal SCSI - hoping it can be combined with the board I have installed in my Q650 to make one good board
- M3501 keyboard
- Mid-2012 MacBook Pro with 2.7GHz i7 processor (this one turned out to be kind of a dud, as per my thread on the other forum - am now rehoming it and have returned to my Late 2011 machine)
And, most recently, a Laserwriter IIf.